r/thesopranos

Maybe he always was, but at what point it did become apparent to you? I'm remember this show from years ago, and the arch that stands out to me is the guy getting an inheritance, he was a loyal solider as I recall, and just wanted out. As I recall, he was squeezed for cash and ultimately committed suicide.

For me that was the point at which Tony wasn't just stuck in a cycle/'tradition' he was really better than or stood a chance of overcoming. Instead, he was the worst thing about that kind of system. It would have been so easy to just let the guy go and get out of the life of crime. If Tony truly resented that life, I think he would have let him. Instead, he became (or always was) the manifestation par excellence of that life of criminality.

They're busting out a guy with a sporting goods store... and they're pissing around selling coolers on the streets?

Why not sell shit like catcher's mitts or footballs or other stuff that more people would be interested in? No one's buying any cooler of any color off any Nigerian on any street.

I've said my piece.

Edie Falco? She had her own hit TV series (Nurse Jackie) that lasted 7 seasons. James Gandolfini was perfect as Tony Soprano, but that was kinda the problem, he got typecasted, hard to picture him in anything else.

Shlomo and is son in law are supposed to be from the same Hasidic group but their clothes are totally different. Ariel is wearing the kind of flat hat that is more common among Hungarian Hasidim who tend to me much more insular but his suit is a more standard cut suit found among mainstream non Hasidic Orthodox. While Shlomo is wearing while wearing the waist length jackets of Hasidim is wearing a totally different hat called a Hamburg more common among Polish Hasidim and sometimes worn by non Hasidic Rosh Yeshivas or major non Hasidic Rabbis.
Plus their accents are totally off and not the way most NY Hasisim sound

Also, Ariel is more of a name you find among secular or slighly religious Israelis not Hasidim.

Everyone knows Tony’s the biggest cooze hound who’d fuck a catchers mitt. He doesn’t ever pull out of his goomars and everyone knows a Don doesn’t wear rubbers.

So where are all of Tony’s illegitimate children at?

That gaudy column was out of place in the interior of a house. It comes unlatched with fingertip pressure. It contains an AK with normal capacity mags that are almost certainly felonies in that state of theirs. These plot holes aren't just hurtful, they're destructive.

For me it's when Carmine is stroking out and opens his mouth full of egg salad.

😠 Disgusting.

Obviously too many IP’s show up in The Sopranos to even count, especially with the later seasons as the show got more popular and obvious product placements (Titleist hats on the golf courses, Bobby’s Nestle model train car) would be imbedded within the cinematography.

What I was surprised and confused about during my first watch of the series was the amount of Nintendo IP’s in the series, mainly referring to how Mario Kart is both depicted in close-ups and spoken in dialogue. Nintendo has been known for decades to be extremely strict about brand image and not choosing to clear their IP’s for others, so I’m genuinely wondering how Chase and HBO pulled off doing Nintendo visuals for a TV-MA production, a crime drama at that. Both gameplay and voice acting from Mario Kart are in those scenes. Didn’t even mention Tony B’s kids and their Game Boy’s, same case with both a dialogue mention and pretty close shots of said Game Boy’s. Lemme know your ideas y’all

Feech and Paulie had a major beef a lot of times that almost ended in violence, what happens if Feech just killed Paulie casually and they found Paulie's body but nobody knew that Feech did it?

You can see Feech getting rid of wingheaf and going around like he didn't do anything, old school style, Paulie wouldn't be missed either.

Could be humorous, cinematic, or sacred and propane. Hands down, mines Carmella in awe of the Parisian statutes….cut to Sil in the parking lot of the Bing screaming, “make sure you clean that shit off her tit!” Absolute cinema

That Breaking Bad fans wouldn't even dare to contemplate about downvoting one of the episodes of The Sopranos like they did to AKOTSK, because Patsy's face would be the last one they'd see, and it wouldn't be cinematic.

I’m on my first rewatch and I literally get the chills every time I realize i’m in a dream scene/sequence. I feel like I’m watching a horror movie, they’re very Lynchian lol. Is anyone else creeped out by them? It’s not the content, it’s the unsettling/uncanny vibe. What are the dream scenes that scare you the most?

So I asked him.

Does Janice really have an extraordinary visual sense or was that just her talking out her ass?

I wanted to like this show, but it was just Steven Van Zandt playing the exact same character from Sopranos LOL

If not for the actors unavailability in the later seasons, where do you think Albert Barese shakes out in Jersey's hierarchy through season 5-6?

Albert was known for being a clever, competent, and loyal captain to Jersey and is sorely missed as the head of the largest crew in Jersey's family going into the war with New York. Assuming his actor didn't get pinched for real life Mafia related crimes where do you see him in lacking hierarchy of the family during the war? With the calzone with legs being the de facto under boss and Paulie no longer being trusted by Tony I can't help but think Albert was in line for some significant promotions after Chrissy got sent to rehab and what not.

They start off here 🤏 and they end up… here 🤏

All those rats and nothing. Jimmy, Pussy, Eugene, Ade, Raymond, CARLO?

After they turned a high ranking captain like Carlo the case should have been made against Tony soprano right then… BOOM.

He should have stood trial like a man.

Instead he gets killed by some fat fuck in see through socks at dinner.

While the feds are left in the motherfucking cocksucking wind.

You ever feel like nothing good was gonna happen to them?

And don’t get me started on Agent Harris. Feeding Tony information about stirrings in New York. You can’t get anybody good anymore.

Anyway. I’ve said my piece.

I’ll shove my quotations book up my ass now.

I don’t know why but I was thinking about Steve Buscemi, Frank Vincent, etc. and for some reason Robin Williams popped into my head. Probably too big and filmic for a longterm role. But he had a handful of 1-2 episode appearances in shows around that period. I could see a one off where he’s the boss of one of the other families or a mediator at one of the sit downs. For some reason I’m picturing him bald with a moustache. Maybe he could have ran the funeral parlor and we briefly see him at all the funerals or something.

A lot of it seemed real because it wasn't a cartoon, but I bet Chase made up the whole thing. Was he a liar or just demented?

After Tony Blundetto kills Billy LeoTardo and Phil makes a big beef over it and threatened to kill or hurt someone that Tony lives in place of Tony B, what happens if Tony just told Phil that he can kill Uncle Junior because he is a moron and useless old fool that nobody likes or cares about?

This appeases Phil and gets rid of Junior and the FBI might go after New York for killing the old fart paper Boss, and Bobby might hit Phil too, but yeah just let Phil kill Uncle Junior and that's settled nobody has a beef or gripe anymore.

I don't know what a stereotypical psychiatrist's kid looks like, but if I had to imagine it in my head, they certainly resemble her more than Jason. So maybe she should just keep her opinions wherever the fuck.