If you missed it, Christoper, Michael Imperioli, was a lead role in the Bone Collector series on NBC...

weird seeing him play a cop...lol

I was hiking with a friend last week and we talked a lot about New Jersey nostalgia (she's from here, but lives abroad now, stuck due to Covid). Anyway, unnecessary backstory aside, I dove into The Sopranos that night. I've never seen the show before... so experiencing it was like newfound magic to me. Peak 1999 NJ nostalgia. Those first few episodes were like the greatest show on Earth. Nor was I expecting Tony Soprano to have such a slapstick comedy attitude. I've settled into the slow burn now, and the characters are finding their places for the long (and probably short) haul. Can't believe I have 5 more seasons of this shit to geek out on.

Congrats on the sex

Started and finished it for the first time early during COVID. It was a joy.

There was like a 6 week period in the beginning of the pandemic where it was released on the roku channel for free. I got through about 2.5 seasons before it disappeared.

Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa have a Sopranos podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDUH23 ... rhKqE1HcEw

Also, today is the anniversary of Galdolfini's death.

Meadow is 39.

TenuredVulture wrote:Meadow is 39.

And the daughter in law of Lenny Dykstra.

momadance wrote:Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa have a Sopranos podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDUH23 ... rhKqE1HcEw

Also, today is the anniversary of Galdolfini's death.

they're talking about tony sirico in the past tense

had to google to see if i'd missed the death announcement

momadance wrote:Michael Imperioli and Steve Schirripa have a Sopranos podcast.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDUH23 ... rhKqE1HcEw

Also, today is the anniversary of Galdolfini's death.

@#$% you man you just cost me like 200 hours of my life

gonna watch the ep then the podcast

one thing to note in case you jump in without watching ep 1: it's very uncomfortable the way bacala and christopher cut each other off (ok, mostly bacala). but the explain in ep 1 how they're good friends and traveled a lot together to do sopranos round table type things, so they're interaction is well defined and established between them.

I’m gonna take shit for this but after season 1, I would mostly skip through the counseling sessions.

Probably looking at another rewatch of this here soon.

Meadow and A.J. are BFF in real life now. That's pretty cool.

Rewatching the whole thing, and it's still really good.

I do recall that many loved the Pine Barrens episode, but I hated it. I remembered it as a bad riff on Plane Trains and Automobiles.

Upon second watching, it was much better, and lots of story lines outside the lost-in-the-woods part.

But it really bugs me that it's abundantly clear they are NOT in the Pine Barrens, which is flat, sandy, and populated with scrub pines. They were in hilly country with big deciduous trees that looked very much like Kinnelon or other parts of north Jersey (one website speculates it was shot in Harriman State Park in NY). Just an unforgivable error for a show that usually is spot-on for Jersey flavor.

Also just learned that Uncle Junior is played by the same guy as Johnny Ola in GF II

they'll probably talk about the location when they get to that episode in the podcast. stay tuned!

The Savior wrote:I’m gonna take shit for this but after season 1, I would mostly skip through the counseling sessions.

Probably looking at another rewatch of this here soon.

Bad Take. Season 2 is where her character finally humanized, and why would you want to disrupt the flow and continuity of her and Tony's character arcs anyway? Episode 10- Bustout, the sessions with the admittance of her drinking and then showing her personality morph into a mirror of him, it unlocked quite a bit. There was a section in particular where three items were revealed: witches, psychics, and the quest for knowledge (during Tony's dialogue about the Italian Sibyl he met). I followed this link toward a recent discovery of mine, of the esoteric nature, which encompassed a series of books dealing with witchcraft and psychic powers, and the third item, a book called The Club Dumas, which was later adapted into a movie called The Ninth Gate (with Johnny Depp), which is Doctor Faustus-y in theme. Anyway, I guess you had to be there, but that bit of synchronicity lends itself to my defense of the importance of Melfi. Then again, I still got half the show to go, but if these themes apply, Melfi may be the devil or at least a servant of Lucifer.

Moving on, I began Season 3 last night, and it jumped to another level in time. Meadow is in college, AJ is a pothead, peak post-Y2K stuff. The first episode where the FBI is attempting to drop the wire into the Soprano home was shot so differently with quick and quiet fades denoting the passage of time. It felt like the X-Files. Quite a trip. I got a lot to go

Napalm wrote:

The Savior wrote:I’m gonna take shit for this but after season 1, I would mostly skip through the counseling sessions.

Probably looking at another rewatch of this here soon.

Bad Take. Season 2 is where her character finally humanized, and why would you want to disrupt the flow and continuity of her and Tony's character arcs anyway? Episode 10- Bustout, the sessions with the admittance of her drinking and then showing her personality morph into a mirror of him, it unlocked quite a bit. There was a section in particular where three items were revealed: witches, psychics, and the quest for knowledge (during Tony's dialogue about the Italian Sibyl he met). I followed this link toward a recent discovery of mine, of the esoteric nature, which encompassed a series of books dealing with witchcraft and psychic powers, and the third item, a book called The Club Dumas, which was later adapted into a movie called The Ninth Gate (with Johnny Depp), which is Doctor Faustus-y in theme. Anyway, I guess you had to be there, but that bit of synchronicity lends itself to my defense of the importance of Melfi. Then again, I still got half the show to go, but if these themes apply, Melfi may be the devil or at least a servant of Lucifer.

Moving on, I began Season 3 last night, and it jumped to another level in time. Meadow is in college, AJ is a pothead, peak post-Y2K stuff. The first episode where the FBI is attempting to drop the wire into the Soprano home was shot so differently with quick and quiet fades denoting the passage of time. It felt like the X-Files. Quite a trip. I got a lot to go

Some great scenes here. The water heater. Patsi pissing in the pool. Meadow's batshit roommate.

Upon watching the series for the second time, seasons 1-2 are even better than I remembered, but it does slip a bit in seasons 3-5.

I don't know why they let the gang from Grey's Anatomy write and produce the first four episodes of Season 6, but Gawd they are tedious.

Tony Soprano lives in a 6000 square foot house of late 80s or early 90s vintage. But his cinderblock basement looks the same as the one under the tiny ranch and cape homes like that of his mother or Uncle Jun. The giveway that the stage managers screwed up is the placement of the washer and dryer in an unfinished cinderblock basement. Decent chance that the basement may have been unfinished, but it would have poured concrete walls and, most of all, no way the washer and dryer is in the 1950s style unfinished basement of a 6000 sq ft home.

i don't think i'd want to hang out with Steve Schirripa.

the actor who played Jackie Aprile Jr. also was "Luka", who lived on the second floor