...for not posting earlier in the week. When I finally got the gumption to do some writing, I noticed Max's World hadn't been updated in a couple of weeks and was looking sad and forlorn. So that used up my creative juices for the week. (I know what you're thinking - that site takes
creativity to write? "Creative juices" is my code word for White Russians.)
So, on to Soprano-related blogging.
Feech is a bad bad bad man, but Paulie Walnuts is a gangster's gangster. I'm not sure what was worse: Feech's wrath on that gardener, or how Paulie makes things right by swindling 500 bucks out of the guy's compensation and then making the gardener do a bunch of wiseguys' lawns for free. You get the feeling that this is how the mob really works. And any excuse to show Paulie with his aged mother and aunt is classic, after last season's whacking of his mom's retirement home bully.
Tony B and Feech huh? He seems awfully chummy with Feech for a guy who says he wants to go straight. If a marquee name is getting whacked this season, my money's on Blundetto pulling the trigger. Johnny Sack, Christopher, Carmine Jr., take your pick. Or all of the above. I said last week that this season could get real bloody, and this week (with what Johnny Sack's goons were gonna do to the lady shylock, and the gang war that already seems to have started) did nothing to dissuade me from that notion. Does Sopranos imitate life or does life imitate Sopranos?
That last scene with Tony and Junior on the couch (Tony: "Don't you love me?") really cut to the whole deeper meaning of the show, and something that hasn't been touched upon in couple of seasons, namely how emotionally crippled these characters are. In fact, I was worried that it was a little too on-the-nose for a show that specializes in subtleties (well, as subtle as a show can be whose fans argue about who will get whacked this week). Tony and Janice were royally screwed up by both of their parents and now they are barely functional adults.
In short, it's a cautionary tale...LOL.
