Sopranos

we will all be shot one day. shot right in the heart by death's death gun. but the symbolism of the onion rings.

the circle of badabing

did you end up watching the whole series, Dr.?

r u crazy? no, left off a few months ago like, 4 eps in s2. I DO NOT bingewatch.

you people... "watch all Sopranos, watch all Mad Men, watch all The Wire, watch all The Americans," just no more art films that fly in and out of theaters for the rest of your life.

that david chase didn't intend the ending to be ambiguous but the public outcry/confusion made him butthurt and reticent about it

― slam dunk, Wednesday, April 15, 2015 11:01 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like it

you people... "watch all Sopranos, watch all Mad Men, watch all The Wire, watch all The Americans," just no more art films that fly in and out of theaters for the rest of your life.

it's as if the mediums of television and film are... approached and delivered differently.

time, dude. not enough.

Most of these shows aren't running concurrently so it's basically an hour a week. If you are playing catch up it's definitely more daunting.

no one should peer pressure someone else into binge watching its totally unhealthy lol

that david chase didn't intend the ending to be ambiguous but the public outcry/confusion made him butthurt and reticent about it

― slam dunk, Wednesday, April 15, 2015 11:01 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

like it

― lag∞n, Thursday, April 16, 2015 12:43 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

that said i don't think it takes away from the ending which is the most memorable & best of the major series i can think of ... i mean a montage showing what happens to all the characters set to a country-rock song or w/e a la The Wire is cool & all but

as much as i do love the ending i kind of wanted to see tony face down in a plate of linguini tbh

They should've started the season off with that, Meadow going OMGWHAT HAPPENED? And Carmella saying, well, it all started right around the time Vito came out of the closet-- then FLASHBACK

would have been cool if tony woke up and the entire series was a dream

W tony in bed next to bob newhart

Finding the posters on Meadow's wall rather surprising. Ulver and GVSB, didn't think she was 'alternative' and didn't think they were mainstream so are they consciously part of her character or were the set creators just sticking up things arbitrarily/randomly?

THere's a scene where Janice gets out of her car outside her mother's house after Meadow's party where you hear the music she's been listening to in the car. It is a weird yodeling thing that sounds like it might be Tim Buckley's Jungle Fire or possibly something by Leon Thomas, anybody got any idea what it is or if it is that? It's just a small snippet but it does sound like that Jungle Fire snippet

when tony and carm visit meadow's college apartment the shins are playing in the background

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQZXQMtmd3A

Frederik B so bad itt

I just finished the O.J. mini-series, and found out that the guy who played Fred Goldman--uncanny lookalike, but not a good performance--was Joseph Siravo, "Johnny Boy Soprano" in five episodes. Drawing a blank.

I still dislike the ending. + I was rewatching the first season of OZ last week, and it's honestly more audacious and interesting than most of Sopranos.

haha, I watched quite a bit of "Oz" and yer insane.

the audacity of shankings

Obama sequel

I just finished the O.J. mini-series, and found out that the guy who played Fred Goldman--uncanny lookalike, but not a good performance--was Joseph Siravo, "Johnny Boy Soprano" in five episodes. Drawing a blank.

― clemenza, Wednesday, August 2, 2017 8:15 PM (four days ago)

wait, you don't remember tony's DAD?

Thanks. Definitely remember the dad, just not the name. (I shouldn't have said "uncanny lookalike," by the way; what I meant was, uncanny makeup job.)

haha, I watched quite a bit of "Oz" and yer insane.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), 3. august 2017 02:20 (four days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can't really honestly say that Oz > Sopranos, but it's a really fun version of what a 'prestige' television show could be, all weird visuals and sex and death. There are ways that Sopranos became the prestige template, which, looking back, seem a bit unfortunate to me. David Chase always had a chip on his shoulder about doing 'tv' and really wanted to do a film, but his taste in film seems pretty boring and vanilla, pretty boring nineties indie stuff. The irony is that it was Tom Fontana, not Chase, who ended up having a real influence on modern cinema, as Lars von Trier has admitted being very influenced by Homicide in his nineties stuff like Dogme, which of course then was hugely influential on a bunch of stuff.

I just think today, with peak tv and hundreds and hundreds of tv shows, every success has so many imitators that it's kinda fun to see stuff that people don't really bother making anymore. I miss shows like Oz :( Even though something like Orange is the New Black is probably a better show as well, strictly speaking.

BAD INFLUENCE

Orange is the new black is awful though

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/sopranos-movie-prequel-david-chase-1202721680/

Clearly the lead characters figure to be Tony's parents, Junior, child Tony, and related associates, ie not even the actors who played them in the '60s episodes of the series (cuz they're too old).

My brother made the same observation - I'd forgotten there were flashback scenes tbh

i'm slowly watching this for the first time, i'm early in season 2 now. what is the name of the character who is part of the gang who looks like chevy chase? i feel like he's there and they never say his name and he just hangs out looking like chevy chase

this dude:

https://i.imgur.com/FwUrkqW.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Curto

uh but maybe don't read all that (spoilers)

there are a bunch of (usually minor) recurring characters who are only partially introduced when they initially appear

it's funny, I think the wiki entries take a lot from scripts and other sources, cuz that dude is definitely never referred to as "Buffalo Ray" on-screen

(spoilers)

The revelation that he's [** *********] is one of the more fascinating mysteries of the show, since they never really explain when or how or if there's any consequences from it (I'm not sure there ever were? At least not on screen; possible it would have had consequences down the line)

Seitz and Sepinwall have a new book imminent, The Sopranos Sessions. Related a NYC Sopranos film fest that features both The Public Enemy and Barry Lyndon, along with more direct content:

http://www.ifccenter.com/series/the-sopranos-film-festival/

the authors speak:

We didn’t get him to admit Tony died or anything like that. He was saying that the original intention was to have intimations that Tony died, but he moved away from that to something more philosophical in nature. But David would talk about things being intentional without really being intentional. I asked him: Is it possible that a lifetime of consuming gangster films where heroes die at the end left a flavor? And he said, “That’s possible.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/30/books/sopranos-sessions-matt-zoller-seitz-alan-sepinwall-interview.html

Has anyone here even mentioned Chase's upcoming Sopranos prequel flick?

It centers on Christopher's father, says Mike Imperioli.

the name of that Seitz/Sepinwall book sends me looking for the "irrationally angry" thread

on that movie

https://deadline.com/2019/01/the-sopranos-david-chase-20th-anniversary-prequel-film-tony-soprano-the-many-saints-of-newark-1202530544/

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dwk-gKeUUAAiuI-.jpg

was this the best four minutes of telly ever?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g77BFazbwkU

im watching this show for the first time right now

it takes a while to get its footing