Sopranos - Season 3

whoa!! they replaced her scenes?

that settles a really confusing argument i had once

There was another actor used for George Costanza's dad in one episode, but they did the same thing when they brought Jerry Stiller on board.

What was your argument?

season 4 was AMAZING

What was your argument?

― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, July 4, 2009 7:47 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

someone was like, they had a different actress for that agent in season one and i was like no duh i just watched it they totally didnt

it was a really fascinating argument iirc

janice forcing bobby bacala to eat his wife's last ziti with her was honestly one of the most shocking and crushing scenes i've ever seen on tv

it made me think of

http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~vincent/4500.6-001/Cosmology/time-goya-painting.gif

which is pretty appropriate considering janice

the first episode of this season is soooooooo great

(the lamp thing)

cinema

features my favorite music moment of the show - Tony singin along to "Dirty Work"

chase pulling that episode out of his ass when marchand's death messed up the whole season arc he had planned = clutch

season 3 might be favorite season, honestly

livia's wake is just exquisitely uncomfortable

the episode does have a placeholder feel to it to me, but yeah it's much better than it has any right to be

love Hesh at the wake - "between her mind and her mouth... there was no interlocutor"

another major lol from this season: tony and carmella's first session together with melfi.

"you're both very angry"

"well you must've graduated at the top of your fucking class!"

& yeah, carmella with the other therapist (mentioned upthread) is an amazing scene. like, you actually see her measuring the huge costs changing her life would entail ('i would have to get a lawyer," etc.) and starting to figure out how to rationalize.

that dude is the best

Jewish analyst dude is one of the rare moments in the series where none of the characters in the scene are trying to bullshit/lie/evade the others

"those were some TOUGH JEWS."

love Hesh at the wake - "between her mind and her mouth... there was no interlocutor"

― Harvey Cartel (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, August 9, 2012 12:07 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was just savoring this very line

"His brother was worse!"

haha

I think I miss my ferrets.

someone help me find a stream for s04e10

weird have been watching s3 today to take my mind off things

this show is the fucking greatest btw

otm

nearing the end of my third or so viewing of the whole megillah

best show ever imho

huh - decided to rewatch the series and just wrapped up s3 not long ago! not the best show ever for me - but still very good.

come on, just admit its the best COME ON COME ON

ugh this ep is impossible to find

u_u

couple random thoughts

- man the music in this show is so weird. I had no idea that "I Saved the World Today" (which is used at the end of Season 2 but whatever) was a Eurythmics song from the fuckin 90s! I thought it was Supertramp or something
- Russians very afraid of psychiatry. means political rehabilitation. means gulag
- Ralphie sort of appears out of nowhere. I think him popping up at Livia's funeral is his first appearance, and he's already in the middle of shit.

yeah it was kind of sudden, he was down in miami and came up after one of the capos got killed, richie i think

right, at first that's only implied though. the first time he appears the Barisis are pissed at him for blowing up a garbage truck (which yeah implies that he took over for Richie)

am i alone in thinking 6b is the best? every episode is like monumentally great

im enjoying 6b right now.

i wouldn't have 6b the best (although if i thought about it awhile i might) but it is somehow overshadowed by the vito subplot in 6a (so ppl always say final season is padded out which is true unless you actually recall it as it aired in which case 6b feels like a separate season) and the final season of the finale (which obv incredibly overshadows the finale itself enough so that ppl who want a movie or whatever seem to forget just how decimated tony's crew is, esp w/ the strong foreshadowing that paulie's not long for this world either). that final run is incredible though.

the crew isnt only decimated, its basically tony himself who does it... it always sort of freaks me out to think about how tony basically kills every one of his best friends (pussy, tony blundetto, christopher) as well as ade, who if not super close to him, he definitely had what seemed like a meaningful connection with

plus effectively his best friend's son w/ jackie jr. totally off the top of my head and hence very subject to change but i'd guess i'd go s1>s5>s6b>s3>s2>s4>s6a.

and apropos jackie jr, he's the reason i don't really love this season. i think i'll go s5>s4>s6b>s3>s1>s6a>s2

That's about my ranking, too.

love how tony never seems to be remorseful about his personal hits but was always worried someone would find out about matthew bevilaqua, think he asked 2-3 times over the course of the series if people knew about it or told the feds. figured it was MB's last second cry out for his mother and tony's own mom issues.

you guys rank s4 so highly eh? to me it's the weakest, although i don't really think there's a "bad" season. and i am a p big s2 stan actually. but i put s5 and s1 first i think

love how tony never seems to be remorseful about his personal hits but was always worried someone would find out about matthew bevilaqua, think he asked 2-3 times over the course of the series if people knew about it or told the feds. figured it was MB's last second cry out for his mother and tony's own mom issues.

― sug ones (omar little), Friday, November 2, 2012 2:34 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love how after he kills chrissie he tells everybody about the tree branch that went through the baby seat and how it would have mutilated the kid beyond recognition

yeah my instinctual response if someone had asked me what the best tv show ever was woulda been to say "the wire" without hesitation, but then last spring/summer i watched the whole of this again for the first time since it was on, and now i dunno. it's really something.

the flaws are more glaring than the wire's -- at least until s5 of the wire, though s2 had its moments -- but i actually think it's forgivable because they were trying for so much more, scope/character/theme/plot-wise.

plus, it's funnier.

it's the funniest show ever imho

the flaws are more glaring than the wire's -- at least until s5 of the wire, though s2 had its moments -- but i actually think it's forgivable because they were trying for so much more, scope/character/theme/plot-wise.

I am basically being a random googler here (I literally misclicked on the never-used Blog View and saw this), but I'm a little surprised by this - I didn't get through more than s01e09, but it seemed very much local to one maybe two viewpoints and a specific social range, where The Wire runs up and down through Baltimore. Different themes each season (most of them admittedly variations on "It's all fucked"). Did the Sopranos get out of where it started, or did it just get very good at the situation and the characters in it?

wait, you judge shows by the number of milieus they try to represent...?