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Title: The Sopranos
Post by: clockwork chico on Nov 16, 2001 at 09:29 PM: i believe its one of the most, or maybe the most imporatnt show on TV for the past 10 years!..the writing is excellent, the cast superb abd the direction nearly flawless

season 1 and season 2 are now out on DVD...you guys better see this! its worth the price!

so are there any sopranos fans out there? who are your favorite characters and episodes?

bada bing!
Title: Re: the sopranos
Post by: CrUzSACK on Nov 16, 2001 at 11:22 PM: Tsk...gusto ko to panoorin...pahiram na lang ng DVD? ;D
I've been curious about this show for a long time. I have not yet seen a single episode, and I hear it's really good. Kwento naman... ;D This one is not on our buying list. MaybeI should think about including it, no?
Title: Re: the sopranos
Post by: clockwork chico on Nov 17, 2001 at 12:48 AM: Quote

Tsk...gusto ko to panoorin...pahiram na lang ng DVD? ;D
I've been curious about this show for a long time. I have not yet seen a single episode, and I hear it's really good. Kwento naman... ;D This one is not on our buying list. MaybeI should think about including it, no?

yeah..get it!..if there's one dvd boxed set u should buy..it should be this!

puwede mo hiramin yun sa aken..pero mapapanood ren ni parc yan kaya huwag nalang hahaha....pero sure you could borrow my copy...
Title: Re: the sopranos
Post by: benny on Nov 17, 2001 at 02:44 PM: There's also a two page thread here:
The Sopranos (http://www.pinoydvd.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.cgi?board=dvddiscussion&action=display&num=98
7077765&start=0) :)
Title: Re: the sopranos
Post by: argent_tejsla on Nov 19, 2001 at 11:18 PM: what i want to know is, how come they never showed it here? they edit other HBO series to death anyway, and i'd appreciate a glimpse.
Title: The Sopranos
Post by: Komikero on Aug 09, 2001 at 09:41 AM: Bad News for Tony Jr.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20010803/en/mdf32738.html
:o
Title: The Sopranos
Post by: bently on Jul 22, 2001 at 09:27 PM: interested in a souvenier...
try bidding on this one

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=593361626?ssPageName=HP21
Title: Re: Sopranos' Fan check this out
Post by: benny on Jul 25, 2001 at 09:02 PM: Currently $68,500.00 :o A lot of bids too, since it started at $5000! Can I just have the sun visor for the autograph?
Title: Re: Sopranos' Fan check this out
Post by: FLIM on Jul 25, 2001 at 09:13 PM: Quote

Currently $68,500.00 :o A lot of bids too, since it started at $5000! Can I just have the sun visor for the autograph?

At that price id rather have elvis'es jock strap
Title: Re:Sopranos Fans Check It Out!!
Post by: SiCkBoY on May 31, 2002 at 04:01 AM: Lawsuit: Italians vs. The Sopranos
Reason for Lawsuit: Dumb@sses
Seeking: Don't Ask, Seriously.

An anti-defamation group of Italian-Americans recently went to court to get the Sopranos taken off the air. Their television analysts claim that it it stereotypes Italians as gangsters, and they insist that some if not most of Italian-Americans are not actually members of organized crime families. And while we must commend them on their ability to spot the difference between actors on TV and real life people, we should remind them that that wasn't one of the unsolvable mysteries of the universe and that even non-Italian-Americans knew that too.

They claim that the problem with the Sopranos is that it makes it look like most members of the Italian mafia are of Italian descent. In the show's defense, this was a decision made after test audiences said that having the Italian mafia being made up of Jamaican French Canadians was totally craped up.

Here's a hard fact of reality hitting you in the face: There may come a day when a jar of intergalactic peanut butter makes all of our television programs magically come to life. And then, yes, every single Italian person would be a hard-nosed mob enforcer. But by the same logic, every single millionaire playboy would be Batman. So it would all even out in the end, and maybe even be better once you consider how we'd also have Flipper.

When you've been stereotyped, it just means that every stranger makes a fool of themselves when they meet you. For example, I ask every black person I meet if they have a thirty inch penis. It really hurts their feelings, especially the women, but after they finish taking it out, flinging it around, and pulling a fully-loaded truck up the street with it, stereotypes are done affecting their life. No one is really going to to walk up to an Italian and say, "Oh, you're with those spaghettio guys... what do you call them, Italian? Hey, could you kill my friend Frank? Thanks, I'll be over here." If they do, then you're obviously telling retarded people how Italian you are. Why are you doing that, you craping weirdo?

I, like the Italians in question, own a television. And although I may not have solved the mystery of which is it and which is the real non-TV world, I did learn from a popular commercial for pasta sauce that "Italians love life, [they] love love... ah, but most of all... they love PASTA." Certainly with this kind of positive campaign running just a few channels away from the Sopranos, even our very very stupid minds should come out of it with a healthy view of Italian-Americans. Yes, they're criminals and racketeers, but full of passion, ready to fall in love, and completely covered in creamy delicious pasta.

The fact that this case got to the point where it actually made it into a court room means we'll probably see more of them. Case in point, I finally filed my People vs. Wammy lawsuit demanding that Game Show Network reruns of Press Your Luck remove from them all the crappy Wammy cartoons. That's the show where they sit in front of a giant screen of epileptically flashing lights and chatter, "No Wammy, no Wammy, big bucks... STOP!" Then, if we're lucky, a cartoon Wammy comes out and steals all their money. And sometimes they're so cool, like a Wammy on a unicycle tied to a speeding bulldozer will fall onto the contestant's money and then get eaten by a vulture. And you're like, "Take the money, incredible Wammy show! That's totally worth $20,000 in cash, trips, and gaming tables!" But sometimes the Wammy cartoon is just like a boat that drives by and your money disappears. Oooh, that's so great, Press Your Luck. What does a passing boat have to do with losing all your money? Practically nothing! The lawsuit I've filed will put an end to that kind of crap, demanding that all the stupid Wammy shows be digitally altered to fit within specifications of radness that a qualified committee will determine. And also I get sixty two million dollars.

Case Preditions:
Most Americans probably want the lawsuit to get the Sopranos taken off their televisions. We hate it when our shows hypnotize us into hating groups of people. If we would have had lobbyists like these brave Italian-Americans back when Mr. Ed was on the air, we might not have wasted so many lives thinking that horses talked. Whether the lawsuit goes through or not, we may never know what affect the Sopranos has had on our ability to love our brothers. But thanks to this lawsuit, we can say one thing for sure: at least one anti-defamation league of Italian Americans is totally craping stupid and thinks we're stupider.

The case will probably get plea bargained down to forcing HBO to put a disclaimer at the beginning of the show saying, "These people are not trapped in a box. They are moving pictures of people playing make-believe. They did not write this message. I did. Hi, I'm Mike. I work in the editing room here at HBO. But here's my point: Many real-life people are not murderers. Hey, a raisin! There's a raisin in here!"

--Seanbaby
http://www.seanbaby.com
Title: Re:Sopranos Fans Check It Out!!
Post by: wcvmorasa on May 31, 2002 at 12:35 PM: I thought this was a thread about the Bocelli concert that is being tried to be staged here. ;D

/1D1H
Title: SOPRANOS
Post by: CrUzSACK on Aug 18, 2002 at 11:07 AM: Does anyone know why The SOPRANOS was excluded from the Emmy's? Most of the HBO shows this year earned nominations except for this one. Not one nomination, I heard somewhere about a boycott or something. ??? Can anyone clarify? :)

Hi Mods! :) I ran this subject through the search function and saw that there's another Sopranos thread, but the link is dead. :-\ So, I'm posting my inquiry here. :)
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: Mr. Hankey on Aug 18, 2002 at 08:19 PM: There's no boycott.

THE SOPRANOS received Emmy nominations for its first, second and third seasons in 1999, 2000 and 2001, respectively.

The filming of the fourth season was delayed (I'm guessing due to the 9/11 incident), and this new season only debuts in the US on September 15, 2002 - about six months later than it usually does. Thus the fourth season was ineligible for Emmy nominations, since it hasn't even aired!
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: CrUzSACK on Aug 19, 2002 at 07:15 PM: Wow, thanks Mr. Hanky! :) Akala ko they were ignored by the Emmy-board, or whatever you call them (like they do FRIENDS :( )
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: CrUzSACK on Sep 10, 2002 at 12:02 PM: Who wants Ralphie dead?

SPOILER for SEASON 4...(as lifted from fox news and a Soprano board)

The new season of The Sopranos addresses the World Trade Center attacks and the anthrax scare of last fall. That was made abundantly clear last night at Radio City Music Hall, where 4,000 people got to see episodes 1 and 2 of the long-awaited season.

Fans of the show, of course, were chomping at the bit since series creator David Chase decided to put off the new season for six months. It's been a year and a half since there were new episodes of the show.

But if the first two installments are any indication, season four should be the best ever -- and a big improvement over the last one. The plot lines seem more thought out now, with fewer dangling threads and more resolution. There are even resolved subplots within an episode, which sounds conventional but is actually very satisfying.

The shows we saw were also very funny with a lot of asides and arcane references. Some things we learn this year: the mobsters like to watch Everybody Loves Raymond and Dean Martin Westerns.

In episode 1, not only is the World Trade Center mentioned, but so is the failing economy. Tony Soprano is having trouble making ends meet while Uncle Junior is being drained by legal fees for his upcoming trial. Meanwhile, Carmela -- responding to the sudden losses at the World Trade Center -- is thinking about investments and estate planning. It's the Sopranos' unique take on Sept. 11, and it's handled with grace and subtlety.

Episode 2 concerns Meadow Soprano's decision to take a year off from college and tour Europe. Dr. Melfi suggests sending her to a therapist, played beautifully by guest star Linda Lavin. I will not tell you the outcome. At the same time, Christopher and Adriana are set up by an FBI agent, Paulie Walnuts spends some time in the cooler, and Janice and Ralphie become a couple -- perhaps the most psychotic Boris and Natasha on screen ever.

What will happen? I'll tell you a couple of things that won't harm the surprises ahead. Annabella Sciorra returns as Gloria, Tony's demented lover, a few episodes in. Also, a rivaltry between Ralphie (the great Joe Pantoliano) and Johnny Sack (Vince Curatola) heats up in episode three. I could tell you more but I'd have to kill you."[/i]

I cannot wait one year....noooooooo!!!!! :(
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: CrUzSACK on Sep 10, 2002 at 12:07 PM: Still on Sopranos... :-[ (Hi! I'm CrUzSACK and I'm a Soprano addict ;D)

Wanna know your mob nickname? CLICK HERE (http://www.rickmelfi.com/sopranos.html). I've got the most unfitting mob nickname - The Lone Drinker. Hehe.
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: clockwork chico on Sep 11, 2002 at 09:03 AM: just finishes season 3..and i have to say that i was a tad dissapointed

talk about a cliffhanger!!!

cant wait for season 4..why doi have a feeling that one of tony's capos will again....sleep with the fishes

...btw, really liked the way steve buscemi directed one of the episodes...
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: CrUzSACK on Sep 11, 2002 at 09:31 AM: We read in one of the S-forum once, the producer will not hesitate to kill a character, even if he/she's the main star. Rumor is, there will definitely be one main character who gets killed in season 4. Hope it's not Uncle Junior ;D. By the way, Uncle Junior is the P.I. in the movie Unfaithful...he looks different there, mataba or something.
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: clockwork chico on Sep 12, 2002 at 09:13 AM: Quote from: CrUzSACK on Sep 11, 2002 at 09:31 AM
We read in one of the S-forum once, the producer will not hesitate to kill a character, even if he/she's the main star. Rumor is, there will definitely be one main character who gets killed in season 4. Hope it's not Uncle Junior ;D. By the way, Uncle Junior is the P.I. in the movie Unfaithful...he looks different there, mataba or something.

havent read any of the spoilers but i do believe that the producer will not hesitate to kill a main character as past seasons has shown...

strange shift of character in uncle junior on season 3..he has mellowed down but still has that edge-he's turning out to be one of my faves! also furio-that italian import is turning out to be one tough sob...i hope that gladiator fanatic ralphie dies next season...

i would guess that either paulie, christopher or even janice would get the boot next season...

...if u know what happens..dont tell me :)
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: CrUzSACK on Sep 12, 2002 at 04:13 PM: Furio looks more like a Chinese Mafia than an Italian Mafia, hehehe. And in one fansite, Furio has a lot of women Soprano fans who swoon over him and they would like it if he gets more exposure in Season 4 ---SPOILER: Like an "Amour Fou" with Carmela ;D Uncle Junior has always been my favorite. ;D
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: bently on Sep 13, 2002 at 11:50 PM: just finished viewing season 3, i mostly stayed up late since i did not want my daughter to see and hear the violence and those 4 letter words 8)

i wasn't able to follow the 3rd season when it was aired in hbo so most of this was new to me. i basically watched 1 dvd per night, though i was tempted at times to view the next dvd, when they left things hanging in the air... :)

thank god it's just 3 more days for season #4

by the way...that meadow seems to be turning into a fox! :D
(http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/img/castcrew/img_landing_sigler.jpg)
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: CrUzSACK on Sep 15, 2002 at 11:57 AM: Quote from: bently on Sep 13, 2002 at 11:50 PM

by the way...that meadow seems to be turning into a fox! :D
(http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/img/castcrew/img_landing_sigler.jpg)

Just don't let Meadow whine ::) ;D.... AJ's looking better also, two years time and he'll look like the "bad boy" most girls will fall for. :)
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: clockwork chico on Sep 16, 2002 at 11:03 AM: Quote from: bently on Sep 13, 2002 at 11:50 PM
just finished viewing season 3, i mostly stayed up late since i did not want my daughter to see and hear the violence and those 4 letter words 8)

i wasn't able to follow the 3rd season when it was aired in hbo so most of this was new to me. i basically watched 1 dvd per night, though i was tempted at times to view the next dvd, when they left things hanging in the air... :)

thank god it's just 3 more days for season #4

by the way...that meadow seems to be turning into a fox! :D
(http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/img/castcrew/img_landing_sigler.jpg)

www.ew.com reports that jamie will be marrying her manager/bf this year...hope the guy knows what he's doing..heard that the actors playing his dad, silvio and paulie are overly protected when it comes to "medow"

baka matulad sha kay jackie jr. bwahahaha

..dont find her hot though..pero type ko si adriana
Title: 'SOPRANOS' SMASHES 30-YEAR RECORD
Post by: CrUzSACK on Sep 19, 2002 at 03:29 PM: This show is goooood...

'SOPRANOS' SMASHES 30-YEAR RECORD
By MICHAEL STARR
------------------------------------------------------------------------

September 18, 2002 -- Sunday's season premiere of "The
Sopranos" was the most-watched show in HBO's 30-year history
- and whacked every network show in its time slot.

The fourth-season premiere averaged 7.9 million households -
that's a whopping 13.4 million viewers - from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m.,
as the mobsters-on-Prozac series returned after a 16-month
hiatus.

More impressive is that HBO is seen in only one- third the
homes that get ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox - and "The Sopranos"
beat its competition on all those networks.

The show even bested ESPN's traditionally top-rated Sunday-
night NFL game, which averaged 11.3 million viewers.

And the 13.4 million viewers who watched "The Sopranos" on
Sunday dwarfed the number for last season's premiere, which
netted 11.3 million viewers in 6.8 million households.

On Sunday's show, mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini)
dealt with money problems (both with Uncle Junior and wife
Carmella); his wild-child daughter, Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler),
was deciding what to do with her life; and Christopher (Michael
Imperioli) continued to take care of business (and feed a
growing drug habit).

Also back was Tony's wacky sister, Janice (Aida Turturro) and
the rest of the "Sopranos" crew, including Paulie Walnuts (Tony
Sirico), in jail in Ohio; Silvio (Steven Van Zandt); and Ralph (Joe
Pantoliano).

"The Sopranos" had been off the air since wrapping its third
season in May 2001.

Series creator David Chase said he needed more time to sculpt
a fourth season, and his efforts appear to have paid off.

The mobsters easily blew away their rivals.

After the ESPN game came NBC's "Law & Order: Criminal
Intent," with 10.8 million viewers, followed by Fox's "The Lost
World" (9.4 million viewers), and ABC's "Notting Hill" (7.9
million).
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: Mr. Hankey on Sep 20, 2002 at 04:07 PM: Just finished downloading Season 4, Episode 1 and am about to watch it.

Wala, gusto ko lang inggitin si CrUzSACK. ;D
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: CrUzSACK on Sep 20, 2002 at 04:21 PM: Haha. :P PAHIRAM! :D
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: Mr. Hankey on Sep 22, 2002 at 02:09 PM: Quote from: bently on Sep 13, 2002 at 11:50 PM
by the way...that meadow seems to be turning into a fox! :D
(http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/img/castcrew/img_landing_sigler.jpg)

Following that premise, then bently, I'd suggest you don't miss tonight's episode of THE SOPRANOS... Meadow spends the first few minutes in a very revealing bikini top. ::)

I've seen the first three episodes of Season Four, and so far, I'm not too impressed. Episode Three is particularly weak - I think they shouldn't let Michael Imperioli write too many episodes. But I did like the way that episode takes on the anti-Sopranos sentiments of the Italian-American groups in the States.

EPISODE TWO SPOILER (Highlight to read):

I'm really bummed by the development in Adriana's subplot. Looks like by the end of the Season, she'll join Big Pussy and be sleeping with the fishes... :(

END OF SPOILER
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: M_Shoe_Maker on Oct 28, 2002 at 03:10 PM: I just finished the 4-DVD set of the 1st season. Galing!

Laugh trip talaga si Tony! ;D

And how about Dr. Melfi..... she is one nice lady! ;)
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: PARC on Nov 14, 2002 at 09:44 AM: Meadow is in that new Mariah Carey video.

Anybody saw it?

[shadow=GRAY,left,300]PARC[/shadow]
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: lil_jinx on Nov 16, 2002 at 05:16 PM: i just saw the 1st and 2nd eps really worth watching. tony was hilarious. wish they show it here.
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: M_Shoe_Maker on Nov 18, 2002 at 03:10 PM: Now on the 3rd season of The Sopranos. Madonn!!! Meadow is indeed turning into a BABE! ;D

Well, kay Dr. Melfi pa rin ako! ;D
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: Mr. Hankey on Nov 18, 2002 at 04:13 PM: Quote from: M_Shoe_Maker on Nov 18, 2002 at 03:10 PM
Well, kay Dr. Melfi pa rin ako! ;D

Starting tomorrow, November 19, Lorraine "Dr. Melfi" Bracco takes over the role of Mrs. Robinson in the Broadway version of The Graduate, stepping in for Kathleen Turner. This makes her the second Sopranos star naked on Broadway, since Edie "Carmela Soprano" Falco is currently doing mucho nudity in Frankie and Johnny. Sorry to the Meadow fans, though - Jamie-Lynn Sigler is in a G rated role on stage: Belle in Beauty and the Beast.

Now if only they do a revival of Oh! Calcutta! starring Adrianna... 8)
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: M_Shoe_Maker on Nov 18, 2002 at 04:25 PM: Yes, who could forget Adrianna. That Christopher is one lucky Made Guy.

Oh, remember the movie Goodfellas? Remember Spider? The kid who was shot by Joe Pesci? He is Christopher.

He also was one of those Italian gangsters in Last Man Standing.
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: bently on Nov 19, 2002 at 02:06 PM: i do not want to give any spoilers for the 4th season...but just make sure you get to watch episode #9 since this is the best episode of the season so far.... 8)
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: M_Shoe_Maker on Nov 20, 2002 at 07:53 AM: Just finished Season 3.

I'm waiting for the DVD of Season 4!

C'mon, lets go!

Trivia:
R.I.C.O
- Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.
- Passed in 1970 to aid the govt in clamping down organized crime activities.
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: xage on Feb 27, 2003 at 07:07 AM: by Lia Haberman
Feb 26, 2003, 12:30 PM PT

Hey, A.J.: Sixty thousand smackers will buy you a lot of (bleeping) ziti.

With news of five Sopranos stars renegotiating their contracts for another season of the HBO hit series, Robert Iler won't be the only one able to afford all the pasta casseroles he can eat.

The actor who plays Anthony Jr. was joined at the bargaining table by Michael Imperioli, Tony Sirico, Drea de Matteo and Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who all signed on for a fifth and possible sixth season, according to today's Hollywood Reporter. (A sixth season isn't out of the question, considering HBO has been pulling creator David Chase back in ever since the fourth season.)

Imperioli, whose character spent the majority of the past season in a drug-induced haze, reportedly netted himself a fee of about $80,000 per episode for the upcoming season, which is scheduled to begin shooting next month.

Meanwhile, Iler reportedly joined forces with fellow cast members Sirico, de Matteo and Sigler to strong-arm their fee up from between $15,000 to $25,000 per episode to a healthy $60,000 an episode for the fifth season.

The supporting cast members allegedly had deals through the sixth season, but after last season's finale attracted 12.5 million viewers, making it the second most watched show in HBO history and hijacking that Sunday night's Nielsen ratings, the players went looking for payback.

For its part, HBO refused to confirm the wheeling and dealing. "We don't comment on anything that has to do with contracts or money," said HBO spokesperson Tobe Becker like a good consiglieri.

De Matteo's attorney, Todd Rubenstein, who allegedly handled the negotiations for her, Iler, Sirico and Sigler, wasn't talking either.

But if the trade account is accurate, that puts the Sopranos supporting cast members on a pay par with what their supporting counterparts at NBC's West Wing received last year. However, the Mafia drama earns its stars lower yearly salaries because the cable series only tapes 13 episodes per season as opposed to an average 22 for a broadcast series.

Harried head of the family James Gandolfini has yet to negotiate his cut from the upcoming season, but you can bet this TV don won't be lacking for ziti.

Of course, Gandolfini could find himself sharing his windfall with former wife Marcella, the mother of his three-year-old son. The actor's marriage was officially iced last December, when New York State Supreme Court Justice Judith Gische granted a divorce in favor of the jilted missus.

The ruling settled what had the potential to become a nasty divorce battle, as Marcella went public with tales of Gandolfini's alleged cocaine use, excessive boozing and "kinky sex with multiple mistresses." But in the end the two reportedly patched things up long enough to avoid slinging their mud in court.

Marital bliss also eluded Tony Soprano last year, as Carmela told the big lug to take a hike in the season finale. "You've made a fool of me for years," Carmela ranted on the 75-minute, fourth-season ender. "You've had quite a time on my watch."

Tony's fate is unclear, but don't feel too sorry for Gandolfini. The actor is currently starring opposite Ben Affleck in the dark comedy Surviving Christmas. He's also on board for the indie drama Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: Mr. Hankey on Mar 10, 2003 at 07:50 PM: Tony and Carmela (Gandolfini and Falco) just won Best Actor/Best Actress (Television) at the 9th Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Did you guys hear? In addition to the cast members mentioned in the article above, Gandolfini is now also suing HBO for breach of contract, so he won't have to return for a 5th season of the show.

I guess $400,000 an episode isn't enough for some people, and they need to use strange negotiating tactics... ::)
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: DViant on Mar 11, 2003 at 07:57 PM: Just got to borrow the Season 1 R3 DVD of the Sopranos. I can't believe ang mura dito (P1,700). What they're charging in the US is pure extortion ($74.99 @ Amazon). Can't wait til my cousin gets Season 2 & 3.

Just finished the first DVD & I'm hooked. No wonder it's so talked about. Speaking of which Gandolfini may not be included in the 5th Season. :(
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: M_Shoe_Maker on Mar 12, 2003 at 07:04 AM: If Gandolfini is out, then will they kill his character? Pano kaya? Or will they just change the actor but same character?

Sayang, laugh trip pa naman si Gandolfini :(
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: DViant on Mar 13, 2003 at 05:09 AM: One thing I love the Sopranos is the good food they keep on eating especially at Artie Bucco's Vesuvio Restaurant. I stumbled upon this Sopranos-themed cookbook. Anyone got a copy?

(http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0446530573.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg)
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: M_Shoe_Maker on Mar 13, 2003 at 08:05 AM: Hello DViant,

Where did you find that book?

I've been looking for that since I watched the Sopranos. I want to give it to my wife in order for her to learn how to cook like Artie. :)
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: CrUzSACK on Mar 13, 2003 at 08:22 AM: There's a Sopranos cookbook? YUM!!!! That's one of the reasons why I love this show --- great food!!! Is this available locally?
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: DViant on Mar 13, 2003 at 03:32 PM: Still lookin... if I can't find I'll get it on Amazon...
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: M_Shoe_Maker on Mar 13, 2003 at 04:28 PM: Speaking of food ala-Soprano style......

I remember this scene when Tony's wife was flirting with the priest. She brought the priest some yummy looking home made pasta. To her dismay, the priest was being flirted by another lady. What Tony's wife did was to throw the pasta in the garbage can. Sayang. :(
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: DViant on Mar 13, 2003 at 05:00 PM: I almost cried when I saw what she was doin... Murder, grand larseny & extortion's ok... but throwing perfectly good pasta IS a crime!

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HBO SUES GANDOLFINI FOR $100 MILLION

HBO has made "The Sopranos" star James Gandolfini an offer he can't refuse: go back to work as scheduled or cough up $100 million.
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: DViant on Mar 28, 2003 at 11:52 PM: Yahoo! I got it na.... :)
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: M_Shoe_Maker on Mar 29, 2003 at 12:00 AM: Got what DViant?

The cookbook?

Where?

How much?

Akin na lang. ;D
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: DViant on Mar 29, 2003 at 12:12 AM: Got the cookbook. I asked a friend to buy it for me $29.95. I asked Powerbooks how much they will be selling it and 1400 daw.
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: bunkieboy on Mar 30, 2003 at 02:30 PM: looks like there will no longer be any Sopranos next season because the fat dude that plays Tony got too damn gready >:(
Title: Re:the sopranos
Post by: kakabanas on Apr 11, 2003 at 03:36 AM: Quote from: bunkieboy on Mar 30, 2003 at 02:30 PM
looks like there will no longer be any Sopranos next season because the fat dude that plays Tony got too d**n gready >:(

In case you haven't heard yet, shooting for the fifth season started already after James Gandolfini pulled back his lawsuit against HBO ... and HBO did the same. They never disclosed what they agreed on but I doubt if he's going to get $750,000 like Martin Sheen on The West Wing. Do you think James deserved to be paid that much ? HBO apparently doesn't think so. Sure both shows will make money from DVDs. But unlike The West Wing, it would be difficult to sell/show Sopranos in syndication because of violence and foul language. NBC gets advertisement money from commercials ... HBO doesn't. But Sopranos pull more viewers or at least equal to that of The West Wing ... which means more money for HBO as well because you have to subscribe to watch the show.

Anyway, I think new episodes will be shown in January 2004.

James was good though in The Mexican .. make that the best thing in that movie.
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Post by: Mr. Hankey on Jun 19, 2003 at 12:29 AM: The Sopranos has been renewed for a shorter-than-usual 6th season:

HBO Announces Sixth Season for 'Sopranos'

NEW YORK - Tony Soprano — or at least the HBO series that bears his name — will be sticking around awhile longer.

HBO announced that it has agreed with producers of the award-winning mob drama for a sixth season. The cast currently is wrapping up production on the fifth season, which will begin in March 2005.

The sixth season will consist of 10 episodes, shorter than the 13-episode seasons "The Sopranos (news - Y! TV)" usually offers, HBO spokeswoman Tobe Becker said Thursday.

It's widely assumed that the sixth season will be the last one for "The Sopranos." Then again, it was widely assumed the fifth season would, too.

Series creator David Chase signaled the intention to keep going last week in an interview with the New York Daily News.

"I'd planned out an arc for season five that would have ended the show," he said. "But as we're getting into it, we're finding there's a lot more material. We could cram it into 13 episodes, but I don't know that it's the right thing to do."

Chase and his production team began negotiations that led to the extra 10-episode season.

Production for the sixth season will start in early 2005. No air dates have been set.

=====

March 2005 for Season 5 to air??? That's a really long wait, since the 4th season ended last December! >:(
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Post by: Reuven Malter on Jan 02, 2004 at 09:49 PM: Friends have been raving about this show. I saw the first episode on VHS before and wasn't impressed. If I may ask The Sopranos' fans, "Why do you like this show? Is there a particular episode from the first season that hooked you?" It might help me if I see that one first. Thanks in advance!
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Post by: CrUzSACK on Jan 02, 2004 at 10:10 PM: Quote from: Reuven Malter on Jan 02, 2004 at 09:49 PM
Friends have been raving about this show. I saw the first episode on VHS before and wasn't impressed. If I may ask The Sopranos' fans, "Why do you like this show? Is there a particular episode from the first season that hooked you?" It might help me if I see that one first. Thanks in advance!

Watch the episode entitled "College". This is from the first season, I think the third episode. You'll get what Soprano is about.

Soprano has two families - his family - wife, teenage daughter, teenage son, fierce mom, weird sisters, Uncle Junior. And then there's his other family - the mafia family, each member may personality issues rin. This episode (College) sums up his dilemma of heading both families. On one hand he has to do his role as the Daddy, on the other hand he has to fulfill his role as the Mob boss (well, one of them since Uncle Junior is the senior mob boss).

Why I like it? M-A-F-I-A. ;D
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Post by: JdelaCruz on Jan 03, 2004 at 02:20 AM: There's a lot to like about this show. The most obvious of which is the cast -- James Gandolfini and Edie Falco have 3 Emmys each for their lead role performances so they're givens, but the supporting cast though not as award-lucky has been just as excellent. Nancy Marchand (Livia the Mom), Dominic Chianese (Uncle Junior) and Loraine Bracco (Dr. Melfi the Shrink) are all certified Emmy should-have-wons.

The other characters are borderline outrageous but nonetheless more real and flesh and bone than those White House cutouts over at West Wing -- Steve Van Zandt (yep, of The E Street Band) as Silvio Dante, Tony Sirico as Paulie Walnuts and Michael Imperioli as Chris Moltisanti (both are Goodfellas alums), Joe Pantoliano as Ralphie (he actually won an Emmy for this), Aida Turturro (John's cousin) as Janice/Parvati and Vincent Pastore as Big Pu ssy (to differentiate him from another character, Little Pu ssy). See, right there. Any TV series with a character named Big Pu ssy is bound to kick @ss.

To me though the real hook is the writing. In a word, it's hysterical. And the laughs come almost always from left field. This is a show that tackles organized crime, murders, drugs, death, sex, treachery, every underworld filth you can think of and yet there isn't one episode you don't laugh out loud. This is not to say that this series is a sitcom and that the writing is for superficial amusement. Far from it. The Sopranos had four of the five nominations in the Emmys Best Screenplay Category for its 1st and 3rd seasons and three for the 4th Season (Season 2 only had 2 episodes nominated, and the only season where it did not win the Screenplay Emmy). What's not to like.

Cruzsack is right, College from Season 1 is a good episode to sink your teeth in and give you a good feel. Throw in the Pilot and the second episode (46 Long) for good measure. There are also big payoffs in the last and next to last episodes which will be better appreciated if all episodes are watched -- come on dive in, there are worse things you can do :)

Why it won't be shown here: the Bada Bing, the colorful language, the theme. I don't think the producers will compromise by having the show bleeped and cut for asian audiences like HBO does SATC.

Why it has always lost out to The West Wing for the Best Drama Emmys? A mystery. Like the virgin birth. Madonn'!
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Post by: X44 on Jan 03, 2004 at 02:39 AM: Quote from: Reuven Malter on Jan 02, 2004 at 09:49 PM
Friends have been raving about this show. I saw the first episode on VHS before and wasn't impressed. If I may ask The Sopranos' fans, "Why do you like this show? Is there a particular episode from the first season that hooked you?" It might help me if I see that one first. Thanks in advance!

Some of my reasons I tune in to this (hypotehtically , of course, since I watch them on DVD) are the same as slow's and Cruzack's , reuven.

I have a hard-on for crime stuff. But more than that, I have a hard-on for well-written crime stuff.

The Sopranos is well-written crime stuff. And good writing is such a rarity in TV shows these days (offhand I can only think of this and ,oh,probably Six Feet Under and The Simpsons, among those still being shown, to have quality writing, the rest wavers from merely competent to hackwork to truly loathsome- - Kevin Williamson's and David Kelley's ,in general, JF Lawton's, in particular) it's refreshing.

Why I like crime stuff? Same reason I like rock - - - lure of the forbidden, dangerous glamour, blah blah blah. This has all that - - - plus it's funny and twisted. Definitely not a wholesome show, this. But I prefer the wholesome stuff in my life not in my art. Just me,of course. ;D

Plus, I like James Gandolfini. Probably not the most convincing reason in the world but there.

And yeah "College" is a hoot. But the rest of the series is wonderful, too.
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Post by: Reuven Malter on Jan 03, 2004 at 10:20 AM: thanks for the feedback, bespren, X, & J!

saw the pilot but it didn't engage me. will give 'College' a try then.

I like Gandolfini, Falco, Bracco at least judging from their film work. I was also moved by Joe Pantoliano's speech during last year's Emmys. Though I don't watch the show, I know he deserved it as well as the whole show. It seems a lot better than the West Wing.
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Post by: Mr. Hankey on Jan 17, 2004 at 09:52 AM: WOWOW (on Destiny Channel 53 now) has been showing what seems to be a non-stop Sopranos marathon. I saw a Season One episode last night, and right now, it's the Season Three finale. Widescreen, in ENGLISH without Japanese subtitles.

I think it was shown in preparation for a regular weekly airing of Season Four, from the plug they showed after the marathon. I wish I could read Japanese so i could know for sure. ;D
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Post by: boyethampi on Feb 06, 2004 at 05:18 PM: Hi,

I am a new member of the group and am also a fan of THE SOPRANOS.

I just got started watching the series and its really awesome. Just finished season 1 and am looking for a season 2 copy. Baka mayroon kayong extra copy, am willing to buy it. Medyo nahuhuli na ako kaya bear with me.

I don't know if you have gone to their official website - www.the-sopranos.com, worth puntahan.

I was also able to watch the last episode of season 3 sa WOWOW a few weeks ago. The last two weeks wala atang sopranos dahil the network was airing the Australian Open. The schedule is 11 Pm every Friday and a replay at 9 am on Saturdays.

Maybe they will air the 4th season starting tonite.

Chow :)
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Post by: Fatbastard on Feb 13, 2004 at 01:46 AM: Watch seasons 1-3 in just two days. Now, I'm an absolute fan of the Sopranos! Season 5 na next month! Wala pa ako season 4!

All: What's your favorite episode? Pine Barrens is on the top of my list. Laughed my a$$ off the whole time.

Quote...
Paulie Walnuts: " The guy killed 16 Czechoslovakians. He was an interior decorator."
Christopher Moltesanti: "His house looked like Sh*t."

I miss Big Pussy though.

Btw, anybody knows where I can find "The Tao of Bada Bing" book. I saw the Cookbook at powerbooks greenbelt 3. But this one is hard to find.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1566492785/103-3768974-5445459?v=glance
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Post by: JdelaCruz on Feb 14, 2004 at 10:12 AM: Been in the middle of Season 4 myself. Meandering and not quite satisfying the first few episodes then I play Disc 3 and bang bang bang! Three of the best episodes ever. This series really gets into it when it gets going. Im actually mentally preparing myself for Disc 4.
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Post by: JdelaCruz on Mar 08, 2004 at 11:16 PM: 'Sopranos' return with a vengeance
Mar. 8, 2004 12:00 AM

by Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic

It was worth the wait.

It always is.

The Sopranos, HBO's mob hit, kicked off its fifth season Sunday night after 15 months away. For any other show such a gap would be unthinkable; for Sopranos fans, it's simply the price we pay for brilliance.

Creator David Chase trusts not only our patience but also our intellect. We, in turn, trust that he'll mete out payoffs from the seeds he's sown in his own sweet time. It's always been TV for smart viewers.

Sunday was no exception.

After their shattering fight at the end of last season, Tony (James Gandolfini), the conflicted, therapy-seeking mob boss, and his wife Carmela (Edie Falco), are separated. Yet they're still a part of each other's lives, mostly as mutual irritants. Tony offers his sad summation of the legacy of their marriage to Dr. Melfi (Lorraine Bracco), his former psychiatrist, with a dismal, "Couple of healthy kids. Other than that . . . "

Their lives have changed. He's living in his late mother's house, while Carmela holds down the home front with an increasingly obnoxious Anthony Jr. (Robert Iler).

Chase offers cues aplenty. If you didn't notice the newspaper Tony picks up at the bottom of the driveway lying unread, you can't miss Chase's other nod to change. The bear that menaces Anthony Jr. (Robert Iler) in the back yard is clearly a reference to the ducks Tony was so fond of in season one, and whose migration landed him in Melfi's office. (The way Anthony Jr.'s been behaving, Carmela would be forgiven for letting the bear eat him.)

The bear, of course, threatens the family, where the ducks were - for Tony, at least - a surrogate for it. It's a rare misstep, too heavy a hand where Chase usually applies a lighter touch. The unkindest cut: Tony's duck food is what attracted the bear in the first place.

The big news is an infusion of new blood. Chase read a newspaper account about mobsters arrested in the 1980s being paroled and sent back onto the streets. That gave him the perfect opportunity to introduce new characters that add a freshness to the show it lacked the past couple of seasons. Steve Buscemi and Robert Loggia lead the pack.

Buscemi's character Tony, Tony Soprano's cousin, is introduced next week, and he makes a career choice that befuddles his former cohorts for all the wrong reasons. Without giving it away, it's a great twist, though the way Tony looks at his mob-boss cousin, you wonder how long happiness will last.

Loggia, meanwhile, is fantastic as Feech, an old-guard hood who wants back in on the action. His long-winded reminiscences grate on Tony. It gives nothing away to say that he won't suffer in silence for long.

Indeed, Chase often uses the first couple of episodes to set the stage for the rest of the season. I can't imagine even the hardest-to-please fan not enjoying Sunday's season opener. But no matter what you thought, know this: I've seen the first four episodes.

And it only gets better.

----- end of article ----

This means a year give or take a few months for The Complete Season 5 DVD. Deep sigh.
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Post by: kubrikk on Mar 15, 2004 at 04:30 PM: sopranos rocks!!!i bought season 2 n 3 i tnk wowow will show season 4 april
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Post by: boyethampi on Apr 19, 2004 at 11:49 AM: The Sopranos season 4 is now shown every Friday 11 PM at Wowow.

;D
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Post by: JdelaCruz on May 18, 2004 at 04:24 PM: Heard Tony had an epic 21-minute dream sequence last Sunday. I'd've loved to have seen that one. Any of you Stateside Peeps have any comment on it or on the season so far? Can't believe there's only three more episodes left. On the good side, the DVD can't be that far away!

Something on how the season's been faring:

'Sopranos' have many fascinating emotional moments
Friday, May 14, 2004

By Tim Goodman / San Francisco Chronicle

Although “The Sopranos,” which has only three episodes remaining, has always been a series with a split personality -- mob violence on the one hand, and television’s best use of subtlety on the other -- it’s clear that people who watch “The Sopranos” for the gun play and physical mayhem are missing all the best parts.

With only three hours left, “The Sopranos” is wrapping up a brilliant year, its sense of humor as out there as ever and its sense of the small emotional moment as sharp as any previous season. Oh, and yes, there’s a sense of dread gurgling up in the series as well, not just because the injustices, no matter how slight, have consequences, but because the writers are steering this ferociously great series to its climax.

So far, creator David Chase has asked HBO for only 10 episodes instead of the usual 13 for season six, the final one (so they say) for “The Sopranos.” If that holds, fans have exactly one full season left, going into this week -- and that brings on a certain depression over lost creativity. (Although, odds are Chase will seek three more episodes to finally close the door on Tony and his two dysfunctional families).

What this season has brought to the fore so far is the writing staff’s almost relentless pleasure with characters using or pronouncing words incorrectly. They take boundless glee in these Jersey muscle heads brutalizing phrasing, foreign words, interpretations and meanings. This is nothing new in the series run, but the sheer number of slips has turned this into the season of the Mobster Malapropism. Last week’s episode, “Cold Cuts,” took its title from Tony telling Dr. Melfi that old-school Mafia didn’t have the hotheadedness so prevalent today -- they just smiled and got payback later. “You know what they say: Revenge is like serving cold cuts.” When Dr. Melfi corrects his usage, Tony is annoyed.

Which, of course, is another long-running theme played out with increased presence and brutality this season. Dr. Melfi keeps coming back to the fact that Tony -- and, as we know, everyone else, including sister Janice -- has a short fuse. Tony fondly remembering the old days of Mafia lore is just another contradiction in how he lives his life: He could never serve revenge cold. As this season’s episodes stack up, it’s been a litany of short fuses igniting rage. A lot of people tune in for that rage and get disappointed when it doesn’t manifest itself in a gun going off.

But what’s also evident this season is how the modern-day Mafia, as represented by “The Sopranos,” is so thin-skinned. It’s one thing to break into a rage at perceived injustice to one’s manhood -- boys will be boys, after all -- but “The Sopranos” has built an empire on petty grievances and hurt feelings that go far beyond having someone whack your shylock or embarrass your family. Just last week Christopher recalled how he was picked on by Tony and cousin Tony Blundetto -- a grown man holding on to childhood cruelty. Christopher ends up driving home in tears -- even though he just dug up the bones of someone he murdered. It was a typically superb example of the dichotomy of emotions, nonsensical as they often are in this series, playing out artfully.

These insignificant personal affronts are never taken that way by anyone in either Soprano family. The small, personal needles -- like when Blundetto makes fun of Tony’s weight or when Tony finds out his father gave his dog away instead of sending it off to a farm, or when Carmela tells Father Phil he reminds her of someone she thought was gay -- are wonderfully juxtaposed with grown-up slights like turf wars, lack of respect when honoring someone in a position of power, lessening someone’s value to the Mafia (Tony’s) by referencing where he lives (Jersey), or the incessant tit-for-tat game of revenge Tony and Carmela are playing on each other.

Who needs to see Joey Peeps get shot in his car when all of these verbal gymnastics and small-time embarrassments are unfolding?

In that sense, season five is and has been exceptionally good. There are still some of the nagging “Sopranos” faults -- story lines developed, then abandoned, not enough material for everyone, etc. But there should be confidence in the writing team and Chase’s leadership over one of the biggest nags from viewers -- direction of the series.

Chase and his writing team have proven adept at stalling what will probably be inevitable -- Tony’s stone-cold bluesy, if not operatic, downfall -- by simply pumping the series full of additional small moments, more dense interpersonal affairs and, the series trademark, emotionallydevastating quiet moments.

But now, intertwined in the goofy mispronunciations and the tone-shifting bits of humor, is a glimpse of where “The Sopranos” is potentially heading: family warfare. The hints of Soprano family self-implosion are less obvious (than in season four and five), but it’s hard to ignore that New York and New Jersey (and Miami, too) are not getting along, and something’s either going to go terribly sideways or blow up altogether.
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Post by: xage on May 19, 2004 at 08:09 AM: What in the blue hell Annette Benning is doing in the latest Soprano season?
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Post by: JdelaCruz on May 20, 2004 at 03:53 AM: I hear the dream had a "Bugsy" reference, hence an Annette appearance. I hope she was nekked.
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Post by: JdelaCruz on May 24, 2004 at 10:06 PM: Heads up to you Stateside peeps.

David Letterman's guest list for Monday night includes "The Cast of the Sopranos". Whoa!!! My favorite show on my favorite show! Let us know how it turns out.
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Post by: JdelaCruz on May 26, 2004 at 12:20 AM: Top Ten Things Never Before Said on "The Sopranos"

10. "You don't have any money? That's cool"
(Dominic Chianese)

9. "Screw this home cooking -- I'm going to the Olive Garden"
(Aida Turturro)

8. "In addition to disposing of bodies, you'll need to know how to use Powerpoint and Excel"
(Steven Van Zandt)

7. "Wasn't that the guy from Springsteen's E Street Band?"
(Robert Iler)

6. "I just hooked up an illegal cable box. Now I'm getting free HBO"
(Jamie-Lynn Discala)

5. "Tony, I'm gonna need to leave early today for Rosh Hashanah"
(Tony Sirico)

4. "I want a bigger part -- what are you gonna do, kill my character?"
(Drea de Matteo)

3. "Hey Paulie, how about you and me going up to Massachusetts and getting married?"
(Michael Imperioli)

2. "I can't go to prison -- Martha Stewart will eat me alive!"
(Edie Falco)

And the number 1 thing never before said on The Sopranos...

(http://wwwimage.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/dave_tv/images/highlights/2004/ls_dtv_bsh_20040524b.jpg)

1. "I just whacked myself"
(James Gandolfini)
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Post by: DViant on May 29, 2004 at 02:10 AM: Season 5 isn't that good. Watched episode 1-12 already. Waiting for Sunday so I can get it. :)
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Post by: xage on Jun 07, 2004 at 02:32 PM: Wow... They killed Adriana! after confessing to Cristopher that she is in cahoots with the Feds!...

Well sad to know the sexiest lady in the Soprano Series is dead.. but fans of Adriana be thankful.. she may be dead in HBO channel but you can see her resurrection in NBC as she plays a major role on the upcoming Friend's spinoff >> Joey ;D
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Post by: JdelaCruz on Jun 08, 2004 at 10:58 AM: Yep xage, that's indeed jaw-dropping news.

SPOILER ALERT: This article pretty much sums up what happened in Season 5, which many critics claim to be more than satisfying if not the best so far. If you're stateside and just catching the finale for the first time on reruns this week, or if you're local and just waiting anxiously for the Season 5 DVD, read at your own risk. You have been spoiler-warned.

A dream of a `Sopranos' season

PROGRAM FINALE IS TV AT ITS FINEST

By Charlie McCollum

Mercury News, Posted on Tue, Jun. 08, 2004

In a wonderful end to what has been one of its finest seasons, ``The Sopranos'' brought its fifth year to a close Sunday night with a finale that was funny, morally ironic, appropriately violent, full of psychological insight and loaded with surprises.

Even the most devoted fans of the HBO mob drama must have been caught off guard by some of the twists. Just when you thought the saga of Tony Soprano, his family and his Family was going one way, the series took off in another direction, leaving many unanswered questions to chew over during the months before it returns for its sixth and final season.

In a vibrant episode played out to Van Morrison's perfectly ironic ``Glad Tidings,'' Tony (James Gandolfini) -- seemingly on the verge of totally losing his grip -- somehow ends up back on top.

He personally takes out his cousin Tony Blundetto (Steve Buscemi) after deciding Tony B's death was necessary to keep his family of felons under control. The FBI helps, very unexpectedly, by taking down the Lupertazzi crime family, including menacing underboss Johnny Sack (Vince Curatola), who was on the verge of triggering a war with the Soprano clan. Tony actually seems to have reached domestic understanding with wife Carmela (Edie Falco) and a reconciliation with nephew Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli).

It was, in many ways, the perfect grace note to a season in which ``The Sopranos'' has been to television what Barry Bonds is to baseball: an unstoppable force of nature operating on a higher plane than mere mortals.

It was fairly obvious early on where creator David Chase and his writers were taking ``The Sopranos,'' although viewers may not have realized just how much of a thrill ride it would turn out to be.

Messy home life

For boss Tony, the wheels were starting to come off. His home life was a wreck, and his co-dependent relationship with Carmela was in tatters. What had been ``Scenes From A Marriage'' had turned into ``War of the Roses,'' mob-style.

At the same time, his grip on his other family, the one that hangs around the Bada Bing strip club, was shaken by the arrival of a bunch of aging mobsters released from prison after serving 20-plus years on various federal charges. They didn't think much of Tony, particularly legendary wiseguy Feech La Manna (a wonderful Robert Loggia), who mockingly refers to Tony as ``the Godfather.''

To make matters worse, some of these returning veterans of the organized crime war helped to spark a power grab within the New York mob, which ultimately put Tony at odds with Johnny Sack.

``There's lots of potential for bloodshed,'' said one mobster in an early episode this season, foreshadowing what would be a very high body count by season's end.

But the real joker in this deck of wiseguys turned out to be cousin Tony Blundetto. First played for comic relief, Tony B. turned out to be disloyal and vicious and a threat that almost led to the implosion of the Soprano Family.

Faced with this array of challenges, Tony Soprano lost it -- plain and simple.

Partway through Sunday's season finale of ``The Sopranos,'' Tony lamented to his longtime shrink, Jennifer Melfi (Lorraine Bracco), that his life was a ``mess'' and that ``all my choices were wrong.''

Tony would spend time staring at the TV set in a swirl of ennui and angst. He beat a Bada Bing bartender senseless for no real reason. He verbally (and viciously) abused his troubled sister Janice (Aida Turturro) just when she seemed to have found a calm spot in life.

He ordered the hit on poor Adriana La Cerva (Drea de Matteo) -- and then laid a whipping on her grieving fiance Christopher. In a particularly grim scene, he lashed out at Johnny Sack, which seemed to all but ensure a blood bath between the New York and New Jersey families.

And in one late episode, Tony had a fever dream that -- while controversial among ``Sopranos'' fans -- was a true creative tour de force, a 21-minute acid trip.

All of the dead came back to haunt him: Big Pussy Bonpensiero, Ralphie Cifaretto, Richie Aprile, Gloria Torres, even Pie-O-My, the race horse. The dream took him to a dinner with corrupt cop Vin Makazian (bumped off in Season 1) and actress Annette Bening, playing herself and managing to invoke her roles in both ``Bugsy'' and ``American Beauty.'' It alluded to films ranging from ``The Godfather'' to ``Frankenstein.''

Masterful dream

It shouldn't have worked, but it did. It could have been an exercise in artistic self-indulgence, but it wasn't.

In fact, the dream sequence is just one measure of how brilliantly Chase and his writers executed the past season.

They gave superb moments to Gandolfini and Falco, who have reached a point with their characters that they can express more with a shrug or a glance or the blink of an eye than most actors can do with pages of dialogue. They produced scenes for De Matteo and Imperioli that all but assure them Emmy nominations. They created a string of memorable minor characters such as La Manna and the vengeful Phil Leotardo (mob-movie veteran Frank Vincent).

And, somehow, they managed to make the bloodiest season of ``The Sopranos'' its funniest, with more laughs than even the best TV sitcoms managed this year.

In Sunday's finale, for example, there was a rich bit of dark comedy when Carmela called Christopher, looking for the now-dearly departed Adriana.

When Christopher says they've broken up and she has moved away, Carmela asked, ``Is there a number?''

The reply: ``Not that I know of.''

Now, the long wait begins.

Given Chase's perfectionism and the film and theater schedules of Gandolfini and Falco, ``The Sopranos'' won't be back with those final 10 episodes until at least the fall of 2005. And there are growing signs that we won't get the answers to all the questions posed by Sunday's finale, or find out what fate holds for Tony Soprano and those around him, until early 2006.

But Season 5 has suggested that it will be worth the wait.

--end of article--
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Post by: deweyfinn on Jun 20, 2004 at 09:59 AM: Quote from: boyethampi on Apr 19, 2004 at 11:49 AM
The Sopranos season 4 is now shown every Friday 11 PM at Wowow.

;D

Maybe you mean Sunday 11 pm...caught the eppy "Mergers & Acquisitions"...something to do with Joey Pants' racehorse and Tony getting into the pant(ies) of JP's mistress....

Oh how deeelicious.....lalo na da mistress....
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Post by: Mr. Hankey on Jan 24, 2005 at 12:45 AM: The Sopranos just won this year's Norman Felton Trophy for Best Drama Series at the Producers Guild of America Awards. It bested other nominees CSI, Nip/Tuck, Six Feet Under and The West Wing.

HBO must be really disappointed that the show has only one more season to go.
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Post by: boyethampi on Apr 05, 2005 at 03:41 PM: The first episode of the 5th season of the Sopranos was shown last Sunday 12MN at WOWOW after CSI Miami - NY crossover episode.

8)
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Post by: deweyfinn on Apr 05, 2005 at 05:58 PM: Quote from: boyethampi on Apr 05, 2005 at 03:41 PM
The first episode of the 5th season of the Sopranos was shown last Sunday 12MN at WOWOW after CSI Miami - NY crossover episode.

8)

Ang galing..."The Two Tonys" ang pamagat roon.

That's where Tony tries to carry his relationship with his shrink to a whole new level (ngayon hiwalay na siya ng kanyang esmi) In coming eppys expect to see more of Steve Buscemi's char as Tony's cousin.
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Post by: JdelaCruz on Apr 06, 2005 at 03:44 PM: Lucky you. Is it censored in anyway? Dubbed? Bleeped?

Waiting for the DVD set of this season. Any word on when it comes out?
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Post by: deweyfinn on Apr 06, 2005 at 07:14 PM: Quote from: JdelaCruz on Apr 06, 2005 at 03:44 PM
Lucky you. Is it censored in anyway? Dubbed? Bleeped?

Waiting for the DVD set of this season. Any word on when it comes out?

English, no subtitles....I don't think it's censored much kc WOWOW e.

Replays are on Sundays, 11 pm
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Post by: boyethampi on Apr 07, 2005 at 03:19 PM: Quote from: JdelaCruz on Apr 06, 2005 at 03:44 PM
Lucky you. Is it censored in anyway? Dubbed? Bleeped?

Waiting for the DVD set of this season. Any word on when it comes out?

Amazon made mention that the 5th season of the Sopranos is coming out June 7,2005.Â Just two months away.Â :)
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Post by: deweyfinn on Apr 11, 2005 at 04:03 PM: Last Friday's eppy....The Rat Pack

Lumitaw na si Steve "Mr. Pink" Buscemi as Tony's cousin

Drea de Matteo is sure HOT.......
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Post by: krets pulpol on May 24, 2005 at 11:10 PM: wowow still airs the latest season during late night sundays, walang censored dialogues and kita b**bies ehehe
;D
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Post by: JanMike on May 25, 2005 at 12:43 PM: I'm about to begin watching this series starting from Season 1. Hmmm, this show looks interesting! I can't wait to begin this weekend. ;)
Title: Re: The Sopranos
Post by: xage on May 27, 2005 at 10:53 AM: Quote from: JanMike on May 25, 2005 at 12:43 PM
I'm about to begin watching this series starting from Season 1. Hmmm, this show looks interesting! I can't wait to begin this weekend. ;)

You will have a great ride watching the zany adventure in the 2 families of Tony Soprano!
Title: Re: The Sopranos
Post by: JdelaCruz on Jun 08, 2005 at 02:24 PM: A Soparanos Season Seven? Read on.

From Yahoo! News

A "Sopranos" Stay of Execution?
By Sarah Hall
Tue Jun 7, 2005 6:30 PM ET

It seems The Sopranos may not be sleeping with the fishes as soon as expected.

Despite creator David Chase's claims that the upcoming sixth season of the show would be the last for his gang of merry mobsters, the Sopranos mastermind appears to have left the door open for a possible seventh season.

At a media breakfast for the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications last month, Chase was asked whether the sixth season would mark the conclusion of the hugely popular HBO series.

According to Broadcasting & Cable magazine, Chase indicated that he felt the show had run its creative course, but said that there could be a seventh season without altering the outcome of the sixth season already in production.

Chase's admission seemed to be the first clue that the show's protagonist, Tony Soprano ( James Gandolfini), would avoid getting whacked in the near future, leaving the door open for a seventh season, as well as a rumored Sopranos movie.

At the DVD release party for the fifth season of The Sopranos Monday, Chase again said he was mulling the idea of extending the show's run.

"I'm ambivalent," Chase told reporters. "HBO wants me to do it, and I can't deny that there's a certain pull on me from the cast."

It's not the first time the Emmy-winning Sopranos creator and executive producer has given the show a stay of execution.

Chase has wavered about bringing the show back ever since the fourth season when his initial contract expired.

After HBO made him an offer he couldn't refuse (pegged at somewhere between $15 million to $20 million), Chase agreed to return for a fifth season, with the caveat that it would likely be the last.

Just when he thought he was out, HBO pulled him back in for a sixth season deal--just 10 more episodes instead of the customary 13.

Apparently, the allure of the mob is hard to resist--even the small-screen version.

Chase said he would decide whether to add a seven-episode seventh season sometime this month.

The sixth season of the show will premiere in March 2006 with 13 new episodes.

Some 11 million viewers tuned in for the fifth-season closer last June, which featured Tony Soprano putting a bullet in the brain of his cousin, Tony Blundetto (Steve Buscemi).

--- end of article ---

Amazon.com is shipping out Season 5 DVDs now. Get 'em while they're hot. Mine's in the mail. :gloat:
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Post by: vinnov4 on Jul 28, 2005 at 08:30 PM: Anyone here who has the season 5?
Title: The Sopranos
Post by: Reuven Malter on Feb 28, 2006 at 07:12 AM: Quote from: clockwork chico on Nov 16, 2001 at 09:29 PM
i believe its one of the most, or maybe the most imporatnt show on TV for the past 10 years!..the writing is excellent, the cast superb abd the direction nearly flawless

so are there any sopranos fans out there? who are your favorite characters and episodes?

bada bing!

Finally got around to see this. Worth the wait! I enjoyed every minute of the marathon from seasons 1-5. Malapit na final season.

Thanks for the heads up from bespren, X & J. I did enjoy College from Season 1. It did hook me to the series. I wasn't really pulled in by the first episode. Other favorite episodes are Employee of the Month (Season 3), Pine Barrens (Season 3), Whitecaps (Season 4), and Long Term Parking (Season 5).

Quote from: CrUzAC[k]H on Sep 10, 2002 at 12:07 PM
Still on Sopranos... :-[ (Hi! I'm CrUzSACK and I'm a Soprano addict ;D)

Wanna know your mob nickname? CLICK HERE (http://pages.prodigy.net/mlemus/mobnamegenerator.htm). I've got the most unfitting mob nickname - The Lone Drinker. Hehe.

Hello! I'm Reuven and I'm also a Sopranos addict. I'm also known as the Rooster hehe.
Title: Re: The Sopranos
Post by: JdelaCruz on Mar 08, 2006 at 11:36 AM: This Sunday the family returns...

'Sopranos' Creator Is Still Family Boss

By FRAZIER MOORE, AP Television Writer
Tue Mar 7, 5:18 PM ET

NEW YORK - Even as "The Sopranos" returns Sunday with its first new episode since June 6, 2004, long-deprived fans can be pardoned for wondering: What took David Chase so long?

Clearing his head? Racking his brain?

It turns out that, whatever Chase was up to as he prepared to push beyond the 65 installments aired thus far, the "Sopranos" mastermind spent his time well.

To judge from four previewed episodes, the season that awaits us (9 p.m. EST Sunday on HBO) is richer, deeper and more thrilling than ever as it probes the world of New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano.

How has Chase done it?

"I give a lot of weight to luck," he says.

A slight man with sad, seen-it-all eyes and a wry sense of humor, Chase has greeted a reporter to the "Sopranos" production offices at Silvercup Studios in Queens. The airy loft space is the polar opposite of the tomblike back office frequented by Tony (series star James Gandolfini) and his crew at the Bada Bing! strip club. Here are 30-foot ceilings and broad windows displaying the Queensborough Bridge arching over to Manhattan.

But despite the cheery setting, "don't get too comfortable" stayed on Chase's mind as he crafted this sixth season.

"We are here for a certain period of time," he says, trying to sum up the season's overriding theme, "and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?"

Sounds like, on some level, the end is closer than we think. Gulp.

Of course, fans are full of end-is-near talk concerning the show. Somewhat premature? A dozen episodes are ready to go, then another eight air early next year. That means almost one-fourth of the ultimate 85-episode "Sopranos" canon is yet to be seen.

Cold comfort for insatiable "Sopranos" fans. And in direct proportion to our growing dismay that the series must, indeed, eventually conclude is our gnawing curiosity: How will it all end?

Years ago, Tony Soprano imagined his options during a gloomy psychiatric session: "dead, or in the can."

But it will be Chase -- who has a writing or co-writing credit on some 20 episodes and supervises all the rest, along with every other detail of the series -- who will make that final call. He is the supreme being who concocts The Chart, from which all narratives and scripts emanate. The Chart, whose episode-by-episode and character-by-character coordinates pin down "The Sopranos'" destiny. The Chart is finished, Chase says.

Granted, it's subject to revision.

"Usually I try to stick to my first impulse," he explains. "But it could be that we get close to what I thought was gonna be the ending we planned, and something better will come along into our heads."

He notes that shooting will continue through December. Post-production won't wrap until next March.

So maybe the end ISN'T closer than we think.

Elsewhere in the Silvercup complex -- Studio X -- it appears to be business as usual. In the Soprano living room the latest family crisis is erupting. Teenage son A.J. (played by Robert Iler) has screwed up again.

"So," rails his mom, Carmela (Edie Falco), "every time I said to you, 'How's work?' and you said, 'Fine,' you were having your own private little joke on me?"

"What's going on?" says Tony, entering through the front door.

"I went to Blockbuster today to rent `Cinderella Man,'" Carmela fumes, "and guess what?"

"It still sucks."

"I found out that our son, the liar, had been fired three weeks ago!"

"From Blockbuster!" Tony is a mix of rage and bewilderment. "How the f--- do you do THAT? They got rhesus monkeys as managers there!"

But while shooting the scene, Gandolfini stumbles over a word. He lets out a frustrated growl. While the cameras reset, his meaty hand seizes his script (individually numbered and boldly labeled "CONFIDENTIAL") to check his lines.

The episode, airing late this season, is directed by Tim Van Patten, whose many "Sopranos" installments include last season's execution of beloved mob moll Adriana, as well as "Members Only," this Sunday's premiere.

A director of clearly diverse skills (his credits include 30 segments of "Touched By an Angel"), Van Patten is already waxing nostalgic.

"There's not gonna be a day I drive over the Queensborough Bridge and see Silvercup and don't think, 'Those were great days,'" he admits. "It's very strange to sense the end. No one says it out loud, but the actors are feeling it."

Steven Van Zandt feels it and he says it out loud.

The longtime guitarist in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, he made his acting debut as Silvio Dante, Tony's pompadoured consigliere. Growing reflective in his Manhattan office-studio (where he champions rock-and-roll on his nationally syndicated radio show, "Little Steven's Underground Garage"), he says he'll miss the "Sopranos" gig.

"It's such a mental vacation to be somebody else, to be out of my own world," he says. "Being Silvio is my meditation."

Thinking back on the lifestyle he has helped portray during the "Sopranos" run, Van Zandt can't help but laugh. For all the focus on the show's violence, much of how Silvio, Tony and the rest occupy themselves is playing pool at the Bada Bing! or sitting around in front of the pork store, reading The Racing Form.

"I think one of the most remarkable things David and the other writers have accomplished is turning a very mundane existence into something compelling," Van Zandt says. "When you look at what mob guys are doing today, it's not the Roaring Twenties."

It's just one more reason why "The Sopranos" was a very long shot to get a greenlight as a series, and no one knows that better than Chase. The premise: a basically unlikeable guy at the center of a mob drama. "How tired is THAT!" laughs Chase.

Even when the series got HBO's go-ahead, he figured it would air one year, tops. The first season's 13 episodes were in the can before the January 1999 premiere. And if a few plot strands were left dangling (item: where did "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero disappear to? Chase originally had no idea), he figured, who in the audience would care, or even notice?

Then "The Sopranos" caught on, but big. In Season Two, Pussy (a close Soprano operative turned
FBI informant) had to be accounted for, and was, to his ill fortune. Through the subsequent run of "The Sopranos," the narrative strands would multiply and the series would expand into a population whose ever-more-entangled connections defy even Chase's own immediate recall.

"There are other writers here who remember more than I do," he admits. "What I probably have, more than anybody else, is a sense of the family Tony Soprano came from."

After all, the 60-year-old Chase was the only child in a New Jersey Italian-American family whose difficult mother famously inspired Tony's hateful mother, Livia.

"I have Tony's background in my head very clearly," says Chase. "I keep creating his back story as we go along, and it seems like I'm the only one who can do that, or should."

He points to psychiatrist scenes where Tony recounts his past to Dr. Melfi (
Lorraine Bracco): "I think the other writers feel that I'm on more solid ground writing about that. Because they might go off some place where I would say, `THAT never happened' — not that ANY of it ever happened — more likely than I would say, 'I don't believe Tony would do this in the present day.'

"It's been enjoyable to see all those connections happen, and to have the history kind of branch out," he adds.

"I sort of made my bones on `The Rockford Files,'" he says, referring to the lighthearted 1970s drama about private eye Jim Rockford. "It was a great show to work on. But Jim never really changed, or his father, Rocky, or Dennis, the detective. Nothing interwove. That's how television used to be."

Chase would have been happy to keep "The Sopranos" a series of freestanding hours.

"HBO was more enamored of a serial structure than I was," he says, "but the first season I tried to keep the serial element to a minimum. My goal was to do a little movie every week about a different subject. That's always been what we tried to do. But over time, as the universe expanded, the serial elements have grown larger.

"I still hanker to do more stand-alone episodes," he says.

Indeed, this season's second episode, "Join the Club," which Chase wrote, sets in motion an underlying story of mistaken identity that could stand on its own as a modern "Twilight Zone" yarn.

Like most, that episode is sparked with dialogue where characters reveal themselves (to the audience, at least) as either clueless, or lying, or hiding from the truth.

In a tender moment, Carmela tells Tony, "You're a good father. You care about your friends."

Say what?!

Chase chuckles. "The best part of writing the show is that whatever the person is saying is not the real world. Everything is a lie, or at least 80 percent of it. 'I love you, T!' The character is habitually saying that which isn't. And that's fun."

Fun for the writers, and fun for the audience, who catch the oh-so-cagey characters as they expose themselves repeatedly.

So perhaps the viewer has been put on notice: Look for no grand lessons here from Chase, other than the human penchant for commingling untruths with the real thing.

And don't try to second-guess him on how the series will end. Not when Chase, who oversees perhaps the most meticulously executed show in TV history, can say, "Control is an illusion."

But even so ... er ... how about a few tea leaves for fans to read?

"I guess," Chase offers, "the question is: `Do we really believe that crime does not pay?'" He shrugs. "That's what we're told. That's what most gangster films have told us. Is there justice in the world?"

So, whatever it is that Chase happens to believe, that might have some bearing on the series' grand conclusion?

"Yeah, I think so," he says, mulling it over. "I think so."

--- end of article ---

I don't know how I'll be handling this season. What I did before, I usually kept myself from reading Sopranos news until the DVDs come out and ship from Amazon, which I watched an episode a night, beer and popcorn and all. Keeping it fresh had been easy to do since only the most devoted in the industry press reported plot developments and only when something earthshaking happens, like the death of a character.

This time since it's the last season, I think any major movement (and presumably there will be many) will be news everywhere from Good Morning America to ET to Letterman. It's going to be hard to stay ignorant.

If somebody posts eps on the BT sites, I'll probably bite. Then just buy the DVD for the extras and to complete the set.
Title: The Sopranos
Post by: Reuven Malter on Mar 09, 2006 at 01:53 PM: Five things you need to know before you watch the new season:

Almost as much ink as blood has been spilled in the course of The Sopranos' five seasons. But it's been a long time since we've seen our favorite mob family. So a brief remembrance of things past is in order as the show launches its sixth and final (and long, drawn-out) chapter.

* Johnny Sack (Vincent Curatola) got nabbed by the feds in the final episode of season five, shifting power to volatile lieutenant Phil Leotardo (Frank Vincent).

* Carmela (Edie Falco) came to the conclusion that jewelry and new cars sure beat nagging Tony (James Gandolfini) for the cash to live in the manner she has become accustomed, so she let him back into the house.

* Uncle Junior's (Dominic Chianese) RICO trial ended in a hung jury after the capos got to a juror. So Uncle June may not be confined to house arrest anymore. He's become increasingly senile, however.

* Tony whacked his cousin Tony Blundetto (Steve Buscemi) with a shotgun blast to the face to save him from being tortured by Phil, who was looking to avenge Blundetto's murder of Phil's brother Billy.

* Tony had Silvio (Steve Van Zandt) whack Adriana (Drea de Matteo) after her fiance, Christopher (Michael Imperioli), revealed to Tony that she had been talking to the feds.

-- Marisa Guthrie (NY Daily News)
Title: Re: The Sopranos
Post by: JdelaCruz on Mar 14, 2006 at 11:19 PM: I do a news search to find out how Ep 1 went down and I see without really reading -- you know, to keep things fresh -- headlines and quotes like "one of the most shocking moments in recent prime-time TV history" and "Sopranos Shocker" and "Sopranos Shock for TV Fans" and "startling twist" and "surprise ending". Good God, what happened?! That's it. Fire up the BitTorrent.
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Post by: Phobos on Mar 14, 2006 at 11:27 PM: Relax. It's more like a cop out than a twist if you ask me. It's designed to shock some fans, but if anybody with half a brain is watching, they'd know everything will be OK the next episode.
Title: Re: The Sopranos
Post by: JdelaCruz on Mar 15, 2006 at 08:29 AM: Quote from: Phobos on Mar 14, 2006 at 11:27 PM
Relax. It's more like a cop out than a twist if you ask me. It's designed to shock some fans, but if anybody with half a brain is watching, they'd know everything will be OK the next episode.

That's good to hear... isn't it? Can't wait for this download to be through.
Title: The Sopranos
Post by: Reuven Malter on Mar 21, 2006 at 01:59 PM: Saw the first two episodes already. I'm happy the show is back but every episode is also bittersweet, knowing this is the final season. The second episode is even stronger than the first one. Edie Falco is getting another Emmy for that alone. Plus, there is another dream sequence to ponder on.
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Post by: Reuven Malter on Jun 03, 2006 at 10:23 PM: The Sopranos' Second-to-Last Swan Song (http://news.yahoo.com/s/eo/20060603/en_tv_eo/19183)
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Post by: JdelaCruz on Jun 04, 2006 at 12:17 AM: ^I'm holding off reading that article until I finish viewing my eps. 10 and 11. It's been pickling in the hard drive for close to 3 weeks now. I'm just waiting for the right time to break out a six-pack and fire up the two eps in one shot. Maybe when school's back in next week and early bedtime is enforced again in this madhouse.
Title: Re: The Sopranos
Post by: Reuven Malter on Jun 13, 2006 at 09:57 PM: A lot were disappointed with the finale but I wasn't. The scene between Tony and Phil was enough to end the season on a strong note. 'Till January...
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Post by: Movie_Geek_Tom on Aug 14, 2006 at 04:23 AM: Its like Godfather on TV. Very good casting almost all the cast have portrayed wise guys role on prvious movies. I still remember Micheal Imperioli as a utos boy on of the mafis flicks, I think its Godfellas.
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Post by: Reuven Malter on Mar 12, 2007 at 10:06 PM: The Sopranos Final 9 "Deaths" Promo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zx6YT_FU4E)
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Post by: JdelaCruz on Mar 15, 2007 at 05:54 PM: ^ So the Russian is officially dead, eh? Can't wait till April comes!
Title: Re: The Sopranos
Post by: JdelaCruz on Apr 10, 2007 at 09:05 AM: Was able to catch the first of the final episodes last night and what can I say. You can definitely feel the series is ending. Tony's wieghing options, New York is making its moves and the feds are bearing down. As far as the homefront is concerned, things are shaking up as well. In fact, the whole ep focused on Tony, Carmela, Janice and Bobby spending time at a lakehouse near the Canadian border. Let's just say it wasn't at all as idyllic as it sounds.
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Post by: JdelaCruz on May 27, 2007 at 03:24 AM: Anybody been watching these last eps?

The last one (AJ in pool) was one heck of a roller coaster ride. I don't remember laughing at more scenes than in any other ep since Season 1, and yet it was so gripping in parts i found myself squishing the beer can i haven't even opened yet. Very satisfying ep for fans of either of Tony's families and the Melfi sessions. I wish it would quit tho with the peyote epiphany whatever the fcuk that is.

Scene of the season so far: Tony flying solo and doing an American History X on Coco. Definitively shattered any illusion we might have been entertaining of the Big Guy being on his way to a loftier place.
Title: Re: The Sopranos Finale
Post by: wrAth on Jun 12, 2007 at 01:13 PM: what do you think of the (final scene of the) final episode?

a lot of fans are irate at how it all ended.

i say it was genius.

"Don't stop... believin'!"
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Post by: techdude on Jun 12, 2007 at 01:17 PM: Not having seen it (but read about it)... I can only speculate. It leaves an opening for a continuation if they ever decide?
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Post by: wrAth on Jun 12, 2007 at 01:18 PM: well it doesn't provide plot closure, but in my view, it's a fitting capstone for the saga, if anything else.

let's just say that thematically, the episode wouldn't be too out of place in 24.
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Post by: kings5504 on Jun 13, 2007 at 10:07 AM: Honestly, when I watched this last Sunday night at Movie Central, I was one of the people who went WTF? Did my cable service just go down? :) I immediately checked the SD Movie Central channel to see if it was down, and nope... Screen was also black! ;D

But, having slept on it, I can't imagine the show ending any other way. It was a perfect ending for the show, actually, in my opinion.
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Post by: JdelaCruz on Jun 13, 2007 at 11:07 PM: Blindsided here as well and I liked that I was. A neat and tidy ending wrapped and tied up with a bow would have smacked of pandering to TV conventions and fly in the face of this series' stature as being nothing TV has ever seen before. I like this one. True to form, brave, an instant classic. Bravo!
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Post by: Mr. Hankey on Jun 20, 2013 at 09:07 AM: Saddened by James Gandolfini's sudden death. May he rest in peace.
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Post by: daigoro on Jun 20, 2013 at 10:10 AM: yup, quite shocked. here's the article on yahoo

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/james-gandolfini---the-sopranos--star--dead-at-51-234433183.html (http://tv.yahoo.com/news/james-gandolfini---the-sopranos--star--dead-at-51-234433183.html)
Title: Re: The Sopranos
Post by: Klaus Weasley on Dec 17, 2021 at 11:03 AM: So, I've been catching up on The Sopranos lately on HBO Go. Even though I've been spoiled by some of the key deaths, I'm still really enjoying it. It holds up very well.
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Post by: newwaveboy on Dec 17, 2021 at 12:14 PM: The mob, nostalgia and good music always go hand in hand, timeless .......... The Sopranos won't be leaving that Mt Rushmore of TV series anytime soon.
Title: Re: The Sopranos
Post by: Klaus Weasley on Dec 31, 2021 at 12:44 AM: After all these years, I finally finished The Sopranos. What a brilliant show. Deserved all its Emmys and MORE. Here are my top 10 favorite episodes:

01. "Long Term Parking"
02. "Pine Barrens"
03. "Whitecaps"
04. "Whoever Did This"
05. "College"
06. "Amour Fou"
07. "The Sopranos (Pilot)"
08. "Kennedy and Heidi"
09. "The Knight in White Satin Armor"
10. "Made In America"

P.S. I think Tony is most definitely dead.
Title: Re: The Sopranos
Post by: kane on Dec 31, 2021 at 04:57 PM: Quote from: Klaus Weasley on Dec 31, 2021 at 12:44 AM

02. "Pine Barrens"

"His house looked like sh*t!"