Livia was based on his mother, so that's one hell of a memorial.

I hope you're not including Bobby or anything else that led to a Monopoly hotel in Tony's face and the series best episode "Soprano Home Movies".

When I think about it, Carm might be the saddest character. She it's so genuine in wanting to change, but it's just so easy for her to be the mob wife and have life handed to her, like it's all she knows.

Tony wanted Meadow to be a doctor too, but I think he settled with the idea of her and Patsy together and her at that firm. It really felt like, in the end, none of the superficial shit they wanted ever mattered. It was a great way to close their story, but it was also harsh. I think that's why people see Chase as…

AJ and Livia, and Betty Draper of Mad Men all fall in to a class of portrayals of mental illness on television that I find so refreshing. It shows mental illness (bipolar disorder mostly) as something that's not quirky or exciting or or even something to pity on its face. It shows itself in annoying and embarrassing…

I honestly can't remember where we last saw Hunter before the finale, other than the sex scandal with the coach and meth finals (then maybe she was depressed?), and I've probably seen every episode at least twice- many quite a few more. Was there some reason she shouldn't have been successful. I still feel this is…

I'm not sure it mattered in the end. I think that's why Chase didn't really show us what happened at that diner or after. The family's ship was sinking one way or another. We see just a few episodes earlier in "Chasing It" that Tony might not have the money he flaunts. The "family" is all gone but Paulie and Patty,…

Turturro really sold it as Janice for me, and that's what made her even more nerve wracking. She felt like that really sleazy relative everyone has somewhere, just showing up at the worst times and trying to passive aggressively act like their owed something. She was just such a believable daughter to Livia and…

His often shitty performance in the last couple seasons when he really needed to step it up for the narrative to work was really crippling to the show. He pulled it together for a couple big scenes, like when he (SPOILERS) tried to stab Junior and his suicide attempt, but Michael Iler's poor work on a character who…

What about her paste on CGI face in the season 2 premiere?

The Wire was basically A-rated edutainment. It was a show that had trouble allowing itself to be just good at times, without shoving in some heavy-handed sociology/civics lesson. Sometimes that civics lesson was pretty great and was essential for propelling the story with Hamsterdam, but when it started digging into…

That is interesting how it applies to the rest of the characters. Todd Vanderwerff always said in his "classic" reviews on this site that this show was often a pessimistic thesis for how people never really change, even if they have ample opportunities to do so.

Living in a future world where I just saw the penultimate episode of Mad Men and can reflect on ye' old me there, I'm inclined to agree with and love the ambiguous of the show… mostly. I still have a bit of a bitter spot for True Detective. It is a great piece of work, but the acting and directing still just supersede…

The only great Bobby line I ever remember is when they went and saw Planet of the Apes, and when Don explains the apes have blown up not just all of New York, but "all of America." Bobby replies, "Jesus!"

There's been like 17 different kids who've played Bobby and I'm not sure about Gene. It's kind of hard to just develop him at this point, with four episodes left. Sally and Don is almost my favorite relationship on the show, next to Peggy and Don, which is maybe my favorite TV relationship ever.

I think maybe we're supposed to get the feeling from her that just because you update the model on a Madison Avenue power player doesn't mean they aren't basically the same underneath it all. She's really at first glance completely different than Don or Roger- a woman, ostensibly driven by some artistic courage…

Ventura's legal bills were almost certainly paid by contingency fee. His lawyer likely took between 30-40% right out of the judgement check from the publisher and passed the rest to Ventura.

That movie is bland awful- the worst kind of awful. As terrible and misguided as the others are, at least he had a misguided vision he was chasing with all his heart. After Earth feels like he is just a chauffeur driving the Smiths to the completion of their giant vanity project. That movie is practically a $50M…

M. Night had plenty of great little shots and moments in The Village, Lady in the Water, and even the Happening. All horrible. The last, so bad it's wonderfully entertaining.

I started off this show thinking I was going to fall in love with Charlie. He was going to be Sorkin's off the cuff drunken yet wis voice. He ended up living up to that, but in a the worst way imaginable.