I am rewatching the Sopranos

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Anonymous wrote:This is a very real depiction of NY/North Jersey mafia families.

Aren’t mafia families for the most part a thing of the past? Even on Sopranos they don’t want their kids going into the mob and future generations will be college educated like Meadow or head to military school like AJ.

Yes but Meadow is our age and our in laws are the mafia or mafia adjacent.

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Anonymous wrote:The thing no one talks about is that Tony’s mother has borderline personality disorder. That actress is brilliant.

They never mention BPD in the show. I recognized the behaviors because Tony’s mother did stuff my mother did. I read an interview with the actress, and she confirmed she was aiming for conveying a borderline.

I felt seen.

Two thumbs up for this show. I might need to watch it again.

When I watched it with my H we kept looking at each other... like OMG, that's your mom, OMG, that's uncle Tony, OMG, that's uncle Sam (Savino), OMG...

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Phil was the best character on the show by a mile.

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I love this show too and recently re-watched the entire thing. It reminded me a little of when I was growing up in CT in the 80s (I know it was filmed in the 90s but there's similarities in terms of bad taste being universal). I had a friend at HS whose dad was in jail for being in organized crime, and yes she was Italian American.

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Some of the earlier season episodes were very cheesy. And all the shrink scenes should be skipped.

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I recently watched it for the first time. I was a bit young when it came out so never watched it live (and was poor so no HBO lol). I was shocked by the amount of random crime committed. I used to think "Oh its fine they only shoot each other" but no, they were just out there killing random innocent people who had done nothing. Yikes.

I liked how it constantly made fun of toxic masculinity and showed a lens that hadn't been shown before for the times.

I loved watching the technology change. Seeing the cell phones (razr especially!) was such a blast from the past. I also dressed exactly like Meadow in the later seasons so that was fun to reminisce about too.

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1/2 Italian(calabrian) 1/2 Irish. Dad's side italian--grew up right on border of NYC in connecticut. Mom was also from Connecticut.

I loved the Sopranos. The food. The food was a main character. If you are Italian you understand. And, the '7 fishes' Xmas Eve dinner episode in 'Bear'. Classic.

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Anonymous wrote:Only works if you skip past any scene with Carm, the kids Artie, and the shrink. The gangster parts are good.

WHAT?

There are different levels of viewers.... this is what they used to call a "hits & tits" viewer.
It takes a multiple viewings to gain a fuller appreciation and nuance.

It definitely does not require repeat viewings to get the nuance. It's a good show but it's not that deep.

A second viewing definitely is worthwhile.

100% my husband and I watched it on HBO when it first came out and you had to wait an entire week for the next episode.

So many things we missed the first time and it was so great to watch it all over again with our teen sons. My 18-year old cites it as his favorite TV series, along with Curb Your Enthusiasm. I have done my job well.

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Anonymous wrote:1/2 Italian(calabrian) 1/2 Irish. Dad's side italian--grew up right on border of NYC in connecticut. Mom was also from Connecticut.

I loved the Sopranos. The food. The food was a main character. If you are Italian you understand. And, the '7 fishes' Xmas Eve dinner episode in 'Bear'. Classic.

Cutting garlic paper thin in jail.

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I do rewatches almost exclusively now. I'm on to Boardwalk Empire, I can't get over how downright mean Knucky was to that German assistant of his.

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Anonymous wrote:1/2 Italian(calabrian) 1/2 Irish. Dad's side italian--grew up right on border of NYC in connecticut. Mom was also from Connecticut.

I loved the Sopranos. The food. The food was a main character. If you are Italian you understand. And, the '7 fishes' Xmas Eve dinner episode in 'Bear'. Classic.

Cutting garlic paper thin in jail.

That was Goodfellas, but yeah.

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Anonymous wrote:Only works if you skip past any scene with Carm, the kids Artie, and the shrink. The gangster parts are good.

The shrink parts are boring.

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Anonymous wrote:1/2 Italian(calabrian) 1/2 Irish. Dad's side italian--grew up right on border of NYC in connecticut. Mom was also from Connecticut.

I loved the Sopranos. The food. The food was a main character. If you are Italian you understand. And, the '7 fishes' Xmas Eve dinner episode in 'Bear'. Classic.

The weird thing about the Seven Fishes in the Bear is that Midwestern Italians don’t really do this. It is an East Coast thing. I even read that they don’t do it in Italy.

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Uncle Junior and the old ladies in the nursing home remind me so much of my older Italian relatives that it is creepy. The clothes and glasses and the things they say are spot on.

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Anonymous wrote:Uncle Junior and the old ladies in the nursing home remind me so much of my older Italian relatives that it is creepy. The clothes and glasses and the things they say are spot on.

And putting the extra rolls in their purses.