Early Access: The Sopranos 2x11 - Group Reaction+Uncut
Added 2025-10-06 14:31:00 +0000 UTCEnjoy The Sopranos 2x11 group reaction and uncut!
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Comments
Why do you guys keep making the uncuts such a hassle? This week we have to go nearly a full minute after the intro before the sync point. I really don't understand why it can't just be set up to sync from the beginning like every other reactor.
A L
2025-09-09 20:28:38 +0000 UTCI like that Junior wasn’t that upset because Bobby cleaned the tray showing Junior that Bobby is kind hearted just slow
Dante Sparda
2025-09-09 10:55:43 +0000 UTCIf they can make more money selling on different routes, then pretty sure they'd do that. That is how Ritchie is able to afford the house shown. That is why he's angry, it's not as easy as just going "well sell on different routes". Sure, but the less income is exactly what's driving the animosity on Ritchie and Junior's end. There's also just a huge hustle culture in general when you're in the mob and them not being able to function out of work is also in large part due to occupational inertia. I don't think it's as simple as just finding extra hobbies. I think some on the couch are spot on about how different types of people react differently to the idea of retirement.
Veya
2025-09-09 02:13:42 +0000 UTCBobby baccala eating half of the tray of manicott that junior was looking forward to was so damn funny 🤣🤣🤣 im surprised you guys didn't really react to that :/
Javi
2025-09-09 01:59:58 +0000 UTCBeyond the parallel, Junior's plot also deconstructs what Melfi says in the therapy scene. Junior was under house arrest all season and has all the time to think and reflect. He hasn't changed or come to any moral epiphanies yet. It's an example used to show you're not supposed to take everything said in therapy at face value. It's too individual and people have different leanings and capacities.
Veya
2025-09-09 01:20:28 +0000 UTCWhen I retire, I am going to spend all my time playing music, hunting, and building/racing cars. The dream is not to stop working, it's to stop having to work for money and just working hard at what you love without any regard to money. You gotta challenge yourself in some way to be happy, in my opinion.
MPH
2025-09-08 18:23:43 +0000 UTCI’m just going to say, that was an incredible house they were looking at for Janice and Richie, inside and out. Also, I’m on a rewatch here, has anyone else disliked Melfi more than Tony, or at least more than they remember? She was always using this so-sad for me petulance, and ignoring behaviors that even her own patients would recognize in themselves. The Luvox and that final session about the shark condition or such at least alleviated things.
SergeTroy
2025-09-08 15:41:20 +0000 UTC@14:54 It's is Suraj it is.
Jamaal Ellison
2025-09-08 15:31:05 +0000 UTCThe parallels between Tony and Junior were great in this episode. Both feel trapped in their predicaments, with Junior going insane under house arrest and Tony, forced to lie low, resorting to self-harm and cheating on Carmela again to cope with his guilt over his evil deeds. Junior tries to push Catherine away, fearing her judgment about his house arrest since they’ve known each other since they were kids. Livia also knows Catherine and tries to sour Junior’s perspective of her by telling him about a time when his brother also Livia’s husband, Johnny, was feeling her up many years ago. By the end of the episode, Junior renews his old friendship with Catherine, Tony is finally back where he wants to be, relaxed and happy with the gang, while Pussy hides away like the rat he is when he sees the feds, and poor Melfi, she feels trapped in a moral vacuum because she wants to treat Tony, but she’s also interested in the fucked up life that he lives so she impedes his progress by not sending him to a different doctor just to hear what he has to say at the cost of her mental health. A fun fact, when Tony called Richie’s eyes “Manson Lamps,” that line was improvised by James Gandolfini, and Richie’s actor, David Proval, was genuinely offended and to explain the Marshal McLuhan joke, Marshall McLuhan was a Canadian philosopher known for his media theories and how he wrote a book that extensively analyzed the absurdist play The Bald Soprano . The joke plays on Junior’s baldness and his last name, Soprano, as a nod to the play’s title. David Chase is a literature nerd so expect a lot of obscure literature references
Dante Sparda
2025-09-08 14:31:18 +0000 UTC
