The picture above says it all. Edie Falco continues to show her limitless range as the embattled mob wife, going from the terrified breakdown shown above to narrating most of her courtship with Tony while alone in the hospital room to her smirking disbelief at the Detective's intimation that Tony, because he's in the rackets, was somehow involved in the Kennedy assasination. So, yeah, I'm in love.
Michael Imperioli is the third best actor on the series (after Falco and Gandolfini), which is an endorsement of the ridiculously stacked nature of the cast overall. Chase has been relentlessly flinging shit at Imperioli's character for six seasons now (getting shot, addiction to drugs, his later rehab and recovery, Tony serving up the man who killed his father, winter hikes in the Pine Barrens, his "breakup" with Adrianna, and now the uncertainty surrounding Tony, his surrogate father). Last time he threw him a bone was in Season One when he let him shoot bakery-boy in the foot. 'Bout time for another one.
The Star Ledger has a wealth of articles on the new episodes... here's one by Alan Sepinwall that does more justice to all the symbolism in this episode than I have time for tonight.
FAVORITE LINES:
Best Cagney, Jr., line of the season so far? "Van Helsing, let's go!" (if you missed this episode or missed this line, three guesses who he's talking to, and the first two don't count)
Best non-Cagney line of the season so far? "My husband was three years old!" (Carm telling the Detective to eat the peanuts when he mentions Uncle Jun was babbling about the Kennedy assasination while being brought in for shooting Tony)
Best line of dialogue I said out loud at the TV so far this season? "So you're saying your husband was NOT involved, ma'am?" (What the Detective was probably thinking in response to Carm's above quote)
If you don't know, now you know...
Michael Imperioli is the third best actor on the series (after Falco and Gandolfini), which is an endorsement of the ridiculously stacked nature of the cast overall. Chase has been relentlessly flinging shit at Imperioli's character for six seasons now (getting shot, addiction to drugs, his later rehab and recovery, Tony serving up the man who killed his father, winter hikes in the Pine Barrens, his "breakup" with Adrianna, and now the uncertainty surrounding Tony, his surrogate father). Last time he threw him a bone was in Season One when he let him shoot bakery-boy in the foot. 'Bout time for another one.
The Star Ledger has a wealth of articles on the new episodes... here's one by Alan Sepinwall that does more justice to all the symbolism in this episode than I have time for tonight.
FAVORITE LINES:
Best Cagney, Jr., line of the season so far? "Van Helsing, let's go!" (if you missed this episode or missed this line, three guesses who he's talking to, and the first two don't count)
Best non-Cagney line of the season so far? "My husband was three years old!" (Carm telling the Detective to eat the peanuts when he mentions Uncle Jun was babbling about the Kennedy assasination while being brought in for shooting Tony)
Best line of dialogue I said out loud at the TV so far this season? "So you're saying your husband was NOT involved, ma'am?" (What the Detective was probably thinking in response to Carm's above quote)
If you don't know, now you know...
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So, what, no fuckin' update?
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