1. COLLEGE (Season 1)

What starts as an innocent father/daughter college visit takes a shocking turn when Tony brutally strangles a Mob turncoat. But it's Carmela who serves up the show's essential themes of trust and treachery, rationalization and regret, as she flirts with Father Phil during a dark night of true confessions and illicit movie-watching: ''Well, let's face it, Father — we got some major contradictions here!'' Fuhgeddaboudit? Impossible. —Jeff Jensen

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