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HBO Season Preview -- March 15, 2007
"Having survived a close call with death,
Tony Soprano struggles to remind himself that each day is a gift, but
challenges new and old make that all but impossible. At home, Carmela
plans for a future she's not sure will arrive, while Anthony Jr. and
Meadow find that adulthood holds its own surprises. As for his other
'family,' Tony comes to doubt some of his oldest and most trusted allies
and makes some hard choices that will shape his own destiny as boss."
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Dr. Melfi shows Tony Soprano the door. How will it end? Tell us Orlando Sentinel Blog -- Posted on Jun 3, 2007 10:26:59 PM My theory for the "Sopranos" fade-out had been that Tony would be whacked at Dr. Melfi's office. What an Achilles' heel, right? That's doesn't seem likely, given the events in Sunday's next-to-last episode. A conscience-stricken Melfi showed Tony the door after seven years of therapy. "Since you are in crisis, I don't want to waste your time," Melfi (Lorraine Bracco) told Tony (James Gandolfini) acidly. She didn't like it that he had torn out a page from a magazine in her office. But what really needled her was the suspicion that she was enabling a sociopath. Words from a medical report filled the screen, taunting her. In a chilling scene at a dinner party, her colleagues learned that she had been treating Tony. That scene would have set up a bloody end for the mob boss at Melfi's office. But at the end of Sunday's episode, Tony was holed up in a house, bracing for a mob war. A federal agent had warned Tony of trouble (maybe witness protection looks more enticing). Phil had ordered the deaths of Tony, Bobby And Silvio -- and largely succeeded. Tony's brother-in-law Bobby was shot to death in a toy store. In a brilliantly staged scene, a moving toy train heightened the suspense before the whacking. Silvio was gunned down as he tried to flee by car. He wasn't expected to regain consciousness at the hospital. The penultimate episode set the stage for a bleak finale. Paulie remains at Tony's side (the scene was reminiscent of a western). Phil is in hiding. Carmela and the kids were going somewhere for safety. So will it be next week? Family reunion for the Sopranos? Phil's victory or defeat? Tony's survival or death? Does Dr. Melfi take Tony back? Episode # 09 / 621 / 86 - 06/10/2007 -- Made in America
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Excerpt from New York Observer Article “I was shocked by the ending,” said Peter Bogdanovich, the movie director and film historian who played Dr. Elliot Kupferberg, Tony’s therapist’s therapist. Mr. Bogdanovich said he had shot another scene that didn’t make the final episode, in which he was comforting an exhausted, bereaved Dr. Melfi. So how literal was his use of the word "bereaved" ???? Click on the link above to read the entire article / interview ...
'Sopranos' finale: Do not attempt to adjust your set June 10, 2007 7:08 PM -- Gael Fashingbauer Cooper -- MSNBC SPOILER WARNING: If you haven't yet watched the series finale of "The Sopranos," stop reading now. If you did, and if you're wondering if your satellite or cable went out in the last minute of the show, keep reading and discuss with us in the comments. That horrendous sound you just heard was a couple million "Sopranos" fans, including those without HBO who'd rented hotel rooms for the occasion, throwing shoes at their TVs and frantically dialing their cable or satellite providers screaming about how they'd lost the signal in the pivotal last minute of the show. But they didn't. The show was transmitted just as creator David Chase intended. The last five minutes were entrancingly filled with knee-jiggling tension. Tony went to a diner where his wife and son joined him. Daughter Meadow pulled up outside and struggled to parallel park. For someone who'd never seen the show before, it was a mind-numbingly banal scene of a family gathering in an inexpensive restaurant, popping down onion rings. But for a "Sopranos" fan, every movement seemed to suggest something. A guy took a seat at the counter -- was he there to take out Tony? A guy walked in with A.J. -- was he there to whack Tony's son? Someone walked slowly to the men's room -- would there be a repeat of the famous "Godfather" scene where Michael went to retrieve a gun hidden in a bathroom stall, walked out, shot two men, dropped the gun and left? Meadow struggled with her car -- was someone watching her, gun in hand? Or when she pulled out to try to repark, would she pull into a car accident? Or would she alone be saved by her sad parking skills while the rest of the family was killed in a diner explosion? Viewers came up with a million scenarios, but the one that no one but Chase came up with was...nothing happened. The episode definitely had its moments, but few of the possibilities viewers had been discussing for weeks came through. How many of these theories below had you heard bounced around in weeks past? None of them happened. Tony was not whacked. Nor was Carmela, or either of the children. A.J. did not take over the family to avenge his father. Adriana did not pop out of Witness Protection or some other spot, still alive. Paulie did not reveal himself to be a turncoat. Sil was not secretly working with the feds, and remained on the edge of death in the hospital. He was neither shielding an uninjured Ade, nor wearing a bulletproof vest. The Russian from the Pine Barrens did not resurface. Neither did the Canadian Mounties show up, tracking now-deceased Bobby for leaving a bit of his clothes behind when he whacked a guy in a laundromat north of the border. Melfi's rapist was never punished. She and Tony never made up. And Tony never spent those final moments with the ducks in his yard, the ducks that were such an important part of the early seasons. That's not to say that major events didn't go down in the episode. The most major: One of Tony's guys finally, finally whacked Phil Leotardo, as he pulled up in a car with his wife and twin grandbabies. And those who longed to see Phil pay for having Bobby and Sil shot last week got their revenge, as Phil was not only shot, but had his head run over by his SUV, leading a passerby to toss his cookies at the sight. And one might say that Christopher, Carmela's nephew, made a return of sorts. Tony's crew adopted an orange cat they found lurking around their safe house, a cat who focused his vision on Chris' portrait, wherever it was moved to, and freaked Paulie out big-time. Meadow seemed to be moving ahead with marriage plans to Patrick Parisi. A.J. announced he wanted to join the army, but Carmela and Tony seemed to distract him with a job on a film. Tony did manage a final goodbye with Uncle Junior, a tear coming to his eye as he seemed to, perhaps, finally realize that his uncle no longer knew him. And A.J. pulled another typical bonehead A.J. move, accidentally setting his SUV on fire in the woods while making out with his high-school-age girlfriend. What was most important in this episode, other than the haunted, hunted feeling of the final scene, was that Tony was told that Carlo had flipped, and he's likely to be dragged into court again. The Sopranos crew have discussed before how there's no easy way out of their life -- death or jail are the likely options, with very few mobsters retiring to Boca to sit in the sun. And so perhaps viewers left Tony with the idea that he knows his life is forever not his own, that he'll never be able to stop looking over his shoulder. (Or, to be cynical, maybe viewers left with the idea that David Chase wants to make a movie, and couldn't kill off Tony this soon.) If Tony was indeed an anti-hero, the show he helmed came to an anticlimax. There's no question fans will be frustrated. Those who've defended the show all along will claim Chase is brilliant, leaving fans to finish the plotlines in their own minds, while those who had other expectations were likely be furious. "The Sopranos" rarely gave viewers exactly what they wanted -- the show had its own path, and always trod it without nodding to popular pressure. The series ended the same way.
'Sopranos' is history - or is it? By Jonathan Storm -- Inquirer Television Critic -- Philly.com Sunday night, June 10, 2007, concludes the show's eight years of mob maneuvering, metaphor-laden dream sequences and mad exclamations of "Marone." Set me free, why don’t you, babe? You don’t really love me. You just keep me hanging on, you dirty rat. Not only Vanilla Fudge fans will hear echoes Monday morning of the anthem that ran through the first part of Sunday night’s Sopranos finale. Creator David Chase cut to black, to end his TV masterpiece 100 percent unresolved. Cut to black? Cut to black after a scene so loaded with tension, it was more delicious than the onion rings at Holsten’s – “best in the state,” according to Mr. Anthony Soprano, and who would know better? Cooler heads, and I’ll bet, when the dust settles, most viewers, will savor the rings, and with them, the genius of an ending that set up every one of the signs of Mafia doom, without pulling the trigger. Nondescript Baseball Cap Guy will forever be drinking coffee in that booth. Gray-Jacket Mook’s permanently in the bathroom. The hip-hop gangstas will always be standing at the jukebox. Nobody’s whacking anybody. And our loving family, because you had to see Sunday night, finally, that that’s what they are, will forever be ordering the All-American burger special with homemade ice cream for dessert, after Meadow’s parking problems proved just to be ineptitude, and not the horrible coincidence that would leave her either the only survivor, or the only victim of final, horrible carnage. The odds against Tony are still stacked high. Carlo’s talking. There’s an 80 percent chance of an indictment. “Damn, we’re going to win this thing,” the FBI man exclaims after hearing that Soprano rival Phil Leotardo has shuffled off this mortal coil. (Lucky for him – and us, thank you, Mr. Chase – that he was denied the pleasure of seeing Phil’s grandchildren driving over their Pop Pop’s head, which popped.) But, “trials are there to be won,” Tony’s lawyer tells him. The Boss certainly overcame a passel of problems Sunday night, barely breaking a sweat. And from all the deep well of music, so often obscure, plumbed by The Sopranos, he punched the box to play Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing,” the finest of the power ballads, as clichéd and delectable as those onion rings. That midnight train goes to anywhere, maybe even to the oft-whispered Sopranos movie in the future, but do you really think that Chase, who has ridiculed so much of contemporary American culture, will opt for the corny concept of closure? We leave Uncle Junior, who once ran North Jersey with Tony’s father, befuddled. Sister Janice will find another husband. She’s good at that. Paulie Walnuts – nyah, nyah, all you conspiracy buffs – declares, “I live but to serve you, my liege.” It’s not all right, Ma, and it never will be with son A.J., even if his hot baby girlfriend does dig Dylan, and even if he does remind us at the end to focus on the good times. But even if Dad’s done bribing the sniveling son, sister Meadow, starting at $170K after law school, will be around to help out, whatever her parking skills. Nobody’s following in Daddy’s footsteps because his whole world – misanthropic Chase invites you to make it as big as you like – is fading. “This is New York’s famous Little Italy,” barks the Gray Line guide on the passing tour bus. “It once covered over 40 square blocks, but has now been reduced to one row of shops and cafes.” Leotardo’s henchman can’t even walk the length of a short cell phone call without finding himself – where else? – in Chinatown. Some, like Paulie did with the orange cat that was maybe Christopher’s ghost, will want to club Chase for not tying it all up. But I’ll take the cat’s point of view, staring at the ghosts in my television, purring in admiration.
No easy ending for 'The Sopranos' By FRAZIER MOORE -- AP Television Writer Tony Soprano carries on. The much-awaited conclusion of HBO's "The Sopranos" arrived Sunday night in a frenzy of audience speculation over the fate of New Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano: Would he live or be killed? Would his family die before his eyes at the hands of his enemies? Would he go to jail? Be forced to enter witness protection? And what of his vindictive rival, Phil Leotardo? Would the Brooklyn boss, who had ordered a hit on Tony, prevail? In the end, the only ending that mattered was the one masterminded by "Sopranos" creator David Chase. And playing against viewer expectation, as always, Chase refused to stage a mass extermination, or put the characters through any major transformation, or even provide his viewers with comfortable closure. The most decisive development: Phil was crushed. But there were few other tidy resolutions. This much-anticipated farewell, the series' 86th episode, was brilliant. But it was also perversely non-earthshaking—just one last visit with the characters we have followed so devoutly since 1999. Here was Bobby Bacala's funeral (the Soprano soldier was shot dead on Leotardo's orders last week). Here was Tony (series star James Gandolfini) paying a hospital visit to his gravely injured consigliere, Silvio Dante (Phil put bullets in him, too). Tony's ne'er-do-well son A.J. (Robert Iler) continued to wail about the misery in the world, and voiced a fleeting urge to join the Army and go fight in Afghanistan (Tony persuaded him to get involved in filmmaking, instead). Daughter Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) harped on her plans to be a lawyer. Tony visits his senile Uncle Junior (Dominic Chianese) at the nursing home. "You and my dad, you two ran North Jersey," Tony prompts him. "We did?" says Uncle Junior with no sign of recognition. "That's nice." Sure, headaches lie ahead for Tony. The Feds are still after him. And Meadow's fiance, Patsy Jr., is a lawyer who may well be pursuing cases that intrude on Tony's business interests. So what else is new? The finale displayed their lives continuing, for better and worse, unaffected by the fact that the series is done. The implication was, they will go on as usual. We just won't be able to watch. Of course, Phil (Frank Vincent) hit a dead end after Tony found him and had him clipped. The execution was a quick but classic "Sopranos" scene: Pulling up at a gas station with his wife, Phil made a grand show of telling his two young grandchildren in the back seat to "wave bye-bye" as he emerged from his SUV. The next moment he was on the pavement, shot dead. Then you heard the car roll over his head. Carunnnchh! Quick, clinical, even comical, this was the only violence during the hour. Not that Chase (who wrote and directed this episode) didn't tease the viewer with the threat of death in almost every scene. This was never more true than in the final sequence. On the surface, it was nothing more momentous than Tony, his wife, Carmela (Edie Falco), as well as Meadow and A.J. meeting for dinner at a cozy family restaurant. When he arrived, Tony dropped a coin in the jukebox to play the classic Journey power ballad "Don't Stop Believing." Meanwhile, every moment seemed to foreshadow a disaster: Suspicious-looking people coming in the door or sitting at a nearby table. Meadow on the street having trouble parallel parking her car. With every passing second, the audience was primed for tragedy. It was a scene both warm and fuzzy, yet full of dread. It set every viewer's heart racing, for no clear reason. But nothing would happen, just a family gathering for dinner at a restaurant. Four people among many. But then, with a jingle of the bell from the front door opening, Tony looked up, apparently seeing Meadow make her delayed entrance. Or could he have seen something awful, something he certainly deserved, about to come down? Probably not. Almost certainly a false alarm. But we'll never know. With that, "The Sopranos" cut to black, leaving us nourished after eight years. And flustered. And fated to always wonder what happens next.
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