Favorite Sopranos Scene? (1 Viewer)

[Boy_of_wonder75]

I've re-watched The Sopranos recently and was struck by just how awful all of the characters are. Not the portrayals of them, of course, but the characters themselves. Tony, Paulie (he murdered an old woman!), Carmella, Christopher, the whole shebang. Awful, awful people.

To that end, my favorite scene is in season 3, episode 7, when Carmella sees a psychiatrist on her own. I loved his bluntness in calling out her complicity and his advice to her. My favorite scene in the whole series.

 

[BIG KITCH]

May be hard to choose just one. That series is some of the best TV ever.

Tony and Bobby contemplating death.

Tony's sit down with Phil after the murder of Phil's brother.

The family dinner at Vesuvius after the power goes out.

The very last scene of the series; the tension there was off the charts.

 

[GeauxWhoDats]

I liked that scene where Paulie Walnuts said something really disrespectful about someone but held up his hands and said "No Disrespect".

 

[0rion]

I'm watching it for the first time....almost done with it. Not a bad series but I honestly don't get why it was so popular. Bad acting and a story line that makes no sense at times. I keep waiting for certain stories to tie back in that haven't yet and the series is almost over. Should finish it this week at some point.

 

[Mamba]

I'm watching it for the first time....almost done with it. Not a bad series but I honestly don't get why it was so popular. Bad acting and a story line that makes no sense at times. I keep waiting for certain stories to tie back in that haven't yet and the series is almost over. Should finish it this week at some point.

I just finished watching it for the first time a few weeks ago. I agree. Overhyped, for sure. Breaking Bad is on a whole different level.

That said, my favorite scene was the funeral/burial of “Joey Peeps,” when someone put “Peeps” on the tombstone, not realizing it was a nickname.

“He’s dyslexic.”

“What’s that got to do with anything?”

 

[Boy_of_wonder75]

I just finished watching it for the first time a few weeks ago. I agree. Overhyped, for sure. Breaking Bad is on a whole different level.

That said, my favorite scene was the funeral/burial of “Joey Peeps,” when someone put “Peeps” on the tombstone, not realizing it was a nickname.

“He’s dyslexic.”

“What’s that got to do with anything?”

Breaking Bad doesn't happen without it.

 

[Sun Wukong]

I'm watching it for the first time....almost done with it. Not a bad series but I honestly don't get why it was so popular. Bad acting and a story line that makes no sense at times. I keep waiting for certain stories to tie back in that haven't yet and the series is almost over. Should finish it this week at some point.

You're looking at it in the context of modern TV. Truthfully, it is a weird evolutionary step between the self contained episodic stuff that was common in TV before and the serialized stuff we have now. It doesn't necessarily have big overarching arcs like modern TV, but it does have more connective tissue between episodes than most shows that came before it. Watching it for the first time now, it's difficult to understand just how different it was than anything else on the time.

This "Golden Age of TV" we have absolutely does not happen without "The Sopranos," but it also is a show that exists in a space between what TV was before it and what TV became after it.

 

[Mamba]

Breaking Bad doesn't happen without it.

Not disputing that. Nevertheless…

 

[Sun Wukong]

Also, as to "bad acting," there are some weak performances here and there, but if you can't watch James Gandolfini and Edie Falco in "Whitecaps" and not realize you're seeing some S-Tier acting, I don't know what to tell you. There are some absolutely incredible performances on this show.

 

[Mamba]

Also, as to "bad acting," there are some weak performances here and there, but if you can't watch James Gandolfini and Edie Falco in "Whitecaps" and not realize you're seeing some S-Tier acting, I don't know what to tell you. There are some absolutely incredible performances on this show.

Yeah, Edie Falco put in some seriously impressive work. Some of the best acting I’ve ever seen.

 

[Saint by the Bay]

Christopher’s drug intervention is one of the best scenes in television history.

 

[Saint by the Bay]

Re: bad acting: all of the professional trained actors were fantastic. Like a lot of mob entertainment they pepper in real guys from the streets of New York and New Jersey and they can be pretty bad. Even some classics like Goodfellas and Casino suffered from that.

 

[Optimus Prime]

From Season 1 -

 

[0rion]

I just finished watching it for the first time a few weeks ago. I agree. Overhyped, for sure. Breaking Bad is on a whole different level.

That said, my favorite scene was the funeral/burial of “Joey Peeps,” when someone put “Peeps” on the tombstone, not realizing it was a nickname.

“He’s dyslexic.”

“What’s that got to do with anything?”

Just finished it up today. What a stupid ending.

 

[zatsnzapps]

Just finished it up today. What a stupid ending.

Grab 6 Miller Lites, your bottle of bourbon, ice, and coke zero, and then read this (it's looooong), but has some really great thoughts about the ending.

https://masterofsopranos.wordpress.com/the-sopranos-definitive-explanation-of-the-end/