Sopranos - Season 2

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

"I'm gettin' ready for the George Sanders long walk here."

Manson lamps

That was a brilliant episode: Junior and the cop widow (Mary Louise Wilson) too; Melfi sinking

also, Junior lives in the town where i was born

I remember being happy Richie got plugged but was so pissed it was Janice who did it.

Tho Richie was one of the best Tony foils

good thing i already knew that with 2 episodes to go *sigh*

bye threads, see you in a few years

NO YEAR 2000 SPOILERS

Lol bagels wtf

Lol sorry it's 2015 and I'm drunk

I am seriously sorry tho I didn't read far enough upthread.

"I'm in ore of you."

btw Tony explicitly tells Junior to live on "the pile of cash you're sittin' on" in this season

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

I caught many a bus right on that spot (Newark Penn Station).

Bus scene is a beaut. "We buried him on a hill"

Do they check ID on Greyhounds? Or is that the quite obvious reason why she's not flying home.

haven't ridden one in a while but I think they just take your 'boarding pass'. and Greyhound is so disorganized that even if they do they probably forget half the time.

esp pre-9/11 (which this was)

i was fine with the finale, animated talking fish always are a plus, as is Asbury Park in winter.

god that finale was devastating.