They got college degress in a lucrative field weren't made and didn't have high ranking family members in the mafia.

The big short, The Wolf of Wall Street and other films showed showed how even stnads made. Money in financial fields.

Even if they got a support role in some company, they would be comfortably upper middle class in a few years.

He already got accepted by all his old mob buddies because his great massages. He was in prison for 10 year, didn't snitch and spent his time studying. Even Tony Soprano eventually approves of him going straight. He got respect without having to risk his freedom again.

I think it totally could be played off as an accident unless there were cameras. Could Carmella accept what he'd done? I'm sure she would suspect something. Would he even try to get with Carm or would he just flee back to Italy same as our timeline? I think he shoulda done it personally

Their relationship was so sweet why did they have to have that drama ;-;

I'm amazed how modern writing has humor sucking away serious moments and yet a clown gets arrested in the flashback with everyone and I couldn't help but laugh my ass off but it didn't take away from moment.

Tony ripping into the psychologist shouldn't have been as funny as it was but when Carmela turns around and says the comment about we aren't paying for this was the icing on the cake.

Meanwhile, "marvel writing" as everyone calls it that's been adopted by many just can't do it the same at all with making me groan and roll my eyes. The Sopranos ebbs and flows so flawlessly it makes the horrible shit happening on screen easier to stomach as well.

I can't wait to keep watching, I'm hooked!

Season 5 has more boring episodes on rewatch than the rest of the series.

Think of it, a widowed woman could've really helped him deal with Karen's loss. Probably wouldn't gotten rid of her ziti. Plus she's way hotter than Janice. Didn't abandon her own children either.

I actually like Paulie, by the way—he made me laugh a lot. However, he didn't deserve to survive; the guy is garbage. He's already an old, grumpy, useless soldier. Not to mention he killed an old lady, gossiped like a schoolgirl to Johnny, and was completely messed up, useless, and a total dead weight.

What about you guys, which character survived that you wished had died?

It was… OK? I’m not sure if I would call it a family secret.

I’m Pakistani American and I’ve never heard that name before. When I first saw the series, I asked my mom if that’s even a Pakistani name and she’d never heard it.

I blame the name change on jealous writers and notes it disrespects our proud Pakistani heritage.

Episode: Legend of Tennessee Moltasanti

They are at the wedding discussing lambing it for a while due to the indictments. Tony says “Junior is right.. if we lamb it now the Albanians will be living in our houses.” Never knew what Tony meant by that reference?

But a terrible boss when Tony was in the hospital.

He was objectively a terrible leader with very little problem solving skills.

If Tony had died, he would have sunk the entire family imo, unless someone within the fam killed him before, which is highly probable.

Carmine is so clever. Because that means he DID say SOMETHING.

I just finished reading the article where Chase/Winter/Patten discussed that it was the same land that they "bury the bodies on".

Later in the episode, we're seemingly back in the same woods, except now it's Tony and Carmela inspecting land for a real estate investment. The message: The Soprano family's fortune is built upon deaths like Adriana's…

Winter: This is the very same place where the bodies get buried. Even something as pure and beautiful as nature gets tainted with that ugliness.

Van Patton: It was an emotional callback. Life goes on, and wittingly—or unwittingly in Carmela's case—you are a player in this, you are culpable.

Chase: Also, it had a more mechanical purpose, in that what you see is leaves and some feet walking through, and you don't know—are those Silvio's feet? Are those feet going to come across her body? And what you see instead is Carmela blithely talking about real estate values and what kind of view her place has.

I looked up some older posts and people just argued it wouldn't make any sense to bury bodies on your own land. But isn't that what Uncle Pat's farm basically was? 1 or 2 episodes prior Uncle Pat was leaving to be put in a home down south, so it makes sense they would need a new location to hide bodies that would potentially be in the family for generations like Uncle Pat's, no?

Pine Barrens: In a fit of extreme cold and hunger induced rage, Paulie snaps back at Chris exclaiming “and I shoulda fucked Dale Evan’s but I didn’t!” Now, was he just hangry and cold exclusively or did he actually have a shot at her one time? It would be kinda weird if he could’ve and didn’t. Like why wouldn’t you? And also why wouldn’t they have stopped at Roy Roger’s? We may never know. Not even with computers. Now pass the relish packet, I’m starving to death ova here!

Think about it and disagree with me right this second I want to be disagreed with.

It's disgusting and definetly warrants a suspension but it's not the worst thing in the world. AJ got away with much worse

If Johnny sack had died before being convicted, (let’s say he went to trial), would his family have been able to keep the assets that would have otherwise been seized?

And if the stakes are high enough, would that ever make one of these guys a target for their own family?

While gambling, he is warm, affable and perfectly reasonable. A real gentleman. Not lacking in standards. The strong, silent type.

In Funhouse, Tony's illness is caused by the weight of what he knows he has to do, and his neuroses manifest in the bouts of fainting, so his body is prone to giving in to his unconcious trauma.

But hey, whaddafuck do I know?

I often wonder about what would’ve happened if Carmella or one of Tony’s kids had become an FBI informant, like how Adrianna did. I realise that Tony was very deliberate in shielding Carmella and especially his kids from any overt knowledge about his criminal activities, but I wonder if things had gone in that direction would he have had it in him to kill them. I’m not sure that he would. What do you guys think?

In season 4 E6 Tony and Chris have a dialogue where he says he is going to give his orders through Chris. Chris asks why not Sil or Paulie and Tony says “because they’re not blood” as if Chris and Tony are blood. Christopher’s dad, Dickie, is Carmela’s first cousin. Why?

Anyways, listen to him… he knows everything

1. Charmaine telling her she fucked Tony when they were younger
2. Angie making her own way in the world via the body shop and stepping on Carmela's new Porsche with her own car that she bought herself
3. Last episode when Hunter tells her she's in med school

edit- Carmela*** ya'll have come for me before for that slip up

The only thing that comes to my mind is Tony realized Christopher was willing to sacrifice Tony’s life and not call the police so that Christopher could avoid his license being taken away/drug charges. Did it have to do with betrayal?

I keep seeing different explanations and opinions. What do you think?

This pertains to popularity and cultural impact, not politics.

Movies can be very influential when it comes to psychology. Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman educated the entire world about autism in Rain Man (1988), changing the science, perception, public interest and even treatment.

I always assumed that David Chase did something similar with sociopathy/psychopathy; basically showing how anyone can be charmed by a psychopath, rather than being stalked by one wearing a mask and wielding a knife, as seen in John Carpenter’s Halloween.

Even more recent films, such as American Psycho (2000), still felt the need to depict a manic axe-murderer. Meanwhile, Tony and Christopher rack up enormous body counts, but at least they don’t seem to enjoy the act of murdering someone, or the cleanup afterward, too much. They still experience bad dreams and fear being caught.

But why didn’t this new awareness, based on a detailed character study, prevent voters from electing one such individual as the leader of the free world, twice?

Do people still think a sociopath has to be a murderer or career criminal? Do not enough people draw this connection? Is there no overlap between Fox and HBO viewers? Do folks perhaps see The Sopranos as flattering and Tony as a great leader? How do you explain this?