I am rewatching the Sopranos

[Anonymous]

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.

Um, they ABSOLUTELY DO mention BPD in the show. Melfi talks to Tony about it in “I Dream of Jeanie Cusamano” and he goes apeshit.

Did you even watch this series?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Um, they ABSOLUTELY DO mention BPD in the show. Melfi talks to Tony about it in “I Dream of Jeanie Cusamano” and he goes apeshit.

Did you even watch this series?!

DP. Spoken like a true sufferer of BPD. Or some other aggressive personality disorder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Um, they ABSOLUTELY DO mention BPD in the show. Melfi talks to Tony about it in “I Dream of Jeanie Cusamano” and he goes apeshit.

Did you even watch this series?!

DP. Spoken like a true sufferer of BPD. Or some other aggressive personality disorder.

They may have been rude, but PP is correct, the diagnosis is mentioned MULTIPLE times during the show. MULTIPLE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Um, they ABSOLUTELY DO mention BPD in the show. Melfi talks to Tony about it in “I Dream of Jeanie Cusamano” and he goes apeshit.

Did you even watch this series?!

DP. Spoken like a true sufferer of BPD. Or some other aggressive personality disorder.

They may have been rude, but PP is correct, the diagnosis is mentioned MULTIPLE times during the show. MULTIPLE.

+1 I think when I watched this (not in real time but shortly after - too poor for HBO so got DVDs from the library lol) might have been one of the first times I had heard of it.

[Anonymous]

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.

Yeah that’s one of the main themes of the show IMO, that it doesn’t just affect those in the business but also the stripper, the gardener, the stiffed waiter, the son of the owners of the garbage company, and on and on and on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Yeah that’s one of the main themes of the show IMO, that it doesn’t just affect those in the business but also the stripper, the gardener, the stiffed waiter, the son of the owners of the garbage company, and on and on and on.

Also because it was on HBO which was cable, they didn't have any of the normal network tv restrictions on swearing, sex, violence etc

[Anonymous]

I loved (lived) the show but the most dated aspect is the gambling.

When I was growing up in NJ in the 80s and 90s everyone had a neighborhood bookie for football. The only place you could legal gamble on sports then was Vegas. Now you can gamble any amount of money on any aspect of sports online.

[Anonymous]

Where'd you rewatch?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I loved (lived) the show but the most dated aspect is the gambling.

When I was growing up in NJ in the 80s and 90s everyone had a neighborhood bookie for football. The only place you could legal gamble on sports then was Vegas. Now you can gamble any amount of money on any aspect of sports online.

No. Atlantic City existed back then. Believe me. I was also growing up in that area in the 80s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It seems dated to me. Much like SATC. Entertaining, but very much a relic of the past.

Be honest. Are you under 28? Do you believe that all new entertainment should feature a proportion of POC exactly reflecting the US of this moment -- even though Jefferson or Hamlet or Tony Soprano or Mary Poppins wouldn't have interacted with a South Asian person in their lifetime?

If so, stick with the reboots. Let the rest of us accept that neither central Jersey or Sicily would have had any trans Latinx/Black people in the family in 1999.

What?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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's Goodfellas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I loved (lived) the show but the most dated aspect is the gambling.

When I was growing up in NJ in the 80s and 90s everyone had a neighborhood bookie for football. The only place you could legal gamble on sports then was Vegas. Now you can gamble any amount of money on any aspect of sports online.

No. Atlantic City existed back then. Believe me. I was also growing up in that area in the 80s.

NP. I don't think AC had a sports book then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I loved (lived) the show but the most dated aspect is the gambling.

When I was growing up in NJ in the 80s and 90s everyone had a neighborhood bookie for football. The only place you could legal gamble on sports then was Vegas. Now you can gamble any amount of money on any aspect of sports online.

No. Atlantic City existed back then. Believe me. I was also growing up in that area in the 80s.

NP. I don't think AC had a sports book then.

+1 AC had everything else but only Vegas had a sports book.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I loved (lived) the show but the most dated aspect is the gambling.

When I was growing up in NJ in the 80s and 90s everyone had a neighborhood bookie for football. The only place you could legal gamble on sports then was Vegas. Now you can gamble any amount of money on any aspect of sports online.

No. Atlantic City existed back then. Believe me. I was also growing up in that area in the 80s.

NP. I don't think AC had a sports book then.

+1 AC had everything else but only Vegas had a sports book.

Yeah, it wasn't a think to somewhere around 2017 or so, I think. Bc it was a question if the NFL would object to having 2 teams in reside in a state with a legal sports book.

Turn outs, they don't care.