The Sopranos

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>... 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.

Agreed. The Sopranos plays with your head as no other show in the history of 
TV.  On the one hand, you cheer on Tony and his sidekick thug when they 
accost and humiliate an arrogant doctor at a country club who won't give 
Uncle Junior any words of comfort.  OTOH, you sit shocked and sickened when 
one of Tony's psychopathic lieutenants beats his pregnant girlfriend to 
death in the parking lot of Badda Bing, and Tony's crew are outraged at the 
guy ... for "dissing the Bing"!

Carl

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