Sopranos

“‘Carmencita,’ Furio asked, ‘don’t you love me any more?’

“She gave me no answer, she was sitting cross-legged on a mat, making marks on the ground with her finger.

“‘Let us change our life, Carmen,’ said Furio imploringly. ‘Let us go away and live somewhere we shall never be parted.

xp have you no soul?

ive the most soul but cmon now

oh that plot thread is totally cheesy and romanticised but that's what makes it good fun I think

yep its pure soap opera grade fluff positive, but nevertheless classic.

kevin k, please keep going with the fan fiction

Furio and Carmela better than her and that priest.

yes but it is p funny when she calls him out for his bullshit

lol the priest is so lame

The way he says "you think I'm a schnorer" is fantastically cringey

Ray Liotta cast in the film

https://deadline.com/2019/02/ray-liotta-the-sopranos-prequel-film-goodfellas-mob-movie-david-chase-the-many-saints-of-newark-new-line-warner-bros-1202566594/

I really don't understand how Gandolfini's son is playing Tony. The kid is 19 this year, the series established Tony's birthdate as 1959/60, and the movie takes place in the turbulent Newark of the '60s.

yeah that doesn't make sense

Hard to wrap my head around Tony only being 39-40 at the start of the series.

It strikes me a lot of episodes that Tony might not be a particularly talented or cunning boss. He’s not dumb and he knows how to survive but he’s not brilliant either and sometimes maybe too soft.

hurting what episode u on? i took a tv break to read a book but i wanna keep up

S2E7 as I post

perf i was s2e9 when i stopped

Lol @ pussy reading “Waste News” — right out of zucker bros.

milo, Gandolfini was 36 or 37 when they shot the pilot.

shot the pilot.

hey no spoilers

Robert Patrick is not very believable as an Italian childhood friend somehow.

he's rubbish but I thoroughly enjoyed Tony rinsing him of just about everything bar the shoes on his feet.

that sequence of events more or less repeats itself in S4 in similarly entertaining fashion

Lol the tie up of the Janis/Ritchie plot was def a little forced.

thats prob got some of the best moments of the entire show imo

Overall I liked the plot, but it felt very "we need to get these characters out before the end of the season." You could feel the writers' cramp -- Ritchie had to die but it didn't quite feel right to have Janis widowed by her own brother while also having the two of them reconcile slightly and having her leave town. I had a hard time reading what Janis's motivation was supposed to be. She's normally very calculating. Was this calculated, or was it a genuine momentary angry reaction to what Ritchie did?

OTOH loved the S2 ending.

https://www.sopranoscon.com/

List of guests includes Goldee, aka Pie-Oh-My

My fave part of the Janice/Ritchie end was Tony's look of amazement when he enters the house and realizes what happened.

otm

I bawled when Meadow graduated high school. My baby's gonna leave me one day ;_;

*babies

i feel like not enough attention has been paid to latebloomer's bombshell declaration that a fucking horse will be a guest at a sopranos convention

also, googling 'pie-oh-my' led me to this user review of that episode from imdb which i feel needs to be quoted in full

The Sopranos

A classic take on the most beloved genre which clearly suggests the crazy love it received from the audience but also left a long lasting impression on critics and awards shows where it took away five justified Golden Globes to its home. The Sopranos is a character driven series about a family that basically runs the whole town, just illegally.

The writing is adaptive, gripping and ground-breaking on terms of its structure that is so eerily easy as it slips away from the audience like some jelly; it is sweet, nutritious and immensely pleasing. It is rich on technical aspects like its metaphorical cinematography, sharp sound effects and up beating songs along with palpable background score. The series is shot beautifully, each and every color sparks up neatly; especially the visuals that are taken in sunny days are amazing.

The performance by the cast is plausible since the effort is clearly visible but Gandolfini, Bracco, Falco and Imperioli stands alone due to their easiness in their acts. Gandolfini; at the heart of it, oozes power and the aegis nature which is what helps makers keep the audience rooting for the character.

The relationship between Gandolfini and Bracco is the highlight of the series due its fragile tone which is soothing to experience as it lights up the series in a whole new way. Pragmatic conversations, three dimensional character, gut-wrenching politics, brawny dialogues and brilliant execution are the high points of the feature that makes it one of the best series.

Season 04

This fourth act is more professional and business than personal and yet it is more emotionally competent, if not among the best. But with new additions of characters and expected threat, it has got the right amount of crispiness as much as it is husky.

Pie-O-My

Drunk in its emotional conflicts, it demands viewers' attention and creates the anticipated genuine impact whose credit goes to Gandolfini's stellar performance, while the rest of the act is set upon backstage more than it usually does.

id be more interested in meeting that horse than some of the other guests

i'm not gonna lie - same

FAP(ie-oh-my)?

I'll cosplay as Dr. Melfi's shrink

All you need are eyeglasses and a water bottle.

Peter Bogdanovich, you mean

want to dress up like george washington and get my picture taken with the horse

hah when Paulie saves that painting from the fire then hangs it in his living room, and even after it has been painted over the eyes follow him round the room, so classic. On our re-watch we speculated about which member of the cast & crew would have got to keep it

gracenote how he painted over tonys whole outfit but kept his face

like an Edgar Allan Poe story

yeah and like something about the depth of their relationship/power dynamic etc, he wldnt even think to paint over tones face

would meet pie oh my

but I would cosplay as Paulie or Chris (havent decided) from “the pine barrens episode” with a sackful of ketchup & relish packets

gotta be paulie gotta have the hair wings

yeah true!
but chrissy gets the big floor mat from the van & looks like a crazy sherpa

so many options

Did the first two eps of S3 where you at flops

Show just keeps getting better imo. The death of tony’s Mom ep was so good.

gandolfinis acting is kinda the best acting ever