TV Review - The Sopranos
The Sopranos: Season Three (2001)
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from EO
My only concession to Steve is the tacky resuscitation of Nancy Marchand's dead bones. But I agree with EO in disagreeing that the scene itself is superfluous: Tony didn't soften up on mom at all. The season's most violent crime is committed by a total stranger; instead of feinting an ugly diversion for the sake of - what, Steve? the show's ratings? its inadvertent/unavoidable mythologizing? - Chase & Co. force themselves to write up towards the magnitude of the repercussions brought on the characters we care about most by thoughtless, instantaneous acts of plain bad luck.
rating: 4 out of 5 cravats
on DVD from EO
My only concession to Steve is the tacky resuscitation of Nancy Marchand's dead bones. But I agree with EO in disagreeing that the scene itself is superfluous: Tony didn't soften up on mom at all. The season's most violent crime is committed by a total stranger; instead of feinting an ugly diversion for the sake of - what, Steve? the show's ratings? its inadvertent/unavoidable mythologizing? - Chase & Co. force themselves to write up towards the magnitude of the repercussions brought on the characters we care about most by thoughtless, instantaneous acts of plain bad luck.
posted by NPK at 11:35 AM
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