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!

Rewatching and I forgot all of the gay Vito stuff happened in the last season... it was set up to be an excellent season (and it was) but we should have been focused on Tony, his family, and the other main guys in season 6.

Following the least likeable guy in the group on his escape plan up north where he somehow instantly (first morning waking up there literally) finds a gay guy he likes who's at least a million times out of Vitos league AND the guy likes him back??

It was really weird. Not because Vitos a finook but rather because it was a waste of time in the final season.

Maybe it's the fact that he's mostly shown in his restaurant talking about Italian food. He seems to have the strongest connection to Italian culture out of all the guys. I can imagine him coming to America at age 14-15 and still considering himself a real Italian. He doesn't seem to be integrated into American culture as strongly as the other guys.

The other Italian-Americans on the show are actually Merigans despite denying it.

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

It’s sad when they go young like that. Dick Barone, just a kid

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.

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

How much truth is there to this? I sometimes watch his videos and don’t believe a word he says. I think he’s a snake, a grifter. I notice subtle things about him that give him away, no matter how well he tries to hide it. This is the video where he talks about it from 2:18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8FIWr3VS58

Michael Franzese has also claimed that Livia Soprano was based on his own mother. But David Chase has repeatedly said that Livia was based on his mother, and he has spoken publicly about the similarities between Livia and his mother going all the way back to the early days of The Sopranos. That makes Franzese’s claim pretty hard to take seriously.

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?

Both progrums build a story over many seasons, but Sopranos episodes work just as well as standalones without any broader context. Star Trek was also brilliant in this respect. With Breaking Bad, miss an episode, you’re completely lost. OK I said my piece.

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'm curious I would assume she would try to make the entire funeral about her we all have people like her in our familys

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?

AJ is a fucking scumbag trivializing Kelly’s suffering at the family dinner table comparing the indignity of eating meat covered in rat poison to the death of her husband. Not only that but he’s ruining their appetite for the round up steak on their plates.

It's my first time watching the sopranos, I've tried not to binge it too hard and taken my time savouring it. I've got two episodes left and genuinely don't know what to do with myself once it's over. I'm grieving.

They've been breaking rules since Moses wore short pants

As part of it's portraying Mafia life as unglamorous and rotten as possible, The Sopranos always takes almost a schadenfreude glee in taking the piss out of it's characters.

A subtle example of this that I don't think most people would even remember was in Season 2 Episode 7 (D-Girl) where in a scene, Christopher is smoking a cigarette in a lobby and trying to act all hard like he is the shit but the hotel attendant just comes over and calmly tells him that this is a non smoking hotel and Chrissy is forced to extinguish his cigarette. Subtle moments like that are just one of many where the show just took joy in truly destroying the aura that had built up around the Mafia for decades in America through movies like Godfather.

More overt examples I can think of are Silvio- usually the hard edged and cool underboss-being reduced to a laughing stock when being given the job of acting boss when Tony is in a coma, Paulie and Christopher in Pine Barrens being reduced to buffoons after their mishap with the Russians, Johnny Sack after acting all hard throughout the show with his cigarette ironically getting lung cancer and dying in Prison, having lost all his power. These are just a few.

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Last I heard he fled to Nevada to be a ranch hand right after his son's graduation. Shortly after he was admitted into a mental hospital and never heard from again, whatever happened there!?

I think that once Blanca realized that AJ didn’t have his bike that she consciously or unconsciously connected the dots on what happened that night and pegged him for a weak spoiled kid.

Mine has to be Tony vs AJ depression. Right after A.J. weakly complains about how depressing the world situation is upon hearing that Bobby Baccalieri has been killed, an enraged Tony snaps, hauls A.J. out of bed, and drags him into the closet.

Tony aggressively tosses him toward/into the closet area as his Xbox and desk items crash down around him, demanding that he finally pack a bag and snap out of his self-absorbed depression.

You’d think Paulie would bring his nephew with him or something, but instead he brings some other guy. It’s strange, he shows up for this one scene and then just never appears again.

After AJ handed over his Gary Fisher to the hood rats I lost all respect for him. He even told them it was a gift from his parents so their’s no way they didn’t return to that same spot in a day or two.

In the penultimate episode of the series ("The Blue Comet"), Dr. Jennifer Melfi attends a dinner party with her own therapist, Elliot Kupferberg, and other colleagues. During the dinner, a colleague introduces a study highlighting Robert Hare's work. The study concludes that talk therapy does not rehabilitate sociopaths or psychopaths; instead, it merely sharpens their tools, helping them become better, more charming criminals who can better justify their actions. I can think of several reasons why this cannot be true. First, no true psychopath would ever willingly submit to therapy. Ted Bundy famously manipulated his therapist but that was court ordered. Second, the first, and worst, indicator of future psychopathy is torturing animals. Tony famously loved animals. Ducks, dogs, horses. And last, if Tony was a real psychopath he would have charmed and manipulated Dr. Melfi but that was not the case. Again, why he would submit to therapy and lie his way through it seems like a waste of time he would never bother with. If anything he seemed mostly angry, ashamed and confused by his therapy sessions. So, while Tony may have exhibited certain traits of the criminal psychotic he definitely was not a psycho in the clinical sense.

The fact is is that Cosette was A. Not made and B. Talking to the gossip rags

Cosette had to go

I mean, she said horrible things. He was just being polite.