>I would have thought feminists would see it as an exercise
>in raging masculinism.
Which can look like critique, if you watch it right. Tony is under the care of a female shrink, after all.
Besides, apropos the aesthetics thread, the show is so damn good that you could overlook its ideological flaws. It's nicely complex - you don't know whether to love Tony or condemn him, sometimes. And there are the moments like after Dr Melfi's rape, when you sort of wish that she'd tell Tony so Tony would get the creep whacked. Then you think about looking to a Mafioso to do the work of the angels and you feel kind of weird.
Doug