thus it makes sense that Livia dying would blow the FBI's case as well (no witnesses)
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 June 2009 15:19 (fourteen years ago) link
thank u shakes
― whiney g. gordon liddy (J0rdan S.), Monday, 22 June 2009 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Livia's death also explains some of the weird tones/stories in Season 3, they had to really scramble to re-write the entire season and come up with a different direction.
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 June 2009 17:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i really liked the alicia witt episode
― combination pizza hut and shanty town (Lamp), Monday, 22 June 2009 17:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Great season...I really think Season 3 was the last "very good" Sopranos season before it veered way off into soap opera territory in Seasons 4 and 5 (which despite some saying it was a return to form, I thought was overrated). Season 6, well I never finished as the first half alternated betwen dull and ridiculous.
― III IV V (Bo Jackson Overdrive), Monday, 22 June 2009 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link
"Home Movies" season 6 premiere is one of the best episodes in the series
― Kitchen Paper Towel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 June 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
daaaaaaaaaaaaamn jamie-lynn was fiiiiiiine this season
― LAMBDA LAMBDA LANDA (Beatrix Kiddo), Thursday, 6 January 2011 02:23 (thirteen years ago) link
ya any time the sopranos tried to be witty about showbiz it just failed completely... always makes me cringe
― s1ocki, Sunday, June 14, 2009 3:51 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark
"Hey Marty - Kundun, I liked it!" is hilarious, one of my favorite lines from the show
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Monday, 7 March 2011 08:05 (thirteen years ago) link
just finished s2, surprised myself by how much i was getting into this season by the end after thinking it started off kinda weak (finale was kind of a microcosm of this - i thought it was gonna be a throwaway finale a la buffy but then it really kicked into gear at the end there). i sort of hated richie aprile and expecially janice but can admit that the guy who played richie did a hell of a job. dude was just a major prick and i never understood why tony put up with him for so long.
parts of this season did seem pretty rushed though and there were some throwaway scenes - like did the italy story really require an entire episode? what became of that, furio joined the crew, beat up that asian lady, and... AJ goes through a lolexistential crisis and then...well we don't know, they never revisit that (it does seem to rub off on tony a bit tho). chris gets shot, almost dies...and then he's not in the next episode at all, only mentioned once, and is out of the hospital the following ep, and now he's about to be made. cool?
my biggest gripe was with the tony/dr. melfi relationship. she was such a highlight of season 1 and then was seriously underused this season. i know they tried to show her 'personal' life a little more, with the alcoholism and general sadness of her existence, but none of that really interested me for whatever reason. her relationship with tony was one of the best parts of the show and it seemed like every episode wasted 5-10 minutes with them sitting in her office staring at each other; each visit was the same. like livia this season, she seemed like more of a plot device than an actual character.
all that said i really just love tony and carmela and christopher and pauly/sil so much i can't help myself. i just wish the plotting were a bit tighter and the whole thing had a bit more, idk, meaning. lol
― Al S. Burr! (k3vin k.), Sunday, 22 July 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
if anyone replies remember i've only seen through season 2
― Al S. Burr! (k3vin k.), Sunday, 22 July 2012 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
manson lamps
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 22 July 2012 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxT442bSG68
Didn't realize that was David Chase blowing off Paulie.
― pplains, Sunday, 22 July 2012 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
the tony/richie climactic fight is one of the realest ever
― big-mammed punisher (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Sunday, 22 July 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
also
"Hey Marty - Kundun, I liked it!"
this pops into my head every time i see scorsese now
hahaha
― Hungry4Ass, Sunday, 22 July 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
maybe this comes back to haunt him but was a bit put off by how easy tony skated on the airline tickets thing - i mean i know he has a great lawyer and whatever but it's great that they balance out tony's skill as a boss with the fact that like anyone else he has to get lucky once in a while just to stay alive and this felt too glossed over for my taste.
i agree with everyone upthread talking about how great carmella became in this season - i loved when she would show her "married to a mob boss" side like when she snapped at janice after meadow was busted having the party at livia's house also the way they ended her thing with the contractor by having her hunt him down just to thank him. the only thing is when she got wooed by the coat - i think in real life that would've made the situation worse but it's a small nitpick. just in general falco was amazing - her stares at the contractor, when she runs away during richie and janice's wedding toast.
my two cents on junior is that he was obv never good enough to be the boss - this is pure speculation on my part but if they chose jackie over junior even tho junior was tony's dad's brother, that must say something - but he was high up enough on the food chain to live well, he just decided not to live like tony. i guess he was still making side deals with richie to move coke and whatever but when his lawyer tells him that it will cost at least 400k to have people review the fbi wiretaps on him he's kind of like "ah fuck it"
also the dream sequences in this are amazing - i think having tony finally come to the decision about pussy in a dream was brilliant - as someone who runs from the facts of life (me!) will tell you, they eventually catch up to you in your sleep.
the best thing that happened this season was dropping the storyline of christopher the actor/screenwriter whatever whatever - shit was mad boring
― whiney g. gordon liddy (J0rdan S.), Monday, June 22, 2009 5:48 AM (3 years ago)
i p much agree w/ all this
― Al S. Burr! (k3vin k.), Monday, 23 July 2012 01:18 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, this line has taken up permanent residence in my brain.
― circa1916, Monday, 23 July 2012 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
Carmela's absolute *best* married to a mob boss moment is the scene where she tries to get Meadow a letter of recommendation for college w/ the ricotta pie
― shmamille shmaglia (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 23 July 2012 03:20 (eleven years ago) link
Like she starts out just being pushy and then is just flat-out "I want you to write the letter" *smiles and holds ricotta pie*
― shmamille shmaglia (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 23 July 2012 03:22 (eleven years ago) link
― ℳℴℯ ❤\(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Monday, March 7, 2011 3:05 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Me too, not really what I meant
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Monday, 23 July 2012 05:16 (eleven years ago) link
I'm watching this show again from s1 btw
k3vin some of yr complaints re: Livia have more than a little to do with her declining health conflicting with the writers' plans for story arcs
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 July 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
my favorite part of Season 2 is probably the interaction between Tony and Janice when he puts her on the bus out of town
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 23 July 2012 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
Also a post-9/11 point where I thought, Why does she have to ride a --- OH, no ID needed apparently.
― pplains, Monday, 23 July 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
Tony, putting Janis on the bus: "All in all though, I'd say it was a pretty good visit."
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 9 August 2012 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
been rewatching the whole show for the first time...final scene of this season is one of the high points of the series
that being said, i think i might prefer the more slack, rambling pacing of the next two seasons to the clear, linear path of the season 2. italy episode and d-girl are both pretty blah episodes imo
― buh, Thursday, 9 August 2012 00:56 (eleven years ago) link
Those are two of the worst for sure, do love the rest of this season tho
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 9 August 2012 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's a great season. janice/tony/livia is such a great triangle of manipulation and deceit
― buh, Thursday, 9 August 2012 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
richie aprile definitely my fave antagonist. w/ the exception of maaaybe mad men is sopranos the funniest of the recent golden age dramas (defining as sopranos, deadwood, the wire, mad men, breaking bad)? tony's at least neck and neck w/ al swearengen and roger sterling (and funnier than bunk and whoever the wit of breaking bad is - jesse?), and paulie walnuts, christofuh, sal, livia, and uncle junior seem much funnier than anyone else the others have.
― balls, Thursday, 9 August 2012 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, i hadn't remembered the show being so funny the first time i watched it.
i love those throwaway jokes like the witness reading anarchy, state, and utopia at home
― buh, Thursday, 9 August 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
sopranos is sooooo funny, nonstop
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 9 August 2012 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
really relishing this season how dominic chianese can play aggrieved better than anyone else ever
those quiet scenes with junior and the woman who comes to visit him while he's under house arrest are really nice too
― buh, Thursday, 9 August 2012 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
I just watched the first episode of this season last night, coincidentally. Janice is so despicable.
― Arvo Pärt Chimp (Neil S), Thursday, 9 August 2012 08:54 (eleven years ago) link
it's like every character in this show is constantly dissembling and self-righteously rationalizing their greed and laziness
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 9 August 2012 14:47 (eleven years ago) link
"Picayune stuff."
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Thursday, 9 August 2012 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
only 3 episodes into s2, but David Proval's dead eyes are as creepy as his shoeblack hair is hilarious. I recognized him from Mean Streets even tho he looks like that guy's desiccated corpse.
lol at Aida Turturro singing along with "Mother and Child Reunion."
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 September 2014 05:04 (nine years ago) link
tony... i'm old school
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 1 September 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
like Pacino on downers
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 September 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link
well except behind the wheel or with a coffeepot
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 1 September 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
proval's so good in this
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Tuesday, 2 September 2014 01:12 (nine years ago) link
Manson lamps
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 2 September 2014 01:47 (nine years ago) link
My fave tony antagonist
The Happy Wanderer is such an amazing episode. So funny!
http://youtu.be/uNPmBKP95dk
http://youtu.be/5WjwV6xmCq4
― nate woolls, Friday, 5 September 2014 06:26 (nine years ago) link
I did recognize him in that Naples episode. Great stinkeye.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 September 2014 20:02 (nine years ago) link
i am shocked, shocked that Frank Sinatra Jr would sully the family name by playing himself in the poker game.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 7 June 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
I've just started on s5 in my rewatch. (First proper series watch, really - I've seen the whole thing, but not in sequence, and spread out over years.) Glad "Whitecaps" lived up to my memory.
― fuck me, archipelago (Simon H.), Sunday, 7 June 2015 18:50 (nine years ago) link
hey, cheese fuckget me some food
― slam dunk, Sunday, 7 June 2015 23:31 (nine years ago) link
I agree that the showbiz shit in "D-Girl" was tedious. While I like Imperioli's performance, Christopher is the least compelling of the major characters thus far too.
Big Pussy's house right next to a cemetery is not a good vibe.
Rendezvous btwn Tony and Paulie at the Lou Costello statue in Paterson was nice til it ended with a closeup of Lou's bird-stained derby.
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 June 2015 15:43 (nine years ago) link
also one of Nancy Marchand's best moments was Livia's pitiless response to AJ's post-Nietzschean funk. "What makes you so special? Ya die in your own arms!"
― the increasing costive borborygmi (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 June 2015 17:49 (nine years ago) link