David Chase, producer of The Sopranos, says that the widely debated ending of the series’ final episode is no mystery at all. The series simply ends without any resolution at all, the producer said, referring to the cut to a blank screen that occurs in the middle of a family gathering at a diner, as USA Today reports:

Chase insists that what you saw (and didn’t see) is what you get.

"There are no esoteric clues in there. No Da Vinci Code," he declares.

So that appears to be that: the series ending, which bewildered and disappointed most viewers, was chosen deliberately.

It’s another vivid case proving the stupidity and dramatic wrongness of fashionable ambiguity.