Also, Carm's hair got SO much more chic and beautiful between the end of S3 and the beginning of S4. I'm really liking the direction her style is taking.
― kate moss and heavy machinery in a dessert (Stevie D), Tuesday, 12 January 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
OMG @ S4E04, "The Weight". An entire episode of Ginny Sac!
― kate moss and heavy machinery in a dessert (Stevie D), Saturday, 16 January 2010 06:25 (fourteen years ago) link
ginny is great
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 16 January 2010 06:28 (fourteen years ago) link
unliks AJ who I really wish would die.
― kate moss and heavy machinery in a dessert (Stevie D), Saturday, 16 January 2010 06:43 (fourteen years ago) link
AJ is a cock obv but his character makes tons of sense-- naturally tony would have a weak, brat child-- meadow otoh... they should've just let her go
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 16 January 2010 06:45 (fourteen years ago) link
they have the entire series on sale in hmv for €80(±$105) and saturday is my birthday, should i just go for it.
― plax (ico), Thursday, 8 April 2010 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
yes
― nakhchivan, Thursday, 8 April 2010 23:41 (fourteen years ago) link
figure if i go cold on it i can prolly sell it on for abt what i paid for it anyway (its marked down from €150)
― plax (ico), Thursday, 8 April 2010 23:42 (fourteen years ago) link
yes yes
― goon with the wind (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 8 April 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
that is totally a great deal
― modern eunuch-like crooning (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 8 April 2010 23:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I had a friend who recently declined to watch this series because she felt overly squeamish about any potential violence. I felt she was really missing out and would otherwise enjoy it... otoh I couldn't really argue that the violence in it could be ignored/overlooked.
― modern eunuch-like crooning (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 April 2010 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i am not that attracted to the violence either
― plax (ico), Friday, 9 April 2010 00:02 (fourteen years ago) link
still, what i have seen of this seemed pretty good, but like i started watching for a little while around s4 i think so i mean i constantly didn't understand the backstory and it was p confusing iirc
― plax (ico), Friday, 9 April 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
the violence isn't constant and it isn't exploitatively or crassly done. In fact, it's very well done and thus unsettling - as violence should be.
― modern eunuch-like crooning (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 April 2010 00:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm surprised to hear that, plax. I think many of the episodes are prettty much self-contained, with only a reference or two to tie it into the ongoing storyline. As far as serialized shows go, there are plenty that are much much harder to jump into. Of course, I watched them all in order anyway, and that's just my take as a fan, so who really knows.
― Jouster, Friday, 9 April 2010 01:55 (fourteen years ago) link
long term parking is on right now -_-
― ༗ (J0rdan S.), Friday, 9 April 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
quality episode
― Shamandy Warhol (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 April 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
Tony Newting his gf is so brutal
yeah that scene is great -- altho for cable it gets kinda lol w/ all the edits
― J0rdan S., Friday, 9 April 2010 18:41 (fourteen years ago) link
bought this
― plax (ico), Friday, 9 April 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago) link
there are a lot of things I could say right now that I am not gonna say
― Shamandy Warhol (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 April 2010 20:04 (fourteen years ago) link
i love u 4 that
― plax (ico), Friday, 9 April 2010 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
What is "newting?"
― Jouster, Friday, 9 April 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
breaking up with/divorcing someone while they're in the hospital
― Shamandy Warhol (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 April 2010 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
"He walked out in the spring of 1980.... By September, I went into the hospital for my third surgery. The two girls came to see me, and said, "Daddy is downstairs. Could he come up?" When he got there, he wanted to discuss the terms of the divorce while I was recovering from my surgery." - Jackie Gingrich, Newt Gingrich's first wife (who was suffering from cancer iirc)
― Shamandy Warhol (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 April 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
ok i am not reading this thread.... now.
― plax (ico), Friday, 9 April 2010 20:17 (fourteen years ago) link
haha sorry
― Shamandy Warhol (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 9 April 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Nearing the end of Season 5. Tony has gotten so rotten and awful, I seriously hope he just dies at this point. AJ, too, has managed to become even worse; hope someone kills him too. I can't count the number of times I want to just jump through the screen and say the things that need to be said that clearly aren't; it's amazing how passive (re: bad) Tony and Carmela are when it comes to parenting. I wish there was more Gabriella Dante, and I wish Adrianna wasn't so pathetic all the time. She used to be so great!
― limp bizkotti (Stevie D), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Also despite the fact that I'm 10 episodes into Season 5, I STILL have not recognized a single shooting location which makes me feel like a rly bad New Jerseyan. There was one episode that took place at Mason Gross (Rutgers' art school) but it was at some old building that I can't seem to locate.
― limp bizkotti (Stevie D), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Also also I seriously have managed to make it this far without hearing abt the series finale. Please no one spoil it.
― limp bizkotti (Stevie D), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
wow
ok
― mr. milquetoast (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 25 May 2010 03:49 (thirteen years ago) link
I loved (hated) how Carm was so dead set on divorce at the end of one episode and then lets him move back in TWENTY MINUTES into the next episode. This is awful writing and makes absolutely no sense. Also, of course rly bummed about Ade; I knew she had it coming but I wish it was more dramatic or something.
Two eps into season 6 and it's quite an improvement, although it makes 0 sense how AJ somehow suddenly grew a brain so late into his development as a human being.
― limp bizkotti (Stevie D), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 05:59 (thirteen years ago) link
I loved (hated) how Carm was so dead set on divorce at the end of one episode and then lets him move back in TWENTY MINUTES into the next episode. This is awful writing and makes absolutely no sense.
no! carm was always like this!
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 May 2010 06:00 (thirteen years ago) link
she would never, ever leave tony
She tried to divorce him so hardcore!! She went through all those lawyers and got so exasperated but was still determined, and I was all "YES, this woman is finally doing what is right for HER!". But, no.
Ginny Sack, on the other hand, I think she is my favorite woman on the show right now. They should've just made a spinoff, "Ginny & Carm" (or "Ginny, Carm & Gabby")
― limp bizkotti (Stevie D), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 06:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Also just heard Prodigy's "Spitfire" in the Bing. The ultimate song.
― limp bizkotti (Stevie D), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 06:21 (thirteen years ago) link
i think the thing the show always circled back to is that, for as strong as carm is in many regards, she is still a woman who was attracted to the violence & glitz of the mob, and who married a mobster, and who is as susceptible to succumbing to the bloody treasures that come with that life. of course it was infuriating when after episodes of giving it straight to tony, she would be dazzled by a coat or a watch, but that's who she is. she could never leave that life, she was always leveraging, even during the genuine heartbreak.
needless to say she's one of the best and most compelling television characters of the last 20 years
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 26 May 2010 06:21 (thirteen years ago) link
v otm
― limp bizkotti (Stevie D), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 06:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Ginny, Carm, and Gabby featuring Rosalie Aprile
― tokyo rosemary, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 13:07 (thirteen years ago) link
J0rdan OTM re: Carm. imho the scene that says it all about her character is her "interview" with the rabbi (sometime in season 5, I think?)
― Here is a tasty coconut. Sorry for my earlier harshness. (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
AJ somehow suddenly grew a brain so late into his development as a human being.
lol poor AJ. I said this on some other Sopranos thread, but I don't think there's a single scene he's in where he's not humiliating/making an idiot out of himself.
― Here is a tasty coconut. Sorry for my earlier harshness. (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
there isn't a scene like that xp?
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry he's not a rabbi - Jewish psychiatrist
http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/08/the_other_soprano_psychiatrist.html
― Here is a tasty coconut. Sorry for my earlier harshness. (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:40 (thirteen years ago) link
thing about AJ is despite not really harming anyone ever (besides giving his parents grief) he somehow ends up being the least likeable character of the whole series
― NUDE. MAYNE. (s1ocki), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm pretty sure that isn't in Season 6, hope I haven't spoiled anything Stevie!
xp
― Here is a tasty coconut. Sorry for my earlier harshness. (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
haha
that's one of the best scenes xxp
― nakhchivan, Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Carmela: My priest said I should work with him, help him to become a better man.
Dr. Krakower: How's that going?
lol
― Here is a tasty coconut. Sorry for my earlier harshness. (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 26 May 2010 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
That's from a few years before season 5 - pretty sure it's during Meadow's first year at Columbia when Carm guilt-trips Tony into donating like $40k to the school
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 31 May 2010 09:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I've just finished downloading all seasons and i'm about to watch it for the 1st time, all in a row, over days obviously, oh and sleep and loo breaks!
― not_goodwin, Monday, 31 May 2010 16:02 (thirteen years ago) link
OK AM ABT TO DROP MAJOR SPOILERS SO IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN ALL THE EPISODES.....
I can't believe I managed to go 4 years without even the slightest hint of how this show ended. Of course I was sort of stunned. I thought it was really stupid how Melfi reads one fucking article and after 7 years of dedication is suddenly all "OMG I JUST CAN'T; GET OUT." It seems totally out of line w/ her character. Still trying to figure out what I think of the last scene, but why was there so much emphasis on Meadow's botched parallel parking jobs? WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
Also, I feel like the only truly likeable characters by the end of the show are Ginny Sack and Meadow (who was pretty insufferable early on). I hated Paulie and pretty much every other male on the show by the end (spare Johnny Cakes who I compleeeetely fell in love with and wanted to marry). Rly wish Ginny actually got her own spinoff.
― Werner Herr'spotatochips (Stevie D), Friday, 2 July 2010 03:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I think about this exchange all the time pic.twitter.com/97II32aZmo— Mollie Goodfellow (@hansmollman) July 8, 2022
― nashwan, Wednesday, 13 July 2022 21:50 (one year ago) link
Perhaps mentioned in a different thread, but not in this one (from a footnote in The Sopranos Sessions, referring to the scene where A.J. and his friends vandalize the pool):
"Look closely in the pool scene and you'll spot a young Lady Gaga, then a fifteen-year-old actress billed as Stefani Germanotta."
― clemenza, Saturday, 16 July 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
Pretty common knowledge, I guess, but new to me.
https://www.stereogum.com/2169409/lady-gaga-the-sopranos-cameo-telltale-moozadell/news/
I finished the final episode over the weekend. Also noticed--not until the credits--that Donna Pescow played Patsy's wife in the finale (she was Annette in Saturday Night Fever, who was raped and just treated like dirt by Travolta and his friends). I'm guessing the casting was intentional: I don't think Saturday Night Fever was ever specifically mentioned in the show, but along with Scorsese and Sinatra and all the rest, I'm sure it resided somewhere in the psychological headspace of Tony and the rest.
Loved Tony's peyote trip in Las Vegas.
― clemenza, Saturday, 16 July 2022 14:46 (one year ago) link
Went to a rep screening of Saturday Night Fever last night, started reading up on Karen Lynn Gorney. (The more times I see SNF, the more I think she's just as remarkable as Travolta. The scene where he presses her on the guy she was living with and she breaks down crying is beautifully acted.) Such a strange career...After SNF (she'd already been a soap star), she did not make another film until 1991. Nor did she return to TV. Nada. She's acted pretty steadily this century, including one appearance in The Sopranos as Judy that I missed. This supports my idea above that there's a link between the two, as does (never really took notice of it before) the use of "stugots" in SNF.
― clemenza, Sunday, 7 August 2022 21:59 (one year ago) link
Hmmmm
You loved Michael Imperioli in The Sopranos, and we think you’ll love him and his band, Zopa! You can catch him shredding at @Sl33pingVillag3 this Sat, 8/13 😍 Paul Jacobs from @potteryband gets the 21+ night started at 9pm. Win tickets here! https://t.co/W0Fy7PGuCV pic.twitter.com/15IK85hcpi— CHIRP Radio 107.1FM (@CHIRPRadio) August 11, 2022
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Thursday, 11 August 2022 20:29 (one year ago) link
@potteryband
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 11 August 2022 20:36 (one year ago) link
Michael Imperioli by all accounts has great musical taste, but that photo looks like the kind of band Christopher Moltasanti would be busting acoustic guitars over the heads of.
― henry s, Thursday, 11 August 2022 20:40 (one year ago) link
― My Little Red Buchla (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 11 August 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
(xpost) If he has a strong enough sense of humour, they'll open with Visiting Day's "Erase Myself."
― clemenza, Thursday, 11 August 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
His Quietus Baker's Dozen is a good read
https://thequietus.com/articles/28701-michael-imperioli-interview-favourite-music-the-sopranos
― nate woolls, Thursday, 11 August 2022 21:02 (one year ago) link
That Michael Imperioli band photo looks like Disney bought the rights to The Godfather material and this is the poster for the fourth season of the continuing saga on Disney+.
― doomposting is the new composting (PBKR), Friday, 12 August 2022 00:37 (one year ago) link
They look like a band that might be lacking in jokes.
― clemenza, Friday, 12 August 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link
They look like an aging rock band who wanted on their new album to go back to the basics.
― henry s, Friday, 12 August 2022 01:23 (one year ago) link
Hey, I won tickets to see serious Imperioli tomorrow night!
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Friday, 12 August 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
That's great...Walk right up to him and say "I'm with the Vipers"--he'll love it!
― clemenza, Friday, 12 August 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
say you're Visiting Day
― We were clothed, except for Caan, who was naked. Don't know why. (Neanderthal), Friday, 12 August 2022 16:24 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlfQsotryaY
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 12 August 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
lollll
― Spottie, Friday, 12 August 2022 17:04 (one year ago) link
Moltasanti did heroin, while Imperioli did "Heroin." Good rock show! The band really seemed to enjoy playing a packed small club.
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Sunday, 14 August 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
there are eight of those up in da club videos and they're all great
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 05:43 (one year ago) link
so that christopher/bobby bacala book is just a transcript of their podcast? fuck that lol
is the zoller seitz book any good?
― adam, Monday, 12 September 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
I probably posted about it above. Excellent, with a caveat: it's so detailed, it's only worth reading coming right out of a rewatch (what I did), or reading it alongside a rewatch (what I did with his Mad Men book; I read each entry right after watching that episode).
― clemenza, Monday, 12 September 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
that sounds appealing.
i really wanted to like the imperioli/schirippa book but i'm not sure either of them grasp what an oral history is. most of it is them talking to each other.
― adam, Monday, 12 September 2022 18:00 (one year ago) link
An oral history is when I tell the story of when I went over to Paris for a blowjob: your mother was working the bonbon concession at the Eiffel Tower
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Monday, 12 September 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
a swing and a miss
― politics is about vibes and the vibes are off (stevie), Tuesday, 13 September 2022 15:22 (one year ago) link
i've heard steve schirippa is extremely annoying on the podcast but maybe that's his 'persona'. or maybe he's just kind of a dumb, annoying guy
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 15:45 (one year ago) link
The Matt Zoller Seitz was co-written with Alan Sepinwall; the interesting thing is that they took turns as television critic for The Newark Star Ledger, the newspaper Tony's always picking up at the end of his driveway.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 15:51 (one year ago) link
A friend and I Zoomcasted on music in The Sopranos--just passing mention of Journey, though.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM9Y8AkkIzg
― clemenza, Friday, 7 October 2022 14:51 (one year ago) link
So Drea de Matteo now has an onlyfans, not gonna post the link but it's there if you care to search for it
apparently she needs the money because work has dried up due to her anti-vax stance
― lord of the rongs (anagram), Saturday, 23 September 2023 07:16 (seven months ago) link
shame about Adriana Le Scrounga
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 23 September 2023 10:44 (seven months ago) link