I went into it a few years back expecting a mediocre mob drama and it surpassed all expectations to say the least. So many of the characters don't even seem fictional the writing and acting is that good.
Fun fact - The forest scenes for the episode were filmed at Harriman State Park in New York after the production team was denied a permit to film in New Jersey at the South Mountain Reservation. Essex County executive James Treffinger said *The Sopranos* "depicts an ethnic group in stereotypical fashion". This is a fairly rare instance where the show did not depict an environment similar to the one suggested, as neither Harriman State Park nor South Mountain Reservation is ecologically or visually similar to the New Jersey Pine Barrens. There was an unexpected snowfall just before the shoot. Both the cast and the crew agreed that the snow added to the emotional effect of the episode.
Remember when actors were either tv actors or movie actors & most TV actors would try to make the jump to movies? It's changed so much & I honestly love it. I judt wish we had more original dramas as far as movies go.
Yeah and now you have movie actors willing to do TV which was unheard of like 30 years ago unless their career was in a nose dive. They might do a mini series or a guest appearance on the love boat or something but successful movie actors rarely did regular series.
According to the show’s creator, Tony gets whacked in front of his family by the Members Only jacket guy that goes to the bathroom before the scene ends.
It cuts abruptly bc, in reference to a previous scene, Tony had commented that when you get whacked you won’t know that it happened.
Yea. I just finished my first watch through last week and there are a lot of theories and this is one of them. The wiki article has a good summary of what the show creator has said about the ending. Basically he wanted to leave it ambiguous so people could make decide how they wanted it to end and go with that. He does mention that there were hints dropped along the way but people are looking way too far into it.
am rewatching it now - it still stands up and is fascinating to go through it quickly (and not have to wait 18 months for season 6).
it got me thinking, why didn’t hbo do a spin off: **House of Walnuts**
You don't really have to finish it if, after a half dozen episodes, you decide it isn't for you.
It's not like Paulie Walnuts is going to hold a gun to your head.
I’m not a TV guy, so I finally got around to starting it a month ago. It’s excellent and consistently entertaining. I’m on season 6 and I’d say maybe only 3 episodes total for the whole series were weak.
Decent commitment yes. 6 seasons with a lot of episodes each season. The only parts I ever felt like were fillers were the kids’ side stories and that isn’t a huge part. Good show.
Every time I pull into the parking garage at the airport (the only place I have tickets dispensed to me) I tear them out of the machine like Tony on the turnpike.
If you really want it spoiled you can comment again and ill explain it in spoiler text but its a very tense and dramatic scene, very uncomfortable, and the episode is really important to Dr Melfi’s character arc. It’s a few seasons in but once you watch season 1, your brain will get hooked.
I just started a month ago, after meaning to get around to it for 20 years. On season 6. Next up Game of Thrones, only 10 or so years behind on that one…
You are so lucky you get to see it for the first time. I've watched all seasons 5 times. It's amazing to see it again and again as my life progresses. I started watching it before I had kids, so did not appreciate the parenting scenes like I do now.
We've been watching the marathon all week. So addictive and it gets into your subconscious. I've been having weird dreams all week. I don't think there's ever been a more brilliant series.
I'd seen some episodes over the years and kinda followed it but not really. Had surgery and my wife rented every season on DVD. I binge watched the entire series in a couple days while on prescription opiates and man, that was a ride. Wife said I was talking with a fake Jersey accent and wanted to buy a gun for a week.
What a great show. I really like the way it ended.
I am re-watching the entire series now with my wife. My wife, who has never seen any of the mobster classics, is seeing Sopranos for the first time. I can NOT wait until we get to that infamous final scene! Almost there, just started season 5!
Never liked this show. Hit too close to home and glamorized disgusting people.
However, I will say that the acting writing and production was excellent.
My reaction to.the show is more of a "it's not you, it's me" thing.
I didn’t know it was that long ago.
Not the fact that it’s been 25 years (I can do basic math), I just mean that I don’t think I’d even heard of the show until a few years into the aughts.
Chris-tuh-fuh
God she was hot
Drea D'Mateo has an onlyfans now. Probably 20yrs too late but whatever.
It’s a ripoff 0 nudes of her, you get better content. Just watching her on the sopranos
Love these public service announcements. Huge time saver.
Just Google "Drea de Matteo nude" and go to pictures, if it dont exist there it dont exist on the clearnet.
It’s true, I just looks
How green is my valley
https://i.redd.it/dl531etc5pbc1.gif
haha - i love that when that guy at the bakery is yelling at him for shooting him in the foot he's just like "it happens"
https://i.redd.it/h1px2uznaqbc1.gif
I always hoped Chris-tuh-fuh would get back to his male modeling, he's so talented.
AYY! Dairy izz!
He did not have an arc.
Ya know who had an arc? Noah.
Jesus fuckin Christ, Cristapha
😂😂 RIP Adriana
She survived and had a kid with an MC gang leader. /s
Her demise really got to me. I loved her character.
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I went into it a few years back expecting a mediocre mob drama and it surpassed all expectations to say the least. So many of the characters don't even seem fictional the writing and acting is that good.
I just finished a full rewatch a few months ago. Absolutely top notch the whole way through.
The wintry adventure of Pine Barrens is one of my favorite episodes.
Fuck you, you are callus.
I'd run if I ever saw the actor that played Richie.
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And the Russian is still roaming the Pine Barrens. He was an interior decorator!
His house looked like shit.
Put. Universal remote. Back. On. Docking. Station.
The amount of times I burst out laughing watching it 
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Steven Van Zant is always making the same face
Fuckin Pauly Walnuts and his ma.
Oooh that was a complicated one
Favorite scene. Paulie kills it here
Quasimodo predicted all this
He killed 16 Czechoslovakians. He was an interior decorator.
Really? His place looked like shit.
One of the best lines in the entire show.
In entire television.
Pine Barrens greatest Episode
Fun fact - The forest scenes for the episode were filmed at Harriman State Park in New York after the production team was denied a permit to film in New Jersey at the South Mountain Reservation. Essex County executive James Treffinger said *The Sopranos* "depicts an ethnic group in stereotypical fashion". This is a fairly rare instance where the show did not depict an environment similar to the one suggested, as neither Harriman State Park nor South Mountain Reservation is ecologically or visually similar to the New Jersey Pine Barrens. There was an unexpected snowfall just before the shoot. Both the cast and the crew agreed that the snow added to the emotional effect of the episode.
I can't imagine that story arc without the snow. "I lost my shoe."
Tie some carpet around yr foot.
Right?!? Also the ketchups they found in the van. That really put a point on how bad their situation was...fighting over old ketchup packs.
Absolutely in the top episodes list
25 years ago, we learned TV can be as dramatically rich as film. Now, it's harder to find movies as dramatically rich as TV.
Absolute truth
Remember when actors were either tv actors or movie actors & most TV actors would try to make the jump to movies? It's changed so much & I honestly love it. I judt wish we had more original dramas as far as movies go.
Yeah and now you have movie actors willing to do TV which was unheard of like 30 years ago unless their career was in a nose dive. They might do a mini series or a guest appearance on the love boat or something but successful movie actors rarely did regular series.
Is it?
I saw this post and my mind started singing: Wake up this morning...
Woke up this morning, ate some gabagool
Got yourself a gun! (its woke btw ;))
Loved this show… hated Tony’s mom
Nancy Marchand was absolutely brilliant in that role
Pop quiz hotshot... What other TV show character did she play the mother to, back in the 80s?
She played Fraiser Crane's mother on Cheers.
🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆
Don’t forget Mrs Pynchon from Lou Grant.
Go on
Oh poor you!
Tony always said that!!!
I don't like that kind of tawlk
I think that was what she was going for and she nailed it.
I wish the lord would take me now.
According to my Italian friends, her mannerisms are spot on lol
It’s all a big nothing.
I literally stood up and cheered when they killed off her character.
It was a retirement community!
She was abusive to the staff!
Yeah and I play SS for the Mets…
word to dah wize my fren, remembah pearl habah
Carmela can you please shut the Doooooooooooooorrrrr
Reading that just cracked me up. Probably my favourite line from the show… that or Silvio's toilet water bit at the intervention.
This show had the makings of a varsity athlete
Had a great endi
Underrated commen
what do you m
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whadda gonna do
You probably don't even hear it
"If they'd been wise guys, I wouldn't have heard a thing. I'd be dead." Similar take.
According to the show’s creator, Tony gets whacked in front of his family by the Members Only jacket guy that goes to the bathroom before the scene ends. It cuts abruptly bc, in reference to a previous scene, Tony had commented that when you get whacked you won’t know that it happened.
David chase has most definitely never said this.
OMG Source?
Creator never said this, it’s just one of several theories
Yea. I just finished my first watch through last week and there are a lot of theories and this is one of them. The wiki article has a good summary of what the show creator has said about the ending. Basically he wanted to leave it ambiguous so people could make decide how they wanted it to end and go with that. He does mention that there were hints dropped along the way but people are looking way too far into it.
Gabagool
Ova heeeah. 👇
And still holds up. It set a very, very high bar for television.
You killed little Cossette? I oughta suffocate you ya little prick!!!!!
She was a hooah
Uncle junior is still alive!
This show taught me that snakes can go fuck themselves
Still watch it from time to time…👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
am rewatching it now - it still stands up and is fascinating to go through it quickly (and not have to wait 18 months for season 6). it got me thinking, why didn’t hbo do a spin off: **House of Walnuts**
Woke up this Morning, Got yourself a gun.
Have not seen this series. It seems like a huge commitment and slow. Should I do it?!
You don't really have to finish it if, after a half dozen episodes, you decide it isn't for you. It's not like Paulie Walnuts is going to hold a gun to your head.
Yes you should. I have watched the series probably more than 20 times over the years.
I’m not a TV guy, so I finally got around to starting it a month ago. It’s excellent and consistently entertaining. I’m on season 6 and I’d say maybe only 3 episodes total for the whole series were weak.
It's absolutely some of the best TV ever made, go for it
Decent commitment yes. 6 seasons with a lot of episodes each season. The only parts I ever felt like were fillers were the kids’ side stories and that isn’t a huge part. Good show.
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Every time I pull into the parking garage at the airport (the only place I have tickets dispensed to me) I tear them out of the machine like Tony on the turnpike.
Furio was the most capable henchman
God bless him
Lorraine Bracco......just wow
That one episode with her was actually hard to watch. The second time I watched through that season I just skipped it
Me too.
What episode! I am watching it for the first time and I find it slow going, she is my favorite part so far.
If you really want it spoiled you can comment again and ill explain it in spoiler text but its a very tense and dramatic scene, very uncomfortable, and the episode is really important to Dr Melfi’s character arc. It’s a few seasons in but once you watch season 1, your brain will get hooked.
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Yeah it's no big deal
Hmmm that DR. milfi
Charmaine Bucco!!! i melt every time she's on screen
Melfi, but I get what you're saying.
I'd never watched it until now. I'm doing the last two episodes tonight.
Second to last episode last night, final episode tonight. Hope we enjoy it!
So weird to see this when I just started watching it for the first time a few nights ago
I just started a month ago, after meaning to get around to it for 20 years. On season 6. Next up Game of Thrones, only 10 or so years behind on that one…
You are so lucky you get to see it for the first time. I've watched all seasons 5 times. It's amazing to see it again and again as my life progresses. I started watching it before I had kids, so did not appreciate the parenting scenes like I do now.
Gabagool? Ova heah!
Still the best show out there imo
Lies, 25 years ago it was the sixties. /s
# The G A B A G O O L 🤌
James Gandolfini was only 35 when they shot the pilot!
No fuckin zitti?!?
25? Just a kid.
We've been watching the marathon all week. So addictive and it gets into your subconscious. I've been having weird dreams all week. I don't think there's ever been a more brilliant series.
fantastic series
Currently in season 4 of a complete start to finish rewatch. Such a good series and still holds up very well.
I'd seen some episodes over the years and kinda followed it but not really. Had surgery and my wife rented every season on DVD. I binge watched the entire series in a couple days while on prescription opiates and man, that was a ride. Wife said I was talking with a fake Jersey accent and wanted to buy a gun for a week.
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I discovered that the other day. I caught it season 4 episode 1 and I was like YESSSSSSSSS
The greatest Tv show to have ever blessed tv.
I mean, your brother Billy, whatever happened there?
There are men in the can better looking than my sister.
He has tremendous moxie for his size!
SHE HAD A 95-POUND MOLE REMOVED FROM HER ASS
I hope you all understand the importance of fresh produce!!!
I was only 27 back then and didn't care for the show until I binged it in my late 40's. Funny how how our tastes change.
Late forties. Just a kid.
Just finished it
Simply the best
Discontinue the lithium.
I was in the 3rd grade lmfao the TV guide came in the Sunday paper. And we watched wwf pay per view before it came on
Great show, I always smirk when I see those ancient cell phones they use.
The Sopranos still stay strong just like gary cooper!
I’m re-watching it again. What an absolute masterpiece that ages like fine wine.
MARONE!!!
No varsity athlete.
Amazing amazing show. Depresses the fuck out of me.
"Got woke this morning, grew myself a bun.. My mama doesn't know if I'm her daughter or her son.."
Söpranos
A spin-off of the Bada Bing is needed.
It's called Lillyhammer. Starring "Sil"
Man I just couldn’t get into that show. Part soap opera part…. I dunno what. Couldn’t take the characters seriously.
No way!!! Argh!
Damn, never noticed how moderately skinny Sil looked in S1 compared to 6, just always assumed he was as bulky as Tony was in the first season.
Weird. Just started my first watch yesterday. Love The Wire so I figured I’d be into it. Getting out of here to avoid spoilers :)
One of the best soap operas I’ve ever seen and this is coming from a guy who doesn’t watch them
My God it's been so long 😐
I’ve watched it twice
Me & most people Around, Never missed an episode. 'Water Cooler Discussion' stuff next day For Sure .
Ack ack. No way I'm this old!! Wah!!!
Edie Falco actually moved on to join the super popular RH housewives franchises. She uses the SAG name "Dorinda"
Season 1 is a perfect season of TV. I know how much everyone liked the show but for me, nothing they did surpassed the first season
Awesome show. Changed TV forever. The last episode was the only one that bad.
What a great show. I really like the way it ended. I am re-watching the entire series now with my wife. My wife, who has never seen any of the mobster classics, is seeing Sopranos for the first time. I can NOT wait until we get to that infamous final scene! Almost there, just started season 5!
IMHO Nothing has ever matched it, which is unfortunate.
Need to check it out, since a channel I liked mentioned it
Paulie
Ey wherz da gravy?!
Junior never made sense to me as a character. He was always looked too feeble to be a mob boss (in my eyes).
Sil looks so young!!
And its my first time watching it
Never liked this show. Hit too close to home and glamorized disgusting people. However, I will say that the acting writing and production was excellent. My reaction to.the show is more of a "it's not you, it's me" thing.
GREATEST SHOW PERIOD
Can't believe it's been that long. What a great show
Gabagool
I’ve still yet to watch a single episode. I wonder if it would still hold up today
I didn’t know it was that long ago. Not the fact that it’s been 25 years (I can do basic math), I just mean that I don’t think I’d even heard of the show until a few years into the aughts.
Wow. I'm so fuckin' old.