Finished my first watch after about a year of watching through the series . I liked - didn’t love - it. I will spoiler the rest of my thoughts because I know some folks are watching it. The ending sequence in the diner is absolute genius. The extended cut to black is pure chef’s kiss. Seeing Bobby eat it bummed me out. What a pure soul who got caught up in the life. But at least his final thoughts were about his hobby: toy trains. Tony plugging Chris’ nose will forever haunt my dreams. I get why he did it, but fuck - what an intense decision that held a ton of weight.
I found some of it to be very meandering and felt like fluff. Mostly looking at the Soprano children’s middle seasons story lines. That said - AJ’s in season six was great and moving. BTW - totally cool with any mega fans telling me their stories were important for XY and Z. Maybe I missed something, but I personally didn’t care about Meadow in college and Finn (except the Vito reveal that had some fallout) and angsty AJ - though that did have some payoff in season 6
My take is that s1 is a skip on my re watches. I know most will disagree. The show really finds it’s footing in the later half of s2 onward.
S5E11: the test dream has been my least favorite episode up to this point. Felt pretty lazy and uninspired, IMO. It reminded me a lot of the dream scenes in Rescue Me.