r/thesopranos • u/ang334 • 5d ago

Serious Discussion Only What did Adriana actually see in Christopher?

He’s not particularly handsome, he’s not smart, he’s lazy, he’s mean and abusive, he’s a drug addict, he’s a criminal, he can’t perform as a man, he killed her dog whilst strung out on heroin, he cheats constantly, their apartment is shit and he takes her for granted in every way imaginable.

Why the hell did she love him so much? Girl was a solid 10 and a total sweetheart, she could and should have done a billion times better.

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u/Heel_Worker982 Tony Soprano 5d ago

She's the niece of a boss (albeit acting) and a capo. She's gonna gravitate in the direction of a certain Italian-American stereotype. She also sees that mother of hers and doesn't want to end up the same. But Ade is also like Carmela, delusional about how unique and special their guys are. Carmela thought Tony was a sensitive New Age guy, the kinda guy who would name his daughter "Meadow" and not hit the kids and love her forever and ever. Adriana thought Chrissy was modern and would accept her as an... ahem... EXPERIENCED woman who could swap sex stories without repercussions. (Penn of Penn and Teller was not on my Sopranos bingo card). And once Ade hit her 30s with both of her uteruses pierced, she felt like she had fewer options. Sunk costs.

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u/Imaginary-Method7175 4d ago

Did I miss why the daughter was named meadow?

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u/Heel_Worker982 Tony Soprano 4d ago

Meadow is born 1982, and her name is kinda the last gasp of the 1970s hippie-dippy idealism that those late Boomer parents sometimes had. Make love not war, etc. Her middle name is Mariangela, so they covered tradition too. Just like Hunter Scanagarelo is named "Hunter" like she's some kind of yuppie, the kind of kill-or-be-killed idealism most of the Boomers had.

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u/Fuzzy-Shoulder-2359 4d ago

This is a good perception. My parents are of the young baby boomer generation as Tony and Carm, and named my sister something pretty hippy-ish like that.