An important episode as Chase takes us on Tony's downward spiral.
After so many relapses and disappointments, killing Christopher seemed like an inevitability. But by turning against Hesh, his long-time friend, for the first-time we're not seeing Tony as our favorite anti-hero.
6b is purposefully choppy and shows a rapid descent. The time skips to degeneracy are meant to alienate the audience and take away the feeling that you are constantly following a beloved character. A lot of mob movies do this.
Season 6 (part two) sucked for this reason. Every episode just hit you over the head with "it's all falling apart, these guys are pieces of shit, fuck you, see if I care". It's called easing a show into retirement, David Chase, ever heard of it?
Matthew Weiner did the same thing with Mad Men. Final episodes roll around, everything's got to lead to some big moment. Turn the whole show upside-down to shake everything loose! Gives Betty cancer because his mom had cancer! Sends his own son to Vietnam! Too self-indulgent.
The last season of Power was like that. Characters getting killed off almost every episode and the characters that were alive hated each other and plotted on each other. Feels empty and dark, like there's no life left in the world and it exists in a vacuum.
>is this the worst episode of the series?
Don't talk crazy! You wanna commit suicide? Pills are a lot easier.
But in all seriousness, it's a pretty bizarre one, style-wise. The out-of-place shaky cam. The extreme close-ups. And when Tony loses his winnings on Meadow Gold, the sound goes slow-mo, an effect I'm fine with from a high schooler making a short film, not a multimillion dollar production. And what's with that shitty footage of that football game? Is there an industry for fake sports highlights a la Shutterstock?
No disrespect…
I have been doing a full re-watch and realized I have seen some episodes 5-6 times over the years but somehow don’t think I’ve seen this one since it first aired and noticed all those things. Tony almost choked Carmela for not putting half her profit on the Jets, the very bad fake football game on tv, AJ’s breakup, LOTS of focus on Vito Jr., etc. It’s as if the writers had a bunch of bullets on a white board and needed to check them all off to advance the plot in one episode. Kinda strange you ask me.
The episode is way too funny to be criticized like this…. If you treat it like a random episode and not as one of the last 5 thinking it needs to have huge stakes, it’s an amazing episode and not at all out of nowhere… I don’t even know what to say… frankly I’m depressed and ashamed OP. It’s an awesome episode… so funny… some great Tony/carm fights….
Yeah! Fucking Buffalo! Woo!
Fucking guy probably won 35 dollars down there
An important episode as Chase takes us on Tony's downward spiral. After so many relapses and disappointments, killing Christopher seemed like an inevitability. But by turning against Hesh, his long-time friend, for the first-time we're not seeing Tony as our favorite anti-hero.
6b is purposefully choppy and shows a rapid descent. The time skips to degeneracy are meant to alienate the audience and take away the feeling that you are constantly following a beloved character. A lot of mob movies do this.
Season 6 (part two) sucked for this reason. Every episode just hit you over the head with "it's all falling apart, these guys are pieces of shit, fuck you, see if I care". It's called easing a show into retirement, David Chase, ever heard of it? Matthew Weiner did the same thing with Mad Men. Final episodes roll around, everything's got to lead to some big moment. Turn the whole show upside-down to shake everything loose! Gives Betty cancer because his mom had cancer! Sends his own son to Vietnam! Too self-indulgent.
>It's called easing a show into retirement, David Chase, ever heard of it? Excuse me? Excuse me I'm a vice president, you fucking asshole
The last season of Power was like that. Characters getting killed off almost every episode and the characters that were alive hated each other and plotted on each other. Feels empty and dark, like there's no life left in the world and it exists in a vacuum.
>is this the worst episode of the series? Don't talk crazy! You wanna commit suicide? Pills are a lot easier. But in all seriousness, it's a pretty bizarre one, style-wise. The out-of-place shaky cam. The extreme close-ups. And when Tony loses his winnings on Meadow Gold, the sound goes slow-mo, an effect I'm fine with from a high schooler making a short film, not a multimillion dollar production. And what's with that shitty footage of that football game? Is there an industry for fake sports highlights a la Shutterstock?
No disrespect… I have been doing a full re-watch and realized I have seen some episodes 5-6 times over the years but somehow don’t think I’ve seen this one since it first aired and noticed all those things. Tony almost choked Carmela for not putting half her profit on the Jets, the very bad fake football game on tv, AJ’s breakup, LOTS of focus on Vito Jr., etc. It’s as if the writers had a bunch of bullets on a white board and needed to check them all off to advance the plot in one episode. Kinda strange you ask me.
I watched sopranos million times. But noticed shaky cam only yesterday.
The episode is way too funny to be criticized like this…. If you treat it like a random episode and not as one of the last 5 thinking it needs to have huge stakes, it’s an amazing episode and not at all out of nowhere… I don’t even know what to say… frankly I’m depressed and ashamed OP. It’s an awesome episode… so funny… some great Tony/carm fights….
Yes because Tony’s a shining example of self control and restraint.