THE Sopranos thread

[Section_31]

Always impressed by the ability of Sopranos characters to get angry by stories they made up - like Tony with the two black guys who jumped him the night Tony B went to jail, or Chrissy anytime he mentions Adriana running away with that guy, or Pussy for joining Witness protection.

 

I imagine being a good liar is part and parcel of being a crook. My mate grew up with a reasonably well known gangster from England who did time in the states and he said he was always cheating at games when they were kids, I found that interesting.

[littletedwest]

Shirley temple dying has made me think of Phils comment when tony reminded him Vito was a captain

"of what the good ship lollipop? "

[Kevin D]

"That's the guy I'm going to hell for."

[Kevin D]

[littletedwest]

The second coming just been on sky Atlantic.

 

love the curb stomp

[Kevin D]

Got long-term parking on.

 

Anybody ever die in your hands, you cocksucker?

[King Emlyn]

Never knew Uncle Junior played Johnny Ola in Godfather 2

[King Emlyn]

Take it everyone else did

[Wolf_Tickets209]

Take it everyone else did

I knew already but can remeber being shocked like you when I found out. Love  connections like that.

[Chris]

I'd love to see them revisit the Jonny/Junior era with a prequel series.

 

I loved those flashback scenes, they were among the best in the show.

 

Thoughts?

[littletedwest]

I'd love to see them revisit the Jonny/Junior era with a prequel series.

 

I loved those flashback scenes, they were among the best in the show.

 

Thoughts?

would be ace. But unlikely.

[rubble-rouser]

I don't think it would be able to hold a candle to the real thing, unless it just worked as a comedy. Part of the genius of the show was that we all bought into the fates of these horrible bastards, wondering what was going to happen to them. I remember a real sense of foreboding at the end of the penultimate episode. Prequels never have that dramatic tension, at least not with the  main characters. We know how Anakin turns out, we know that the young inspector Morse will turn out to be an honourable loner, so there's no tension there. I suspect 'Just Call Saul' will be played for laughs because we know how the Breaking Bad characters end up. I don't really want to se Jonny shooting through Livia's beehive - I'd rather imagine some of that mythology just like we imagine our own parents and grandparents as young blades.

[RobbieOR]

Take it everyone else did

 

Nah, I was only watching that the other night and realised myself. 

[Section_31]

There were rumours of that kind of show shortly after the original ended and I'd have liked to have seen it. It'd have been a totally different animal but interesting in its own way. It would have been ace to see Mafia at the height of its powers, instead of a handful of fellas sat outside a pork store it would have been a hundred fellas sat with their goomaras watching Frankie Valli.

[Melchett]

I seem to remember there was talk of a Paulie Walnuts 'spin-off' a few years ago, alas nowt came of it.

[VladimirIlyich]

Just re watching it for about the fifth time all the way through.

Im at the start of series 3 at the moment. Loved so many episodes again and you seem to spot different things each time you watch it. Enjoyed the episode 'Funhouse' which closed series 2 were Pussy met his end.

[Mendoza]

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[littletedwest]

Still the best tv show ever for me. Loved the wire but the sopranos edges it for me although I can understand anyone who goes the other way.

[nando1000]

[Total Longo]

Still the best tv show ever for me. Loved the wire but the sopranos edges it for me although I can understand anyone who goes the other way.

 

Always felt to me that The Wire was the "trendier" of the two to like, but by The Sopranos was by far the more enjoyable and better written of the two.

[Spy Bee]

Still seen nothing that comes close to Sopranos.

[lifetime fan]

[rubble-rouser]

Tony the character is pretty much all about male fantasies and wish fulfilment isn't he? The absolute epitome of early 21st Century American capitalism, with the flipside being moral and spiritual decay.  

[VladimirIlyich]

Just working my way through the whole series again and have to say that season 5 was the best television i have ever seen. The absolute pinnacle for me.

[King Emlyn]

I'm actually watching it for the first time . Thoroughly enjoying it, I'm half way through season 5