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The Sopranos: Johnny Cakes (2006)
Is it picking up?
The Sopranos are picking-up a bit. Could have done without the "spendor in the grass" scene. I am not crazy about Vito either so it was good to see him get decked by the biker gay. The scene with AJ blowing the attempted murder of Uncle Junior was important though. AJ is really getting into the image of the tough-guy, gangster son that his lounge buddies have bestowed on him. He can't live up to it though. Tony was right when he told AJ that "you don't have it in you." When the girl that was giving him the back rub asked him what the family was going to do about Junior, AJ's reply that we don't really talk about it, he guessed he would have to do something, really seemed to turn her on. After all, at that age it is about getting laid. He can't live up to it though. Dropping the knife was so AJ. Could be AJ's downfall if he does not overdose first. My husband had an interesting theory. He thinks that everyone that was shown in the first episode opener when they were doing the song about the Egyptian souls that leave the body at death could have signified who was going to die this season. Eugene and Ray are already gone so who knows. Hopefully the season is picking up. I just wish it would have done it sooner. The exchanges between Melfi and Tony are dragging. It was good to see Elliot again. More wacking and less yakking! What is happening with Barone Sanitation? The FBI, all we know is that there is a terrorist ring in North Jersey and that they do business out of the Bing. Still to many threads left hanging. Stay tuned though, hopefully the next episodes will explode like David Chase said in the Season 6 special, "Season 6, it is a killer."
The Sopranos: Luxury Lounge (2006)
What happened?
This season and really, this episode reflects the incompetence of the new writers. Or am I missing something? There are so many threads that should have been carried through from season 5. The Soprano's edgy writing of the previous 5 seasons just isn't here. For instance, Pussy's story ran for half of the first season and ended in the whacking of the rat in the last episode of the second season right after a brilliant dream sequence that Chase was so famous for. OK, that said, wouldn't you think that Adriana's mother would be kind of wondering what happened to her? What does Tony B's mother think happened to her son? Wouldn't you think that Jimmy's taking down Johnny Sack which "would have gotten all the way to Big Carmine had he lived" also taken down also have taken down Phil Leotardo who is on parole? I like Artie Buco as much as the next person but a whole episode on the failing restaurant and the credit card scam with all these questions left unanswered is perplexing. The old Tony Soprano would have taxed Benny for pulling this scam in Artie's place. I know Tony has changed and that's OK but give us die-hard Soprano's fans something to hope for. Please, Christopher and his sponsor would have not even gotten to LAX after hitting Lauren Bacall and hitting another car. The whole plot with him and Little Carmine in Hollywood wasn't even funny, it is getting so stupid it is annoying. If they are going to pull us into a plot, continue it for goodness sakes. So, Vito disappears (one plot that carried over), what is going on with Junior? I will keep watching, if for no other reason than to find out of this concludes in wrapping this all together and making a fool of me. But some continuity with the plots they are developing please.