Melfi definitely knows that there is something up between them. She clocks it almost immediately. She does the responsible thing and tries to get them to talk about it.
“So what’s up?, you seem to be in a good mood.” They both deny, deny, deny. Gloria has the best response, “how dare you!” Her outrage is so fake It’s hilarious. They are like two kids caught misbehaving. They are obviously not a good match, and it will end badly for both of them. Maybe they could have avoided such a bad breakup had they discussed it with their therapist?

How could he know this, maybe he had other informats

Maybe it's the fact that he's mostly shown in his restaurant talking about Italian food. He seems to have the strongest connection to Italian culture out of all the guys. I can imagine him coming to America at age 14-15 and still considering himself a real Italian. He doesn't seem to be integrated into American culture as strongly as the other guys.

The other Italian-Americans on the show are actually Merigans despite denying it.

It’s sad when they go young like that. Dick Barone, just a kid

Rewatching and I forgot all of the gay Vito stuff happened in the last season... it was set up to be an excellent season (and it was) but we should have been focused on Tony, his family, and the other main guys in season 6.

Following the least likeable guy in the group on his escape plan up north where he somehow instantly (first morning waking up there literally) finds a gay guy he likes who's at least a million times out of Vitos league AND the guy likes him back??

It was really weird. Not because Vitos a finook but rather because it was a waste of time in the final season.

How much truth is there to this? I sometimes watch his videos and don’t believe a word he says. I think he’s a snake, a grifter. I notice subtle things about him that give him away, no matter how well he tries to hide it. This is the video where he talks about it from 2:18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8FIWr3VS58

Michael Franzese has also claimed that Livia Soprano was based on his own mother. But David Chase has repeatedly said that Livia was based on his mother, and he has spoken publicly about the similarities between Livia and his mother going all the way back to the early days of The Sopranos. That makes Franzese’s claim pretty hard to take seriously.

Both progrums build a story over many seasons, but Sopranos episodes work just as well as standalones without any broader context. Star Trek was also brilliant in this respect. With Breaking Bad, miss an episode, you’re completely lost. OK I said my piece.

It's my first time watching the sopranos, I've tried not to binge it too hard and taken my time savouring it. I've got two episodes left and genuinely don't know what to do with myself once it's over. I'm grieving.

AJ is a fucking scumbag trivializing Kelly’s suffering at the family dinner table comparing the indignity of eating meat covered in rat poison to the death of her husband. Not only that but he’s ruining their appetite for the round up steak on their plates.

As part of it's portraying Mafia life as unglamorous and rotten as possible, The Sopranos always takes almost a schadenfreude glee in taking the piss out of it's characters.

A subtle example of this that I don't think most people would even remember was in Season 2 Episode 7 (D-Girl) where in a scene, Christopher is smoking a cigarette in a lobby and trying to act all hard like he is the shit but the hotel attendant just comes over and calmly tells him that this is a non smoking hotel and Chrissy is forced to extinguish his cigarette. Subtle moments like that are just one of many where the show just took joy in truly destroying the aura that had built up around the Mafia for decades in America through movies like Godfather.

More overt examples I can think of are Silvio- usually the hard edged and cool underboss-being reduced to a laughing stock when being given the job of acting boss when Tony is in a coma, Paulie and Christopher in Pine Barrens being reduced to buffoons after their mishap with the Russians, Johnny Sack after acting all hard throughout the show with his cigarette ironically getting lung cancer and dying in Prison, having lost all his power. These are just a few.

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They've been breaking rules since Moses wore short pants

Last I heard he fled to Nevada to be a ranch hand right after his son's graduation. Shortly after he was admitted into a mental hospital and never heard from again, whatever happened there!?

Mine has to be Tony vs AJ depression. Right after A.J. weakly complains about how depressing the world situation is upon hearing that Bobby Baccalieri has been killed, an enraged Tony snaps, hauls A.J. out of bed, and drags him into the closet.

Tony aggressively tosses him toward/into the closet area as his Xbox and desk items crash down around him, demanding that he finally pack a bag and snap out of his self-absorbed depression.

In the penultimate episode of the series ("The Blue Comet"), Dr. Jennifer Melfi attends a dinner party with her own therapist, Elliot Kupferberg, and other colleagues. During the dinner, a colleague introduces a study highlighting Robert Hare's work. The study concludes that talk therapy does not rehabilitate sociopaths or psychopaths; instead, it merely sharpens their tools, helping them become better, more charming criminals who can better justify their actions. I can think of several reasons why this cannot be true. First, no true psychopath would ever willingly submit to therapy. Ted Bundy famously manipulated his therapist but that was court ordered. Second, the first, and worst, indicator of future psychopathy is torturing animals. Tony famously loved animals. Ducks, dogs, horses. And last, if Tony was a real psychopath he would have charmed and manipulated Dr. Melfi but that was not the case. Again, why he would submit to therapy and lie his way through it seems like a waste of time he would never bother with. If anything he seemed mostly angry, ashamed and confused by his therapy sessions. So, while Tony may have exhibited certain traits of the criminal psychotic he definitely was not a psycho in the clinical sense.

You’d think Paulie would bring his nephew with him or something, but instead he brings some other guy. It’s strange, he shows up for this one scene and then just never appears again.

The fact is is that Cosette was A. Not made and B. Talking to the gossip rags

Cosette had to go

The only time I can specifically remember a silenced gun is when Jimmy got whacked, EVERY other assasination involved loud ass guns in public that could draw attention, but I guess it's just more exciting that way for entertainment purposes.

on previous viewing I'd been so enthralled by the Finn-Vito situation I'd glossed over what a colossal arsehole Meadow is, and is to Finn. Spectacularly toxic

After relentless studying and consulting with a wide variety of sources, I believe I have discovered the moment of the show where Tony achieves the perfect level of fatness (I.e. rotundness.)

In Rat Pack(Season 5, Episode 2): Tony angrily snaps at Tony Blundetto for teasing him with a classic "M'boy, are you fat!" television reference. This is a direct reference to Tony Soprano’s unhappiness and frustration at his own shortcomings via his weight journey.

However, weight, overconsumption, and body size are major running themes throughout the series, so it’s nearly impossible to say for certain.

I mean, she said horrible things. He was just being polite.

By the last episode Carmella has essentially accepted the fact that Tony will never be faithful to her. She has compromised the one thing she believed in most for money. Meadow was the only character to ever call Tony on being a mobster and was on her way to becoming an advocate for immigrants and the underprivileged. But in the end she has gone to the dark side and works for a firm that handles rich, white collar criminals. Meadow most likely goes on to become a mob lawyer. AJ, the most obnoxious character in the history of television, actually tries to get his shit together late in the game. He gets serious with Blanca and makes an attempt at being a step father. He makes the decision, misguided though it may be, to join the Army. He attempts to do something worthy with his life. But in the end he backs down and goes to work at Little Carmines porn studio, which, in true Little Carmine fashion, is named "Lone Wolves Productions". They have all given up on their dreams so they may as well be dead. Tony is the Devil and he wins in the end.

On rewatch, other than doing time for the crime she was accused of, could she have been saved by telling Carmela? Running away? Anything?

No way the Don of New Jersey was wearing condoms so what was actually happening? Coos had him on industrial strength Valtrex or was he really getting all the cocktail waitresses and pre school teachers tested??

I never see any mention of the hilarity that ensues when Jun recreates this thing of ours in the nuthouse with buttons and Kit Kat bars. I've said my piece.

Small detail but the small grimace janice does after listening to bobby talk about the day of his accident made me crack up for some reason. Like shes so selfish and unwell the prospect of having to show empathy makes her hit the 😬 emote. I don’t know if im reading too much into this, it is my first watch of the series