I’m not busting anyone’s balls here…but I’m a little miffled…
The Sopranos are sleeping wid da fishes…
What did youse tink of dat ending?
I thought I’d d/l’d an incomplete file…until the credits started rolling…that’s it? HOH!
Overall, I’d say the last season was a bit of a flop. For me it was very slow. Like a rainy day. But it did have it’s moments:
Gotta love the cat staring at Christopher’s pic. I am thinking it might make a great new avatar. The battle of the bulge was great when Tony and Bobby went at it at the cabin. AJ’s angst and ennui finally resolved when he gets a gig as a PA was an interesting if somewhat contrived sub-plot. I’d have to say that the ultimate image I will take away from S7 is the tired Phil Leotardo…
But what of the terrorist angle? Why build all that up and not deal with it? Just so Tony could barter for Phil’s secret locale? Sure, I can see this as a microcosm of the overall intent the writers and producers are trying to convey…a sorta “Life goes on” sense of things, but couldn’t they have given us something more spectacular? After all the hype, I personally think they lost their edge.
So let’s look at the Big 5 and see if Tony, Carm et al can make the All Toe HBO list, shall we?
Oz
Deadwood
Rome
Entourage
The Wire
Sorry folks…After a weak second season, The Wire rebounded with a much improved S3 and a phenomenal S4 to keep Da Nort Jersey boyz off the list. In fact, the irracsible Bill Maher is more watchable than The Sopranos.
i thought the bobby bacalod, uncle junior and chris died episodes were great. low points were tony’s gambling infatuation? and vito’s kid. the last two seasons would have been much better if they had killed vito in the first episode, used this stuff to fill out the first half of season six and then filled out the war with phil.
looked like the whole terrorist thing was just to set up the fbi guy dropping a dime on phil. the fbi guy and tony were always great. tony’s charm paid off in the end, phil would have only ever told him to @$!@$$^!@^.
I liked the ending a lot, and I thought the last season was excellent. The highlight episode for me was Tony’s 'shroom epiphany. It about killed me that I couldn’t find any boomers who’d seen it and were available to talk about it the next day. I like the young finance and IT guys I work with, but to be honest I needed to talk about this episode with only a select few fellow baby-boomers. Who either hadn’t seen it or weren’t around. I find that finance guys as a rule aren’t really much down with 'shroom epiphanies.
HBO has a new series that, imo, is already showing promise: John From Cincinnati. It’s written by David Milch and Kem Nunn, and if you listen carefully you can hear some stray dialogue shards from Deadwood. Nunn is apparently famous for writing something called surf noir, whisky-ever tango foxtrot that is.
In the first two episodes I’ve spotted 3* character actors who worked on Deadwood. It’s a sign of how much I miss that damn show that I give JFC maybe higher marks than it earns just because I get to hear a little more Milch outta their mouths.
It’s about surfing, kinda, on Imperial Beach in San Diego. As a plains stater, I never really “got” surfing but this show is sure helping. Very cool and funny dialogue.
*-Dayton Callie (Charlie Utter), Garrett Dillahunt (Jack McCall/Francis Wolcott), Jim Beaver (Ellsworth), all of Deadwood, plus Keala Kennelly, a real surfer who says “I dumped out” funnier than anybody.
John from Cinci is far out man. I am digging it. HBO does it again. Flike, you say you are hearing snippets of Deadwood quotes??? Is that when John starts going all John as Barry the Fairy loses it? I heard something about blowjobs??? John quoted Al? John watched Deadwood and now…
