Sopranos

they have the entire series on sale in hmv for €80(±$105) and saturday is my birthday, should i just go for it.

yes

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)

yes yes

that is totally a great deal

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.

yeah i am not that attracted to the violence either

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

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.

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.

long term parking is on right now -_-

quality episode

Tony Newting his gf is so brutal

yeah that scene is great -- altho for cable it gets kinda lol w/ all the edits

bought this

there are a lot of things I could say right now that I am not gonna say

i love u 4 that

What is "newting?"

breaking up with/divorcing someone while they're in the hospital

"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)

ok i am not reading this thread.... now.

haha sorry

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!

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.

Also also I seriously have managed to make it this far without hearing abt the series finale. Please no one spoil it.

wow

ok

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.

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!

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")

Also just heard Prodigy's "Spitfire" in the Bing. The ultimate song.

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

v otm

Ginny, Carm, and Gabby featuring Rosalie Aprile

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?)

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.

there isn't a scene like that xp?

sorry he's not a rabbi - Jewish psychiatrist

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2007/08/the_other_soprano_psychiatrist.html

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

I'm pretty sure that isn't in Season 6, hope I haven't spoiled anything Stevie!

xp

haha

that's one of the best scenes xxp

Carmela: My priest said I should work with him, help him to become a better man.

Dr. Krakower: How's that going?

lol

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

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!

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.

RIP Denise Borino-Quinn - played Ginny Sac

oh no. and her husband died earlier this year? so sad. 'the weight' is probably my favourite episode, and she's amazing in it. RIP.

younger than i thought

Nooooo no no no!! I loved that lady so much :(

Ms. Borino-Quinn, who did no more acting after “The Sopranos” went off the air in 2007, worked at a law firm in New Brunswick, N.J.

FUUUUCCCKKK I lived there for like four fucking years and never knew this!!!! I SO seriously would have gone to visit her, too.

@potteryband

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.

lol

(xpost) If he has a strong enough sense of humour, they'll open with Visiting Day's "Erase Myself."

His Quietus Baker's Dozen is a good read

https://thequietus.com/articles/28701-michael-imperioli-interview-favourite-music-the-sopranos

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+.

They look like a band that might be lacking in jokes.

They look like an aging rock band who wanted on their new album to go back to the basics.

Hey, I won tickets to see serious Imperioli tomorrow night!

That's great...Walk right up to him and say "I'm with the Vipers"--he'll love it!

say you're Visiting Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlfQsotryaY

lollll

Moltasanti did heroin, while Imperioli did "Heroin." Good rock show! The band really seemed to enjoy playing a packed small club.

there are eight of those up in da club videos and they're all great

so that christopher/bobby bacala book is just a transcript of their podcast? fuck that lol

is the zoller seitz book any good?

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).

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.

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

a swing and a miss

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

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.

A friend and I Zoomcasted on music in The Sopranos--just passing mention of Journey, though.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM9Y8AkkIzg

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

shame about Adriana Le Scrounga