If you haven't been watching, you won't understand, but The
Sopranos
is the best thing to happen to TV ...since ...West Wing,
...since ...Homicide.
Sunday's finale could go a hundred ways.
Paulie confesses to Tony - what choice does he have?
Christian thinks Carmine is the problem, I say it's Johnny Sack!
Carmine is old, he's old-school, he's stubborn and set in his
ways, but he's no Judas Maximus.
Unless Chase is lying to his audience, which isn't cool for a
much-respected director,
Johnny Sack has been leading Paulie on since Paulie was in the
pokey in the 2002 premier.
When Carmine told Paulie he'd never heard of him, that makes Johnny
Sack a lying sack.
That's why Paulie confesses to Tony next week, a rare damn smart
move for Paulie.
Also, and this is important...
Tony drives a dark red Suburban.
Whoever gets murdered in the final moments in the finale next
week, the SUV's not dark red.
I predict the scared juror in Junior's trial caves and sets Junior
free, but it's a piece of the plot that
was woefully underdeveloped. Koresh, we spent hours
on Janice's nutty courtship of Bobby Bacala,
but we only spend 60 seconds on what might free Junior freed
from year-long arm of the feds?
Is Christopher done for the year?
Or did he bust out of rehab, steal a SUV and cruise the wrong
side of town?
Is Furio in Italy, as his last-minute, 4 AM voice-mail to the
Bing suggested?
Or is he plotting to fish-sleep Tony to enable him to take the
queen, Carmella?
He had a chance at the airport when he grabbed Tony near the chopper
propellor.
They played it both ways - was Furio saving Tony or was he about
to kill him?
Is Carmella so sex-crazed that she'd have Tony killed for a fling
with Furio?
Could she do that to her brat-assed kids?
Carmine said, in front of Carmine Junior, that Tony was the son
he never had.
Whatever goes wrong next Sunday, Little Carmine will have a hand
in it.
The last show will be a 75-minute blockbuster.
I wouldn't miss this for a private, backroom lap dance from Vendela's daughter Tammi.
Well, that's a lie, but I'm sure looking forward to the big finale.
Will we have to wait another year for the last 15 episodes?