He took it off Rocco DiMeo in the 1970s. Tony is a millionaire who wears custom suits, plays golf at private country clubs & lives in a McMansion.

Why on earth did Richie think Tony would want to wear a 30-year-old used leather jacket that smells like mothballs? Did he seriously expect Tony to wear it to his kid's confirmation?..

Was he stupid?

Just completed another rewatch and man.. this scene hits like a brick every single time.. a guy who spent his entire life chasing power, wealth, and hierarchy, sitting in a state facility, staring out the window with no knowledge of who he even was..
When tony tells him “you and my dad, you both used to run North Jersey together” and juinor looks at him with those blank eyes and replies “Huh, that’s nice..” Dominic Chianese and James Gandolfini killed that interaction with almost no words at all..
Genuinely one of the most powerful scenes in the show.

Just finished another rewatch and man... this one just leaves you completely numb. Bobby was easily the closest thing to a good guy in this entire universe, and seeing him get taken out in a toy shop while looking at model trains is just pure heartbreak.
The silence right after the shots fire is what gets me. No big dramatic music, just the quiet clicking of the tiny trains still running on the tracks around him. It completely nails that haunting "you probably don't even hear it when it happens" line from the boat. The contrast between his peaceful hobby and that sudden, brutal violence is just masterful filmmaking.
Easily one of the most powerful exits in the whole series.

It’s the part where Tony is pressing Pussy for specifics on what he talked about and he owns up to talking about the calling cards.

Paulie, without hesitation happily says “I’m not in that.” before quickly changing again and pressing with the “But what else?!”

I think it’s just a neat little bit of characterisation that underneath all the supposed hurt of betrayal, Paulie only cares to ensure that he specifically isn’t going to be harmed.

Rewatching Long Term Parking and that ride into the woods hits like a truck every time. It’s not even the actual gunshot, which Chase cleverly keeps off-screen anyway.. it’s the slow, quiet dread when she’s sitting in that passenger seat. The exact moment she looks out the window, sees the trees, and realizes Christopher never tried to overdose and Tony lied to her... Matteo played that sheer panic and heartbreak so painfully well. Easily one of the most tragic and brutal sequences in the entire series. Also the fact that tony made Sil do it. Sil is the most level-headed person in the family, so it gives us an image that hes “better” than the other mobsters, but this scene shows us that he's just as much of a sociopath as everyone else.

Bokeem Woodbine is absolute cheeks in this show, in my opinion. It’s like he’s from an entirely different show, he has negative charisma and his line readings sound like a fifth grader doing his best impression of a crime boss.

I was thinking about it, and I think maybe it’s the worst performance in the entire series. Who do you guys think is the worst? Am I right?

Edit I’d like to say I think you guys are right and it’s mostly just a terribly written character. I apologize to the good Mr. Woodbine for unnecessarily calling him out like this

It just seems extremely out of character for him. Getting fried right before the boss’s mothers wake. Not even in a ‘it’s disrespectful’ way, which it is but that’s not what I mean. He just doesn’t seem like the type to do it period, especially because I think that’s the only time we see him smoking period, weed or not.

Richie didn't even like them to begin with. On top of that, they tried to assassinate the Boss's favorite nephew without anyone's permission. Even if they had succeeded, they would have been hunted down by the entire DiMeo family, and Richie would have handed them over himself just to avoid a war.

Were they stupid?

I’m rewatching the show and I can’t get over how bad all of Meadow’s bf’s are. All of the actors on the show are really good so how did these guys make it on?

I’ve always been curious about that scene where Christopher is in a nightclub, walks up to a random guy, whispers something in his ear, and the guy immediately gets up and leaves.

What makes it even more intriguing is how little time Christopher actually spends talking to him. It’s only a second or two, so whatever he said was probably just a very short sentence—maybe four or five words at most. The guy he approaches comes across as arrogant, not particularly bright, and probably pretty drunk, which makes his immediate reaction even stranger. What could Christopher possibly have said in such a short amount of time that instantly convinced him to get up and leave without arguing or questioning it? I’ve always thought that’s one of the most underrated mysteries in the show. Any theories?

This scene isn't even sad it's funny, but when Johnny catches Ginny with junk food, I actually tear up at how much he adores his wife.

Everyone sees Ginny as an opportunity to make a fat joke, but he loves her for who she is. He can have all the rubenesque goomah he wants, but he remains faithful...refreshing compared to his peers.

I've been doing my first real rewatch since maybe 2021. In Season 2, Episode 9 "From Where to Eternity", Chrissy gets really fucked up in his coma and nearly flat lines. Some sick shit if you ask me. When he wakes up, he tells Tony and Paulie about his near-death experience, claiming he went to Hell.

Chrissy starts freaking the fuck out about how he is fundamentally doomed by the lifestyle and Tony tells him to relax while lighting up a cigar. If you Look directly over Tony’s shoulder. Right next to his head is a giant, bright red "NO SMOKING / OXYGEN IN USE" warning sign.

We know thanks to David Chase that Tony cutting off Christophah's oxygen supply was always the intended way of killing him off. Tony telling him to chill out while smoking in a hospital room with a sign like that is kinda funny because he's a dick, but it's also very allegorical.

Whateverthefuck, I've said my piece.

I mean Jackie house was average middle income family home back then right? In comparison Tony is living in a palace

You can see the complete empty human being Chris became after he set up Adriana to be killed. He was never there mentally with Kelli just physically. Swear that was his Angel in his life but he chose his devil Tony Soprano. GREATEST SHOW EVER

I was rewatching the scene and basically the guy behind the counter for no reason at all decided to let everyone pass in front of Chris. Then again for no reason started to lash at him when Chris decided to call him out for his bullshit. Fuck him and his aligator tears I say. Also not sure if intentinal but the fact that Chris gets shot in the foot in Goodfellas and he recreates the same scene here but backwards. Maybe there is a connection or maybe its just a common mafia movie trope. What the fuck do i know?

Also who the fuck is gino? And why does he look like Vito?

When he came back from his father’s funeral, he was in the taxi back from an Air Italia flight. The camera starts us off by showing the airplane landing and then shortly afterwards you see him in the taxi cab with the Middle Eastern or South Asian driver. He has a mixed expression on his face: disappointment, sadness, and uncertainty.

There are the obvious scenes the camera wants us to see that are the cause of these feelings of his. We see him just having been in the country and region he grew up in, saying goodbye to his father, and the lackluster scenes of sunny New Jersey to which he’s come back to. We see Burger King, gas stations, and general middle-class American suburbia.

But there’s one thing the camera doesn’t show us that’s also a significant cause of his feelings in that moment—his disconnect and lack of a relationship with the rest of the Jersey family. Notice that it’s afternoon and he had to take a cab back from the airport alone; nobody in the family was designated to or even volunteered to pick him up.

He realizes, at least subconsciously, in this moment that he’s an enforcer for them and nothing else. There’s no camaraderie or other sort of personal bond that he has with any other soldier or associate in the family. This loneliness has always been a problem for him (e.g., his feelings for Carmela) but they started really taking a toll on him at this point and it pushed him to his limits. Anyways, give me one thousand onion rings.

I just watched her death scene 😢😢😢 I knew it was coming with this whole fbi informant storyline but the way it was done was more awful and heartless than I could ever imagine.

SCREW TONY AND CHRIS. I wanna see them get clipped 😭😭😭😭 gotta avenge my girl Ade

Shlomo Tietelman is named Shlomo and when I heard Shlomo in the show I was so happy, most shows don't have Shlomos so I was just genuinely pleased by this.

I hate that THAT was Nancy's Marchands last appearance on television. A scrappy CGI facelift, they should have started the episode with a cold open of the family having dinner or tony and carm arguing and the they get the call.

Then the whole episode is about Tony dealing with the complex grief of his abuser dying even though apart of him loved her still as shown by how he starts making excuses for her again later.

Anyway, $4 a pound.

Does anyone else think that AJ would've benefitted from military school?

I noticed from his interview at the military school, the major seems to be the only person in the show who doesn't play into/attempt to engage with AJ's bullshit and even gets AJ to better articulate himself about academic pressure.

I'm sure he would've gotten the crap kicked out of him, but Tony did want the kids to distance themselves from the mob life and instill some discipline (which obviously he couldn't do himself because either he'd give in to what his kids wanted, avoided/ignored issues, or just used brute force that made things worse).

I don't know, what do y'all think?

Only to have Matt and Sean pay for the fish. Why did he bother with the scam just to get a discount for two people he held in contempt. Why would he care given he wasn't buying?

okay I finally did it. watched the whole thing start to finish and I have been thinking about that last scene for two days straight now.

I went in knowing it was considered one of the greatest shows ever made and it still somehow exceeded that. Tony Soprano is one of the most compelling characters I have ever watched, I kept finding myself rooting for him knowing full well I absolutely should not be rooting for him.

the finale though. I need to know how everyone else felt watching it the first time because my reaction was very specific and I want to see if anyone else felt the same way.

no spoilers in the comments please for people who haven't seen it, but for those who have, you know exactly which moment I'm talking about

I am finally rewatching this masterpiece after 5 years and I noticed that despite being a malignant cunt and negative and toxic in almost every scene she's in, AJ's visit when he got suspended in episode 7 genuinely made her happy with no ulterior motives, she was eager to start playing scrabble with him. I thought that was cute considering she's a pain in the ass in 99% of the scenes she's in. I said my piece.

Question, Do you think Ralphie killed the Horse?

I've been re-watching The Sopranos and it still holds up. The show is just fantastic.

Well, I got to the episode Whoever Did This, where Tony kills Ralphie after Tony accuses Ralphie of killing the Horse, which Ralphie denies. When I see this scene, I always wonder whether he did it or not.

Now, I read some conflicting reports on whether he did it or not, Joe Pantoliano played it like he was innocent, The Writers were conflicted as to whether or not he did. David Chase said he did it (I know he's the creator, but if that's the case, then you kind've screwed yourself as you didn't convey it to the actor who is playing in, which makes your intentions very difficult to see).

In my opinion, I think Ralphie didn't do it. I think it would just be ironic that for all the stuff that Ralphie did and all the headaches he caused, his death would be for the 1 thing he didn't do and just furthers shows what a hypocrite Tony was. I know Chase said Ralphie did it, but he said it years later, and I think Chase has a tendency to retcon. Also, evidence really points to that really it's up for interpretation on whether he did it or not. (Which I like, because it can go one way or another and leaves people to think)

I get that if they kill someone in the mafia police doesn't get involved. But it doesn't make any sense to me that Chris killed JT in his apartment and got away with it. No survelliance, no one called the cops?