The Sopranos rates are the Dealiest

_The Sopranos_ Which RATS are the DEADLIEST on the show_ (All Informants, RANKED)

It’s hard to define exactly what the most deadly show in TV history is. Would it be The Leftovers, if you counted the mass disappearance that kicks off the series as a high number of deaths? Would it be Game of Thrones? And, if it was, would you count the various undead characters that died in battle during the final season as casualties? There’s also something like the Dinosaurs sitcom from the 1990s, which infamously ended with the characters accepting that an extinction-level event was imminent, so how many deaths would that have led to? Everyone on the entire planet?

Defining the most deadly show is hard for all these reasons, but it is possible to highlight shows that are up there as being pretty death-heavy. Beyond the aforementioned examples, The Sopranos might also have to be a contender, as across 86 episodes, there were 93 confirmed deaths (either on screen or explicitly alluded to), clearly adding up to an average of more than one death per episode. Taking into account the 2021 movie, The Many Saints of Newark (included below for completeness), the overall body count exceeds 100. Every season had many deaths of characters both minor and major, but some seasons of the classic HBO crime drama proved more deadly than others, as the ranking below demonstrates.