#down neck

[sapopapo]

If bad parents why hot

[carmelasopranono1defenseattorney]

livia is like “there is no minority on this planet i won’t find a way to discriminate against”

[dr-milfi]

Gotta be honest, Down Neck, S1E7, is one of the handful of episodes of the Sopranos I do not care for. I find it slow, contrived, and annoying. I either skip it entirely or fast forward through most of it. I despise the flashbacks. That being said, I’ve watched it a minimum of ten times in entirety and have watched bits and pieces many more times. In many ways, it’s College 2.0, in that it visits themes of family and heritage, but isn’t nearly as taut, exciting, or well packaged. Generally just a meh episode for me without a super memorable moment, which is not something I often say regarding an episode of the Sopranos.

What are your thoughts? Agree? Disagree?

[ifeelalot]

[outofcontextthesopranos]

[carmelasopranono1defenseattorney]

tony being harder on christopher right after aj’s misbehaved? how interesting

[carmelasopranono1defenseattorney]

it never occurred to me that whatever is on the news about springfield avenue is definitely a real historical event but i have no idea what it could be (maybe because i’m not american or maybe it’s just really specific to new jersey)

[carmelasopranono1defenseattorney]

that was such a good episode, i like how they established this typical pattern of the show where we split our time between tony’s family and the mob and then have melfi analyze it for us, but we’ve had two episodes that really break this pattern (college and down neck) and they’ve both been great. i just love how we get a whole episode just exploring tony’s childhood and relationship with aj, and honestly i feel like this episode should be talked about more, i think it’s a bit slept on