The Sopranos

“Daily News piece about final episode Sunday night (75-minute show BTW)

Link to story”

“Note to self: Do not read this thread Monday. (I'll still be driving back from TC2 Sunday night)
Won't be able to watch till HBO2 Monday night show.”

“The 75-minute season finale starts tonight at 9. Those who cannot watch tonight and want to view it later in the week should not read this thread before they watch the show.”

“Blow up your TV...”

“Dang, now we gotta wait til next September to find out what happens next! How can they do that to us? T'ain't fair I tell ya! They build up dependency and then the take it away.

Oh well, more unfinished threads. Will they resolve them next season?

Memoriam to the late mobsters who met their fate at the hands:

Mikey Palmice
Richie Aprile
Jimmy Altieri
Philly Parisi
Chucky Signori
Big #&%!$ Bompensiero
Jackie Aprile Jr.
Ralphie Cifaretto”

“Johnny Sack is still around. Thought he was going to get it.”

“CNN Europe CNN Asia Languages --------- Spanish Portuguese German Italian Korean Arabic Japanese On CNN TV Transcripts Headline News CNN International About CNN.com Preferences




SEARCH CNN.COM:



Home Page
World
U.S.
Weather
Business
Sports
Politics
Law
Technology
Science & Space
Health
Entertainment
Travel
Education
Special Reports

SERVICES
Video
Newswatch
E-Mail Services
CNN To Go

SEARCH CNN.COM:





Special Report | Calendar | Quiz | Hot Movies

A somber season ends for 'The Sopranos'
Monday, December 9, 2002 Posted: 1:12 AM EST (0612 GMT)



Now Tony -- played by series star James Gandolfini -- is out of the house and his family is devastated.



--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Story Tools




--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

MORE STORIES
'The Sopranos' returns to the scene

• Putting 'The Sopranos' on the couch
• Scheming 'Sopranos' sister a hit with public
• Edie Falco: 'Sopranos,' Sayles, stage star

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

• EW.com: How to end 'The Sopranos'
• EW.com: Best 'Sopranos' episode preps finale
• EW.com: All about 'The Sopranos'

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

• HBO: 'The Sopranos'





NEW YORK (AP) -- Just when the rocky Soprano marriage seemed to gain new life, Carmela was tipped to Tony's dalliances by one of his scorned girlfriends. Now Tony -- played by series star James Gandolfini -- is out of the house and his family is devastated.

That was the powerful punch with which "The Sopranos" wrapped its fourth season Sunday night.

Other twists from the HBO mob drama's finale:

• The drawn-out legal battles waged by Uncle Junior (Dominic Chianese) came to a tidy end thanks to a hung jury (a certain frightened juror followed his orders from Tony's crew).

• Christopher (Michael Imperioli) was released from his drug-rehab program professing to be free from his heroin addiction -- but little suspecting that fiancee Adriana (Drea de Matteo) remains a snitch for the feds.

• An on-again, off-again scheme to erase rival boss Carmine Lupertazzi was scrapped by Tony at the last minute. But now the author of the plan, Carmine's own underboss Johnny Sack (Vincent Curatola), is pretty sore at Tony for backing out. Put Johnny Sack near the top of Tony's enemies list next season.

Whacking Carmine was only one of two deals on which Tony reneged during the finale. The other was his all-too-soon-aborted plan to buy a weekend house on the Jersey shore for Carmela (Edie Falco) and the kids.

Initially thrilled by Tony's surprise, Carmela was quickly laid low by another surprise. An ill-timed phone call brought her fresh news of Tony's philandering. Soon his clothes and golf clubs were pitched in the driveway.

"You have made a fool of me for years ... You've had quite a time on my watch," she seethed as Tony tried to lie his way out of the jam.

Later, when the fight got uglier, Carmela took her best shot: She informed Tony of her abstinent romance with one of his soldiers, ponytailed Furio -- who, smitten in return, ducked this sticky situation last week by fleeing back to Italy.

Explaining the effect Furio had on her, even from glances exchanged when he dropped by the house to get Tony, Carmela said, "I felt probably like someone who was terminally ill, and somehow they manage to forget it for a minute."

In the finale, co-written by series creator David Chase, the clash between Tony and Carmela is as powerful as anything ever seen on "The Sopranos," which is saying a lot. So is this: In her portrayal of a wife betrayed, enraged and despairing, Falco outdid herself. It was an electrifying performance.

All in all, this special 75-minute episode was an impressive rebuttal to complaints that the action lagged during some of the season's previous 12 hours (though no one complained about the episode where Tony decapitated his captain Ralphie).

Now the season ends with everybody miserable (including Uncle Junior), but none more than Tony and Carmela. Can their marriage be saved? Production on the fifth, perhaps last, "Sopranos" season begins in January, but answers must await its return to the air next fall.

HBO is a division of AOL Time Warner, as is CNN.com.”

“ROCKS!!!...I should a worn my leather Soprano's jacket at TC2...hehehe...it pays to be me, sometimes.”

“Not Johnny Sack, but I thought Carmen was a goner. Then they whacked the guys who were going to do it for them.

There was one technical glitch in the show however. The two shooters were standing in each other's line of fire. Doh!”

“good point, geo”

“How'd you like the Dean Martin show?”

“I'm ANXIOUSLY awaiting the new season for Six Feet Under.”

“A riot! I may keep that in mind next time I get unruly neighbors and the landlord doesn't listen to my complaints.

Dean Martin would be good. So would "The Best of Jim Nabors" or "Jim Nabors Sings Songs of Inspiration."

"A Perry Commo Christmas," "In the Summertime" by Mungo Jerry, and "Champagne Music" by Lawrence Welk.”

“How about Pauley Walnuts sucking up to Tony on the divorce issue. "I'm behind you T!"”

“Nose buried deep in a$$. I might use 'Sukiyaki' by Kiu Sakamoto and 'Domenique' by the Singing Nun over and over. That could very well finish them off!”

“A equally effective I might suppose, but even more effective if you had your own mobster to back them up.”

“lol, Geo!”

“Sopranos Christmas Album ideas:

"Jingle Bells" by Bobby Bacala

"Oh Come All Ye Faithful" by Oksana

"Walkin in a Winter Wonderland" by Christopher Moltisanti and Paulie Walnuts

"We Three Kings of Orient Are" by Tony, Chris, and Silvio”

“How about 'Grandma Got Run Over By Paulie Walnuts'?”

“I'm really looking foreward to ' Six Feet Under' also, Santartex. That's an awesome show”

“The final season of Oz starts in January. The promo proclaims that all sentences come to an end.”

“haven't seen a lot of that one. would like to watch it from beginning to end sometime.”

“The are just finishing up rerunning the entire series.”

“i didn't even know it. Must catch that next time”

“It's on some night during the week around 10 or 11. I think either Tuesday or Wednesday night.”

“The family returns in the first week of March!”

“Yeah, Geo. Can't wait..
They say that this time, they are concentrating on keeping T's marriage problems ongoing for a bit and there is another interesting angle. Apparently, David Chase was reading up on the fact that a lot of mobsters that went to jail in the seventies are set for release these days. So, in keeping with that, there are going to be some plot lines that focus on the 'class of '04' mobsters that are hot on getting back into biz upon their release. I guess he saw this as a good way to introduce new headaches to Tony's life!”

“Yeah, last time somebody came back from the "witness protection program," we got to see Richie Aprile in action.”

“Right. And he was a bit of a problem child, I would say...”

“I still like the scene where they dump the garbage in the guy's parking lot, and when he called to complain, Richie told him, "It's our new policy; if you're not satisfied we give you double back!"”

“That was really funny, Geo. The Pine Barrens was an old favorite too...”

“That unkillable Russian is still off somewhere. Wonder when he will make another appearance?”

“That's what i thought, Stove. I actually figured that they would have addressed that in one of the last two episodes of last year...”

“They did not film that show in the real Pine Barrens, but maybe the Jersey Devil got him!”

“Less than two weeks! The promos HBO are showing make this look like a winner of a season!”

“Oh crap, I might be in the Sipsey when it airs! What are the dates?”

“March 7 9 PM, Stovio!”

“stove, you want us to record it for you then send it to you when you get back?”

“nawwwwwwww...but thanks.
I think HBO repeats it on Monday nights.”

“They do, Stovio (as you will be known after the 'initiation')”

“What, no sex......just violence?”

“I'm sure there will be plenty of sex, seeing as how Tony will be on the prowl if Carmella isn't giving him any.”

“As long as this season is better than last.”

“David Chase has committed to a sixth season, I think. I think it should end there, much as I would miss it.

BTW, there's another HBO series premiering in March. This one is about the town of Deadwood in the Dakotas, home of Marshall Wild Bill Hickock. It looks like it will show a grittier Old West than we've ever seen before, perhaps a more realistic one.”

“I hope the season lives up to the appearances being given in the previews. It looks awesome. We'll see tomorrow. New characters, Steve Buscemi (Fargo, Big Lebowski) plays cousin Tony. No details, but he seems like he may be a significant character. Also, Frankie Valli is going to be in it. Yes, the Four Seasons superstar still has a career! Although, from what I read, I am guessing that he may get whacked! This is all speculation, so I am not blowing anything here. Will compare reactions with other Sopranos fans on Monday morning.

-Treebeard”

“Thank God your posting styles are so different. Treeman spells a little better. ;-)

Looking forward to this new season too!”

“I know where I'll be tonight at 9.”

“We just got rid of HBO after Sex and the City was over. Thank God. Sopranos jumped the shark a looooooong time ago..”

“Woke up this morning
Got yourself a gun
Mama always said you were the chosen one
You're one in a million
Got that shotgun shine”