Sopranos - Season 2

manson lamps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxT442bSG68

Didn't realize that was David Chase blowing off Paulie.

the tony/richie climactic fight is one of the realest ever

also

"Hey Marty - Kundun, I liked it!"

this pops into my head every time i see scorsese now

hahaha

maybe this comes back to haunt him but was a bit put off by how easy tony skated on the airline tickets thing - i mean i know he has a great lawyer and whatever but it's great that they balance out tony's skill as a boss with the fact that like anyone else he has to get lucky once in a while just to stay alive and this felt too glossed over for my taste.

i agree with everyone upthread talking about how great carmella became in this season - i loved when she would show her "married to a mob boss" side like when she snapped at janice after meadow was busted having the party at livia's house also the way they ended her thing with the contractor by having her hunt him down just to thank him. the only thing is when she got wooed by the coat - i think in real life that would've made the situation worse but it's a small nitpick. just in general falco was amazing - her stares at the contractor, when she runs away during richie and janice's wedding toast.

my two cents on junior is that he was obv never good enough to be the boss - this is pure speculation on my part but if they chose jackie over junior even tho junior was tony's dad's brother, that must say something - but he was high up enough on the food chain to live well, he just decided not to live like tony. i guess he was still making side deals with richie to move coke and whatever but when his lawyer tells him that it will cost at least 400k to have people review the fbi wiretaps on him he's kind of like "ah fuck it"

also the dream sequences in this are amazing - i think having tony finally come to the decision about pussy in a dream was brilliant - as someone who runs from the facts of life (me!) will tell you, they eventually catch up to you in your sleep.

the best thing that happened this season was dropping the storyline of christopher the actor/screenwriter whatever whatever - shit was mad boring

― whiney g. gordon liddy (J0rdan S.), Monday, June 22, 2009 5:48 AM (3 years ago)

i p much agree w/ all this

"Hey Marty - Kundun, I liked it!"

this pops into my head every time i see scorsese now

yeah, this line has taken up permanent residence in my brain.

Carmela's absolute *best* married to a mob boss moment is the scene where she tries to get Meadow a letter of recommendation for college w/ the ricotta pie

Like she starts out just being pushy and then is just flat-out "I want you to write the letter" *smiles and holds ricotta pie*

ya any time the sopranos tried to be witty about showbiz it just failed completely... always makes me cringe

― s1ocki, Sunday, June 14, 2009 3:51 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark

"Hey Marty - Kundun, I liked it!" is hilarious, one of my favorite lines from the show

― ℳℴℯ　❤＼(◕‿◕✿ (Princess TamTam), Monday, March 7, 2011 3:05 AM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Me too, not really what I meant

I'm watching this show again from s1 btw

k3vin some of yr complaints re: Livia have more than a little to do with her declining health conflicting with the writers' plans for story arcs

my favorite part of Season 2 is probably the interaction between Tony and Janice when he puts her on the bus out of town

Also a post-9/11 point where I thought, Why does she have to ride a --- OH, no ID needed apparently.

Tony, putting Janis on the bus: "All in all though, I'd say it was a pretty good visit."

been rewatching the whole show for the first time...final scene of this season is one of the high points of the series

that being said, i think i might prefer the more slack, rambling pacing of the next two seasons to the clear, linear path of the season 2. italy episode and d-girl are both pretty blah episodes imo

Those are two of the worst for sure, do love the rest of this season tho

yeah it's a great season. janice/tony/livia is such a great triangle of manipulation and deceit

richie aprile definitely my fave antagonist. w/ the exception of maaaybe mad men is sopranos the funniest of the recent golden age dramas (defining as sopranos, deadwood, the wire, mad men, breaking bad)? tony's at least neck and neck w/ al swearengen and roger sterling (and funnier than bunk and whoever the wit of breaking bad is - jesse?), and paulie walnuts, christofuh, sal, livia, and uncle junior seem much funnier than anyone else the others have.

yeah, i hadn't remembered the show being so funny the first time i watched it.

i love those throwaway jokes like the witness reading anarchy, state, and utopia at home

sopranos is sooooo funny, nonstop

really relishing this season how dominic chianese can play aggrieved better than anyone else ever

those quiet scenes with junior and the woman who comes to visit him while he's under house arrest are really nice too

I just watched the first episode of this season last night, coincidentally. Janice is so despicable.

it's like every character in this show is constantly dissembling and self-righteously rationalizing their greed and laziness

"Picayune stuff."

only 3 episodes into s2, but David Proval's dead eyes are as creepy as his shoeblack hair is hilarious. I recognized him from Mean Streets even tho he looks like that guy's desiccated corpse.

lol at Aida Turturro singing along with "Mother and Child Reunion."

tony... i'm old school

like Pacino on downers

well except behind the wheel or with a coffeepot

proval's so good in this

Manson lamps

My fave tony antagonist

The Happy Wanderer is such an amazing episode. So funny!

http://youtu.be/uNPmBKP95dk

http://youtu.be/5WjwV6xmCq4

Didn't realize that was David Chase blowing off Paulie.

I did recognize him in that Naples episode. Great stinkeye.

The Happy Wanderer is such an amazing episode. So funny!

i am shocked, shocked that Frank Sinatra Jr would sully the family name by playing himself in the poker game.

I've just started on s5 in my rewatch. (First proper series watch, really - I've seen the whole thing, but not in sequence, and spread out over years.) Glad "Whitecaps" lived up to my memory.

hey, cheese fuck
get me some food

I agree that the showbiz shit in "D-Girl" was tedious. While I like Imperioli's performance, Christopher is the least compelling of the major characters thus far too.

Big Pussy's house right next to a cemetery is not a good vibe.

Rendezvous btwn Tony and Paulie at the Lou Costello statue in Paterson was nice til it ended with a closeup of Lou's bird-stained derby.

also one of Nancy Marchand's best moments was Livia's pitiless response to AJ's post-Nietzschean funk. "What makes you so special? Ya die in your own arms!"

those scenes are so great (and get a lot of callbacks)

Richie Aprile mentioned this childhood fave, which i did not know was still in existence

http://turtlebackzoo.com/

Threat, what threatening? I brought you a ricotta pie.

I want you to write the lettah.

I am finishing up this season (4 episodees to go), and just watched the one where Carmela prays in a hospital room for Christopher's "vision" and reform at the time of his near-death after being shot. Very few actresses could pull that off without condescension the way Falco does.

yeah in my mind Sopranos was basically The Edie Falco and Drea De Matteo Hour

the women on this show were all incredible tbh

Never enough Rosie April.

"Fuckin nosey! Eat your manigot'!"

Aprile

Damn phone

that Richie-Janice sex scene with the gun, boy howdy