One of the more simultaneously heartbreaking and hilarious episodes of the show. Everything involving Adrianna is horrible, and I felt so awful for the character, from the death of her dog, to Chris hitting her, to her telling Tony "please don't hurt him", to her speech at the intervention, to even her goodbye to him at the rehab center. Even Chris, who acted like a complete shitbag for most of the episode, especially to Adrianna, was pitiful in the hospital when he apologized to Tony and wondered how it came to this.
On the other hand, this collection of non-touchy/feely people coming together to try to do an intervention was expectedly hilarious. Of course all Silvio can say is that it was disgusting when Chris was throwing up. Of course Paulie can't understand the non-judgmental principle of the idea. Of course Chris starts shitting on everyone in the room including his mother. Of course it ends with people kicking the crap out of each other. It's sad in its own way as well, but it's also just ridiculous enough to be funny. The same goes for Paulie turning Tony into Napoleon (or, sorry -- not Napolean, like Napolean) in his painting.
But there's a real sense of realization of how bad things have gotten in this episode. "What kind of god would let this happen?" asks a tearful Tony Soprano. Contrast it with Svetlana, who's turned into one of the show's more indellible characters with few appearances. She tells Tony that Americans expect everything to be good and complain when things aren't perfect, whereas the rest of the world expects things to be bad and aren't disappointed. It's an interesting juxtaposition, but there's a clear atmosphere of the good times Tony and his crew and family have enjoyed starting to go down the tubes.
The same is true of his marriage, where Carmella and Furio are coming closer and closer to acting on their feelings for each other. It's an interesting juxtaposition of the two of them eating alone at the end of the episode. I'm not sure what to make of it exactly, but there's a sense that when Furio is making his own pasta, pouring his own wine, living with a little class whereas Tony's content to heat up cold rigatoni and drink milk, that Furio is what Tony used to be, that there's a vitality to him that may have been what attracted Carmella to Tony in the first place. But that sooner or later, that turns into this.
Review by Andrew BloomVIP 9BlockedParentSpoilers2015-07-23T05:46:18Z
One of the more simultaneously heartbreaking and hilarious episodes of the show. Everything involving Adrianna is horrible, and I felt so awful for the character, from the death of her dog, to Chris hitting her, to her telling Tony "please don't hurt him", to her speech at the intervention, to even her goodbye to him at the rehab center. Even Chris, who acted like a complete shitbag for most of the episode, especially to Adrianna, was pitiful in the hospital when he apologized to Tony and wondered how it came to this.
On the other hand, this collection of non-touchy/feely people coming together to try to do an intervention was expectedly hilarious. Of course all Silvio can say is that it was disgusting when Chris was throwing up. Of course Paulie can't understand the non-judgmental principle of the idea. Of course Chris starts shitting on everyone in the room including his mother. Of course it ends with people kicking the crap out of each other. It's sad in its own way as well, but it's also just ridiculous enough to be funny. The same goes for Paulie turning Tony into Napoleon (or, sorry -- not Napolean, like Napolean) in his painting.
But there's a real sense of realization of how bad things have gotten in this episode. "What kind of god would let this happen?" asks a tearful Tony Soprano. Contrast it with Svetlana, who's turned into one of the show's more indellible characters with few appearances. She tells Tony that Americans expect everything to be good and complain when things aren't perfect, whereas the rest of the world expects things to be bad and aren't disappointed. It's an interesting juxtaposition, but there's a clear atmosphere of the good times Tony and his crew and family have enjoyed starting to go down the tubes.
The same is true of his marriage, where Carmella and Furio are coming closer and closer to acting on their feelings for each other. It's an interesting juxtaposition of the two of them eating alone at the end of the episode. I'm not sure what to make of it exactly, but there's a sense that when Furio is making his own pasta, pouring his own wine, living with a little class whereas Tony's content to heat up cold rigatoni and drink milk, that Furio is what Tony used to be, that there's a vitality to him that may have been what attracted Carmella to Tony in the first place. But that sooner or later, that turns into this.