I spent 86 hours with these guys just to end it like that? Now I need something equally good to fill the void
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Many Saints of Newark 🙂
o right may as well watch this too even though it is what it is then watch Deadwood
Yeah I know about the movie, just gonna wait a while before I get to it, don’t wanna end the series with a bad taste in my mouth
That movie was such an atrocity, I like to imagine it is a parody made by somebody who hated The Sopranos. You're better off watching the Shield, then rewatch the Sopranos in a few months. There are always things you find that you missed on the first or even second/third viewings.
Marathoning the sopranos is legit bad for you. The first time I did it I could stop saying “ohhh” and threatening to cave peoples heads in with a pipe.
That I believe is simply evidence toward how brilliant it was.
>saying “ohhh”
Lmfao I do the same thing
Nothin' for nothin' but, to be honest after watching that travesty of a film my estimation of David Chase as a writer frickin plummeted.
watch Deadwood
The Wire or Gomorrah
>Gomorrah
Euro cable tv-slop
The only thing close to the vibe of sopranos is the 90s gotti movie
Rubicon
Watch Goodfellas if you haven't seen it, half the cast is the same. Do yourself a favor and never watch Many Saints.
The Wire & The Shield for crime kino
Deadwood & Rome for HBO kino
there is no equal to the sopranos, it's the best tv show.
but there are many great ones for example:
rectify
the shield
mad men
leftovers
nathan for you
twin peaks
arcane
chernobyl
the wire
breaking bad
deadwood
justified
succession
the office
fargo
louie
the americans
babylon 5
lost
firefly
scrubs
malcolm in the middle
avatar
true detective
freaks and geeks
>breaking bad
at least he didn't include better call saul
it should've included it over breaking bad
That's a hard task anon.
Both are great despite all the contrarianism
don't watch
>the shield - season 4 it goes downhill
>leftovers - rapture crap
>nathan for you - guy is cancelled, shows dead
>twin peaks - weird confusing overpraised crap
>arcane - anime, skip
>chernobyl - anti russian propaganda.
>the wire - super overrated, season 4 it goes to crap
>deadwood - good selection
>justified - this is a show for dads
>succession - final season ruined it
>the office - which one?
>fargo - only season 1 and 2
>louie - no
>the americans - commie propaganda. only good for its usage of soundtrack
>babylon 5 - maybe, not sure
>lost - no
>firefly - don't care to watch, movie sucked
>scrubs - frick no
>malcolm in the middle - frick no
>avatar - anime, skip
>true detective - only season 1 which ends idiotically anyway
>freaks and geeks - israelite crew, skip
these are all shit takes
for you - guy is cancelled
Huh??
>twin peaks - weird confusing overpraised crap
>justified - this is a show for dads
I feel personally attacked and feel the only remedy is a QuickDraw standoff.
Also pull up your pants and don’t talk to my daughter.
quite the feat, having so many off the base takes in a row
>rectify
underrated kino
rectify was so promising and then it just fades into unfocused weirdness
six feet under beats a lot of those shows
What's your favorite goofy theory about the ending?
For me it's
>he just noticed somebody coming in, went back to his meal, and went home
I took it as he got shot the moment his daughter came in.
Like bobby said, you don’t even hear it till its done or something. So he heard Meadow come in, the guy who went to the bathroom came back with a gun and killed him instantly.
That's not goofy, it's what happened
It's a dream. He got killed at the end of the episode prior to it.
> It's a dream.
And the only thing that matters was an interracial relationship 30 years prior.
There isnt anything, this was the peak, the summit of Everest for television.
The Wire
>Now I need something equally good to fill the void
that's a tall order, but pic related (seasons 1-2)
Is this show actually that good? It looks like just some guy in an apartment doing mundane shit
The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul are prob it
just watch it again
I'm going to try and write out why the Sopranos means so much to me, and since it's here, and I'm feeling rather low today, I really want to share.
My dad, is an upstanding guy, always did the right thing or tried to, and my aunt, like Janice, skipped out after my grandfather died. So my dad helped my grandmother. But the thing is, Livia is so much like my granny it's unbelievable, even had similar manners of speech. And just like in the show, my grandmother wore my strong grandfather to a nub. He was so much lesser when he died. A gerbil. And then she did the same thing to my dad.
Except, unlike in the show, my gran died slow, of dementia. Losing her sanity and everyday we got to watch it. I helped where I could, and she called me by his name and so on. All the horror stories associated with dementia. But it's the effect that it had on my dad... She tore his heart apart, and I watched my dad become lesser in front of me, colder. Just like Tony. And then she died.
Those first two seasons, while a TV show, are so absolutely accurate in their portrayal of that parent/child relationship and generation it's uncanny.
My dad IS Tony Soprano, on the meta-level, not only is he a boomer, but he has all the angsts and issues that Tony explores and vocalises in the show. And my aunt IS Janice; fricked up and broken in her own ways, but also a carrion bird: self-interested and always on the fringe out of danger. My grandmother WAS Livia, and my grandfather, dead before I knew him, has had as much of a spectral presence in my life as Johnny-Boy does in the show. My sister was just like Meadow, and my mom, was very similar to Carmella.
And for whatever reason, I was just like AJ. A fricking idiot and emotionally screwed kid trying to figure things out. I even tried to kill myself, but thankfully I got past a lot of that.
2/2
But the resentment, the 'your father fricking hates you' memes are real. And at the same time, so is the not being able to 'man-up' and emulate the shit that he did cracking other guys skulls in highschool in 1970...
When the series finished, I remember watching the last episode with my family, and then as soon as it was available on dvd, my dad got it. We would binge it. For weeks after school that's what was on tv and we watched it together. Seeing the oddly intimate struggles of the show was so strange, because it could be applied to any of us at a given time.
We watched the whole series at least once a year from 2009 to 2015, and the accuracy of the show's depiction of mental health, therapy, and how it captured the milieu of that time-period, 99-00s *is* so much of my life's experience. It's surreal and bizarre to watch. (And of course utterly nostalgic)
And what's crazier than anything else is that I also suffer from panic attacks, and I eventually found out my dad does too. Infected by that putrid fricking gene... And now I pay some fricking jerkoff to 'help' and to listen to me. And a lot of the time it doesn't feel like it's helping.
For those who don't know, the scenes with Melfi, are honestly some of the most accurate depictions of CBT I've ever seen in media, and the dysfunctional, fricked up familial dynamics are also, so accurate it's difficult to watch the show now and honestly. I don't know if I could re-watch it on my own again.