[lbo-talk] in which lbo-talk defends 'the sopranos'

[joanna bujes]

Yes, and counter to that, there was the episode where Tony's shrink is 
raped and the police bungle the case. She bursts into tears in one of 
the sessions and Tony asks her what the matter is. She realizes that if 
she tells him, the rapist, whom she has identified and whom she can 
easily find, would be mincemeat in Tony's hands. But she does not tell 
Tony. And the rapist gets off scott free. That stands as an example of 
ethical conduct too.

I haven't watched TV in thirty years, but I watch "The Sopranos" because 
it  is the best show since, I don't know, "The Addams Family." Needless 
to say, it's not always great and quality is uneven from season to 
season, from show to show.

Joanna

Carl Remick wrote:


>> From: John Thornton <jthorn65 at mchsi.com>
>>
>>      It is just possible that the rather leftish leaning people on 
>> this list may walk away from a program like The Sopranos with a 
>> slightly different perspective than a 19 year old student at a 
>> community college who feels dumped on and mistreated and craves 
>> respect and money. Maybe not.
>
>
> I'd say that student is very astute, because I share his/her 
> perspective entirely.  One of the satisfactions of the show *is* that 
> Tony and his crew serve as the audience's proxies in getting even for 
> the many humiliations that people suffer every day in the hands of 
> authority figures.  One of my favorite scenes is when Tony and his 
> chief goon go to a fancy country club to put the muscle on some 
> pompous doctor who is too busy to see Tony's elderly uncle.  Tony very 
> smoothly humiliates the doctor and intimidates him to the point that 
> the doctor falls back backward into a water hazard.  The next day -- 
> mirabile dictu -- Tony's uncle gets a call saying the doctor would 
> just love to see him, the sooner the better.  Seeing society's 
> powerful get bounced around and humbled occasionally is one of the 
> joys of the show.   But there is much more to The Sopranos than that.
>
> Carl
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