The Sopranos | Season 6 | Episodes 19 & 20 | Full-Length Commentary

"Get off my stoop!" hahahaha what a random word "stoop" lol lol

Dominic Matich

But they had someone in the house and you can see a shadow move at the end of the conversation. So they had access to house and didn't choose to film inside scenes. It was intentional. Kind of like how Tony sees his mother's shadow silhouette in one of his dreams and at the end of the purgatory episode. I think Chase just wanted that effect.

Veya

You can convey that and still film Phil inside the house refusing to come out. It just looked weird.

Patrick Flanagan

The point of the house scene with Phil yelling is that he is so petty that he's not willing to show his face but still yell at Tony like a child hiding behind a wall. The actor isn't some a-lister with a busy schedule lol. It was done intentionally that he doesn't exit the house or open the window. He can't let go of his bitterness and is as myopic as Tony.

Veya

The one study didn't completely dictate her dropping Tony. That was building up for a while with the word sociopath being dropped as early as the 5th season first episode. Her therapist/friend has been pushing her to drop him for a while. The study just pushed her over the edge and she finally accepted that Tony was beyond help. She isn't wrong, Tony's final monologue and talking about how ideas slip away in the episode where AJ tried to commit suicide really showed he wasn't ever going to come to the revelation he needs to make an actual change in his life and how he views himself and what's important in life. The title isn't an accident. It's linked to the poem AJ reads which is about an incoming apocalypse. Tony spends the entire series having some fleeting moments where he feels some guilt or engages in honest self-reflection but invariably just recedes back to old habits and ways of thinking. The therapy has been useless for a while and things are closing in around him now. The sad thing is that Tony has become his mother with all the "poor you"s but he still hasn't completely become her. AJ mentions that his grandma said everyone dies in their own arms yet that's exactly what he didn't do due to Tony saving him (in the same pool his beloved ducks used to be) and cradling him in his arms. But at the end of the day, he doesn't step back and see the big picture and make the realization.

Veya

i like the part where Phil turned into a house

Cocoa got 90% of what he deserved! I think T should have taken him out. I mean seriously . . . the boss's DAUGHTER?! A SEXUAL ADVANCE/Grime moment?! Bro you signed your own death warrant. I actually hate how he's like "your making a big Fing mistake" - bro you should have said NOTHING - and if anything, maybe just nod. I mean hell it could have been his wife and it would have been worse.

po3smith

lol can you IMAGINE him on Halloween?! " . . . . look at these kids! When I was a kid, I had to compromise...I had a bed sheet with only one eye cut open. Now go home, and get your Fing shine box!"

po3smith

Just to clarify, Phil actually turned into a house in that scene

Leonel Moreno

Paulie blaming AJ's depression on toxins while they dump asbestos illegally lol

Leonel Moreno

The killers from the other side DID have the right address; they were looking for Phil at his comare's house. Unfortunately she lived with her father, who also happened to be an older gentleman with striking silver hair, and they mistook him for Phil. I think Dr. Kupferberg (Melfi's shrink) had the best of intentions in acting the way he did but he went about it kind of recklessly. He felt that Melfi's years of treating Soprano had dulled her objectivity about the man and about how their therapy process was actually going. In the end a tiny action of disrespect (Tony ripping out the recipe) made her realize that her doctor was right, and it snowballed into her deciding to end her treatment of Tony very quickly. I don't think she intended to do it ahead of time, it just poured out of her. (For what it's worth Lorraine Bracco strongly disagreed with the showrunner David Chase about Melfi breaking things off the way she did.) The scene where Phil won't come outside to talk and Tony and Carmine Jr stand in the street yelling at a house is so weird to me. I'm guessing the actor playing Phil was unavailable to shoot that day or something.

Patrick Flanagan

Great reaction to two of the best episodes of dramatic television ever made.

David Murray

My favorite Bobby moment has to be when he told Tony that "Quasimodo predicted all of this"...😂 One of the more lighthearted moments of the show.

JG

- When Sil and Tony were fooling around doing slo-mo punches, they were imitating the opening title to Raging Bull as the theme was playing in the restaurant. - Did you guys notice the cardboard cut out of Sil in the background at the safe house?...😂 RIP Bobby.

JG

I love that Silvo was SO LOYAL that he said "They came to me thinking I'd switch sides and I gave them an answer." The two people who would NEVER betray Tony anre Silvo and Paulie. And I think that speaks a lot about Tony's leadership skills as well as his father's because Silvo was Tony's friend growing p and Paulie was Tony's Dad's friend. And even though Paulie's much older and sometimes has to put up with a "kid boss" which is how he must see it, he would rather stay loyal to the life and family than to escape unharmed. The best way to put it is if everyone in that house turned on Tony, PAULIE NO MATTER THE ODDS (along with Silvo if he were there) WOULD BE THE LAST ONES STANDING NEXT TO TONY AND WOULD RATHER DIE THAN BETRAY HIM. That's not just great employees, that's not even just amazing friends, THAT'S YOUR FAMILY. And that's what the Mafia was originally intended to be.

Dominic Matich

yeah I never saw Tony as a sociopath. When I think of sociopathic characters I think of Richie Aprile and Ralph Ciferetto.

Carlos Hurtado