Sopranos Wrap-Up

Sorry this is so late,but hopefully people check this before the new one airs. Sorry about not getting one up last week at all. It has been a hetic couple of weeks for me.

I defended the Sopranos all last season when people told me the show sucked. I thought it was pretty interesting during season 4. However there is no defending last week's show which was easily the lamest episode they ever made.

The plot involved Tony meeting up with one of this father's ex-girlfriends who was pretty colorful. Well okay so she was just a money hungry slut who according to her had a brief fling with JFK. The entire storyline was utterly worthless (not to mention a tad confusing) nothing new was revealed in the stories to Tony about his father's life. We already knew his father was unfaithful and his mother was a bitch. We got to see how Tony was a pawn in their relationship, but it was clear that Tony always took his father's side.

The direction of last week was fairly flawed. We aren't really given a reason why Tony's impression of this woman changes from minute to minute. The only thing I can gather is maybe he realized his mother was only a bitch because his father was terribly dishonest with her. So he tried to really like this woman that Johnny (Tony's father) decided to spend more time with for years than his own wife. Maybe making Carmella miserable would pass on the headaches to his children. That would explain why he blew her out of proportion to his friends at the end.

The other plotline involved Christopher having to put his business first over his friendship with a rehab friend who owed him money. It was the same basic plot we have seen before mobster gives someone a chance to make money, and eventaully has to resort to volience to get their owe. This was different because Chris was friends with the guy, but than again we saw Tony go through this an entire season with Robert Patrick's character. Chris' friend played by Tim Daly (2 pts for being a Wing alumni, and 2 extra points for being a Diner cast member) provided some laughs when he was at his meetings, and again when trying to sell the emmy. However maybe they should have just introduced him earlier in the season so there would have been more drama there instead of making it just seem like a guest star's storyline.

The third plotline had a bored Junior trying to get out of the house by attending and funnerals he could.

All and all it was pretty much a yawner of a show. I havent talked to anyone who actually like this past week's show.