Not the biggest fan of the dream sequences actually. I kind of like the initial "what's going on" atmosphere and some of the details like the fact that Tony has lost his accent, but overall I feel like it's kind of lazy writing. To me at least dream sequences or purgatory sequences or whatever seem a lot like just…

This was probably the most heartwrecking episode I've seen of anything since the Breaking Bad finale "Felina." I think season 5 of Breaking Bad is really good at using inevitability too, for that matter.
Also a very nice subversion of expectations in this episode with it first seeming like Tony will be the one to…

Honestly I don't read Weggler's stuff as him feeling superior for her. Maybe I missed something, but I read it as him seeing himself in her. At one point he had great unused potential and I think he sees Carmella as someone else who had potential but never lived up to it. In that sense I see him going on about Emma…

The episode kind of reminded me of the first season of "Better Call Saul." Spoiler alert for anyone who hasn't seen that show, but a lot of the tragedy of Jimmy McGill comes from the fact that he manages, with great difficulty, to start changing his ways somewhat but nobody is willing to believe that he has in fact…

The thing I loved most about this episode is AJ's magical self-replenishing and self-draining salad when he's talking to Carmella at the dinner table.

The word sociopath was used before in reference to Tony, once. I think it was by Melfi in a session with her therapist. I don't think he IS necessarily a sociopath though. I'm not sure…

That horse was one of the few beings that Tony really invested in emotionally. He doesn't tend to invest as much in other humans. I totally believe that he'd kill Ralphie over it, though I agree that there does seem to be more to it than that.

Personally I don't think Tony doesn't know how to put the idea that Ralph has violated his personal ethics, I think it's more that he thinks that him saying that won't be taken seriously by others who share his line of work. I mean we have many people referring to the girl as "a whore" over and over again. They…

I don't get why people think of Tony as just an amoral sociopath. The fact that he tried to comfort Melfi in "Employee of the Month" and felt clearly guilty about getting the cop in trouble to the extent that he did clearly show that he's not that. He's capable of feeling guilt, he has a moral compass and he has…

I think the point of the Janice thing was her being treated in a way that she doesn't like as well, but instead of making the right choice she reacts with "do you know who my brother is?" No doubt she also knew Tony would be able to get vengeance for her and she does nothing to dissuade him when he points that out. In…

I thought the structure of this episode was slightly off because Livia's death felt so sudden after that scene. I probably would've written it in a little differently and not had any last scene with her. But I get that the writers were left scrambling. Other than that the psychological angle the show takes on the dead…

Wasn't a big fan of this episode honestly. I like the idea of it, but it didn't really excite me very much because I never bought that they'd actually pick anything up. And aside from Tony deciding how to deal with the other guy it also didn't really interest me character-wise which for me is the big thing I like…

I have to preface this by saying this is the first time I'm watching The Sopranos, so no spoilers in replying to this comment please.

Personally I don't really see "From Where to Eternity" as making any judgement at all about whether or not an afterlife exists and whether it exists in the universe of The Sopranos. I think it remains fairly ambiguous throughout the entire episode, and I like that. Because at the end of the day the episode isn't about…

One thing that bothered me about this episode is how everyone seemingly keeps confusing existentialism with nihilism. Existentialism doesn't necessarily equal nihilism. Existentialism is all about giving life meaning through your own choices about what you want to give meaning to, it just starts off with the idea that…

I made quite the long comment somewhere else in this comment section about this. I mean, you could look it up if you were so inclined. It's a pretty comprehensive laying out of my reasoning behind why Jimmy doesn't go into the interview.

But you mustn't! Think of the children! Oh won't you please just think of the CHILDREN!

It's not though. It's Alpine Shepherd Boy. it's Alpine Shepherd Boy and you've got to accept that. I wish it wasn't true, but it's the situation. You can't keep thinking this. Think of your family. Think of the children. You have to get over it lest it destroy your life.

All this time later and this is still one of my favourite Breaking Bad episodes. There's just something special about seeing Walt buy into his huge Heisenberg ego, the myth of his own invincibility as truth and yet knowing with the flashforward that it'll be only a year until it will have all become undone.

All this time later and this is still one of my favourite Breaking Bad episodes. There's just something special about seeing Walt buy into his huge Heisenberg ego, the myth of his own invincibility as truth and yet knowing with the flashforward that it'll be only a year until it will have all become undone.