I just rewatched this show right now again over 30 times. This show has rewatch value you would never get tired of watching.
The Sopranos Series - Re-Watch (Spoilers!!!)
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Definitely…the tone gets progressively darker starting S4. And the only time it ever drags is with season 6, which is bc HBO extended it an extra 7-8 episodes so there’s some fluff (pun intended) mixed in. A lot of ppl like the final season, 6B the most, but it’s all preference.
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S3e8
Don't do this, Jackie! Stop!!!
Don't do this, Jackie! Stop!!!
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that was close
I don’t remember, what was Jackie’s dumbass doing?
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Tony's daughter passed out from some X he gave her. And he was in the bed trying to do her and she told him no, she was too tired and she passed out. Dude unbuttoned her pants and started unbuttoning her shirt before he finally decided not to go through with it and left.
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He still took a scumbag peek tho....
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One thing that really bothers me is that I'm on s3e8 and Tony still ain't smashed the shrink. I was looking forward to that.
Their sexual tension is being drawn out longer than Clark and Lana on Smallville
Their sexual tension is being drawn out longer than Clark and Lana on Smallville
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Is Tony on a Michael Corleone level? Does he have the same position that the Don had?
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One thing that really bothers me is that I'm on s3e8 and Tony still ain't smashed the shrink. I was looking forward to that.
Their sexual tension is being drawn out longer than Clark and Lana on Smallville
A. She was a whoooooooaaaare.
B. She hit me.
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A. She was a whoooooooaaaare.
B. She hit me.
"If your opponent is of choleric temper, irritate him."
Tony with the Sun Tsu quotes
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No, he is the boss of a NJ family which really doesn't have a say with the Five Families/Commission.
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So when they talk about the NY families, those would be the five families that Don Corleone would have been a part of?
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Definetly No...
They technically have the same position of "Boss," but Michael was the Boss of a Five Families, family, all of which are bigger, and more powerful than the Jersey fam.
Different Eras...Michael was boss in the golden era of the mob (30s-80s, but particularly the 40s & 50s) when they wasn't a powerful investigative force at the federal level, and the mob owned J. Edgar Hoover to the extend to where Hoover even denied the mob's existence. Reminds me of that line from Goodfellas "it was a glorious time, before Apalachain (1957 meeting), before crazy Joe took on a boss" etc. The Mafia was still a secret society to the general public until about 1963 Senate hearing. There wasn't even an informant until Joe Valachi in 1963...
In Tony's era he's paranoid about wiretaps, informants, survelliance, and most of all RICO-act from 1970 , but used more in the mid-80s-present. RICO is the real reason the mob has been crippled compared to their heyday. Corleone Family owned judges and politicians, even had sway in the media and by GFIII they were doing billion dollar deals with the Vatican.
The Soprano's goes great-lengths to show how Tony "came in at the end" and the "best is over" (his words from Ep 1 in the first scene) This is both about the American Mafia, and about "Americana" as a whole (think 1950's white male Americana vs. today or early 2000s). The Mob in the 40s-early 80s was building and controlling Vegas, Atlantic City, operations in Cuba and aborad....Tony's guys are still shaking down bookies and card games...
Most powerful criminal on the show is Carmine Lupertazzi, and even he's not more powerful than a boss in the Corleone Family era.
Michael Corleone is like what Carlo Gambino, Vito Rizzuto, Frank Costello, Athony Accardo, etc. were in real life.