The Sopranos (HBO) TV Show • Page 74

All the great tv shows end with Seasons 6A and 6B.

Sops
Bojack Horseman

 

That last run of episodes is the best in the whole series IMO (and in that sense, some of the best tv ever made). Savor it and enjoy!

 

Seasons ranked.

1. Season 6b
2. Season 4
3. Season 6a
4. Season 3
5. Season 5
6. Season 2
7. Season 1

 

The tonal shift that starts in Season Three and blooms in Season Four is the real meat of the show. It stops being the adventures of Tony the anti-hero and really tries to dig into the ugliness and amorality of these characters. You really feel like anything can happen.

 

yeah I think the end of S4 into S5 sets the tone and really the story for the remainder. I don't quite know where I would rank, but I think S3 may be my favorite overall.

 

I think this is close to how mine would look but season 5 is just so dark and depressing that I think I'd rate it lower bc of my personal preference. Still, all of the seasons are incredible

 

Season 3
Season 6B
Season 4
Season 2
Season 5
Season 6A
Season 1

ranking is tough because i really do love a lot from Season 1 but it just feels like a completely different show in both tone and quality from the others. I know that the pilot was filmed without knowledge that there would even be a season 1, but season 1 always feels like it was written with nothing in mind for a season 2, like it could be it's own thing, unrelated to anything else.

 

i really love the ending scene of S1, in Vesuvio's - the storm hits and tony/carm and the kids end up there and you see paulie and sil, paulie with all the lotion on from the poison ivy lmao, and the two of them are talking about tony and the therapist, intimating that there is likely very often a lot of talk about tony behind his own back from his guys.

"how does that sit with your ass?"
"i usually do sit with my ass, why don't you sit with yours."

one of my favorite quotes from the show lol

 

Couldn't possibly rank the seasons because I watched this straight through during the pandemic and it all felt very fluid to me

 

Probably the same

 

It is too easy to see the strings in Season Five. "All these guys are getting out!" and then we have a cousin who was supposedly such a huge part of Tony's life that we never heard of him before, Feech La Manna after being a legend but then being written out in a half-baked Richie Aprile reprise because Robert Loggia was difficult on set, and Fran Felstein.

 

Me walking to the bathroom at work to take a shit

 

I usually look happier than that when I'm shitting at work

 

lol but actually I can pretty much guarantee that Kanye misinterpreted the entire point of the show

 

Been meaning to update the thread. Just finished episode 9 of the last season. Paulie treating his mom like shit for lying to him about being his mom is messed up, but when he starts freaking out while waiting about the news for his biopsy, he goes over there and just wants to sit and watch TV with her and not be alone.

That slow zoom out from outside the window while they're sitting on the couch not talking is masterful.

"Do you want some cookies?"

 

It is pretty messed up that he was lied to into old age, and would have still been lied to if he arrived at the nunnery a few days later. I actually come from a similar situation; my father and his first wife took in his first wife's sister's kid because of strict Catholic rules and she only found out well into adulthood when she tried to get a replacement Social Security card.

 

Id be pretty pissed if I were Paulie

 

Also I must once again bemoan AJ this season, kid is essentially a waste of space in his parent's house. That stunt he pulled with the knife and his uncle could have gone much worse.

 

AJ rocks

 

Poor kid.

 

the scene with AJ and his friend working at Blockbuster just cursing up a storm in front of the lady and her baby always cracks me up lol

 

this is low key what I do everyday at my work from home job lol

 

you swear in front of babies working from home?? Tell me more..