The Sopranos Season 4 Episode 7 'Watching Too Much Television' Full TV Reaction!!
Added 2023-02-14 19:19:17 +0000 UTC
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A quick note: The TV show that gave Adriana the idea to get married is called "Murder One." It ran for 2 seasons in the mid-nineties. They're kind of stand-alone seasons, a little like True Detective. The first season is excellent. It's like a murder/mystery, entirely from the point of view of the law firm defending the primary suspect. There's nothing else quite like that first season. Highly recommended!
Future Boy
2023-02-15 11:47:09 +0000 UTCI think Adriana, like Christopher, can’t stand the “regularness of life.” She’d rather be in the music industry running clubs, producing hits, being a chic cool girl on the block, not be one of the Carmelas and Rosalies of the world who mostly just hang out at gyms and gossip, and in this episode we delve into her worst fears. She loves the idea of being engaged and getting hitched as a panacea for fixing her life (getting closer with Chris in a romantic getawat and avoiding trouble from the feds) but in her bridal shower she practically looks nauseous when she receives the toaster oven from Gab. The reality is that she would be just another mob wife making cheese melts for her husband and is really only valued for her potential to bear children. That scene reminded me of Karen Hill was hanging out with the other mob wives in Goodfellas, complete with the exaggerated hair and colorful makeup. And when Ade gets the leaf plate and pretends to be ecstatic, it almost feels like part of her died. Her arc resembles Chris’s in that they want more for themselves but lack the smarts and connections to make it happen. Their relationship is the perfect yin-yang of toxicity and destruction. The sudden cut of Carmela and Ade in absolute glee to the homeless folks scavenging garbage is a pretty apt commentary from the show itself on what it thought about the marriage. It’s rather ironic that the mobsters complain about people receiving “government handouts” yet have no problems stealing from the government themselves. It’s interesting to note that Maurice purchases the properties from Dr. Fried in front of a mural of an idealistic portrayal of American virtues depicting a bridge, and in the same episode Paulie and Johnny Sack meet in front of the Brooklyn bridge, evoking the same sentiment. Greed is what drives everyone on both sides of the law, and they often work together when they’re not quarreling (Tony and Zellman, Maurice and the youth gang etc.). You guys even brought it up, how does this cycle of greed sustain itself? As we learned from the 2008 housing crisis, it didn’t. In a “both sides” juxtaposition, Tony espouses the virtues of his old Italian heritage as enduring because they cared about what their work represented, pride. Yet he never really seems to buy into that heritage fully (not going to the church). He buys houses and literally strips them of their parts to get as much material gain as possible. Overall I think this episode might best represent season 4’s rhetoric, and probably one of the episodes that best represents The Sopranos overall. Everyone just seems to be eating other for their own selfish gains, and there’s a malignant cynicism that hangs over everyone’s heads. Also, one of my favorite episode endings in the series.
Sol95
2023-02-15 07:00:01 +0000 UTCII think this one is low key one of the rougher episodes in the entire show. Of course, we know Tony and crew do all sorts of bad things, but to see how ruthlessly and quickly and efficiently they carry out this HUD scheme is sickening. Newark’s finally coming back a bit now, but it’s had a really tough last fifty plus years post riots and watching this hopeless situation exploited and made even worse is just ghastly. Kudos to Chase and the writers for personifying all of this through Zellman and Tiffen, two former young ‘60s community activists turned corrupt men of influence who involve themselves in this without much more than a slight pang of guilt. That little kid who asks Zellman if nice houses will now be built in his neighborhood is almost indescribably sad. Zellman doesn’t deserve the beating he gets from Tony for dating Irina, but he sure deserves it for his corrupt soul. Jeez, I’m starting to sound more Catholic than my Nona.
Robert Livingood
2023-02-15 02:36:05 +0000 UTCWell.. Zellman did say "sometimes I feel like I should be punished" lol.. careful what you wish for buddy.. lol..
PastaDon
2023-02-14 21:23:50 +0000 UTC
