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Oh Don Piano posted:I found season one dvds at thrift store and watched that and thats fine. Maybe one day ill find the rest somewhere out there. If im meant to see it thats fine You should see if you can find it at HBO Max.
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She was a HOOAH
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 05:38 |
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bird with big dick posted:You should see if you can find it at HBO Max. I know I'm probably gonna border on hyperbole here, but The Sopranos made me think about myself and my own moral fallibility more than any bit of media I've probably ever consumed save for maybe The Brothers Karamazov. Tony Soprano is by all means an absolutely deplorable man. He's violent and depraved and has a near religious adherence to his own twisted code. So why are we compelled to cheer for him? I'd say its probably a combination of the show's accurate depictions of generational trauma and borderline personality disorder, and Gandolfini's incredible performance. You understand Tony's past, so you understand and begin to empathize with his actions even when they are terrifying and misanthropic. Gandolfinis ability to evoke empathy for an actual monster is nothing less than profound.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 06:02 |
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The Sopranos gets talked about like it's a drama but it's mostly a black comedy and extremely good, hope this helps OP
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 06:03 |
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i like the one where tony pulls a gun out of a fish before shooting a guy
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 06:19 |
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the best part is when tony is in a coma and paulie is telling him a story anyway. and the story is so annoying and paulie is so annoying that it makes his heart rate skyrocket and the nurses all cone rushing in. or when paulie throws a chair at a ghost. but really, it's the best TV show of all time. the characters are all extremely complex and full of layers while also being total loving idiots and it's mostly hilarious.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 06:24 |
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the whole story where christopher makes the worst movie ever and finds out that he is completely incapable of dealing with the actual world outside his weird little insular existence is just excellent
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 06:34 |
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why do I feel so bad for Christopher when he is such a stupid piece of poo poo all the time
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 06:42 |
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Poohs Packin posted:I know I'm probably gonna border on hyperbole here, but The Sopranos made me think about myself and my own moral fallibility more than any bit of media I've probably ever consumed save for maybe The Brothers Karamazov. Tony Soprano is by all means an absolutely deplorable man. He's violent and depraved and has a near religious adherence to his own twisted code. So why are we compelled to cheer for him? I stopped cheering for him when he wrecked that poor cops (yea yea acab) life for puling him over for wreckless driving Dude had to work at home depot also Carmella is the most evil character in the show (hello i know your husband is in prison and your losing everything but check out new my porche cayenne)
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 06:48 |
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:why do I feel so bad for Christopher when he is such a stupid piece of poo poo all the time Because tony's an abusive manipulative oval office that used him and then disposed of him like a tissue, Chris was what Tony made him
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 06:49 |
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When Carmela goes to the one therapy session, the therapist lays out everything about Carmela that there is to know. She does nothing about any of it, of course https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzVeLjj6Ao8 It's a great scene.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 06:50 |
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the way they act like they are high flying al capone figures is hilarious when most of them live in lovely little apartments except for Tony who lives in the ugliest mcmansion ever. He might as well own a few car dealerships or something.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 06:51 |
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Supreme Allah posted:
Nobody in the show is morally clean except maybe Meadow, or Charmaine Bucco (The chef's waifu) or the psychologist who criticizes Melfi for her treatment of Tony.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 06:58 |
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 07:18 |
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were gonna jack a truck fulla pokeyman cards
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 07:25 |
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Mother loving god drat orange peel beef.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 07:28 |
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I remember that they bullied a guy for going down on a woman. What complete dweebs lol.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 07:28 |
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Out of all of the anti-hero dramas during that era, Sopranos was the best. I've watched it twice and it is incredible how many subtle details I missed on the first viewing which makes the show much more rewarding a second time. The Wire is a very, very close second place: It's smarter, but there are episodes where things are dragged out for way too long.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 07:47 |
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Caesar Saladin posted:easily one of the best tv shows ever OP sucks? ova heeeeeere
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 07:56 |
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Entorwellian posted:Out of all of the anti-hero dramas during that era, Sopranos was the best. I've watched it twice and it is incredible how many subtle details I missed on the first viewing which makes the show much more rewarding a second time. The Wire is a very, very close second place: It's smarter, but there are episodes where things are dragged out for way too long. I think Deadwood is better than the Wire, its the other incredibly good show from that era
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 07:57 |
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Caesar Saladin posted:I think Deadwood is better than the Wire, its the other incredibly good show from that era I haven't watched that one yet. That'll be next on the list.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 08:01 |
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The Wire > Sopranos > Deadwood but they're all amazing so that's not to take away from any of them and the pinnacle trifecta of television still to this day Also Boardwalk Empire doesn't get talked about enough. BAR-NEY GOOGOOOOOOOoooooooooohhhhhhhhhggggggg AHH F/UGH fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Jul 24, 2021 |
# ? Jul 24, 2021 08:04 |
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the first four seasons of the wire were brilliant but i dont know wtf they were thinking with that last one
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 09:16 |
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Season 5 was great too but the newspaper bit was definitely David Simon’s victory lap/guilty pleasure/self-aggrandizement but there’s still a lot of great Marlo/Michael/McNulty/Omar/Prop Joe to be had
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 10:13 |
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AHH F/UGH posted:The Wire > Sopranos > Deadwood Boardwalk Empire is really really good Also I liked Carnivale
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 11:11 |
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Code Jockey posted:Boardwalk Empire is really really good I don’t need to rewatch Boardwalk Empire. I just watch the Richard Harrow Kills compilation on YouTube.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 11:14 |
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AHH F/UGH posted:Season 5 was great too but the newspaper bit was definitely David Simon’s victory lap/guilty pleasure/self-aggrandizement but there’s still a lot of great Marlo/Michael/McNulty/Omar/Prop Joe to be had i thought the mcnulty plot in that season got really dumb. the whole fake serial killer thing. just felt weird in a show like that
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 19:59 |
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Never watched The Sopranos. Didn't see the point after watching the definitive piece of media about the mafia, Steven Seagal's "Out For Justice." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2BUsH_VIew
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 20:38 |
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:why do I feel so bad for Christopher when he is such a stupid piece of poo poo all the time RIP MATTY B AND SEANY G
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 20:56 |
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Little Stevens goofy mug ruins the sopranos
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 21:22 |
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My wife watched the whole thing earlier this year, I was occasionally in the same room. It seemed to be mostly about the health problems of overweight, aging men and occasionally someone got the poo poo beat out of them while a woman shrieked in the background.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 21:27 |
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GolfHole posted:RIP MATTY B AND SEANY G The Bevalacua kid
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 21:47 |
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Show rules as a drama and its funnier than most comedies OP is a dumb fucken retard (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 21:53 |
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Also Oz was genuinely bad and stupid
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 21:55 |
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Supreme Allah posted:I stopped cheering for him when he wrecked that poor cops (yea yea acab) life for puling him over for wreckless driving You misspelled “Olivia” OH POOR YOU
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 21:57 |
Sopranos is one of the few shows that I've ever gone back and watched much later in life and liked it even better, especially after having more close experience with people with depression I really liked the exploration of like Tony's depression and what part of his behavior was learned/environmental vs like is he just genuinely a psychopath, is he redeemable, etc. I also loved how he's just a loving idiot. He's a fat lazy piece of poo poo who is where he is in life because he was simply willing to commit crimes more or less, although I guess he's smarter than the rock bottom loving idiots he works with. (This is actually an issue I have with the trailer for the new movie. They seem to be saying Tony is some genius legend. Did they watch the same show as me?) It makes you think about like why we find ourselves rooting for Tony (he can be funny sometimes and seems to care about his kids but I mean he's obviously a really bad loving guy) and other aspects of like what the real american aspiration is that I'm not doing the best job articulating, but I feel like it's really good at having "deep" stuff you can think about but also just being insanely funny on the surface as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-eHk4RiIso
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 22:10 |
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Frank Frank posted:You misspelled “Olivia”
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 22:13 |
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I watched two full seasons and few episodes of season 3 and its fine, a little boring but fine. Not sure why people freak out over it when Six Feet Under was on the same channel at the same time and was actually really good.
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# ? Jul 24, 2021 22:15 |
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Earwicker posted:i thought the mcnulty plot in that season got really dumb. the whole fake serial killer thing. just felt weird in a show like that I thought it was fine, he was using the system to get what he wanted, the final culmination of how deep he would go to catch Marlo. He was pretty uncompromising in the start but eventually after being deadended so many times he just said gently caress it and didn't care if he lost his job. I really liked the whole Carcetti arc too so the way it played in with that was really fun. Season 5 is probably the weakest but it's still better than basically anything else ever put on TV. runnypoops posted:Also Oz was genuinely bad and stupid It aged insanely bad. I'm not sure how many times I can hear that clicking-tapping conga soundtrack without going nuts. That said, it did have one incredible line that I'll never forget: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZJBwsYwrBA&t=3s
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AHH F/UGH posted:I thought it was fine, he was using the system to get what he wanted, the final culmination of how deep he would go to catch Marlo. He was pretty uncompromising in the start but eventually after being deadended so many times he just said gently caress it and didn't care if he lost his job. I really liked the whole Carcetti arc too so the way it played in with that was really fun. yeah honestly I loved the last season of Oz and how the big climax was a showing of Macbeth where someone might die!!! I thought it was a good nod to like theater lore from the creator who is obviously a theater guy since the show seems more like a play a lot
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