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Ever notice how Adriana's name is never mentioned? It’s more about her relation to all these people. Not “don’t hit Adriana,” it’s “don’t hit my niece.” When she’s your wife, you can. It’s essentially explaining where she falls in the hierarchy between Christopher and Richie and the rules associated with that, as opposed to Richie caring about her being hit. Adriana's got nuttin to do with it. The writing is insane.
best of the sopranos1,014,120 views • 22 days ago
Pretty sure this dream also alluded Chrissy’s view of Ade: just another who-ah.
best of the sopranos2,406,065 views • 2 months ago
Chris and Sil can't kill Jimmy if he's wearing a wire, so the writers have to communicate to the viewer that he isn't wearing one in this scene in order for the killing to make sense. But the genius of the writing is that they reveal the information in a way that the viewer barely notices. Jimmy is nervous to make a good impression on the Russian girls; he's naturally thinking about his appearance and what they'll think of him, and in that context it makes perfect sense for his character to complain to Chrissie "hey you didn't let me put on anything decent". And that is flawless exposition because it literally disappears into the scene - it flows so completely with the conversation that there's no reason to consider its significance until Sil appears and Chrissie repeats Jimmy's words. Like I've literally watched this scene before more than once, I knew exactly how it ended, and the line "you didn't let me put on anything decent" STILL went over my head just because of how much it makes sense in the context of the conversation they're having. It's masterful.
best of the sopranos396,197 views • 14 days ago
The way Tony turned it all back on Johnny by making him reveal his source was a masterstroke in negotiation. And he had every right to play that card. The beauty is, Tony is covering up for Ralph because he was right there laughing at the joke. So it's his ass out there on the line as well. But he knows Johnny can't play his Ace card. And then, when Tony proposes Johnny Sack give up his source (Paulie) in exchange for Ralph, Johnny Sack looks over at Carmine. Carmine is saying, “Hell no, don’t give up our source in his crew, because we make a lot of money from Paulie’s big mouth,” and lastly they cut to Sil noticing this between Carmine and Johnny.
best of the sopranos320,854 views • 17 days ago
Davey really had many chances to not get sucked in further, as much as Tony is blamed. If he thinks for a second what Richie means here... how many guys he already must have seen with a light envelope. This scene is why you can't feel sorry for Davey and how he ended up. The guy was warned about his gambling by both Tony AND Richie and he still went into damnation with both eyes wide open. When Richie Aprile comes off as the reasonable, sober-minded one, you really are going down the road to ruin. And he did.
best of the sopranos288,482 views • 16 days ago
It makes you realize how small and insignificant the Mafia is in the grand order of things, especially the Jersey Mafia. There are people out there with twelvefold the money and influence of a mob boss like Tony Soprano, and they’re able to accumulate with little to no violence or law enforcement attention. All their talk of “running North Jersey” is just another indication of their limited scope. All that violence and lives lost and Tony's wealth doesn't even come close to those paintings
best of the sopranos225,285 views • 13 days ago
Sometimes I feel that Ralph's entire character was to show how important money was to the mafia. Plenty of people were killed for MUCH MUCH less. The only reason that Ralph was spared, time and time again, was because he made a ton of money for the family. Eventually, he crossed Tony in a way that was naked and unmistakable. Had he kept his disagreements and disdain for Tony low-key, he probably would have been allowed to continue as he had
best of the sopranos350,697 views • 26 days ago
David Chase wasn't sure James Gandolfini was threatening enough to play Tony Soprano. Gandolfini's manager saw him and thought, "Oh my God, I think I have Tony Soprano." But Chase had a concern, and he named it: "Is he threatening enough?" She shut it down. If you'd said he's a little chubby, or he's losing his hair, I could understand. But he's threatening enough. This is your guy Gandolfini figured he'd never get cast. He thought HBO would hire some pretty boy, one of those Irish-looking guys all over TV. And after the audition, Chase said it was obvious. There was just not any question about it. He was the guy
best of the sopranos383,445 views • 1 month ago
This is why Tony Soprano was the greatest TV character of all time. He murdered a defenceless kid who was screaming for his mother, and yet you still share Tony's sense of relief as hears the news that the witness will no longer testify and the case has collapsed. He was such a complex character, a murdering, adultering, bullying sociopath, but because we understand his flaws we empathise and to a certain extent sympathise with him. Gandolfini was a genius
best of the sopranos221,010 views • 24 days ago
Tony's version of hell isn't fire. It's his mother During his coma, Tony is trapped in a mysterious dream-world as a man named Kevin Finnerty. He's progressively losing his name, his identity, his memories, and his briefcase before arriving at a glowing house. Tony Blundetto, who we know to be dead, tries to convince him to let go of the briefcase and come inside. A mysterious woman appears on the steps of the Inn We can't be certain the figure is Livia. But we're led to that conclusion because the woman and the setting are so reminiscent of an earlier dream, and Chase all but confirmed that he understood the Dark Woman on the stairs to be Livia Livia did not believe in connections. It wasn't surprising to hear her tell AJ that "in the end, you die in your own arms. It's all a big nothing." For her, life and death were little more than big, meaningless voids. That's the horror waiting inside the house What saves him is Meadow. Her pleas, "Don't go, daddy, we love you," probably more than anything else pull Tony back from whatever precipice he was on. Faced with the choice of following the mysterious woman into the luminous Inn or turning back toward a young girl's voice, Tony chooses the latter. Tony chooses Meadow over Livia
best of the sopranos508,816 views • 1 month ago
Dr. Krakower destroys every excuse Carmela has built for herself She walks in with a lifetime of them and he takes them apart one at a time My priest says I should help him become a better man. How's that going? He's a good man, a good father. You just told me he's a depressed criminal, prone to anger, serially unfaithful. Is that your definition of a good man? She reaches for therapy-speak. Maybe I need to define my boundaries, keep a certain distance, not internalize. What did I just say? Leave him Then the one that always works. I'm not an accomplice, all I do is make sure he has clean clothes in the closet and dinner on the table. Krakower doesn't even argue it. Enabler is a more accurate job description. My apologies "Take only the children, what's left of them, and go" She tries the practicalities. A lawyer, an apartment, child support. He cuts her off. He won't charge her for the session, because he won't take blood money, and neither can she "One thing you can never say is that you haven't been told" Five minutes of screen time. He never appears again. He didn't need to
best of the sopranos419,303 views • 1 month ago
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The most heartbreaking moments in The Sopranos, ranked 🧵 5. Tony Saves AJ
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Pussy was one of Tony’s dearest friends, someone who, under normal circumstances, would never betray him. But the government knew the weak spot of criminals like him: their families. Pussy was forced into an impossible choice: protect his family’s future or stay loyal to his friends. In the end, he chose to betray Tony, even though Tony would never have abandoned him. To cope with this betrayal, he started exaggerating problems and lying, convincing himself that Tony had changed and was no longer the same friend he once knew. In the scene where he talks to AJ while wiretapped, Pussy has a moment of clarity. He sees through the curtain of lies he’s built around himself and realizes that he betrayed the one person who had never, and in his mind would never, abandon him. All the excuses—doing reduced time, becoming an FBI informant, his back problems—were just bullshit. His complaints about Tony to the FBI were bullshit too. When Pussy says "I can't see" before being killed by Sil, Paulie, and Tony, it’s a powerful metaphor. It reflects not just his impending death, which he had fought so hard to avoid, but also his realization that he had been living in deception for an entire year. His inability to "see" symbolizes his moral blindness and the tangled web of lies that ultimately led to his downfall
best of the sopranos115,739 views • 15 days ago
The Sopranos pilot was filmed in 1997, when James Gandolfini was 35 years old.
best of the sopranos1,940,223 views • 7 months ago
James Gandolfini's evolution before and after The Sopranos.
best of the sopranos176,418 views • 26 days ago