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Pope Corky the IX posted:He’s just having some bad luck! It's just a stutter step
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Pirate Radar posted:The guy they were going to have whack Carmine Sr. before Tony changed his mind and had Benny and the other guy clean up the loose ends was named Credenzo, which sounds like a name that dropped off a racist chain email about a woman naming her kids after furniture I mean, back when the show was new and I hadn't seen it I thought just the name "Soprano" was supposed to be a joke about a mob family who is fighting for respect after being cursed with a name that makes them sound all  or something.
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Nov 26, 2023 16:07
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Data Graham posted:I mean, back when the show was new and I hadn't seen it I thought just the name "Soprano" was supposed to be a joke about a mob family who is fighting for respect after being cursed with a name that makes them sound all He was gay, Tony Soprano?
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Nov 26, 2023 16:15
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AidV4X3yUc I completely forgot about Turkish Sopranos.
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Nov 26, 2023 16:18
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TheKingslayer posted:Sean and Matt are almost unbelievably stupid. Most people probably think they only exist in fiction, but gently caress if I haven't known a few Seans and Matts in my life. Matt Bevilaqua (Drinkwater) You know it's a good nickname when you give it to yourself and have to say it along with your actual name!
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Data Graham posted:I mean, back when the show was new and I hadn't seen it I thought just the name "Soprano" was supposed to be a joke about a mob family who is fighting for respect after being cursed with a name that makes them sound all That was Leotardo
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Nov 26, 2023 16:51
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I grew up around so many Italians I knew two unrelated Matthew Bevilaquas. It makes me laugh every time.
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Nov 26, 2023 17:14
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Both of those people are only named, not seen, so… Given hip-hop style nicknames by someone who's famously out of touch when writing black characters, but you're right, them being black is an inference on my part.
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Nov 26, 2023 17:37
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Ralph Hurley posted:That was Leotardo And Richie Aprile's kid. Seems he enjoyed dancing and it was best not to bring that up. Particularly around Janice.
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Nov 26, 2023 20:15
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TheKingslayer posted:Robert Patrick really is a talented dude. That he has the range to be an utterly convincing liquid metal assassin but also turn around and be this utterly pathetic addict is amazing to me. don't forget the biggest camp villain ever seen in Double Dragon
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Nov 26, 2023 21:09
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Is his Sopranos role how he ended up being on X-Files? Because that's what I think of with him and his prominent roles.
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Nov 26, 2023 21:22
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He was also in that awful soldiers and their wives show that I thought ran for like 4 episodes and got canceled but then turned out to run for like 12 seasons or something.
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Jerusalem posted:He was also in that awful soldiers and their wives show that I thought ran for like 4 episodes and got canceled but then turned out to run for like 12 seasons or something. My mom loved that show to the point where she'd start fishing out all the characters' back stories and drama randomly at dinner. At least Dennis Haysbert got paid
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Dokapon Findom posted:Matt Bevilaqua (Drinkwater) And then make sure everyone knows you're going back to your original name.
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Furio dunking on those nerds right in their faces is funny as poo poo. Something I forgot to comment on and I hope I'm saying this right, the entire time Tony and the boys were in Italy something about the portrayal of the Italian mobsters didn't just make them seem culturally different but almost like a different species from Tony's guys at all. Like they were meeting mobsters from another planet. Gave everything a slightly surreal feeling to me.
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TheKingslayer posted:Furio dunking on those nerds right in their faces is funny as poo poo.
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Nov 27, 2023 00:23
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They're hardcore, but they're also internally ridiculous in their own way. Everyone's still doing all this weird kayfabe and pretending that obviously incompetent/incapable bosses are formidable, while presenting an impenetrable front to the outsiders, that sort of thing. (Might be misremembering the details of how that went down but that's the impression I was left with)
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Data Graham posted:They're hardcore, but they're also internally ridiculous in their own way. Everyone's still doing all this weird kayfabe and pretending that obviously incompetent/incapable bosses are formidable, while presenting an impenetrable front to the outsiders, that sort of thing.
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Data Graham posted:They're hardcore, but they're also internally ridiculous in their own way. Everyone's still doing all this weird kayfabe and pretending that obviously incompetent/incapable bosses are formidable, while presenting an impenetrable front to the outsiders, that sort of thing. And they’ve still been so badly hit by Italian law enforcement that a lot of their best people are in prison. Come to think of it, it would also have been a great episode if Tony showed up there and was told that the boss can’t see him because he’s been in hiding for 20 years to escape prosecution a la a bunch of the current Italian organized crime guys.
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Mauro Zucca is serving the life sentence; I think that's a sufficiently interesting detail/reason why Annalisa is Tony's analogue as acting boss?
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Oh it’s still good the way it is, sure. I was just thinking, it would be funny if he showed up and it was all “sorry, you can’t meet the boss because he sleeps in a barn”—the kind of thing Tony would like the sound of because it shows you’re a real tough customer but wouldn’t be willing to do himself. Every time he has to go to the mattresses in the show he seems miserable about it.
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I love how almost every urban shot of Naples shows just how run down it was in the early 2000s, the only complaint I have is that there should’ve also been mountains of garbage around in the background literally everywhere
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Nov 27, 2023 16:48
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They show that when Furio goes back for his father's funeral, and he mentions "all the hamburger wrappers on the ground"
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ulvir posted:I love how almost every urban shot of Naples shows just how run down it was in the early 2000s, the only complaint I have is that there should’ve also been mountains of garbage around in the background literally everywhere they probably cleaned it up for the shoots, but they couldn't do anything about the graffiti
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Agent Harris has beautiful eyes.
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Jerusalem posted:He was also in that awful soldiers and their wives show that I thought ran for like 4 episodes and got canceled but then turned out to run for like 12 seasons or something. "The Unit" was the first thing that got me real concerned about what was going on with David Mamet
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I recently got a good friend to do a first watch and something we were chatting about that had sort of slipped my mind was just how willfully oblivious and morally compromised Meadow lets herself become. Finn is trying to be totally honest with her about the things he's seeing on the job site(Gene assaulting the other guy pretty violently) and how scared he is of Vito and she totally blows him off and erases his feelings and centers herself at the whole thing, only to turn around and essentially laugh at how freaked out he was when she tells Carm and Ro about Vito and the security guard. The line about "they brought their modes of conflict resolution all the way from the old country" is especially patently absurd. Man what a good show.
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TheKingslayer posted:Agent Harris has beautiful eyes. He's got a Rock Hudson quality to him
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One of the shittiest things Meadow does is lie and blame Jackie Jr's murder on two black guys just so she can try to end the argument with Finn after he's freaked out by Eugene using little Paulie's face to break a Snapple bottle.
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Well, that's the lie she was told, and subsequently told herself; it's not as if she could verify it one way or the other
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Pope Corky the IX posted:One of the shittiest things Meadow does is lie and blame Jackie Jr's murder on two black guys just so she can try to end the argument with Finn after he's freaked out by Eugene using little Paulie's face to break a Snapple bottle. She's a walking gaslight to Finn, its insane they last so long.
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Matt Zerella posted:She's a walking gaslight to Finn, its insane they last so long. There was no abundant intentionality in me taking out the suitcase!
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Admiral Bosch posted:The line about "they brought their modes of conflict resolution all the way from the old country" is especially patently absurd. Man what a good show. It's from the poverty of the Mezzogiorno! All power was corrupt! Eugene had no choice really when you think about it.
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Another Bill posted:There was no abundant intentionality in me taking out the suitcase! Their teenage and younger dialogue is often not good but their "I just had my first psych course" college dialogue? Chef's kiss.
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Mashup of Every Breath You Take and the Peter Gunn theme in the season three premier is a banger. Can anyone speak to how legit this lamp operation is the FBI are pulling? The part I mean specifically is where they have an artist hand weathering the bugged lamp. Feels like there would be an easier way. TheKingslayer fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Nov 28, 2023 |
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TheKingslayer posted:Can anyone speak to how legit this lamp operation is the FBI are pulling? The part I mean specifically is where they have an artist hand weathering the bugged lamp. Feels like there would be an easier way. It's not too far off what the FBI did when they bugged Paul Castellano's house. There they even had to do things like figure out a way to drug the Dobermans he had on the property.
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That's insane. I need to pick up some books on this sort of thing.
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I want to say that they managed to bug Lucchese boss ‘Tony Ducks’ Corallo’s car while it was in the shop or something There’s a book called ‘Five Families’ that goes into great detail on the history of the American Mob and also tells a bunch of great stories
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TheKingslayer posted:That's insane. I need to pick up some books on this sort of thing. I can recommend Boss of Bosses: The Fall of the Godfather: The FBI and Paul Castellano. Unnecessary colons aside, it's written by the agents who did it and it's a fascinating read. They go into a lot of detail of the mob at the time and it's really interesting. I remember vividly them talking about Castellano's consiglieri Joe N. Gallo (not to be confused with "Crazy Joe" Gallo, the guy who decided his crew should take on one of the Five Families by themselves) and they thought he was just way too smart for somebody to have the job he did because the average mafia soldier is a bag of hammers and it clearly annoyed Gallo greatly.
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FlamingLiberal posted:There’s a book called ‘Five Families’ that goes into great detail on the history of the American Mob and also tells a bunch of great stories For those that are interested, IMO there is *no* better/more comprehensive book on Mafia history. The only downside is there is some repetition, where a story will be told in the section about a particular family and then repeated later on in a section about a particular guy.
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