THE SOPRANOS SEASON 6 Thread

[ChrisPitch]

Fair fair. I\'d like to hear some people\'s nominees for best and/or worst. This is a better conversation at the end of the season, but since we\'re on the subject. The last two episodes take care of both ends of it for me.

[Me!]

I really liked the coma episodes, but I was always a sucker for the really over the top artsy dream episodes.  I think it was the third to last of the 5th season where practically the whole episode is a dream sequence, is prob still my all time favorite episode

[ChrisPitch]

Ah yes, "The Test Dream," one of the Sopranos most experimental episodes. You gotta love John Heard, a.k.a., Vin Makazian, singing "Three Times a Lady."

[Me!]

You gotta love John Heard, a.k.a., Vin Makazian, singing "Three Times a Lady."

what a weird but great moment

[wildcoyote]

The midget AJ pays off lives in the New Haven area.  I\'ve seen him at both Toad\'s and BAR.  It was kind of funny seeing him on the Sopranos.

[davepeck]

Artie Bucco, Drunk and Druggy Driver

Artie, who knew? Actor John Ventimiglia who plays tortured Vesuvio chef-owner Artie Bucco on The Sopranos was pulled over for a DWI and drug possession in Park Slope! The Post says the police pulled him over when they "spotted him with his headlights off and weaving in and out of the oncoming traffic lane on Seventh Avenue in Park Slope at around 1AM," and Ventimiglia admitted to having four glasses of wine in Manhattan before driving; later he claimed he had been drinking in LIC, and that he had been driving to find a parking spot. Oh, finding a parking spot in Park Slope sucks. But does that explain the Ziploc bag "with cocaine residue" found in his pocket? Ouch! Ventimiglia was arraigned on Monday; he was featured prominently in the second most recent episode, where he managed to put the hurt on Benny (who would have guessed that?) and show off his poor employee-relations skills. We\'ve liked his understated narration in Personal Velocity.

Since the Daily News did have any Sopranos cast member-getting-arrested news (the Post says the guy who plays Tony\'s bodyguard was arrested), their TV critics give "He Said, He Said" thoughts on the show - David Bianculli thinks the show is as epic as ever while Richard Huff think it sucks. We\'d have to say we\'re somewhere in between - sometimes it drags, but the characters are fascinating. Are you still watching?

[Gfunk]

he\'s suddenly transported into this homosexual heaven

NH=homo heaven rotfl

Vito definately should have gone to Vermont.

[Whathefunk]

The midget AJ pays off lives in the New Haven area.  I\'ve seen him at both Toad\'s and BAR.  It was kind of funny seeing him on the Sopranos.

u sure? lots of midgets look a like.....



having said that....i\'m no heightist/biggot (if thats a word) i think basically everyone who is of a certain race/height/hair color looks a like:duck:

[Me!]

Tony Embraces the "Old School"...Don\'t Miss Sunday\'s Episode

Christopher makes a surprise announcement, Paulie pays a price for cutting costs at an Italian Street Fair, and Tony embraces the "old school." Tune in for this week\'s all-new episode, "The Ride," Sunday, May 7th at 9 pm ET.

what kinda surprise could christopher have for us?  that\'s a very interesting teaser......

[wildcoyote]

u sure? lots of midgets look a like.....

100% certain.  I\'ve seen him at shows, and I\'m a little surprised no one else recognized him.  If he\'s ever at a Breakfast show I\'ll be sure to point, scream, and act a fool.

to a certain extent all caucasians look alike

[ChrisPitch]

So after a second viewing, I\'d like to reinforce how much I liked this episode. It\'s amazing what happens when you have three primary storylines working together.

As far as Vito, ok, maybe Johnny Cakes\'s child rescue at the fire was a little much, but this plot clearly needed to be advanced and I like how it juxtaposes the open-mindedness of his current setting with the narrow-mindedness of his previous one. Vito\'s phone call home was great.

A.J. is an immature idiot and I\'m glad that was dealt with on a literal level. I\'m also glad that he didn\'t kill Junior nor chicken out. He botched it and it makes sense that someone with no mafia chops would do such. He has no individuality; he\'s known strictly for being a Soprano and that\'s why his fantasy of what that means (like being like Michael Corleone) worked in this episode. He wanted to define himself by stepping up for the family when it was clearly not his responsibility, partly because he has no focus nor drive towards anything else. His scene with Tony outside the police station was one of the best in recent seasons.

I was waiting for Tony\'s "new outlook" to be put to the test by hoo haa (not Bonpensiero) and that was another strong point. The negotiation--both in regards to the sale of the store and sex--culminated tremendously with Tony thinking of Carm and walking away once Juliana started undoing the buttons near his scar, then with Patsy\'s great line to end the episode ("what the fuck is happening to this neighborhood?"). I also liked the ending choice of music and how the A.J. and Juliana plots were dealt with in scenes with Melfi and her shrink, Dr. Elliot Kupferberg.

Give credit to writers Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, who are in their first seasons with the show and had previously written "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh," a decent episode with Paulie\'s motherly revelation and Tony\'s last days in the hospital, but not as good as this one in my estimation. Excellent work.

[Klout]

well i got HBO and watched all the episodes up till the current. Seems pretty okay so far but not too crazy. I feel like they could be coming up with more interesting story lines at this point in the series. I would rather see Jersey and NY go to war or something exciting and major than vito\'s gay love affair with johny cakes in NH and tony being faithful to carm...big whoop.

[davepeck]

:thumbsdow this episode sucked, imo. badly.

hey, i enjoyed the chris/tony \'old times\' stuff. that was fun. and hey, it was nice to see how the chris/tony meeting about adrianna went down 6 years ago when season 5 aired..

but most of this episode just had me :rolleyes:

in 5 minutes of air time, we meet chris\' new girl, find out she\'s pregnant with his kid, they elope, and they buy a house together. come on.

so many scenes that went NOWHERE left me :hscratch: - tony with the baby, the soldier meeting paulie, tony\'s useless visit with melfi.. meh.

christopher relapsed.. oh wait, they already did that 2 episodes ago.. but this time they tied it in with the chris/tony relationship angle.. whoop.

paulie continues to be a nuisance, and janice is still annoying.. bo-ring!

biggest thing that happened in this episode took about 8 seconds, and that was phil leaving johnny out of the loop on his vitamin deal with tony. that, coupled with the reaction to johnny\'s crying episode, makes it look like phil is positioning himself to take over for johnny.. and tony seems to agree..

3 episodes left before the break. the season has been great so far, but now is not the time to start bringing the lemons out. hope next week is better.

[Wolfman]

^^^^  I generally agree, per usual.  Want to know what\'s really weird?  As soon as the episode was over, my roomate, who has been watching the whole season with me, says, "Wow, that was by far the best episode of the season."  Are you kidding me?  So now my problems are two-fold: I just watched a lousy Sopranos episode and my roomate has a crack problem.  I told him I didn\'t think this was anything next to last week.  I went off to bed, but, curiously, the roomate dialed up last week\'s episode and watched the whole thing again.  Interesting.

[Whathefunk]

^^^^  I generally agree, per usual.  Want to know what\'s really weird?  As soon as the episode was over, my roomate, who has been watching the whole season with me, says, "Wow, that was by far the best episode of the season."  Are you kidding me?  So now my problems are two-fold: I just watched a lousy Sopranos episode and my roomate has a crack problem.  I told him I didn\'t think this was anything next to last week.  I went off to bed, but, curiously, the roomate dialed up last week\'s episode and watched the whole thing again.  Interesting.

lol....i agree with the both of you, and for about half the episode i thought i missed a week or something, the whole thing just felt out of place.   I did think that the Chris/Tony convo about adriana was one of the coolest things we\'ve seen yet this season tho.