My fave tea mug in honour
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I was literally thinking about that today, never watched it. Might head in.
Same, still the greatest i’ve ever seen.
Not rewatched it for a few years, still got all my DVD boxsets so might jump in again soon.
If Tony got whacked he deserved it for what he did to Chrissy.
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One of many, many misdemeanours! A proper sociopath.
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In the end I really disliked him, sounds a daft thing to say about somebody who started out as a murdering gangster, but he did have some redeeming qualities but in the end he was just a cold, calculating sociopath like you say.
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Same. Carmella is hideous too, in a different way. One of the best scenes I think …
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It’s is incredible TV. One of the series is a little slower (maybe 4?) but stick with it. The last series is a masterpiece.
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What We Do In The Shadows.
Matt Berry steals every scene.
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Agreed! So good. Enjoying this season. When we were in Budapest we stumbled on Nandor street…lol
This was very good - on HBO, very cleverly constructed, all dialogue taken from the recording transcript of her FBI interrogation.
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On Sky Arts tonight at 9
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Nandor going into space was incredibly funny.
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The was Tony whacked question is the vinyl vs digital debate of TV. It will never be categorically answered. The beauty of it is the viewer can draw their own conclusion, and no one is wrong or right. But for me that final sequence is full of deliberate misdirection, and the camera lingers a little too long on potential hit men. The Sopranos was never that obvious so for me Tony didnt die in that restaurant. Thats not to say he didnt get whacked at a later point. I like to think he’s still out there somewhere, worrying about the ducks.
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Spot on 
. I think the second time I watched it my initial thought was that he didn’t die and the members only jacket guy was just too obvious. Either way, his crew was on its last legs and his days were numbered.
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Contemplating diving in again soon myself, I get withdrawal symptoms if I don’t re-watch every 2/3 years. One of my favourite episodes amongst many: Soprano Home Movies. Makes me really anxious for Bobby and you just knew his days were numbers in some shape or form after this altercation. Janice, nasty piece of work too but very funny.
People have put it more eloquently than I ever can but for me it’s different levels it operates on. Whole episodes that can stand alone but still fit into the overall narrative, other episodes where the Mob thing barely features. The use of music, I can’t hear TLC’s No Scrubs without picturing Meadow and Hunter cooking up a storm in the kitchen.
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I think he was wacked, but we don’t witness it as a viewer because we’ve built up a relationship with the character. As much as we had to uncomfortably see others fall, that would be too much of an end and by suggesting it rather than seeing it we get to talk about it and keep the thing alive, if that makes sense. Totally executed though, what else was that guy doing?
The other way to look at it is that it’s too obvious and that it’s a failed attempt but this is his new hell, the constant looking over his shoulder. Still wacked imo 
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Definitely one of the best episodes.
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Watched Eyes Wide Shut last night for the first time since it was released in the late 90’s (Mrs J_C had never seen it)
I don’t remember it being so awful! I’m also convinced that I remember Nicole Kidman’s character accompanying Tom Cruise to the sex party, but that didn’t happen. Also the most unsexy sex party imaginable…
Anyway, pretty dire. Seems like it was old man Kubrik’s wank fantasy…
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15-love on amazon. binged the whole series over the weekend. about a female tennis player who is abused by her coach. the acting is a bit shit and it feels a bit cheap but I enjoyed it by the end.
about to finish s5 of Sopranos and then onto 6 which I haven’t seen any of. trying not to read any of the comments above.
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You may laugh, but this is one of our favourite movies of all time. I’ve seen it perhaps 20 times or so. My wife & I watch it every Christmas and it’s finally starting to be appreciated generally and seen as an alt-Christmas movie–every scene has a Christmas tree and there is a kind of twisted redemption at its heart. Thanks to Kubrick, two actors we rarely care for made one of the greatest and truest films about marriage and monogamy. The orgy party is supposed to be stilted/fantastical/unrealistic/ritualized as it’s sort of a flight of imagination by Tom Cruise’s character. That’s what I think, anyway… 
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