The Sopranos 1x05 Reaction
Added 2024-08-28 23:00:27 +0000 UTC
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The drops were holly water of course
Agitprop
2024-09-28 22:05:36 +0000 UTCThey litteraly drank all night and you didn't see ?
Gaz14
2024-09-23 06:00:11 +0000 UTCI agree and it's one of my favorite parts about this show overall tbh!
skye
2024-09-05 04:57:26 +0000 UTCMilena communion story was funny hahaha i didn't receive communion myself but i remember that the kids that did receive it were excited about it because they got gifts afterwards, like it was their birthday you know.
sakurabraus
2024-09-02 17:59:40 +0000 UTCYou’re right about true detective season 4, not really worth it. I rewatched season 1 last year as I was worried that maybe it wasn’t that good and it was just a moment in time. But no it’s still amazing.
Patrick
2024-09-01 01:28:44 +0000 UTCDieJesus…. Is that you? 💀🤣
Wanda Did Nothing Wrong
2024-08-30 20:37:58 +0000 UTCHomie, your faith class was intense! Haha
Chad Gloria
2024-08-30 01:31:48 +0000 UTCThis episode is considered a landmark and for good reason. It’s a well-told tale at this point how much David Chase had to fight to get this plot line past the execs. Here’s a quote from Sopranos Autopsy, (a great analysis of the show episode by episode, but ONLY IF YOU’VE FINISHED THE SHOW!): “Chris Albrecht was one of the HBO executives who believed audiences would not be willing to watch a TV show in which the hero was a cold-blooded murderer. But Albrecht had a lot of faith in the talent and judgment of David Chase. Albrecht recounts: I said, “David, you can’t do this. He can’t kill this guy. You haven’t earned it yet. The audience is going to hate him. It’s the fifth episode. Wait until the end of the season.” And David said to me, “If Tony Soprano were to find this guy and doesn’t kill him, he is full of shit, and therefore the show is full of shit.” And I said, “Okay, that’s a good point.” And so, for the first time, we see Tony break the Sixth Commandment. For Chase, it wouldn’t have been enough to have Tony kill Petrulio with a gun from a distance. For the murder scene to be true to his vision, Tony would have to commit murder up close, with his own bare hands.” I love the symbolism of the ducks before and after the killing, ornaments paused in flight leading up to it, and flying away in the distance after. This episode shows the cinematic nature of the show very well as it could almost be called a self-contained story, like a short film. Also the girls weren’t sure why the bust of Reagan tipped Tony off that this was his guy: he mentioned to Chris earlier that the rat had made a bust of Sinatra but that the lips were wrong, and Tony sees the bust of Reagan has oversized lips.
Darrach
2024-08-29 18:23:15 +0000 UTCWhatever happened there? I’ll tell you what fucking happened. This piece of shit choked him to death with wires without any provocation whatsoever.
Cole
2024-08-29 09:57:15 +0000 UTCWhatever happened there
Levi
2024-08-29 09:01:13 +0000 UTCThis episode was the perfect mix of the sacred and the propane.
Cole
2024-08-29 06:10:56 +0000 UTCI love that the show immediately gives us so many moments of unjustifiable selfishness and evil from Tony. Literally at a crossroads between his daughter’s future (college) or revenge on the FBI informant he prioritizes himself making a choice that nearly led to his daughter’s death. Despite all of this he can’t figure out why he’s scared he’ll lose his family 🦆 🦆 Interesting that the priest says “therapy doesn’t fix the soul but it’s a start” when Carmela previously said this line to Tony, she’s probably echoing a lot of his words. Totally makes sense why she tries so hard to cling to her faith in a marriage/life where she can have none and it’s no wonder she’d be drawn to a positive religious figure *Fleabag priest would never stay up past 9:30pm
space colon
2024-08-29 05:10:14 +0000 UTCIt was the first cable program to be nominated and win an emmy for outstanding drama series. It was all network shows prior.
Veya
2024-08-29 03:30:19 +0000 UTCYeah it's literally one of the most critically acclaimed episodes of TV and one of the most influential. That being said, there are plenty of other iconic and peak episodes. I think future seasons in general are better. The first season is great and iconic but it still feels like there are some growing pains (more editing sloppiness, types of storylines that future seasons does a bit better etc.).
Veya
2024-08-29 03:24:04 +0000 UTCSo yeah, you guys probably read it multiple times by now, but this episode legitimately changed television. Anti-heroes existed before this show, but they were lighter and their bad actions were more sugarcoated. When they killed people it was usually justified in some way so audiences can still root for it, like say the person was a pedophile or a potential terrorist threat. Here tony's killing was ugly and the show didn't cut away from it so you were forced to fully take it in (which was also unique for TV at the time, sopranos was more violent than most of what was on TV and HBO allowed it to be graphic) and it was pure opportunistic revenge and he had no moral high ground. He could have just left the town with his daughter and never see the guy again. Others have mentioned how david chase needed to fight HBO for the scene to stay in. Shows simply didn't show main characters unfiltered like that before, that was reserved for supporting characters or guest stars. The b-plot with carmella and the priest was incredible as well. It felt like an old arthouse film at times. It did something that you'll find the show likes to do sometimes, which is to build a plot towards a certain direction, and then pivot to something else organically. They built up to the confession like she was gonna confess how she's almost gonna cheat on tony but it became much deeper and introduced more depth to her character. One last thing is that it's great the show had meadow and aj know tony is in the mafia already. A lot of other crime shows would just have their kids not know and build a more will-they-or won't-they find-out type of plot which can be more thrilling, but the relationship wouldn't be as nuanced as it's missing a giant chunk of potential types of interactions and themes to explore. It was well done how tony and meadow were able to be honest with each other, but only to an extent, before a line was drawn.
Veya
2024-08-29 03:19:09 +0000 UTCYou might've invented a new genre of youtube video: yelling at banal organized religious activities like they're horror movies. "GET OUT OF THAT BIG ROOM THAT MAN'S HYPNOTIZING YOU WITH MAGIC WORDS!!!!"
Nick P
2024-08-29 02:52:14 +0000 UTCIt’s funny I watched this show like what, 15+ years ago, so was never really tuned into the online discourse for the show at the time or since, then on my rewatch this last month I got to this episode and after was like ‘damn that’s a good episode, I wonder if people put it in their top episodes list’ and then looked it up and it was like, oh ah it’s literally the most critically famous episode of the show lol. Seemingly especially for how new it was to have a protagonist do something like that, but in general I just think the episode is incredibly well done - a lot of it down to how good Carmela and the Priest’s actors chemistry is, and how they portray the cat and mouse aspect of the Tony storyline.
Jay Craig
2024-08-29 00:46:25 +0000 UTCNo one wanted to "ruin" the audience's perception of Tony more than David Chase. Thank god!
Mike
2024-08-29 00:36:31 +0000 UTCThis is the most excited I've ever been for you two, and I watch like 90% of the shows with ya.
Riff Michaels
2024-08-29 00:26:43 +0000 UTCTony admits specifically to "illegal gambling" to Meadow partially due to how gambling is perceived in New Jersey. NJ has some of the more permissive gambling laws in the USA, and Atlantic City in the south of the state is the largest gambling city after Las Vegas. Because of this, a lot of people view gambling in total as 'pretty much legal' in NJ. So by admitting he's involved in gambling, he's saying "Yes, I do some illegal stuff, but it's not REALLY illegal". For contrast, if he'd confessed to running a car theft ring it still wouldn't be violent or admit to being a killer, but it would be "real" crime and Meadow may have shunned him for it. The priest is played by Paul Schulze, who was also in "The Expanse". He played Esai Martin, the corrupt cop on Mars that Bobbie started working with in season four. His interaction with Carmela in this episode was definitely staged and shot in a very sexual manner, but strictly speaking they did only have "normal" communion. It's showing how even mundane things can be charged and mean something more.
JBK405
2024-08-29 00:08:29 +0000 UTCThis episode started the domination that the sopranos had at the Emmy’s with it winning the best writing for a drama series and Carmella’s actress winning her first lead actress.
Cole
2024-08-29 00:00:12 +0000 UTCThis episode is arguably the most influential episode in TV history. 50 years of surface-level sitcoms and watered down family friendly storylines were the norm on TV until Tony strangled the life out of Febby. Walter White, Stringer Bell, Dexter Morgan, Don Draper, Saul Goodman, and more were all born when this episode aired - when TV execs finally understood that main characters could be bad and still be enthralling.
Michael M
2024-08-28 23:58:51 +0000 UTCTony’s relationships with his children are maybe the most important and symbolic in the show.
ThaDoubleB
2024-08-28 23:55:58 +0000 UTCHBO told David chase he would ruin his character that he created if he chose to have him do this. Good thing David chase didn’t care what anyone wanted for his show other than him.
Cole
2024-08-28 23:52:58 +0000 UTCFlashback to when she googled Edward Teach's name when they were watching black sails lol, thankfully it wasn't a major spoiler
HenryM
2024-08-28 23:34:02 +0000 UTCThe drops in the wine was probably holy water (water blessed by a priest)
JClark
2024-08-28 23:31:03 +0000 UTCLola googling actors is not good for my heart lol. It's baseless, but I never know what kind of spoilers are blasted in search engines
Isaac
2024-08-28 23:28:49 +0000 UTCApparently this episode was a bit controversial back then because the network thought this episode would turn away people from Tony’s character completely since we see him literally chocking someone with a wire to death. I’m glad that creator and writers stood their ground and went with it anyways since I feel it adds more layers to Tony’s character.
Jack SV
2024-08-28 23:17:19 +0000 UTC
