Bosco685 Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 For anyone that is a fan of the show, Christopher (Michael Imperioli) and Bobby (Steve Schirripa) started a show this year to cover each episode. Including behind-the-scenes details about casting, production and sets. bentbryan and The humble Watcher lurking 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bentbryan Posted July 20, 2020 Share Posted July 20, 2020 Really enjoying this podcast. Michael and Steve are doing a great job with it. I hope they get David Chase on soon (sounds like he has already agreed to come on). Definitely check it out if you watched the show. The humble Watcher lurking and Bosco685 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted July 20, 2020 Author Share Posted July 20, 2020 47 minutes ago, bentbryan said: Really enjoying this podcast. Michael and Steve are doing a great job with it. I hope they get David Chase on soon (sounds like he has already agreed to come on). Definitely check it out if you watched the show. He did a podcast where it finally came out what took place with the Russian that Paulie Walnuts and Christopher attempted to hunt down. Considered a Top 10 episode The humble Watcher lurking 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentbryan Posted July 21, 2020 Share Posted July 21, 2020 57 minutes ago, Bosco685 said: He did a podcast where it finally came out what took place with the Russian that Paulie Walnuts and Christopher attempted to hunt down. Considered a Top 10 episode Whoa. I don’t think I’m ready to know yet. Pine Barrens is easily my all-time favorite episode. The comedy of errors throughout is priceless. I was pretty bummed they just let that entire thread go but I made my peace with it. The humble Watcher lurking and Bosco685 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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@therealsilvermane Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 On 7/20/2020 at 6:55 PM, Bosco685 said: He did a podcast where it finally came out what took place with the Russian that Paulie Walnuts and Christopher attempted to hunt down. Considered a Top 10 episode I'm not real familiar with The Sopranos as I've never had HBO consistently and don't plan on getting HBO Max. I do know Pine Barrens is considered one of the best episodes. My question is, why didn't the Russian finish taking out Chris and Paulie with the shovel? He had them on the ground. It would have been consistent with the Russian's character to keep beating on them rather than drop the shovel and run like some dips**t in a b-horror movie. Things like that take me out of a story. I remember watching one or two episodes of Sopranos and it reminding me of Goodfellas meets Married With Children but not as good as either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted August 21, 2020 Author Share Posted August 21, 2020 46 minutes ago, @therealsilvermane said: I'm not real familiar with The Sopranos as I've never had HBO consistently and don't plan on getting HBO Max. I do know Pine Barrens is considered one of the best episodes. My question is, why didn't the Russian finish taking out Chris and Paulie with the shovel? He had them on the ground. It would have been consistent with the Russian's character to keep beating on them rather than drop the shovel and run like some dips**t in a b-horror movie. Things like that take me out of a story. I remember watching one or two episodes of Sopranos and it reminding me of Goodfellas meets Married With Children but not as good as either. They had the Russian taped up in the trunk the entire ride. So just thinking that through, his arms may have been numb as heck from that ride. But I doubt they added that level of details in any descriptions. As far as Sopranos not being equal to Goodfellas or Married With Children, you really have some wild rationale with your likes not always set in reality. bentbryan and The humble Watcher lurking 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted May 31, 2021 Author Share Posted May 31, 2021 Quote Alec Baldwin — like every other actor in town — wanted a piece of The Sopranos during the run of the iconic HBO mob series, and he even asked the production if he could play a vital character. A superfan of the award-winning show, Baldwin on Sunday joined Michael Imperioli (Christopher Moltisanti) and Steve Schirripa (Robert “Bobby” Baccalieri Jr.) on their podcast, Talking Sopranos. There, the film and television star revealed that he made a play to get on the show, which neither of the series actors was aware occurred. “I called up whoever it was, I forget, and said, ‘Tell them when it’s time to kill Jimmy [James Gandolfini who played Tony Soprano] — this was early in the beginning before you get to the end — there is only one man who should whack Jimmy and ride off with Edie [Falco who played Carmela Soprano], and I am that man,” Baldwin said. “I am the guy who needs to blow Jimmy away and take Edie, who I am madly in love with, away. And they were like, ‘Uh-huh. Sure. Great, We’ll add your name to the list of all the Irish actors who think they should be on The Sopranos.” bentbryan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bosco685 Posted July 9, 2022 Author Share Posted July 9, 2022 R.I.P. Pitboss, bentbryan and The humble Watcher lurking 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted January 14 Author Share Posted January 14 Quote The Sopranos creator David Chase criticized streaming executives in a new interview, suggesting they’re collectively making the medium less sophisticated. Speaking to The Times U.K., the Emmy-winning writer-producer claims TV quality is going backwards, becoming more like when he first disrupted the industry with HBO’s The Sopranos in 1999. Chase declared his iconic hit’s 25th anniversary should be “a funeral” for the industry instead of a celebration. “We’re going back to where I was,” he said. “They’re going to have commercials [on streamers like Prime Video].” Chase said he recently tried to get to a project made about a high-end escort and was “told to dumb it down.” The humble Watcher lurking 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodey Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 After reading this thread, I now have some hankerin' for some gabagool. The humble Watcher lurking and Bosco685 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s-man Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 On 1/16/2024 at 2:58 PM, Rodey said: After reading this thread, I now have some hankerin' for some gabagool. The humble Watcher lurking 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted June 15 Author Share Posted June 15 'Sopranos' doc reveals 'truth' about the ending, 'painful' moments for James Gandolfini Quote In “Wise Guy,” a new documentary that premiered at Tribeca Festival late Thursday night, series creator David Chase continues to stir the pot about the HBO drama’s famously ambiguous ending. In the last section of the doc, Chase breaks down the finale at length. He was heavily inspired by the end of Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece “2001: A Space Odyssey” and how astronaut Dave Bowman (Keir Dullea) encounters different ages of himself. Chase attempts to mirror that with New Jersey mobster Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), who throughout the episode, continually walks into his own POV shots. “It makes me think of death,” Chase says in the documentary. “There’s something mesmerizing about it.” Despite pushback from the writers’ room, Chase chose Journey’s 1981 anthem “Don’t Stop Believin’” as the final song because of its lyrics. (“You may not go on, but the universe does,” he explains.) He initially envisioned the ending as an inverse of the opening credits: Tony driving through the Lincoln Tunnel into Manhattan, where he heads to a meeting that “doesn’t go well.” But he eventually landed on the scene at Holsten’s diner, where Tony meets wife Carmela (Edie Falco) and son A.J. (Robert Iler). As the music plays and daughter Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) struggles to parallel park outside, a man glances at Tony and goes into the bathroom. Like in “The Godfather,” does he grab a gun and shoot Tony? Or does Meadow simply walk into the restaurant, where they all proceed to have a nice family dinner? Chase says the ending is whatever viewers want it to be. (And frankly, isn’t it boring when everything gets neatly wrapped up?) But then, he mischievously references an early "Sopranos" episode, in which Meadow helps A.J. with his homework. Attempting to interpret a Robert Frost poem, A.J. asks her, “I thought black meant death?” So does that mean Chase telegraphed the series finale all the way back in Season 3? “People will say, ‘There! He admitted that Tony died!’” he says with a laugh. “The truth is…,” he begins, before the documentary cuts to black and the end credits roll. The humble Watcher lurking 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
s-man Posted June 15 Share Posted June 15 On 6/15/2024 at 5:20 AM, Bosco685 said: 'Sopranos' doc reveals 'truth' about the ending, 'painful' moments for James Gandolfini I remember being puzzled and POd when I saw how it ended. Now I see how brilliant it was because we are still talking about it years later. Bosco685 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodey Posted June 17 Share Posted June 17 Gabagool! The humble Watcher lurking and Bosco685 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
