>We need a lazy narrative device to spoonfeed Tony's inner monolgue to the audience
Skip. This really passed as brilliant writing in the 2000's?
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True. A mafia boss going to the therapist is odd
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Ew
GILFI
hooollLYYY frickK!!
GYATTT DAM
Fricking 70 and I'd still hit it.
nice
true but she had really nice legs so I didn't skip except for the times she wore pants like in your image, then I did skip
Best psychiatrist scenes are the ones without Melfi, when Tony visits the guy who brings up Analyze This, and the israeli guy that tells Carmela that she and her husband are evil
To be fair, the point of Melfi as a character is more to BE the audience, not so much to spoonfeed them information. She’s fascinated by Tony, wants to know what’s happening with him, and likes him in spite of how shitty a person he is for all the reasons the person sitting on the couch watching the show is. Chase was trying to take the American culture of finding entertainment value in the morally reprehensible to task.
That said, you need to understand that unlike today where the language of therapy and the awareness of concepts of psychology are central parts of our cultural lexicon, it wasn’t like that for the baby boomer generation. They didn’t grow up with an awareness of shit like child psychological trauma, depression/anxiety, narcissism and sociopathy, etc. as fundamentally informing their world view the way millennials and gen z did. They were raised on “just DO shit” and be productive (i.e go to college, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, get promoted, etc.) whereas our generation was raised on questioning and understanding our feelings on what we were doing and how it impacted us. It’s why our parents generation had mid life crisis and we all have quarter life crisis. They looked up at age 40-something for the first time in adulthood after 20 years of just mindlessly grinding and went “oh shit. I’m halfway through my life. What have I done with my time? Why did I do what I did? Who am I?” because they’d literally never thought to ask that shit before. Meanwhile gen z and millennials are struggling to move out of their parents basements because they can’t figure out what to do with their lives because they were raised to be asking that shit all…the…time.
So yea, in 2000 people needed that stuff explained to them. The Sopranos walked so that shows like Mad Men could run with a far more savvy tv audience that could read between the lines in ways that Sopranos first trained tv audiences to do.
What does Melfi being raped mean? Does it represent the American Taxpayer being fricked with no vaseline by the establishment?
Nah it was just cheap character assassination and totally unnecessary to make a point about self-reliance and being a person of action vs. intellectualizing everything and putting the power to act in the hands of others.
it was making a fricked up point that it's better to be raped and not seek revenge than to get your hands dirty. it was a different time, yk? before "revenge bad" became the most overused and laziest motif
>it’s better
It didn’t make a point at all about whether it was better or not, just that it was Melfi’s choice and that it’s what makes her different from someone like Tony. Up to you to decide which side is right in that situation.
He went to her because he was having frightening medical emergencies.
Baby boomers wrote the damn show, lol.
>Baby boomers wrote the damn show, lol
Yea. So?
Those medical emergencies could be solved with benzodiazepines
Thats like saying that you can light a candle with a flamethrower. Technically correct, completely overkill and the wrong solution to the problem.
Fricking with your brain chemistry will always produce results, but it comes with enough dire side effects that you should always use it as a method of last resort, not a first option.
Anon, just let the zoomers be self-righteous midwits. They don’t appreciate or deserve kino.
Whatever happened to Gary Cooper? The strong, silent type.
I pray every day that war is forced upon you zoomers
>I pray every day that war is forced upon you zoomers
mafia boss in therapy is too good of a premise to care about that shit
the wire sucks
oz sucks
sopranos sucks
HBO sucks
same slop over and over. stop giving them attention
keyed
um wrong
Lazy narrative devices disguised as psychiatrist sessions are the lowest form of conversation
Usually I would just hold this as a pretentious and contrarian opinion, but I have to agree you with you on this with sopranos. Audiences haven't changed much over the decades, they don't want to think about things. It's the writer's fault for thinking he was obligated to explain it.
I would lovingly kiss her legs.
Right. Like you brainlets would have actually understood Tony without Melfi explaining it to you.
The Sopranos is the most midwit show ever.
Only lunatics have an "inner monologue".
They also can't read at a speed faster than a 4 year old coz they're sounding out the words in their head as if someone was saying them out loud.
>brilliant writing
No, dummy, brilliant writing would go over your head. That's why they had to spoon feed it to you in the first place. You don't have the attention span to take in the necessarily subtle metaphors that this kind of storytelling demands. You would simply be too bored to keep watching.
Well, HBO wanted a successful show and that means lots of eyes on the screen and so out comes the feeding spoon.
Personally, I'm just glad they picked Bracco for the role of feeding me all that sweet, sweet exposition. I've always liked her. Plus, she's got great legs.