Seems like a dark joke on the viewer that we saw Bobby's funeral through crappy FBI surveillance footage. We were denied paying our respects in our own way by not being "there" in the context of the show. The last season is really depressing.
@@pretorious700 Damn you're a cool guy. Just shut me down and you looked really cool in the process. Nobody should get excited about anything, we should all just be cool and calm down about things. Brilliant.
The color scheme, paranoia-inducing camera angles and cuts, the silence, the FBI videos making the funeral seem less personal, making the guys look like the mobsters they are.... Christ, this season was grim
They build the whole series to it so well. Melphi kind of reflects the audience and I'm almost surprised they didnt end the series with her. Sometimes I like to think she walked into that diner and thats what Tony sees, but I think it was just the FBI coming to finally drop a RICO charge, not a hitman.
Was literally just thinking that, I loved how season 1 was so bright and full of sunshine and then you get to 6B and like you said everything has that blueish washed out tint that makes you feel like the end is near for Tony.
yes, thats true, but thats what makes the show great. Season 1 they were on top of the mob and life. Now everyone is dying and the Sopranos did an amazing job showing what really happens to every mafia crew in the end
0:27: The part of the video when Tony is looking around to see if there's anyone coming for him. That look in his eye was the first time in the series when I think Tony was genuinely afraid for his life. To be that constant target for assassination must be incredibly overwhelming. James Gandolfini was a brilliant actor who played so many different emotions and did it so well.
"i gotta to get home" poor carmela, she can't live in a regular house like regular people.. but that's the exactly kinda of house that she would be live in if she had run away with furio 😆
I'm glad I'm not the only one that felt so shitty while watching the last season. Not because it was bad, hell, it was one of the best seasons, but the feeling it gave me was so depressing it almost made me have an existential crisis. Reminded me of certain moments playing GTA IV.
The show becomes quite difficult to watch towards the end because you begin to feel the "end" approaching -- the American dream, the mob, Tony himself, and just in general the concept of death. It's probably the most existentially dark seasons of television ever made.
David Chase stated that he was surprised when he found out that fans loved the characters and were rooting for them I think the show went out of its way in the last season to remind people that these are all horrible human beings. There were no redeeming qualities to any of the characters. That's why the season felt empty and depressing
I’m one of the few that didn’t feel bad. Part of me was heavily invested in the character arcs and how much things were crumbling around tony. He became such a scumbag that it did not feel horrible seeing his crew get killed or seeing him fear for his life.
AJ is the only one with any sense in this season. People can hate on him all they want he really was just a normal boy trying to cope with living life in a household of seedy and psychopathic lunatics.
This is literally what I try to explain to everyone. In the last season he’s literally the most rational person of all. He always reminded me of just a somewhat normal person with normal issues trying to cope living with a mob family.
I don’t recall any classic comedy moments in the second half of season 6. Maybe Paulie and the cat but even that is morbid because of the Chrissy reference
Funerals were always a large part of this series. And for the funeral of one of the most prominent characters is only shown from the perspective of the FBI agents staking it out. Totally impersonal. Cold. The last few seasons were very grim, especially the last one. One can get the vibe that the end is near for Tony.
Remember what happened to the last guy who made a snide remark about Meadow? I hear his dentist made a killing sorting his teeth out! Madonn', what a score!
When Season 1 premiered everything was colorful and bright now by the end just muted and gray colors as if the joy had been zapped from the world signifying many things, one of them being the transformation of Tony into a full blown villainous character.
I wonder sometimes... do they have rules like, No women no kids? No funerals? Carm's probably right... FBI presence deters hits more than the principle.
This scene is very strange... truly strange. The scene is interrupted at the beginning, when Tony, after waking up, meets the agent Harris (suddenly it is evening), then, again, Tony and Dante go to Carmela's hiding place.
@@conormcateer8305 I thought so too. But one thing must be stated. The Sopranos are perhaps the most realistic series that has ever been made, and it is no coincidence that in addition to being a classic of great fiction, it is also defined as a sociological portrait of Western civilization at the beginning of the third millennium. The mafia is shown humanely, like any other social phenomenon. Of course, the limits of television are many, but if there is one thing that David Chase has demonstrated that he knows and reproduces profoundly, it is dreams, the work of the unconscious. For many, Made in America represents the end of the American dream, the end of great America. Not only does the cycle of the Soprano family (understood as an institution and as a criminal organization) end, but that of an entire nation, of an entire civilization. It may be a dream, the whole episode, but it's too detailed to be.
@@ivozaccagni It’s an amazing episode… but if you pay attention Chase drops clues that we are watching a dream sequence… could list them all, but here’s my favourite… Uncle Pat visiting Tony in the Bing… music in background not your usual strip club fare… we only hear an instrumental drone… turns out to be Sonic Youth, I dream I dream… deliberately included as are the other songs in soundtrack with dreaming mentioned in soundtrack. AJ at Bobby’s funeral accuses those at his table of living in a dream. Made in America is an anagram of I AM A NICE DREAM
Reading the comments in the section reminds me of Walt finally confessing to everything. The final season was meant for the viewer not ro root for any of these characters. They are all terrible people even Bobby. Chase wanted to fans to realize that everyone involved is a terrible person. Dr. Melfi lashed out at Tony because she was disgusted at herself. She was meant to be what the viewers should of been. Kudos to David Chase.
I think Carmella, Meadow and AJ will be just fine. Because if the ending happened the way most of us thinks it went down (Tony getting assassinated or Arrested by the FBI) it will be the best thing that happened to them. Or for them.
@@michaelsinclair8733idk if they would be able to move on from seeing their father/husband get murdered right in front of them. That trauma is hard to get rid of, especially for someone like AJ who most likely suffers from MDD
@@VoodooDangerbird You want compromise? A whole year I wanted to go in a bar, I compromised I drank alone in my house, I wanted to go to the movies I compromised, I watched pirated movies off the radiat- I mean internet.
You all know AJ's semi girlfriend is how they got to Tony on that last episode. That's how New York found out where they were having dinner at which diner, she was working with New York!
If AJ was working for Carmine jnr.'s porn company he could've let it slip unknowningly. Likewise, Meadow probably told her fiance, who in turn told his father Patsy, who in turn told New York. The possibilities are numerous.
@@VoodooDangerbird It's like Jordan Peterson says in "12 Rules for Life", Don't let your kids do anything to make you hate them. It is a lot more common, and parents subconsciously punish kids in all types of ways. looking at you Livis!
If you end up hating your kids for any reason you need to look in the mirror for the reasons why. Or maybe your significant other. Tony was too pig headed to understand that.
Rhiannon, Heidi and Kennedy were all Phil Leotardo’s granddaughters, trained to be teenage girl assassins to avenge their grandfather’s twenty years in the can.
In COLOMBIA, when gangster/bandido is at war and have to be in hiding, the wife, kids or anybody who comes to visit have to be blindfolded. They do this for their own protection. In case the enemy capture/kidnap them and torture them, they can not give up location of the men. American LCN has rules which I think personally make them a lot softer than real Colombian gangster
I always noticed that how they are to the side from the main family as if telling us that they have separated themselves from the family and betrayed tony and joined New York
Same. I had a hard time reading Paulie during his final scene with Tony. It was a mixture of guilt, worry, sadness. Tony Sirico’s great acting for you. I thought he definitely sided with New York.
It’s telling how Tony has to rely on the FBI in the last season to protect himself and to get to Phil, if he didn’t die on the last episode that would probably come back to haunt him
This is sadder when you realize Bobby never got much after his death. He amounts to little more than a couple of numbers from Butchie, Janice is more concerned with the money, and the people at the funeral are more concerned with the food. It gets worse when you realize that Bobby's death was shown through some poor quality FBI recordings whereas rats like Curto get treated with a lot more respect. It's kind of funny in hindsight
