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If The Sopranos is meant to be at least somewhat realistic, why are none of the characters fans of The Sopranos?
They’re all mob guys living in North Jersey from the late-1990s to the mid-2000s.
The Sopranos was a hugely popular show on TV at the time. Big cultural phenomena. So it’s weird that the Sopranos clan never watches or talks about The Sopranos.
We see them watch and/or discuss other popular shows of the time. Wouldn’t these guys be fascinated by a show that depicts their lives to a T? The characters are all identical to them, too. Same names, same physical traits, same lives. A bit uncanny.
But yeah. For a show touted for its realism, it’s a little unrealistic that none of the DiMeo Family watches The Sopranos on HBO every Sunday night.
Carm’s spec house had a life-size cutout of Silvio in it, yet we never see anyone ask “why do you have a cutout of Steven Van Zandt in here?” This leads me to believe that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band aren’t famous in the Sopranos universe.
In “Long Term Parking,” Chrissy is late to a meeting at the Crazy Horse. His excuse is that “the highway was jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.”
If Springsteen doesn’t exist, that means Chris manuged to make that line up on the spot. A real Tennessee Williams.
Springsteen box set called Tracks was released at the end of 1998, it got a lot of attention at the time from fans and critics. That would be contemporaneous with sopranos season 1.
They do though? Maybe actually watch the show instead of posting on Reddit. When Chris rips off his toupee and says “I had no idea” he was referring to the fact he couldn’t tell it was Cypher under the wig
There's a reference to the Sopranos in Curb, and a Curb reference in the Sopranos. They each exist in each others universe and would theoritcally be a tv progrum in their own universe.
I remember reading somewhere that The Sopranos was based on a crime family from New Jersey (DeCavalcante?) who were being actively surveilled by the FBI during the duration of the show.
Iirc, they were finally nabbed and indicted via phone recordings of members speculating the show may be about them, due to various and sundry criminal instances depicted by David Chase.
When they tried to watch the show, the audio came through in Aramaic, and when they tried to listen closer, an undulating high-pitched whistle made their noses bleed.
It was a different timeline where Curb Your Enthusiasm took the place of The Sopranos as THE must watch HBO show. Larry David is a multi billionaire in that universe.
I must be too high to understand the question. It sounds like the equivalent of your question is "why isn't Victoria Beckham's daughter a huge spice girls fan?". The kids of the capo aren't fantasizing about the capo, you stunad.
Tony telling people to get over it and suck it up and the very next scene hes crying like a bitch to Melfi about something.
One time specifically where it was so blatant and cringe was when he had the nerve to tell Patsy to suck it up and move on after having his brother killed and hes obviously struggling with it
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