About 12 million people watched Sunday night's finale of "The Sopranos," reports Television Week here.
That made it the year's most-viewed episode -- yet this season was still the series' lowest-rated in years, said the trade publication.
Sunday night's cut-to-black ending nonetheless stirred "Sopranos" fans enough that the flood of would-be online commenters temporarily crashed HBO's chat boards, where viewers are debating still whether the series' controversial conclusion was brilliant or insulting.
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