Sopranos - Season 2

Didn't realize that was David Chase blowing off Paulie.

I did recognize him in that Naples episode. Great stinkeye.

The Happy Wanderer is such an amazing episode. So funny!

i am shocked, shocked that Frank Sinatra Jr would sully the family name by playing himself in the poker game.

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.

hey, cheese fuck
get me some food

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.

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!"

those scenes are so great (and get a lot of callbacks)

Richie Aprile mentioned this childhood fave, which i did not know was still in existence

http://turtlebackzoo.com/

Threat, what threatening? I brought you a ricotta pie.

I want you to write the lettah.

I am finishing up this season (4 episodees to go), and just watched the one where Carmela prays in a hospital room for Christopher's "vision" and reform at the time of his near-death after being shot. Very few actresses could pull that off without condescension the way Falco does.

yeah in my mind Sopranos was basically The Edie Falco and Drea De Matteo Hour

the women on this show were all incredible tbh

Never enough Rosie April.

"Fuckin nosey! Eat your manigot'!"

Aprile

Damn phone

that Richie-Janice sex scene with the gun, boy howdy

"I'm gettin' ready for the George Sanders long walk here."

Manson lamps

That was a brilliant episode: Junior and the cop widow (Mary Louise Wilson) too; Melfi sinking

also, Junior lives in the town where i was born

I remember being happy Richie got plugged but was so pissed it was Janice who did it.

Tho Richie was one of the best Tony foils

good thing i already knew that with 2 episodes to go *sigh*

bye threads, see you in a few years

NO YEAR 2000 SPOILERS

Lol bagels wtf

Lol sorry it's 2015 and I'm drunk

I am seriously sorry tho I didn't read far enough upthread.

"I'm in ore of you."

btw Tony explicitly tells Junior to live on "the pile of cash you're sittin' on" in this season

Tony, putting Janis on the bus: "All in all though, I'd say it was a pretty good visit."

I caught many a bus right on that spot (Newark Penn Station).

Bus scene is a beaut. "We buried him on a hill"

Do they check ID on Greyhounds? Or is that the quite obvious reason why she's not flying home.

haven't ridden one in a while but I think they just take your 'boarding pass'. and Greyhound is so disorganized that even if they do they probably forget half the time.

esp pre-9/11 (which this was)

i was fine with the finale, animated talking fish always are a plus, as is Asbury Park in winter.

god that finale was devastating.

lol i thought of 'we buried him on a hill' this morning

always lol at janice's "I loved him so much!" in that scene.

is season two when aj gets existential and livia's 'poor you'?

"Nitch"

i kinda think you guys laugh at the wrong things sometimes at least per D Chase's intentions.

strange, HSB, i don't get "devastated" by these scumfucks

immoral gangsters or not, Tony having to ice his childhood friend was still a rough watch.

i mean no I don't even remotely "root" for Tony in the conventional sense (same w/ Walter White on Breaking Bad), and it's always more interesting watching Tony continually trying to rationalize his shitty actions by stretching his code well beyond its limits. but that whacking was diff than the others cos of who it was. even if Big Puss was also a terrible human being, which by all accounts he certainly was.

The key to the sequence was how wobbly, weak and pathetic all four of the characters were.

Tony having to ice his childhood friend

was Pussy ever identified as such? cuz Gandolfini was about 15 years younger than Vincent Pastore.

yeah i don't think they grew up together or anything. T did refer to him as his "best friend" multiple times tho

yeah Pussy is Paulie's generation

lol thought y'all were talking about tony b at first

...banderas?

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Posted this in a different Sopranos thread - pretty sure Big Pussy's name came from a Roth novel published in 1998:

Related to Sopranos origins and Newark, this is from Philip Roth's I Married A Communist (1998):

He got his name (Little Pussy) because he started out professionally as a cat burglar, sneaking across the rooftops and going in through the windows with his older brother, Big Pussy. In grade school they were already up all night stealing. When they even bothered to come to school, they sat sleeping at their desks and nobody dared to waker them up. Big Pussy died of natural causes, and Little Pussy was bumped off in 1979 in real gangland style...three bullets from a .32 in his head. The next day Ritchie Boiardo tells one of his cronies, "Perhaps it was for the best--because he talked too much."
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Wednesday, 30 July 2014 16:09 (1 year ago) Permalink

Chase:

…people say “What the fuck are these dreams doing in my gangster movie?” Well, from the get-go, this is a story about psychology…so much of psychotherapy has to do with dreams. But because its a psychological show, the dreams often have to be interpreted. Because they have to carry a point. And so – “Funhouse.” That came about because I couldn’t bear the fact that we were going to have to do some kind of procedural in which Tony found out Pussy was a rat. Like he was going to have to call up some cop, or some guy would come to him and then he’d follow up on the lead. And they’d stake out Pussy’s house. And they’d follow him to the FBI. Blah, blah. I fucking would have wanted to kill somebody. So I thought, “How can he just know it?” Can’t we skip all that crap?

http://sopranosautopsy.com/season-2-3/funhouse-draft/

Lol at carmela crushing on the wallpaper dude “anybody ready for another sandwich?”