TV-Reviewed

It’s only been two episodes and Christopher Moltisanti has managed to mess up big time. This time Christopher takes part in a truck-jacking of an electronics truck. This isn’t good, because it turns out that the company that Christopher has jacked is actually under the protection of Uncle Junior. This creates some tension between Tony and Junior, because now there messing up Junior’s business. It all gets sorted rather easily though with Chris having to give all the money he made to Uncle Junior and to not rob any more trucks under protection. Christopher is already starting to become a headache, he acts without thinking and is somewhat defiant to authority. His dream is to become a made man, but he hasn’t shown any leadership skils, which is probably one of the reasons why he hasn’t been promoted. Not to mention that he hasn’t been working that long.

Tony’s sessions with Dr. Melfi seem to be working little by little. This week they explored Tony’s feelings for his mother, because Tony has felt obligated to take care of his mother. He’s afraid to say that he might have anger towards his mother, he’s afraid to admit it, because in Tony’s world you always take care of your mother. Tony takes the first step to conquering his mother by forcing her to move into a retirement home after she hit her friend with her car, and not being able to work a phone has left her unable to take care of herself. Tony still has a lot of work to do, but moving his mother out should lower the stress somewhat in his life. Nancy Marchand does a great job, playing the somewhat crazy Livia Soprano. Livia is often disoriented, but deep down inside we know that she probably does know what she’s doing to a certain degree.

This episode dealt mostly with Tony’s emotions for his mother and his mother seems to cause the majority of the stress in his life. It’s still great to see how screwed Tony actually is, when he unleashes his anger out on the guy working in the bar who can’t work on the phone. In all honesty his stupidity was getting annoying, so we can’t totally complain about it. The Sopranos is still staying interesting. We love the flawed Tony Soprano and we still haven’t gotten tired of Silvio thinking he’s Al Pacino in The Godfather repeating the famous phrase “Every time I get out they keep pulling me back in”.

The Sopranos – 46 Long
Original Air Date: January 17, 1999

Rating: 7.0

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