Examples of Shitty Writing in The Sopranos

[alkiefuck2]

Not breaking every limb of Noel’s on the spot. As if some gang guinea would be afraid of what his daughter thought. Being only half a one I can tell you they’re basically (mostly) clear skin nigs.

Spike Lee had the right idea despite being half a wannabe black nationalist but mostly hipster fag. Tony would have choked that little faggot nearly out and any real life Meadow would have known to accept whatever beating she got.

That whole show with it’s pre woke garbage was ahead of it’s time in the worst way.

Also, Tony not banging a woman named Ade who are known to be the hottest pieces of ass on earth.

tbf he was going to bang her until phil interrupted them

 

[AwfulManTitTankTop]

The craziest thing about SoA is that the creator, Kurt Sutter, allegedly played a major role in The Shield, which is one of the best TV dramas of all time. It's probably the closest thing to Sopranos tier TV I've ever seen. It has the greatest finale of any show I've ever seen. And it's like 20 years old. Can't recommend it enough.

 

[guest]

He apparently wrote 5 episodes:

• "From Where to Eternity"
• "The Telltale Moozadell"
• "Christopher" (story and teleplay)
• "Everybody Hurts"
• "Marco Polo"

I think it was Christopher because that was the dumb Columbus episode that everyone hated.

Everybody Hurts was basically Tony acting like a completely different character because Imperioli didn’t understand the very show he worked on.

Not to mention that nose...ever notice how he’s the only guy who can smoke a cigarette while standing in the rain?

 

[guest]

haha, i thought he was perfectly cast as a 2000s young Jersey guido

what scenes do you think he fucked up? he just plays a dunce

Maybe it's because he was such a dunce. I dunno. Rewatched clips of the robbery, him getting caught cheating on Meadow, him hanging out with Omar and then getting clipped by Vito... and he's just not that interesting in any scene he's in.

 

[guest]

The craziest thing about SoA is that the creator, Kurt Sutter, allegedly played a major role in The Shield, which is one of the best TV dramas of all time. It's probably the closest thing to Sopranos tier TV I've ever seen. It has the greatest finale of any show I've ever seen. And it's like 20 years old. Can't recommend it enough.

The final season of The Shield is amazing. No show has ever paid off everything better than they did.

 

[guest]

Everybody Hurts was basically Tony acting like a completely different character because Imperioli didn’t understand the very show he worked on.

Not to mention that nose...ever notice how he’s the only guy who can smoke a cigarette while standing in the rain?

That nose, it's like a natural canopy

 

[guest]

That nose, it's like a natural canopy

Kid’s got some good points, I guess.

 

[wbgreen]

"Everybody Hurts" made sense. Tony spent the whole episode going about in pity for himself, but didn't realize that, all the while, a great wind carried him across the sky.

 

[Riccardo Bosi]

IIRC, he gets very unlucky in season 6. He's losing a ton of money, he has to borrow 200k from Hesh (the rent, the rent), that scene in the casino, he bets on a horse called Meadow Gold and loses.

Then he kills Chris and goes to see that hot girl in Vegas. They're all fucked up in the casino and he's playing roulette and starts winning. Then he realizes Chris is dead and he starts laughing and falls on the floor because his luck changed now that Chris is dead. So his "luck" at least appeared to come back.

Good point. I haven't watched the sixth season in like, eight years. We can at least agree that everything was going to shit by the end of the series.

 

[guest]

I hated all the storylines with Meadow. Like her stupid college shit.

 

[Mick_Mickerson]

I hated all the storylines with Meadow. Like her stupid college shit.

I found every storyline with Meadow and AJ boring as hell on the first watch, but the writers are getting the last laugh because the show captures that era pretty well and millennials on twitter are watching it specifically for those parts

The show is getting a big resurgence based on millennials in quarantine relating to AJ and Meadow's bullshit

 

[AwfulManTitTankTop]

The final season of The Shield is amazing. No show has ever paid off everything better than they did.

Yup. The pilot is incredible too. The Wire took me three or four tries to get into. I was hooked on The Shield from the first episode. It's impossible not to be with the way the first episode ends.

 

[LingerLonger]

Yup. The pilot is incredible too. The Wire took me three or four tries to get into. I was hooked on The Shield from the first episode. It's impossible not to be with the way the first episode ends.

The original pilot of The Shield simply had the ending being Terry Crowley going undercover. And then in like episode five or six he would get shot. But no network would pick up the pilot unless it was action packed, meaning he had to die within the first episode. It ended up setting a way faster pace. The entire show was high pace because the first episode was so insane. They took the idea of killing the main character from HBO's OZ. Where OZ killed its main character Dino in the first episode and revealed the real main character was Beecher the wimpy lawyer.

Imagine in the pilot episode of Sopranos that Junior sends the two moolies to whack Tony how different the tone of the show would have been.

 

[Tortfeasor]

paulie just sneaking up on and beating jason barones kneecaps in broad day light with no witnesses on the dock. and we never really find out what happened with the sale of the company.

those two italian guys blocking in rusty milio in the middle of the day in his driveway asking for directions- that was a really shitty hit

how are vito and adriana la cerva related to richie aprile somehow but in satriales one time vito brags about how he almost fucked adriana (his cousin)? and nobody cares lol

paulie does the sloppiest hits and never gets caught. He did 4 months in prison so they already had all his dna shit. And, he killed that old lady with a pillow and that colombian with a knife and just leaves dna everywhere.

The waiter that Paulie and Christopher killed ... And he's like "don't worry they won't catch us, no one up there knows us" as if going to a different high school can get you out of a murder.

 

[wbgreen]

I can buy getting away with killing the waiter. He was probably illegal, so a murder with no leads and a victim without real ID wouldn't be much of a police priority.

 

[bumbum8]

I gotta agree about Melfi and the rape thing being unrealistic.

I get that it was to show that she would use the fact that she didn't sick Tony on him as a way of making her feel morally superior and thus allow herself to continue to treat Tony even though she knows deep down it doesn't help, but let's be real. It wasn't years or even months after the fact that she was assaulted when Tony asked her if anything was wrong and I can't imagine an actual human woman not saying something to the one person who could make it all feel better and not get caught doing it.

She wouldn't have even had to say "I was raped, here's who did it, here's what you should do." She could have just said she was mugged and that they caught the guy and had to let him go and let whatever happen happen.

I will give credit for the little throwaway boyfriend Janice had. It was the one she told to eat his eggs. I've seen so many scrawny, pitiful looking dudes with great big ladies like that. I don't know why they're like that, but that one was spot on.

 

[guest]

I hated all the storylines with Meadow. Like her stupid college shit.

Her body was mad ripe.

Jackie Jr can have her though (she was creaming for him anyway). Give me thicc ass Caitlin. I like a woman you can grab onto something.

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[EraGodless]

It's not so much about not gambling, but not gambling through a bookie, which will always lead to debts. Tony's dad warned him after lil' Tony saw him maim Mr. Satriale over a gambling debt.

Tony went off the deep end in season 6 gambling sports and getting into debt with Hesh. I forget if Hesh was the bookie or just loaning him money. Either way, Tony was a pretty big jerkoff about it, excuse my language.

Hesh was the shylock

 

[LingerLonger]

I hated all the storylines with Meadow. Like her stupid college shit.

The original ending to Sopranos was Tony driving to visit Meadow in NYC and him dying in a 9/11 terrorist style attack in the tunnel. There were going to be a bunch of scenes of Tony driving to NYC through the tunnels leading up to it, a few made it into the show even, but the cut-to-black ending was chosen sometime during season four instead. It was meant to show that while the mafia was evil there was a whole new level of evil in America that the FBI needed to worry about.

So Tony would have died going to visit Meadow who was living in NYC after graduating from college.

 

[Riccardo Bosi]

I just don't like that the show portrays Italians.