----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Remick" <carlremick at hotmail.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 3:34 PM
Subject: RE: The Sopranos
> 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"!
I think you missed the poignance of that scene. Tony sublimated his very real sympathy for the dead girl beneath something far more superficial.
-- Luke
> Carl
>
>
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