This Sopranos 'Meta' Ending Theory Explained Who Really Died In The Finale: You!

While there's a certain poetic irony to "killing the audience" for a show by ending a series, could that really have been David Chase's intention at the end of the beloved HBO series? The creator and showrunner has remained as tight-lipped as possible about what actually happened in the final scene of "The Sopranos," though he has let slip that it was a death scene.

Though the camp that thinks Tony died in the final shot of "The Sopranos" has taken that as proof that they're correct, T.J. Quinn argues that this is not the case. "It doesn't matter if Tony is dead or alive. That wasn't the point," he explained. "And, yes, Chase seemed to slip when he said in an interview that this was a death scene. But he never said it was Tony's death."

Even if many fans may scoff at Quinn's take on the ending of "The Sopranos," it is certainly an interesting theory at the very least. Thus fans may introduce this idea as a third possibility for what occurred in the series finale of the crime drama, at least until Chase soundly confirms what really happened in the show's final scene.