Carmella never asked Tony to be faithful. In the first season, she all but admits giving consent to Tony’s dalliances to Father Phil in Meadowlands. In this episode, she clearly and unambiguously states her requirement: “I was afraid to answer the phone [for fear it was one of your whores]. That cannot happen again.” And Tony agrees, telling her his indiscretions will never invade her world again. I am amazed that anyone would be surprised or have any new opinion of Tony for the fact that he will continue to be unfaithful. He always has and always will, and Carmella always did, and always will, allow it. The only thing that changed is that the unspoken agreement has now been verbally formalized.
I disagree completely with the interpretation of Chris at the gas station seeing his dismal future in the WPP represented by the poor-as-dirt mullet-head. My interpretation is that Chris looked at that guy and thought to himself: “Look at that slob. He’s pathetic. But look at his beautiful kids. Ade can never give me kids. Now we have to leave the only family we’ll ever know…for what? I’ll never be as happy with Ade as that mullet-head is right now.” Remember how much Chris wanted kids…
I loved this episode. It is in my top 3. The scene where Ade confesses to Chris is one of the best of the series. I watch everything on tape, and when the camera slowly zoomed in on Chris’ face, Imperioli’s ability to play his thoughts and emotions so clearly on his face was breathtaking. The first viewing caught me so by surprise I immediately rewound to watch again…the moment I hit rewind it paused for a moment on his fist arcing through the air. I must have watched that whole scene no less than 5 times. I am in awe of this show.
The other point in the show that really got me was Ade in custody after 8 hours. When she came out of the bathroom and asked for a cigarette, I swear I felt the exact emotions Ade was going through. Riveting television.
This episode was a throwback to the best of the Sopranos. It was up there with the best shows from Livia’s time.
I thought of the kids angle too but him fondling his own pricey vehicle clearly nullifies that. It was married and poor VS rich and in the family. The family won.
Fine work by Imperioli in the revelation scene with Ade. From the mix of rage and fear in his eyes during the close-up to the violent outburst to the plaintive wailing at the end “Ohmygod…whatarewe going to dooooo…?!” I think we all saw that scene coming, they did a great job of keeping it interesting. My take was that Chris had decided to tell Tony even before coming across that picture of domestic bliss at the filling station. His calm, matter-of-fact “I love you, baby” to Ade before “going out for cigarettes” seemed dismissive.
Little Carmine, rolling over easy to his father’s underboss, what a wuss. Grow a pair, you hump! How can you command any respect now? Tony was right when he called him “Brainless the Second.”
But you don’t want her car found TOO fast. You don’t want it found when the flights are still in the air. With extended check ins, they find it quick, and she’s still there. They have the tapes at many airports of the boarding passengers. Maybe even at some lots, Chris… Newark is the first check they’ll make. Newark was even the airport the 9/11 flights took off, IIRC. They’ll be checked.
Taking the clothes, packing a suitcase, and making it vanish is good. Makes it look like she took off, but not as obvious at first glance if the car is outside.
he might’ve, if he really cared for her, considering his relationship with Tony is trained at best - that gun incident at the Bada Bing, and Tony B, he might’ve. The example is similar guys have gone.
You are a sick, twisted man. that would be a TREMENDOUS twist…
VERY big surprise.
(did they shoot that other woman on camera last month? They may be more reluctant to show a woman killed on camera.)
That would be interesting, but I don’t think Sil is one to defy orders. He may be the first guy Tony goes to for advice, and he’s got no problem letting Tony know if he’s wrong about something. But at the end of the day, if Tony says ‘jump,’ Silvio says ‘how high?’
And did you notice, the whole ride out to the woods, Silvio was as sweet as ever to Ade, but as soon as he parked and headed over to the passenger door, he became all business. As she struggled to get out the driver’s side, he said, “Come here, you cunt!” and man-handled her like she was any old trash off the street.
But don’t let my previous post fool you; the firing-the-gun-into-the-air was the first thing I though of too.
I mean, shit, we never saw a body.
And as far as not wanting to show a guy shooting a woman: Did you see Christopher punch and strangle the fuck out of her?! That’s just as bad, if not worse, than showing her take a couple bullets to the chest or head.
They did kind of look at each other as if light bulbs were going off . . . If he did turn out to be a terrorist that would be a total blindside of a plot twist – we’ve seen all kinds of for-profit criminals in the show so far, but never terrorists. But Adriana was the only link between him and the other plot threads of the show; with her gone, how can they work him in?
I’m wondering if eventually Christopher will go into the WPP and then regret his decision to turn Ade into Tony. Seems like a good way to leave his character in eternal torment when the series ends.
As for Christopher being jealous of what mullet man had, that seems like a serious stretch. Mullet man had a look of utter disgust as he was getting into his piece of shit car to take chunky and the kids back to their trailor.
[QUOTE=The Long Road]
Seems like a good way to leave his character in eternal torment when the series ends.QUOTE]
That’s not going to happen. Did you see him getting sworn into the family with the whole ritual thing. He looked back at a window and there was a black crow sitting in the window looking in. That is a sure sign he will never have any peace.
I agree, but that could only add to his torment. Mullet man didn’t appreciate the joy of having kids (which Christopher couldn’t have had if he chose a life with Ade), only making it worse from Chris’ POV. But I could be wrong. I’ll have to watch the episode again.
But if you couldn’t have kids, wouldn’t it kill you to see somebody who had kids and seemingly didn’t appreciate how lucky they were? (rhetorical question)
If it had been Tony pulling the trigger, I could almost get on board with the “Ade survives” speculation, given his clear affection for her. Not with Silvio, though.
The earlier scene of Silvio fussing with his suit when Tony called was a great little character bit as well. (You guys all know that you’d dress like Silvio if you could.) There were dozens of subtle little scenes like that in this episode that offered more character development than ten pages of dialogue could.
What I really want to see is a flashback to when Christophuh told Tony about the whole mess, the way they flashed back to Tony B. taking out Billy Leotardo this week.
My take was that Matoosh was so obviously spouting off a corny line that only a ditzy blonde like Adrianna could have bought it. That’s why the Feds kind of looked at each other with a “Umm…” look. As far as why they wanted to use Ade’s fax, my thought was that he wasn’t lying about needing to fax a copy of the passport, but the passport was fake, so why not fax from a safe location? Or something
EXACTLY! It wasn’t just pride at work resulting Tony S. telling Johnny Sack to fuck off, it was the consequences of what would happen if he rolled over. Sack was barking orders, saying the hit on Tony B. had to be done exactly as Sack wanted it and Tony S. couldn’t do anything except give up the location. Tony S. saw what it was - it was an attempt by Sack to make Tony his bitch. To assert who has the real power. Tony said, screw that. You aren’t going to railroad over me and the Jersey family that easily. After all, Tony was willing to give up his cousin fairly easily, all Sack had to do was promise it’d be quick (Tony was even willing to let one of Sack’s guys do it).
Why would the Feds bite down on the terrorist thing? It wasn’t their concern and it was obvious Ade was too stupid to know anything about it. It would have totally railroaded the interview to start hassling her about it. I imagined they’d come back to it later or pass along the word to someone else.
I have a question about the previews for the finale: My recording cut off the very end, so I saw “Hell hath no fury like” and then zip. What did it say? :smack:
