The Sopranos Vs. The Wire

as someone who has seen the wire a few times and now in a re watch with someone who has never seen it, (on s02e03) I agree with the stanning upthread of the herc's actor from the wire, he's a source of comedy and levity I never fully appreciated before. Like the subotka kid, Ziggy, the characters are cringey but the acting is really great and skilled. I'd argue the performances in the wire are possibly career highs for a lot of the cast members?!?

lolling at calzino watching these "prestige"/GOAT shows and interpreting them through the lens of british soaps

ha well that's certainly true of very nearly literally everyone on the sopranos xp

lolling at calzino watching these "prestige"/GOAT shows and interpreting them through the lens of british soaps

― rob, Thursday, January 21, 2021 7:09 PM (two minutes ago)

now that I think of it is this maybe how we ended up with Game of Thrones?

career-high performance also applies to lots of Deadwooders

yeah but GOT at it's best was utter shite anyway!

just joking, but arguably it became completely unwatchable when they killed off all the best actors

GOT at its best was still pulp (which doesn't mean bad) was what i was going for there

game of thrones is a show I avoided for ages because of the hype, as someone brought up on myths, legends, Michael moorcock to Tolkien,etc...I got tired of the flame war when I would mention how derivative it was, albeit in an interesting way, when i fully watched it, I enjoyed it but was also not surprised it collapsed on itself as it did, it was a spectacular fall the and I feel some regrets at succumbing to it at all

Game of Thrones was tediously epic, what we need is prestige fantasy focused on just one crew or town (like the Sopranos).

Paulie Walnuts but as a wizard.

Chris spent three seasons chasing that dragon tbf

Johnny Necromancramoni

geez I kinda feel like I could watch Wendell Pierce in anything ... he even made me feel sympathy for Clarence Thomas in that Shondra Rimes movie

and Method Man ... omg ... like Method Man compared to all the hacky mob dudes ... no contest there

I would love to poll the best of Little Carmine quotes.

I once would have voted Deadwood but now I must concede its brevity works against it. The movie did not help

― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Thursday, January 21, 2021 2:00 PM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

oof we just wrapped up the entire series two nights ago (it was my second time, my gf's first) then capped it with the movie and that was uhh not good :-/

Sopranos is all time for me, w Wire & Deadwood right behind it. And I'd bet every single major character except Meadow & Melfi would have been MAGA

"Who Goes MAGA?"

magagool

just realized “Many saints of Newark” = Moltisantis of Newark

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Tony and Carmella straight up admit to voting for Bush during one family scene.

lolling at calzino watching these "prestige"/GOAT shows and interpreting them through the lens of british soaps

calz on Western:

the Auf Wiedersehen, Pet of German cinema finally arrives and it is good! (unlike most of German cinema these days)

― calzino, Thursday, June 27, 2019 7:40 AM

apparently Isiah Whitlock Jr is in Not Fade Away which I guess it as close as we'll get to a crossover

and Method Man ... omg ... like Method Man compared to all the hacky mob dudes ... no contest there

C-

Method Man did some good work, but there's no way he was ever given any material to shine like "Pine Barrens" or scenes like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mC2ioV7FKc

"his house looked like shit"

van zandt's delivery is perfect here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OZEimXRFIE

Tony's angry squint in that scene omg

"your hair was in the toilet water. disgusting."

lol @ Furio looking uncomfortable in the back. I always loved him

During the fourth season of Celebrity Apprentice, Castelluccio was asked by Donald Trump to judge which celebrity designed the best hat. Castelluccio eventually chose La Toya Jackson. She was awarded $25,000 for her charity, the AIDS Project Los Angeles.

when i brought up rewatching the sopranos to my SO they immediately got happy and recalled a peak furio scene that i'd lapsed

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

TV shows
1991–1996 Another World – Maltese Guard; 4 episodes
2000–2002 The Sopranos – Furio Giunta
2003 NYPD Blue – Brian Vaughn; 1 episode
2008 Law & Order: Criminal Intent – Frank Chess; 1 episode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh1m-B0ywhc

some....odd selections in there

apparently Isiah Whitlock Jr is in Not Fade Away which I guess it as close as we'll get to a crossover

― stylish but illegal (Simon H.), Friday, January 22

Michael K. and J.D. Williams both appear in the Sopranos

Sil is the best sopranos character

Lady gaga the best actress in it

I shoulda recognized her as that tray of gabagool

Ten years ago I would have said The Wire. Now I would say The Sopranos.

The former is 5 seasons of NPR "Do You See?" (albeit some of it great). The latter is Shakespeare in the swamps of Jersey.

The former is about the past. The latter is about the future.

Michael K. and J.D. Williams both appear in the Sopranos

Also Michael P. Jordan has a blink-or-you-ll-miss-it turn as one of a group of kids who antagonize a young Tony in a flashback scene.

er, blink-AND-you'll-miss-it

oh, and make that Michael B. Jordan...god I suck today

teenage AJ would have had a 4-chan Pepe phase y/n? or maybe gone MRA after his woc fiancée dumped him.

feel like AJ of the oughts vs AJ of the Trump era could be an interesting contrast

interesting

depressing

i had forgotten about that painting scene; that good shakespearean stuff

would carmella go maga y/n

demographically likely but he would probably remind her too much of her dead husband's shitty friends

oh right if he is that could change everything

would a rich white suburban Bush-voting real estate developer go MAGA, hmmm idk it's a puzzle

do yall not remember her pressuring her neighbor's sister to get Meadow into Georgetown? or getting Tony to lean on the housing inspector for her cheap spec house she sold to her cousin? Carmella is more trump-like than anyone else on the entire show