Sopranos overload

Your guide to all of The Star-Ledger's "Sopranos" content that's been keeping me so occupied the last few weeks:

• An essay about the overall greatness of the show, starting off by examining all of the parallel universe possibilities Chase and company avoided (Anthony LaPaglia as Tony? Lorraine Bracco as Carmela instead of Melfi?);
• Matt Seitz making a special return visit to our pages for a column about "Sopranos" as a portrait of selfishness gone awry;
• Three lengthy profiles of behind-the-scenes personnel: the first about the location manager and production designer and how they either find or build the places where Tony and company live and work; the second about the costume designer responsible for deciding which track suit goes to which wiseguy; the third about the stunt coordinator who has to make all those fights look so clumsy and authentic;
• An interactive graphic guide to the show's characters -- not just the regular cast members and notable guest stars, but obscure people like Jack Massarone and Hal Melvoin (and I should note that most of the credit for this one goes to Angela Porter, who designed it, and Andrew Garcia Phillips, who took it from the page to the web);
• And, in case you missed them, my preview of the first two episodes, and episode guides for seasons one, two, three, four, five and six.
  

Because I have the first two episodes in advance, the first two Sopranos Rewind posts should be up at NJ.com by 10 p.m. tonight and next Sunday, at the same blog address where I've been doing the "American Idol" recaps. (I'll also be posting a link here immediately to give people an opportunity to comment.) The bosses want me blogging daily (or, five days a a week at least) about the show, with Rewind as the Monday post, me responding to reader feedback on Tuesday and/or Wednesday, and content TBD on the other days. We'll see how that works.