Just when you think Paulie can’t become any more of a dick he surpasses himself. Bad enough he was a complete shit to his mom, but that crap at the end…man, I can only hope that Tony finds out quickly.
I hope Tony gets off of this philosophical kick pretty quickly and goes back to being the violent thug we all know and love. Am I the only one who wanted to smack that smug pastor in the mouth? What a douchebag. Especially when he started with the creationism garbage.
Bobby shooting that rapper in the ass…I know he thinks he’s helping, but dude, find a better way.
Nothing about Chris’ movie tonight. I hope they pick that up again next week.
I liked the Hal Holbrook character.
Looks like people are going to start testing T next week to see if he’s gone soft. I really, really hope that Paulie is the one who gets to find out that he hasn’t.
Paulie some combination of asshole, child and psychopath. If he’s going rogue like that, sooner or later he’s history. Bobby’s thing was just astonishingly dumb. Maybe a little to silly for the show.
I think Tony’s going to realize pretty quick that he can’t function in his world with that attitude, so I doubt that will last long. Talking like that when you just got out of the hospital is one thing, but as soon as somebody tries to take something that’s his, it’ll change. Especially if he senses that kind of disrespect. “He can’t hack it anymore,” that kind of thing.
I thought the creationist garbage was brilliant. Just when you thought the writers were crafting a path of “truth and goodness” for Tony, they made it ambiguous by assoiating it with something obviously false.
The shot in the ass was supposed to be funny, in that warped Sopranos way. Trying to give the guy street cred, so he shoots him in the ass. You can picture the conversation where he demands his money back from Bobby.
And I agree Paulie was a jerk, but at least at the end it looks like he’s not going to abandon his mom. At least that’s why I assume he’s extorting exactly $4K / month, exactly his mother’s nut. C’mon Paulie, she’s the woman who wiped your ass and bailed you out of jail. She is your mom.
And Tony better get the eye of the evil tiger back pronto. Phil looked at him like he was weak, which he was. The old Tony would have told him to tell Johnny to go f@#$ himself, the way he did when Johnny demanded he hand over Tony B to be tortured by Phil.
It already occurred. Johnny’s offer was disrespectful. That disposal business was Tony’s gig, and Johnny had no right to foul it up. Tony needed to tell Phil that he was VERY unhappy with the offer. In that way that Tony does so well.
The previews showed that New York looks to exploit Tony’s apparent weakness. I predict that when Tony finally reasserts himself, when the old Tony comes snarling back, we will find either Johnny, Phil or Vito dead. Probably Vito. That Carmella warning tonight wasn’t a good sign for him.
It was, yeah- but Tony didn’t seem to care. Or at least he pretended not to care. I did see the previews and I doubt that attitude will remain next week.
How realistic was that scene with insurance lady nosing through Tony’s medical records and making presumptuous comments about what he had been eating, etc? Do insurance companies really send people to do stuff like that? How do they not get their asses kicked on a regular basis?
A kindler gentler Tony. I don’t see it lasting very long. It was interesting the juxtaposition of the secular scientist, in Hal Holbrook, the priest getting yelled at by Paulie, the new Earth reverend and Hesch the jew all thrown in at one time or another while Tony is having this moment of feeling good about the world.
Paulie is a barely functioning sociopath. That’s why we must all love him so. Who would have ever thought we would see him cry. Somebody here said in a prediction thread that seeing him cry in a trailer, it would have to be about his mother was spot on. Who knew that it would have been about which mother.
Carmella getting involed a little bit with her comment about Vito was interesting.
Phil is going down. No way Tony puts up with his shit too long. Made guy, starting a war or not. Phil is dead.
What the hell was up with the Pink Floyd over the closing credits? A very ominous tune for a benign ending.
I hope that it kicks up a notch, I wasn’t prepared for a slow episode this week. I did really enjoy Hal Holbrook’s Bell Lab character. He reminded of some of the retired Bell Lab’s Scientist and Engineers I’ve met. It was a good portrayal.
Paulie won’t fuck up for good too soon, Phil & Vito are my candidates for soon to be departed.
Phil is just going to keep pushing and he needs to die for Tony & Chris to live. Vito is set up thoroughly to die.
I would have loved to have seen Hal Holbrook’s character take on the scumbag minister.
I am still wondering how Junior goes down.
I really enjoyed the show ending with “One of these days” … I am going to chop you up into little pieces.
I had the same thought. How realistic is it, even if people actually do that for a living? If you read the chart and saw, “Tony Soprano,” you’re going to give him crap about eating a sandwich?
I don’t think that is fair. Tony is not suppose to be John Gotti famous, he is of relatively minor infamy until the shooting. She might not know who Tony is.
I don’t think so. My impression was that the Soprano family had been in the news on an ongoing basis, that Tony was as well known as, say, Nicky Scarfo was in Philly when I was younger. Maybe I’m wrong.
Who are the leading heads of the New York & Jersey Families right now in the real world? The Gotti’s are gone, I can’t name one leading current family. I saw an article last month on one of the NYC families, but I don’t remember the name.
In the show the media coverage looks big because the Soprano’s of course notice every story on them. In reality, “Jill Insurance Adjuster” is probably as clueless as I am and I live in Jersey.
Who runs the Colombo & Gambino Crime families today?
The “Growing Up Soprano” headline was a rather transparent reference to the “Growing Up Gotti” TV show. And the rapper called Tony an “original G.” So he has to have some level of local infamy, although we know he doesn’t flaunt it the way Gotti did.
Iron Balls McGinty? I dunno, and it’s not a major point for me. If I misunderstood how well-known Tony would be to the average person in the area, mea culpa.