r/thesopranos

I’m a 42 year old female and watched The Sopranos since it originally aired in 1998. This show will always be a classic to me. At the risk of sounding hokey, does anybody else feel so grateful they got to watch this amazing show in real time??! You had to wait a week on HBO to see the next episode and you lived and died by the upcoming scenes they would play at the very end of every episode. Just wonder if anybody else feels the same as me. Thank you for listening 😊.

The band that Artie Bucco was vibing to with his smooth glides and crisp points was some horrible post-grunge nightmare that even my 13 year old self would not brook.

David Chase though even though he's an early boomer (born in 1945 I believe) has excellent taste in modern alternative rock, he's the one who picked out Alabama 3 for the Sopranos main theme after hearing them on the radio, he's with it. I'm just wondering was this a subtle hint that Adriana doesn't have a clue, that she's basically a Mafia nepo wife?

EDIT: I'm talking about the band in Season 3 episode 9, not the band from Season 1 with the Massive Genius arc.

I still can’t figure out if P*ssy told the feds a lot of information or not? They never really got anything out of him? He told Tony he never sold them out and I don’t think they ever went down for anything that he said. Then again at the Christmas party when he was Santa I couldn’t tell if he was really trying to get Tony to talk or not bc when Christopher came in and started talking about stuff he threw a bottle at him to shut up?

I know Janice is a bad person and manipulated Bobby and his children but do you guys think maybe there’s a chance she did love him?

He was a good husband afterall

Is there anyone here who watched the show back in the day, when it would come out?
Were you only able to watch it on HBO?
What was it like to wait for a new season? Was it a different experience (better or worse) when you can only watch an episode a week? What were your predictions for the final season ? Please share some of those stories and experiences.

… yeah, again with the questions.

Upd: I’m really kicking myself on how I watched this show. I’ve seen about a hundred clips on Youtube, in no chronological order, saw all the spoilers, etc.. I then decided to watch the show start to finish, which was basically like connecting the dots between all the clips that I’ve seen. I’m on my 11th rewatch right now, and my only regret is not watching it blindly, without spoilers, etc.
i do admit though, the show ages like a fine wine with each rewatch

I'm with Bobby on this, but I demand answers. Why of all Sinatra's songs would this one resonant with Paulie so much?

The song itself is hilariously incongruous with Paulie. The song is tender and affectionate, essentially a father's ode to his daughter. Paulie is sitting there in his tracksuit, surrounded by strippers and mobsters, practically glowing with emotion while this syrupy Sinatra song plays.

So I rewatched Many Saints of Newark for the first time since it was at the cinema. I remember really enjoying it at the time, but I have to admit this time it wasn't that great. The acting was good, the cast was good (especially Vera Farmiga as Livia), but the story was just... kinda dull?

That being said the opening scene in the graveyard with all the dead people telling their stories was creepy as fuck and definitely the highlight of the film. Naturally when I watched the film for the first time I arrived late and missed that.

20 years I wanted a good follow up to the Sopranos. I compromised. I watched The Many Saints of Newark.

Probably been posted in her a million times over so I’m sorry. People say Ade had the saddest death, However, I think Bobby had the saddest death. Caught him at a moment he was immersed in his other life, his private life. He was genuinely such a nice guy throughout the series, caring and enjoyed his train set hobby. Getting shot at the train hobby store was too much for me. Only death that made me cry.

Jojo is annoying but Janice is ugly and annoying, I mean how could it even be close…

Let me tell you a couple'a three things... Phil has a meltdown about Johnny Sac crying at his daughter's, (the cold medicine's) wedding, yet he cried numerous times throughout the series himself. He cries in the hospital over a little heartburn when Charles Schwab grabs his hand in peace, then he again admits that he cried to Nancy Sinatra at his boss's coming out party.

Granted, the wine DOES make him emotional.

I mean normally this pisses me off. This idea that women are entitled to nothing in a break up because the man earns. It's a 50/50 partnership. Calmela pulls her weight.

But I agree with Tony, she knows exactly what she was getting into. She's loving a lifestyle that exists by being outside the fringe of morality and the law. The money she likes spending comes from the misery of others and now she's experiencing some misery and it's all 'woe with me'

Be different if she was being abused (and it gets close at times) but I never feel like she's a prisoner and Tony wouldn't let her go eat cat food. She could go.

She sold her soul. I said my piece.

why did davy scatino not just bail and leave new jersey when he found out he was indebt to the mob and that tony and the mob would bust out his store? I don't think that tony and the mob would hunt him across the country.

The neighbour guy. He MOCKED HIM AND HUMILATED HIM IN FRONT OF CIVILIANS AND TONY SHOULDA SENT A MESSAGE THAT IF YOU FUCK WITH TINY SOPRANO YOU WILL BE FUCKED PRO BONO

if I was tony and this guy pulled that bullshit with me he woulda pray he was never born

This is a totally serious discussion, no The Sopranos quotes.

This guy is always touching his hands, holding his fingers , always goes to the nail salon and even points with two fingers instead of one. Watch it chrissy 🤘, literally why does he point like that.

So, in S03 we see that Tony visits his mother and tells her not to discuss anything about the ticket fraud scheme for which she was caught in S02 ending. Livia just waves it off. But, would David Chase have gone ahead and used her against Tony if not for the Nancy Marchand's death?

Omfg I have never seen such a good tv show, the script, the actors. All of these were perfect. I was shocked by the finale and now I'm going deep down to see all the theories.

I'd forgotten how fast the church luncheon in Christopher goes from a nice afternoon out to Gabriella warning the priest about his funding.

The speaker praises law-abiding Italian Americans and the wives take it personally. She hasn't named Tony. She hasn't listed anything Silvio's done. They hear “law-abiding” and somehow know this is about them.

What gets me is Gabriella's argument afterward. Carmela has done so much for the parish. She's Phil's friend. How can he let an outsider embarrass her? Eventually she reminds him who keeps the place going. You could move that conversation into the back of Satriale's without changing much.

Carmela knows her husband buys cooperation. Here she's expecting her own contributions to buy a room where nobody makes her uncomfortable about him. Phil's been providing that room for years, along with plenty of personal attention, so she has reason to expect it.

I don't think she's pretending to be upset, either. She genuinely thinks he's wronged her. That's what makes it feel so much like one of Tony's business disputes.