Marty: Did we just become best friends?

Yeah, what is this, Pennsylvania?

What strikes me about David Chase is that, in interviews, he doesn’t seem all that articulate about discussing his work. Maybe he’s uncomfortable and nervous; maybe he doesn’t want to be bothered. But it’s a contrast to his work on “The Sopranos,” which is some of the most nuanced and novelistic fiction ever put on…

Worrying about what will happen to pets should something terrible ever happen to us is certainly high drama in my world!

I doubt it. If there was a possibility that James Gandolfini would ever want to play Tony Soprano again, you leave that door open.

What Chase revealed in this interview was more about his creative process, in which Tony indeed died in two earlier versions of the scene. He didn’t directly comment on the final scene. There’s a tiny bit of ambiguity left, if not much.

While I agree, he did have an indictment hanging over his head, with Carlo ready to testify.

Yeah, we’re sadly never going to see old Tony Soprano and there’s now a future in prequel stories at HBO. So Chase has the tractor trailers full of cash just waiting to back up his driveway if he wants them.

“Tony should get it in a place like that.”

I think the detail about changing the setting of Tony’s death to a restaurant is new. And that’s a HUGE connection between his original idea and the final product.

Chase repeated what he’s said in other interviews, that he once had a plan that Tony would drive into New York City, a mirror image of the show’s opening credits, and the series would cut off at that ominous point, suggesting he was likely killed. I think the detail that Chase refined the idea after seeing a…

I jumped when I thought I saw rats, too!

The irony here is that David Chase is the man who redefined television drama and yet his primary goal, never attained, is to become an accomplished filmmaker. “The Many Saints of Newark” was overstuffed with ideas and could have flourished as a limited series with room to breathe. I don’t blame Warner Media for…

It seems to me like Chibnall falls in his love with his ideas and doesn’t spend enough time on the execution. Like, you should just love his ideas, too.

I think that would have been a more satisfying way to go.

It just didn’t seem ambiguous to me. Why would the Green Knight let him go.

Same here. The ending spoiled the whole movie for me. I get, logically, the message they were trying to convey. But it was a highly unsatisfying way to end the film.

Marcus said Maria would be perfect for Marsha Lifshitz, so they specifically wanted that role.

Same here. I wonder if that’s a set-up for a later episode.

Last season, I think they said Marty had moved away??