As long as I'm hawking links, I'll say go check out
Slate next week. I'm crossing my fingers that they bring back the panel of psychiatrists who deconstruct the show every week (with an understandable emphasis on Tony's sessions with Dr. Melfi). There's often a morass of psychobabble to wade through, but they bring up very cogent points and it's fun to see professionals "in the know" talk about what they see. If only we could get a panel of wiseguys to chime in every week. "Now see, I would have used piano wire myself."
The always fascinating Tim Goodman of the San Francisco Chronicle gave the new Sopranos episode the highest rating. Read his review
here.
From the article I see that that is in fact Steve Buscemi I saw briefly in the previews and in the Annie Leibowitz print ad.
Perfect. I'm a big fan of his. He's playing a newly-released-from-prison cousin of Tony's who was sent up during the round of mafia trials in the early 80s. I haven't seen him do a straight-up thug since Fargo, so I'm hoping it's shades of that. All around that's great casting, and I'm generally a big fan of "special guest stars". The only downside to this is, being busy acting on the show, he may not have time to direct another "Pine Barrens". Ah well.
Well, 24 hours and 17 minutes to go...
T-minus 4 days and counting. Come Sunday night, I will be watching the new season of Sopranos with my famiglia by the warm glow of my big screen. Needless to say I am one excited boy. So I've started this here blog to serve up my feelings on each episode and pass on whatever news and spoilers I can find. I'm aiming to get off at least one of these posts after every episode throughout the season. Be kind to me though. I've got a life, and a whole other blog I've gotta post to as well. But I know my duties. As the Man himself said:
"You chose this life. You don't want to work in the rain, try for the fucking Yankees."
