Television The Sopranos

Junior is such a brilliant character.

Starting the 4th season. Gandolfini's weight increase is more apparent now. He was big in the earlier seasons obviously but he carried it well.

Forgot how bad Jackie Jrs death scene was. Vito appearing out of nowhere, the blood already on the snow and then Vito taking about 30 seconds to get in the car :lol: so clunky.
How the feck is Vito that stealthy? Plus Jackie being on one side of the road, gets shot and ends up on the other side of the road. Vito must've used a fecking cannon.
 
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Paulie's selfishness is fecking legendary.

Tony: "Poor little girl. She has 3rd degree burns on 80% of her body."

Paulie: "You wouldn't believe the week I've had."
 
Think this might be the greatest scene of TV ever made, it's just perfect:



A mafia intervention ends with them kicking the shit out of the guy on the ground.
 
There's a scene in Season 4 where Tony calls up Chris whilst he's sleeping and needs him to do something. Tony pauses for a few seconds and starts speaking again and then it cuts to Chris startling back awake :lol: Such a subtle thing but it really made me laugh.
 
Think this might be the greatest scene of TV ever made, it's just perfect:



A mafia intervention ends with them kicking the shit out of the guy on the ground.


:lol: Just realized I need to rewatch this soon
 
There's a scene in Season 4 where Tony calls up Chris whilst he's sleeping and needs him to do something. Tony pauses for a few seconds and starts speaking again and then it cuts to Chris startling back awake :lol: Such a subtle thing but it really made me laugh.

This too :lol:

 
The 'wake' for Livia is probably one of the greatest scenes in Television. I've always loved Christopher's "They got no proof, they got nothing" rant about whether no two people can look alike, but I hadn't noticed Arti Bucco losing his patience as Janice rambles on. But the best part is the guy in the background coming down the stairs behind Tony before going back upstairs, which I'd never noticed until now. Then there's classics like Hesh's "Between brain and mouth, there was no interlocutor". Just one of the best scenes ever. There doesn't seem to be a clip of the whole scene on YouTube, unusually.
 
There's a scene in Season 4 where Tony calls up Chris whilst he's sleeping and needs him to do something. Tony pauses for a few seconds and starts speaking again and then it cuts to Chris startling back awake :lol: Such a subtle thing but it really made me laugh.


Was it to cut Ralphie's body up? Always a nice phone call to get when you are of your head
 
The 'wake' for Livia is probably one of the greatest scenes in Television. I've always loved Christopher's "They got no proof, they got nothing" rant about whether no two people can look alike, but I hadn't noticed Arti Bucco losing his patience as Janice rambles on. But the best part is the guy in the background coming down the stairs behind Tony before going back upstairs, which I'd never noticed until now. Then there's classics like Hesh's "Between brain and mouth, there was no interlocutor". Just one of the best scenes ever. There doesn't seem to be a clip of the whole scene on YouTube, unusually.

The whole episode is really great, for me it’s the marker for when the Sopranos starts turning a lot darker.
 
The 'wake' for Livia is probably one of the greatest scenes in Television. I've always loved Christopher's "They got no proof, they got nothing" rant about whether no two people can look alike, but I hadn't noticed Arti Bucco losing his patience as Janice rambles on. But the best part is the guy in the background coming down the stairs behind Tony before going back upstairs, which I'd never noticed until now. Then there's classics like Hesh's "Between brain and mouth, there was no interlocutor". Just one of the best scenes ever. There doesn't seem to be a clip of the whole scene on YouTube, unusually.
That old man in the stairs still bothers the feck out of me. Was it a ghost? It wasn't any of the guests that's for sure.
 
That old man in the stairs still bothers the feck out of me. Was it a ghost? It wasn't any of the guests that's for sure.

I think it's just an extra and the subtle gag is them returning to the room only to quickstep away from Janice's bullshit.
 
That old man in the stairs still bothers the feck out of me. Was it a ghost? It wasn't any of the guests that's for sure.

It’s just a random guy coming back from the toilet or something but he u-turns when he sees what’s going on. Definitely meant to be in the show though.
 
Watched Cold Cuts from near the end of season 5 last night, it might be Tony at his most evil. He makes Chris cry, beats the shit out of Georgie for the last time, and in the final scene completely breaks Janice with the immortal line “sacre bleu, where is me mama!”

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this fecking look:

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I still have this theory of my own that Christopher was the rat.
 
Finally watched this. Someone should have told the writers to put a fecking story in s1 and s6. Can't believe it took til episode 20 out of 21 to even start anything that is remotely related to the finale story. Both the first and the last seasons are genuinely just random things happening that barely tie in to the next episode. However, I enjoyed a lot about it and will look back on it fondly for its charm without ignoring that there's also plenty to be critical about, including that frankly shite last series and ending. Yeah I know the ending is better once you realise all the foreshadowing guff but it feels very wet at the time of watching, and especially as that was the most tension they'd managed to create throughout the whole thing.

Two shining stars from it though being Chris and Paulie characters. Also shoutout to Artie. They built up main characters very well. But the smallest characters would seemingly come and go without any introduction (said 'who the feck is this guy?' multiple times).

Some great comical moments throughout, which are probably what makes the show.
 
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I forgot how bad the episode is with his dad’s mistress. She’s so weird and annoying and yet it doesn’t really lead anywhere. Even Tony looks sick of her in that cringeworthy scene where she’s singing. Bizarre episode.