The Sopranos Season 3 Episode 2 'Proshai, Livushka' Full TV Reaction!!
Added 2022-12-06 07:27:50 +0000 UTC
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Thank you for explaining that! We figured it was horrible! -sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-12-11 15:23:04 +0000 UTCWe totally did miss it! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-12-11 15:22:07 +0000 UTCAh thank you! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-12-11 15:21:43 +0000 UTCAww we love to hear that, thank you! I’m sure, I feel like a good portion of the dynamic of the show was brought by Livia. So sad! Thanks for the recommendation! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-12-11 15:21:09 +0000 UTCMulignan is just eggplant and "tizzun" is "burnt one/ burnt end/ and or just burnt. It's like calling them charcoal briquette
Dominic Matich
2022-12-11 05:40:22 +0000 UTCWhen y'all discussed that scene where Tony was racist toward Noah in the outro, I think one of you asked the question, "Was that a slur, or negative, or racist, or were they just talking about food?" Turns out the answer is all of the above: Tony calls Noah a 'mulignan' which is an ethnic slur for a black person. I think it literally translates to 'burnt eggplant'. The series constantly reminds the viewer how casually and openly racist Tony is.
Elisa Pfau
2022-12-08 18:13:31 +0000 UTCJoe Pantoliano was also great in Risky Business with Tom Cruise where he played Guido the killer Pimp.🤣
softshoes
2022-12-08 16:46:47 +0000 UTCAnd there was no reason to include it. Dialogue and previous scenes covered everything story-wise. One of the few mistakes of the show (although a story decision and scene in "Employee of the Month" remains bewildering to me twenty years later).
Mitchell Smilie
2022-12-07 09:27:31 +0000 UTCIt was in the original airing. Honestly, it looked worse in 2001 (or whenever this first aired). I remember kinda wincing and going, "Oh that doesn't look good". The floaty head was much more obvious. I'm rewatching on the first release DVDs tho. No idea if they cleaned it up. Didn't look as bad as I remember.
Donna Castellano
2022-12-07 05:05:19 +0000 UTCSame here. Top 3, easily.
Donna Castellano
2022-12-07 05:02:40 +0000 UTCI love how David Chase basically says, "Oh you like Tony? You think he's cool?" BAM he's super racist!
Jeffrey Miller
2022-12-07 00:15:52 +0000 UTCYou guys missed the obvious Godfather reference at the funeral parlor. They copied the same interior shot of the elevator lowering down to reveal the funeral director waiting for them. He then uses the Godfather's words "I will use all my power, all my skills". Tony would definitely recognize what he is referencing. You can tell Tony is annoyed by it, and tells him to calm down. :)
Michael Chavira
2022-12-06 23:36:16 +0000 UTCIt was the Gabbagool not the ditsoon. What don't you understand?! lol jk
Ghost Crusaders
2022-12-06 19:34:30 +0000 UTC"You know who had an Ark? Noah."
Ghost Crusaders
2022-12-06 19:30:40 +0000 UTCAs others have mentioned, Joe Pantoliano plays Ralph Cifaretto. He's a soldier in the Aprile crew. Here's his backstory... Shortly before Season 1, Jackie sent him to Miami to oversee the family's real estate rackets. He did this because: 1.) He's considered a good earner 2.) Most members of the family find him extremely obnoxious (even by Mob standards) and prefer not to deal with him on a regular basis. When Ritchie "went into the witness protection program", he came back to NJ to hopefully stake his claim to become Captain and run his crew.
JG
2022-12-06 18:20:08 +0000 UTCAnother great couple of reactions. They’ve become one of the highlights of my week. One thing that sticks with me, is that David Chase, the show’s creator, wrote these two episodes. The creation of the Livia character was deeply personal for him, being based upon his troubled relationship with his own mother. When he learned of Marchand’s passing, his heart and soul, and his writer’s mind, clicked into gear. The introduction of Joe Pantoliano was another great element by the show runners. If you want to write it down somewhere, I highly recommend an eventual reaction to ‘Bound’, in which Pantoliano plays a major part. It’s an excellent mob-based thriller, written and directed by the Wachowskis, who went on to make ‘The Matrix’. As their first feature film, it’s an effort of smaller scale, and it’s excellent. One of the best debut directorial efforts.
David Wilkins
2022-12-06 17:56:21 +0000 UTCSo sad! Nancy Marchand was a true talent! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-12-06 17:53:18 +0000 UTCLOL perfect sentiments! Yay, the best compliment, thank you! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-12-06 17:52:59 +0000 UTCI didn't think it looked too bad! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-12-06 17:51:39 +0000 UTCYay! Lots to get through! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-12-06 17:51:24 +0000 UTCLOL it was great! I definitely think Janice's motives are always selfish! Ooh thank you for explaining this! There's so many people on this show, we need a family tree LOL -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-12-06 17:51:12 +0000 UTCYes! It was the perfect sendoff for Livia -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-12-06 17:43:18 +0000 UTCDefinitely sounded offensive! Even if we'd never heard the slurs before. Tony is something else - not in a good way! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-12-06 17:43:01 +0000 UTCLOL I'm glad I'm not crazy! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-12-06 17:42:20 +0000 UTCOmg Memento!!! How could we forget! -Sam
TBR Schmitt
2022-12-06 17:41:49 +0000 UTCThis is absolutely crazy. I've probably seen this episode 8 times. I missed Pussy in the mirror every single time, until Sam saw him. Watching it back, I really can't believe it. Not only was he there, but Tony SAW him. There as a ghost, or there as a figment of Tony's imagination, I missed one of the most profound moments of this show for 20 years. Mind blown.
Future Boy
2022-12-06 16:40:07 +0000 UTCRIP Livia, Nancy Marchand was a great actress and I loved her character; but that's why we hardly ever saw her in Season 2 and some of her scenes had to be digitally added/altered, she died of emphysema :(
esclad
2022-12-06 13:40:37 +0000 UTCLivia, RIP. You were awful and you were wonderful, and the Lord finally took you, just like you wanted. About this week's reactions: just fantastic, as they always are. It's so great to have so much life put back into a show I've seen so many times. Next week's episodes are gonna be something...
Future Boy
2022-12-06 13:22:10 +0000 UTCI think they added that scene with Livia in the beginning, I don't remember seeing that before. It didn't look good at all though.
miles
2022-12-06 12:19:02 +0000 UTCgreat actor
miles
2022-12-06 12:18:02 +0000 UTCCan't wait until you watch E:11 Pine Barrens, one of my favorite episodes. Hilarious episode.
miles
2022-12-06 12:13:25 +0000 UTCThat post funeral reception for Livia is one of the all time great scenes on this or any other tv show, though it will be surpassed, amazingly, in season 4 (episode 10, The Strong Silent Type) in what, for me, is the most I’ve ever laughed at a tv show. I think Janice’s motivation in trying to have everyone share warm memories of Livia is the same for insisting they have a full Funeral Mass et al, despite her mother's wishes—to make herself look good and loving, and importantly, make everyone feel guilty that they don’t have anything nice to say. Or she could have just insisted on a big event as a last fuck you to the old lady, knowing it would turn out horribly. A couple of notes: 1) Ray Curto, the member of the Soprano family that is revealed to have been flipped by the FBI is a captain who was been seen here and there on the periphery since season 1. In fact, after Jackie Aprile died, he was approached by the other captains to become acting Boss (to keep the power away from Junior) but he begged off saying he promised his wife he’d work less. 2) The old movie Tony was watching is the Warner Bros 1931 gangster classic The Public Enemy starring the legendary Jimmy Cagney. The scene where he smushes the grapefruit into his grilfriend’s face is one of the most famous moments in film history. It would never get any views, but if you like gangster movies and are ever interested in privately seeing how they began this one’s a good one to start with. 3) Yes, of course Tony’s racist, but for his ilk, he’s more open minded than most, I think. Fainting at the sight of Uncle Ben always makes me laugh. I won’t repeat them but the words you guys didn’t understand that Tony uses with Meadow’s friend Noah actually are Italian words for different foods while, unfortunately, having also been coopted by certain members of the Italian American community as racial epithets 4) Good judge of character regarding Ralphie having a darkness to him. Really good instincts there.
Robert Livingood
2022-12-06 10:46:44 +0000 UTCThe remembrance scene for Livia is one of my favorite scenes in the entire show. So much tension, humor, and truth bombs all at once. Great performances all around. Glad you're still enjoying.
Marcus Cato
2022-12-06 08:57:22 +0000 UTCWhat Tony said to Noah was a bunch of Italian slurs for African-Americans. Very much offensive.
David Murray
2022-12-06 08:49:22 +0000 UTCYes, that was Pussy in the mirror and Tony saw him. The supernatural exists in The Sopranos.
David Murray
2022-12-06 08:33:33 +0000 UTCJoe Pantoliano aka Joey Pants is one of the great character actors who has been in so many of classic movies, some of which you've reacted to. Midnight Run, The Fugitive, Memento (Teddy!), The Matrix, Bad Boys, The Goonies.
Ellie Miller
2022-12-06 08:13:41 +0000 UTC
