Its the first real episode to push the âabsolutely everybody in this show is a giant piece of shitâ narrative super blatantly. The only guy who seemed even remotrly decent in the episode was the guy who lost his eye to Richie, and he demanded $50 bucks and a blowjob for access to the VIP room. Im not seeing a ton of redemption coming for anyone at any point in this series.
Hell, the only person who is remotely sympathetic is Melfi, and she breaks roughly every established confidentiality law on the books.
i think theyve said this a number of times explicitly. Mostly in conversations that Melfi had with her shrink and her family. Most explicitly I think Richard was criticizing italian gangster movies.
regarding this episode. They somehow create gradations of evil. Ie. ralphie is clearly the worst. But they kind of play with the idea that Tony is the good guy. Because he beats up ralphie for the murder (before his organisation covers it up) and feels bad about it. Even his interactions with Tracee are some kind of honorable code. Iâm not sure how I feel about it. But I think they are either a) fucking with us, or b) doing the least possible to keep he main character likeable. Maybe a bit of both.
Ratings are way up there. Almost a guarantee this will be a multi season show.
Almost done with episode 4 recap but a lot else happening first. I have a producer for podcast and video components now!! But also have other equally important commitments and just general limitations on forward progress except a little at a time.
Iâm joining the Sopranos re-watch. General question so not spoilering: did this show get outdated or was their lifestyle supposed to be pretty average even by early 00âs standards? I remember it being somewhat appealing as a degenerate youth but now it feels like a really stressful way to afford a middle to upper middle class life.
They are supposed to be comfortably upper middle class, but not rich rich. Theres lots of little references to other people having more money and how that feels.
Their real house has a Zestimate of $1.7 million plus Tony has a nice boat and seems to have at least $100k in cash stashed around the house and probably pays full freight for his daughter to go to Columbia
My recollection is the Paramount series from some number of years ago was a lot more pro-BDâs. Like, comically.
I thought this one was actually pretty reasonable. I mean, they played the audio of Koresh talking about spreading fuel and hay, and a number of eyewitnesses saying the fire came from many places all at once. And they made it sound like the government was more incompetent than heartless after the first raid.
Yeah at the risk of derailing into another how much is rich in NYC [suburbs] thatâs certainly still ok, but heâs near the top of his organization, dodged jail and death to get there, and needs to deal with 24/7 work and politics to stay there. The benefits for anyone lower on the ladder canât be worth it. Just seems like an absolutely miserable life, ethical concerns aside. Also doesnât help that his luxuries (cars, boat, electronics) depreciate like a rock and look absolutely silly 20 years later.
