April 23, 2006
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Posted by Ed Moltzen at 03:42 PM | Comments (0)
April 16, 2006
April 16 Liveblogging
WARNING: SPOILER DETAILS BELOW.
Did Vito off himself last week? Will Paulie keep crying over the revelation that his mother isn't his mother? Will Tony beat anyone else up to prove he still deserves to be feared and respected?
We'll see...
9:01 p.m., and HBO is still running a "Big Love" promo...Ugh.
The air conditioner bothers Tony...Is this another dream sequence? Yachting magazine?
Vito! He's lamming it!
Paying off his bodyguard after beating him senseless...Smart move. Looked like Tony was running out of bodyguards.
"Human frailty...makes me sick sometimes." Best line so far...
Uh oh! The word is spreading about Vito's dance moves...
"...like the guy in the Village People." Ouch.
The Sopranos goes political...
Edie Falco: "I voted for (Bush.)" (In reality, she didn't but that's another story.)
You can't even watch a good Mob show these days without running into the Danish cartoon controversy...
Uh oh. The boys are on to Vito. And Vito makes a run for it...Something says that's not the last we'll see of him, though.
And he's back, packing up for the long, long trip away. And eating like the old days.
Get the woman her bundt pan.
Silvio is all tact. Talking with Vito's soon-to-be-widow looks about as fun for Silvio as an asthma attack.
Someone should tell Tony you can catch more flies with honey...
Tony: "Don't forget. I'm a strict Catholic." (Second best line of the night.)
Meadow spills the beans on Phinn's "Vito story." Phinn looks very unhappy.
Tony appears to give Vito a reprieve...But will it be enough? Silvio puts it into financial perspective...like a consigliere should.
Phinn is definitely unhappy.
And Vito lives to see another episode...
Posted by Ed Moltzen at 08:56 PM | Comments (0)
April 07, 2006
Where Are They Now? (John Fiore)
Life isn't fun after you've been whacked on "The Sopranos."
Just ask John Fiore.
Key quote: "He's tortured."
Posted by Ed Moltzen at 12:27 PM | Comments (0)
March 27, 2006
Sopranos Rewind: Take A Deep Breath, Silvio
Episode Three of this season's
The Sopranoswas notable more for the coming attractions for Episode Four than anything on Sunday night.
Namely: Tony recovers from a gunshot wound to the belly, and resumes giving hell to the rest of his family in his never-ending job of keeping them in line.
Episode Three was also notable because it showed us a side to Silvio Dante that we never knew existed. The Soprano's consigliere and acting boss (while Tony was comatose) was so stressed out at smoothing over rifts between capos Bobby Baccala and Vito Spadafora, and between Paulie Walnuts and Vito Spadafora, that his asthma flared up and he wound up in the hospital.
"I can't breath," Silvio muttered on his way to the ambulance. "I can't breath."
So it's clear that series boss and creator David Chase has gotten across his message; the only one capable of running the family for now is Tony Soprano, brain damage or no brain damage.
Chase also leaves us seeing a slimmed-down Vito doing nothing but making enemies inside the family, or literally reaching out and sidling up to the one man who knows about Vito's "secret life."
The path has been established. Vito is painting himself into a corner so that, eventually, he may have to blast his way out...with bullets or carrot sticks.
Petitenavir saw the episode, and came up with this suggestion - which has too much potential for network executives to ever go for it:
So most of the episode (aside from the alternate reality) took place in a hospital. I was thinking of how awesome it would be if Tony were in the Scrubs hospital. Like JD telling the family how to act around Tony and Elliot saying somthing weird around Carmella or somthing. Dr. Cox pissing off Paulie, The Janitor trying to get JD in trouble with the mob... In short, least likely yet BEST CROSSOVER EVER.
Posted by Ed Moltzen at 06:27 AM | Comments (0)
March 26, 2006
Tonight
Via The Sopranos Home Page at HBO.com, here's a quick glimpse into tonight's episode:
Silvio divides the spoils from Paulie's latest score, and heads off a territorial impasse between Bobby and Vito. Carmela turns to an unexpected source for help with AJ; Christopher turns to an old writing acquaintance, JT Dolan, for help in a new venture.
Silvio as acting boss certainly has potential for throwing the entire family into turmoil. It's clear that Bobba Baccala is now seeking to take over much of what Uncle Junior controlled; However, it will be interesting to see if he's held to account for not taking care of the confused boss-in-name-only on the night Junior shot Tony.
Posted by Ed Moltzen at 07:49 AM | Comments (0)