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The Sopranos (Bada Bing)

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This last episode really blew. By whacking Vito, they really solved any outstanding issues. Carmela might have a Dominican grandkid some day-big flippin' deal. Giving Phil a heart attack was a cop out. I was seriously disappointed.
 
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I acutally really liked the finale.

Chris is fucked up again - which will ultimately lead to his demise IMO. And by no means is the Soprano/Leotardo feud over. The final 8 episodes should be explosive.
 
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I wasn't impressed with the season ender......I understand they want to make the final 8 full of suprises but the last episode was pretty boring....

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6/7/06

`The Sopranos' Ends on Disappointing Note



A disappointing season of "The Sopranos" ended disappointingly Sunday as nothing ... much ... happened.

Having started strong last March with the near-fatal shooting of mob boss Tony Soprano by his senile Uncle Junior, the sixth season of this HBO drama seemed to wilt, week to week, in synch with Tony's recovery.

The inevitable murder of Soprano captain Vito Spatafore offed by fellow mobsters for being gay had taken place in the next-to-last episode. But proving somewhat anticlimactic, it only whetted the audience's appetite for a decisive dramatic finish to the 12-episode season.

That didn't happen. (Spoiler warning: Read no further if you don't want to find out what did.)
Leaving viewers with neither a satisfying resolution nor a startling cliffhanger, the episode served mainly to drop a few hints of what might (or, then again, might not) happen in the series' final eight installments, airing next year.

Two potential biggies:


_ An FBI agent warned New Jersey boss Tony that his riled-up New York rivals may have something unpleasant in store.

"Someone close to you may be in danger," Agent Harris told Tony (series star James Gandolfini) between bites of a hero sandwich at the pork store.
His intel was sound. In an earlier scene, viewers saw acting New York boss Phil Leotardo being urged by an associate to "pick somebody over there" to whack.

Tony's consigliere Silvio Dante? Christopher Moltisanti? No candidate was specified.

But later in the hour, Leotardo suffered a serious heart attack. Tony went to his Brooklyn hospital room to wish him well and try to make peace.
"We can have it all, Phil," said Tony at his bedside, taking his hand "plenty for everybody."

_ Tony's wife Carmela (Edie Falco) was still haunted by the disappearance of Adriana, Christopher's fiancee, who hasn't been heard from (except in Carmela's feverish dreams) since last season. Carmela seemed bent on hiring a detective to track her down, little suspecting that Silvio shot Adriana at Tony's orders and with Christopher's support after she had told him the Feds forced her to inform on Tony's operations.

What if Carmela discovered the truth? Except, late in the episode, she tossed aside the detective's business card. She seemed to lose interest.

A surprise: Ne'er-do-well teenage son A.J., forced by Tony to get a job in construction, met a sexy single mom at the work site, and instantly grew up. He became an attentive boyfriend and a loving surrogate dad to his girlfriend's 3-year-old son.

But what of perpetual screwup Christopher (Michael Imperioli), a captain in Tony's crew as well as his nephew?

After a quickie marriage to pregnant girlfriend Kelli a few episodes back, he seemed on the verge of a dicey clash in the finale. At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, he hooked up with Julianna Skiff, a lovely real-estate agent who, by chance, Tony had done business with and still had unfinished business with.

With his new wife expecting, "the playground's closed" (as Christopher explained to his cronies), so he launched into a torrid affair with Julianna (played by Julianna Margulies), while keeping Tony in the dark that they were an item.

Would Tony go ballistic when he found out? Not quite. Christopher eventually got around to fessing up and Tony's response seemed little more than routine peevishness.

"This is my reward," he grumbled later to Dr. Melfi in their psychiatric session, self-pityingly noting that he could have bedded Julianna when they first met but had yielded to an odd urge to be loyal to his wife.

Even so, Christopher wasn't out of the woods. While Kelli waited, unsuspecting, in the new house he bought for her, he and Julianna were finding they had more in common than sexual heat. They jointly relapsed into booze and drug abuse.

"You know what's interesting," Christopher told her one night as they lay around her living room in a narcotized stupor: "Us being able to use again, but integrating it into our lives."

"Yeah," she agreed, proudly adding, "We don't use needles."

As "Sopranos" viewers know well, this wasn't Christopher's first brush with substance abuse, and sooner or later his luck bouncing back could run out.

But not sooner. The episode, and the season, ended with a big Christmas Eve gathering at the Sopranos' home, with Christopher and Kelli among those on hand.
"Silent Night" was being crooned on the stereo. The scene faded to black. And viewers who had hoped for a few treats to tide them over till next season found "The Sopranos" behaving like Scrooge.
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Just finished re-watching Season One. Highly recommend it to Soprano-newbies or anyone who has not seen it in some time. Some observations:

1. Fascinating to see the original characters and observe underlying personalities that are still in tact, albeit it more fully developed in response to aging and experience. Truely remarkable writing. Nothing that has happened since is inconsistent with the original premises.

2. The first episode was obviously filmed as a pilot some time in advance of the remaining episodes. I about busted a gut seeing 'butterball' AJ and a not-so-slender Meadow in that one.

3. Vito made an appearance as a different character in season one - a customer at a pastry shop.

4. Pussy was my favorite mobster. Shame he was knocked off so early on (season 2).

5. Some great shots of Adriana in her undies in that season - when she may have been at her best.

6. In season one they started a theme that they have stayed with throughout despite its being the most unrealistic component of the show - three gorgeous strippers dancing simultaneously in a tittie bar that has almost no customers. I have never been to such a bar. (Note: This is NOT a complaint.)

7. Runner up for Best quote of season one: Adriana explaining why the lead singer in the band she was sponsoring was a bit odd: "Richie had third degree burns from trying to grill that trout with a downed power line."

8. Best quote of the season - if not the entire series - on the eve of an potential war between Tony and Junior:

"Cunnilingus and Psychiatry have brought us to this."
 
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - There's no need for any premature whacking of characters when "The Sopranos" returns next year for its final eight episodes.

After lengthy and acrimonious negotiations, Tony Sirico and Steven Van Zandt -- the last key actors without new deals -- reached an agreement with HBO on Friday to continue on the Emmy-winning series.

Under the new pact, Sirico and Van Zandt will be paid about double their most recent per-episode fee of $85,000, sources said.

In a widely publicized salary dispute, Sirico and Van Zandt, who play Paulie Walnuts and Silvio Dante, respectively, for months refused to budge from their $200,000 per-episode asking price. That was more than any other cast member -- except for stars James Gandolfini and Edie Falco -- had made on the show and miles from HBO's initial offer of a 10 percent raise.

It was less than a week before "The Sopranos" was slated to go back into production when, after numerous rounds of negotiations, Sirico and Van Zandt received an offer they couldn't refuse.

After a series of down-to-the-wire deals for all "Sopranos" supporting actors, the entire cast of David Chase's groundbreaking series is expected to convene for a table read Thursday (July 6), when production on the final episodes of the show is slated to begin.
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Gandolfini's Knee Jerks "Sopranos" Debut
by Josh Grossberg
Jul 13, 2006, 9:30 AM PT
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Talk about a hit to the kneecap--and the programming schedule.

Unveiling its upcoming slate of programming Wednesday at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, California, HBO unexpectedly announced it had to whack the planned Jan. 7 premiere date for the final eight episodes of The Sopranos, on account of star James Gandolfini's bum knee.

"Jimmy had a little knee surgery, unexpected knee surgery, which pushed us back a couple of weeks," network honcho Chris Albrecht told the gaggle of reporters turning up for HBO's sneak peak.

Albrecht tried to spin the news as best he could, saying the delay would actually work out for the best, at least ratings-wise.

"Then we looked at the fact that we would be launching in the middle of the playoffs and the Super Bowl and all that stuff, and it seemed that for everybody's sake we would push back a few weeks," he said.

Albrecht declined to discuss the launch date for The Sopranos' swan-song season, but it wouldn't come any sooner than February or March.

No word whether the knee surgery had anything to do with a Gandolfini scooter mishap in May. The 44-year-old Emmy winner was cruising Greenwich Village on his Vespa when he was waylaid by a taxi. Bystanders reported seeing a dazed Gandolfini spread eagle on the pavement, his pants torn, but otherwise okay.

Albrecht also didn't say whether the delay had anything to do with the down-to-the-wire contract signings of key members of the cast.

Steven Van Zandt and Tony Sirico were locked in a protracted salary battle with the network bosses until last week. Several other cast mates, including Lorraine Bracco, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Aida Turturro and Robert Iler, didn't sign new deals until the end of June.

With all the cast now in place, and Gandolfini presumably all healed up, shooting on the final eight episodes is set to begin later this month--and, as always, HBO remains tight-lipped about what's in store.

But that didn't keep one reporter from asking Albrecht to spill the beans on whether Tony will survive.

"Sure, I'll tell you," Albrecht quipped. "Is anybody else interested in that? I don't want to bore you.

"Are you high?" he added in disbelief. "I might as well shoot myself in the head if I tell you that."

Albrecht did say that whatever decision David Chase makes about who lives and who dies "there would be a really good reason for it."

"I happen to know what David's going to do and I'm not going to tell you. But...David could change it up on us too....I think that's the great fun about The Sopranos is that there are so many different things that can happen and all of them would feel either justifiable or real or within the realm."

("Thank you," said the reporter. "For the record, I'm not high.")

Albrecht also scoffed at critics who said The Sopranos lost its edge, predicting that the remaining episodes will more than make up for any hard feelings.

"I am absolutely certain that the vast, vast, vast majority of people will say, 'This was one of the best things of all time," he said.

Sopranos spoilers aside, Albrecht also announced that The Wire would return in September; the second and final 10-episode run of the historical epic Rome would debut Jan. 7; the second season of Ricky Gervais' Extras will kick off in February and feature cameos from David Bowie, Ian McKellen and Orlando Bloom; a second season of the polygamy dramedy Big Love would premiere in June; and that HBO is in talks with Larry David for one more season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which will most likely be its last, to debut in 2007.

He also announced several specials, including a miniseries about the 2004 tsunami that killed 300,000 people, starring Tim Roth and Toni Collette, a Kelly Clarkson live from London's Wembley Arena, and When the Levee Breaks, Spike Lee's four-hour documentary chronicling Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, premiering Aug. 21.
 
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Rome started last Sunday and I hear there are supposed to be new episodes of Entourage this spring along with Soprano's. I would think about getting HBO if it wasn't so damn easy to download the shows. :p
I really hope Soprano's picks up in these final episodes.
 
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Rome got me hooked after I watched the last six episodes of last season that they aired over the weekend. Forgot how good the show became after a somewhat slow start but the first episode of the new season was good and things will definitely get more interesting now that Cleopatra is about to be introduced into the fray.
 
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exhawg;719188; said:
Rome started last Sunday and I hear there are supposed to be new episodes of Entourage this spring along with Soprano's. I would think about getting HBO if it wasn't so damn easy to download the shows.
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ditto.... I just finished watching the second season Weeds from Showtime and I just started Season 1 of Entourage... Weeds was good and Entourage is hilarious. thank you bit torrent!
 
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