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Uncle Juniors Mental Decay - Soprano Theories

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@SopranoTheories 3 года назад

To learn more about Alzheimer’s and give a donation, click this link: alzfdn.org/?gclid=CjwKCAjw-ZCKBhBkEiwAM4qfF6qY1Lb69L2GGeHO4VgVl_OQSSIwlQJdQoIoC9D93LJX016uHbG0lxoCjYEQAvD_BwE In memory of Nonno Gingi, Rest In Peace ♥️

@StainsStainsStains 3 года назад

Condolences for the loss of Nonno.

@DaveSCameron 3 года назад

Well done you

@wookieboss2643 2 года назад

Hey man i watched the many saints last night and it completely flopped imo. The plot is nonsensical. Casting is rubbish, they shit on junior (who suddenly has broad shoulders, nose and hairy chest) he basically is a clown in this. Silv wont shut up, which is nothing like the silv we all know. And tony is a shy timid soft spoken geek with very little involvement in the film its all just random scenes of random people doing stuff we aren't really sure why or what the point of this is. Its basically a long episode of a new show, that you dont really care about until maybe it gets better by the end of the series. Nonsensical plot! Decent sound track throughout but thats not enough to save a shit show. Really disappointed, glad i snuck in to cinema because i would feel bad paying to watch my favourite show get shit on!!

@L.CROSS0 2 года назад

Glad you linked to the donation

@jr28778 2 года назад

I feel like uncle jun' sometimes with my seizures turning me into a fuckin retard on some days lol

@altrogeruvah 3 года назад

Man, Junior's descent into dementia was one of the most brutal side-stories of the series, a character so alive and vibrant being reduced to a raisin was really hard to watch, Dominic Chianese is an amazing actor

@sakketin 2 года назад

I don't know the man is probably responsible of at least 20-40 murders by the time Alzheimer's kicks in and countless other crimes. There's only so much sympathy you can have for any of these guys especially as the series goes on and we see more and more just how twisted they are.

@altrogeruvah 2 года назад

@@sakketin No I agree with you, but it's the power of narrative that makes you look at a decaying human at face value and not for his past

@itzAurora_Xoxo 2 года назад

The scene with him rubbing the cat 😿 and not the kind he wud have liked to rub either 😀

@airsquadron654 2 года назад

@@sakketin I think that's the beauty of the show. You find yourself empathizing with them before being reminded that these people are hardened criminals who will do anything for money

@YKS2014 2 года назад

@@sakketin When you put it that way the characters sound one dimensional

@razzberrythunder3638 3 года назад

Not enough can be said about Dominic Chianese. True masterclass in acting.

@lastEvergreen 3 года назад

You hear the one about the Chianese Godfather?

@NJGhost34 3 года назад

Amen. He nailed the role and the emotions. I always think of the scene when Tony asked him if he even loved him and you saw Jr tear up and the switch the conversation.

@hughesmovesgaming8748 3 года назад

His acting had the makings of a varsity Athlete that’s for sure

@JamesCherrill 3 года назад

@@lastEvergreen Who's that speaking here? Is somebody speaking

@TooLooze 3 года назад

@@lastEvergreen I forgot it....

@dewilew2137 2 года назад

Livia's "dementia" was definitely an act. The rest of those symptoms were just a manifestation of her old age and narcissistic personality. Also, Livia and June are not related, so that wouldn’t really be something that "runs in the family".

@beepbop9378 2 года назад

Yeah pretty big oversight considering this dude eat sleeps and shits the sopranos.

@kataeiautsav918 2 года назад

was about to say the same!

@TheDonkeyFuzz 2 года назад

Good point. Livia’s problem was that she loved her meat. Full of fat and nitrates.

@jbach7274 Год назад

yeah this video was almost a bit cringe because of this fact lolol

@ShivaOO7 Год назад

Correct. The guy who runs this channel is a bit autistic if we're being honest.

@darj617 3 года назад

In season 1 after the failed attempt on Tony's life, Junior asks livia about her sudden forgetfulness and she replies "just you wait, it'll happen to you too". There was plenty of foreshadowing.

@trentwest2013 3 года назад

I think him faking Alzheimer’s led to him actually kick starting his Alzheimer’s

@kevlark3184 3 года назад

Like when Christopher Reeves was in a movie where he faked being paralyzed to get back at his cheating wife or something. Think that was his last movie.

@coopersepulveda9872 3 года назад

facts

@Soprano_661 3 года назад

He mentions someone dying of Alzheimer’s early on in the show ….. foreboding

@Rob-eo5ql 3 года назад

Hiding in the backseat of the car like a small child….A person with Alzheimer’s often will show child-like behaviors, but at the same time, they are not a child.

@darj617 3 года назад

I think it was when he saw Allison on the courthouse steps and got knocked down by the microphone

@justinbellotti7838 3 года назад

Livia and Junior aren't related, so "it runs in the family" would only pertain to Tony. Also, Livia didn't forget who called, it was after dark, she doesnt answer the phone after dark.

@Lou13814 2 года назад

Feels like he had to pad the video....

@renaudvillacis8066 2 года назад

I waa thinking the sane. She also never answered the call. It was after dark so she couldn't forget who it was

@elipsorange 2 года назад

Junior was Tony's blood uncle. It's Tony's dad's brother buddy. Family

@thebluch 2 года назад

They are both blood related to tony, though not each other. So it's runs in the family, from both sides

@TheBuckteeth100 2 года назад

@@thebluch which would be useless to bring up in a video about juniors dementia

@ReilyReedSlatkinakaCOBilf 3 года назад

I cried reading the comments section, and Phil Leotardo's respect for me as a man plummeted.

@simonholyoak8869 2 года назад

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@CGJUGO80 2 года назад

C'mon Scott. Even Cinderella didn’t cry!

@carpma11 2 года назад

The only permissible tears are those shed for his baby brother. Just a kid, only 47 years old!

@Ontonaut 2 года назад

You’re a goddamned hothouse flower, that’s your problem

@simonholyoak8869 2 года назад

@@Ontonaut Quasimodo predicted this

@VideoGameAutopsy 3 года назад

That last scene with Tony and Junior is my favorite scene of the series. Tony goes in for a business chat with his former boss, only to realize that the man he once loved as much he hated is no longer there. He can’t even remember his family, his little brother, or even the life he lived. Tony shedding a single tear over the “loss” of his uncle is probably his most human moment in the series. I also like to think that the plot around finding Junior’s hidden stash was inspired Al Capone’s supposed treasure. Capone, like Junior, was a top tier guy who lost his life when his brain eventually rotted away. It was said that Capone had hidden stash buried somewhere in the earth, but it was never found.

@sureokk Год назад

My grandmother had severe dementia. When she died, I hated myself for not feeling sad, but years later I remembered I had grieved long before she physically died. I remember feeling exactly how Tony would have felt walking away

@robertbusek30 8 месяцев назад

@@sureokkMy grandmother was the same. It honestly became painful to spend any time with her because she would ask the same questions over and over…

@LARA-sg4bt 3 года назад

Dude, how can you call yourself a soprano channel but the actually believe Livia has dementia in season one, she was obviously faking it there

@rogueknight77 3 года назад

Bro also said dementia runs in the soprano family tree. Junior and Livia are not related by blood

@brandonjordan2516 3 года назад

I still cant get over the audacity of Christapha being high during Tony's muddah's wake....his muddahs wake

@SweaterSwagg Год назад

"Jesus Christ" 😂

@namenotfound617 2 года назад

I love how it went from “why can’t you repeat something nice? Don’t you love me?” To only remembering they used to play catch together.

@paulieswalnut 3 года назад

What's most tragic about Junior is that he didn't have to wind up alone. His pride and fear of his image being tarnished pushed away people like his girlfriend Bobbi who probably would've held his hand through his darkest hour when others turned their backs on him. 🎶 South of the border down Mexico way. South of the border...where the tuna fish play 🎶

@chiefkeef6405 2 года назад

still tho she went telling her friends about junior eating 🐱 lucky he didn’t get whacked for being a ‘fanook’ 😂

@jmichael91 Год назад

@@chiefkeef6405 probably cus all them know they do it too 😂

@intelligentspeculator7327 3 года назад

I'm sure that the permanent home arrest that Junior had to undergo, contributed greatly to his loss of brain functions. Being forced to live every day watching telenovelas, practically not interacting with humans and having no intellectual challenges nor hope whatsoever, just killed part of him. That's how our bodies work, similar to muscles fading away when they are not used for months. Who knows if, on some level, Junior didn't even care, since the life he had to live for the rest of his days, was so extremely dull and hopeless, that in some way, he escaped from it by "disconnecting" his brain. Even now, during lockdowns in many countries, we could see how even several weeks of lockdown made so many people depressed and suicidal, let alone a lifetime, especially for someone usually so acive and dynamic like a former mafia boss. I always felt that Junior's mental decline was a matter of when, not if.

@MultiEvil85 3 года назад

I agree! The permanent house arrest for Junior was like a death penalty.

@carlesthomas7611 3 года назад

So true, isolation could be really harmful for these patients. My grandfather suffered from dementia. But when he was admitted in a medical institution, he was in a better environment than in his home. He shows some little progress about his sociability, and even cognition, when we spent time together. During the quarantine, he was always in his room, and had quite never seen the other residents. My family couldn't see him, because only phone calls were allowed. I didn't saw him for two month, and when we met, his dementia had quite worsened. He was more confused, more agitated, more aggressive. So I think that, junior's house arrets could really play a big part in the development of his dementia. Sorry for my poor English, greetings from France.

@intelligentspeculator7327 3 года назад

@@carlesthomas7611 Thanks for sharing this experience with us, I think it applies 100% to what could have happened to Junior's perception. Scientists on prolonged, isolated missions, e.g. to Antarctica and in space, were determined to have diminished significantly their brain performance upon their return, especially in the hippocampus, which was Junior's case too, and they had to recover from it later on. Apparently, experiments on mice also showed that, after just several weeks of isolation, they became more aggressive, fearful and paranoid; it was not clear to cognitive biologists whether this applied the same way to humans, but I think common sense can hint to us the answer.

@garbageFreeFall 2 года назад

Imagine how many people have gone insane during lockdowns

@joshuaortiz2031 2 года назад

@@garbageFreeFall I am starting to consider myself one of those people.

@thegeenie4609 3 года назад

Looking forward to seeing Junior in his prime in the Many Saints of Newark

@aaronrowell6943 3 года назад

Insert varsity athlete joke

@bodhi8297 3 года назад

I’m looking forward to Johnnyboy soprano

@mr.rosenberg9047 3 года назад

The actor has blue eyes and Junior has brown eyes, he didn't seem to be wearing brown contacts in the trailer... Strange

@jbo4547 3 года назад

@@mr.rosenberg9047 eh suspend that disbelief brah lol

@mr.rosenberg9047 3 года назад

@@jbo4547 It's kind of a major thing

@JessW289 2 года назад

That scene in the finale always gets me. My grandma passed away from ALZ in 2019, and to see it so accurately portrayed gives me goosebumps. When tony says “you don’t remember be do you” and junior give him that look, spine chilling.

@danieldevito6380 2 года назад

What Livia was wearing wasn't a "bath robe", all Italians will tell you that, back in the day, and even today, A LOT of older Italian grandmothers will wear those morning, noon and night. Especially during the summer. My grandmother still wears them all the time... lol

@ThatGuyYouKnowUKnow 3 года назад

I've watched the series through different stages of my life. I've watched it when the depression hit me. The then-wife finally convinced me to get on meds because "Tony was on them." I watched it through a divorce hoping my thing would work out. I later had to put the series and the shelf and skip my yearly binge when I got to the part where Junior started to show signs of dementia. Something my mother was doing at the time. The series helped me get what was going on early in the game and get ready. Now that she's passed, I can binge once a year around Christmas.

@rogueprince1341 3 года назад

When I was 26 I had to move in with my grandparents because my grandfather had a condition known as sundowning. He would get confused or violent. It was one of those bittersweet moments when he passed.

@nlogan1989 2 года назад

Three months ago, this video helped me recognize the red flags screaming in my face. I've watched it several times since; the "playing catch" transition hits particularly close... My realization prompted talks with others, and three weeks ago we got him the only help we could. It would turn out he had cancer too; and in some ways, the help was too late... My father died this morning; but we were able to do SOMETHING for him before the end. He DID NOT go out in the private hell the dementia had been trying to keep him in. This is immeasurable... We got to make peace with him once we had an answer. You had a hand in that. There aren't words to say "thank you" adequately; but if getting the word out to people truly was this videos primary goal, know that it helped me. Be well.

@bornimusic 2 года назад

I’m so sorry for your loss. I’m happy you were able to do what you could for your Dad. Sending love and condolences to you and your family.

@nlogan1989 2 года назад

@@bornimusic Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.

@jeffreydillingham7630 3 года назад

I never liked how Junior was made into a gimp later in the series. He possessed a cool grandfather quality that was obviously underappreciated by most of the younger characters. Junior also had some of the best lines like Phil Leotardo did.

@cdrunner7876 3 года назад

My great grandmother had Alzheimer’s. In the middle of winter at night she tried to leave her daughter my great aunts house cause she wanted to go to her old house and she tried to climb the fence but broke her leg. She froze to death. Whenever I watch the episode where Junior goes out on his own and doesn’t realize what’s going on it always hits home for me.

@cdrunner7876 3 года назад

@June Bug Yes

@mikimiyazaki 3 года назад

@@cdrunner7876 thats so fucking heartbreaking.

@bornimusic 2 года назад

I’m sorry for your loss

@blueoak5262 3 года назад

I felt sorry for Tony at first following his being shot by Corrado, but considering how Tony murdered his own nephew he led down a criminal path just because he was afraid of going to jail himself, I took it back.

@mikefloyd3152 3 года назад

I wanted him to die after he went back on promising not to cheat on Carmela

@wildcat_savage96-33 3 года назад

I wanted junior to kill him

@johnmurdoch3083 3 года назад

@@mikefloyd3152 THATS your line in the sand?

@Napoleon2001 3 года назад

Chrissy was a liability and junkie who tony gave a second chance ,anyone else would've of been killed instantly and people make it like tony killed him for no reason, Chris wasn't gonna make it

@Napoleon2001 3 года назад

@@mikefloyd3152 did u actually believe he wasn't gonna cheat again lmaoo

@theghostofteddyperkins3687 3 года назад

Good video. One thing though- saying dementia ran in Junior's family tree and mentioning Livia having it isn't a good example. The 2 of them aren't blood relatives. I also think Livia didn't have dementia, and was playing it up. She was shifty like that. I loved Uncle June. My favorite character by far of the series!

@mikimiyazaki 3 года назад

Yea. The timing and her agenda belied that fact rather clearly. Like when she made comments about running someone over whatever, she runs her friend over and she did it intentionally. Although her disease BPD and her behavior's are a result of lacking in many ways that make people people.

@spooneater9001 2 года назад

Playing catch with Tony being one of the few things he held on to in his dementia says a lot about his decision to kill him on Livia's advice

@hiddengems7518 3 года назад

Dementia does not run in the family. Oliver and junior are not related by blood

@ibrown3KC 3 года назад

EXACTLY what I was going to say

@josephwagner7548 3 года назад

I think he meant runs in the family for Tony because they are both related to Tony

@hiddengems7518 3 года назад

@@josephwagner7548 In order to prove dementia runs in Tony’s family, there has to be more than one person inflicted along the same bloodline.

@jbo4547 3 года назад

@@hiddengems7518 his mom and uncle aren't enough?

@nicholasfarrell8403 3 года назад

Who’s Oliver?

@LestersLeaks 3 года назад

Junior is probably one of my favorite characters

@rustykuntz94 3 года назад

Mr Magoo over here

@chasjohn57 3 года назад

Probably? Vague comment

@kyle2441 2 года назад

He never had the makings of a varsity athlete

@arthurcooperman3106 2 года назад

As violent and sometimes brutal some of the scenes in this show are, Junior starting to slip with dementia might've been the scariest part of the show to me. It's so real and frightening especially when I have a grandfather who's starting to show similar signs.

@studdedleatherlace 3 года назад

It's so crazy how much James Gandolfini's son looks like him. *Especially when he gets that dead eye look, like Tony.* 👁 👁 So excited for Many Saints of Newark, who doesn't love added context to the show of their obsession? 😙

@RavensAgenda1 3 года назад

A young Paulie walnuts is gonna be epic....

@Wwattz 3 года назад

Gandolfini's son is the heir that Tony really deserved.

@Wwattz 3 года назад

@@RavensAgenda1 did you hear what I said? Gandolfini's son is the heir that Tony really deserved. Heheh

@MrGuggisberg 3 года назад

You want him??

@mikimiyazaki 3 года назад

I honestly dont see it at all. I mean they look alike but that true ferocious anger below the surface i couldnt see

@disorderrgv 2 года назад

I loved how Jun was first using dementia as a tool then he actually got it.

@genekelly8467 Год назад

I still believe Junior was acting-much like the real gangster in Manhattan (the guy who walked around NYC in a bathrobe and pajamas, muttering to himself.)

@themeerofkats8908 2 месяца назад

@@genekelly8467 The Chin

@Tobi_Wan_Kenobi 3 года назад

Jimmy 2 Times in his old age never forgot about Uncle Junior, never forgot about...

@gerryfegan3608 2 года назад

My Great Grandmother, who as a baby come off the boat from Sicily, grew up in Bed Stuy 60 years before Biggie was born and lived till the age of 95. God rest her soul. She was the strongest woman I ever knew besides me Ma and I lost my Gma to Alzheimers almost 3 years to this day. And then in April this year my mother died in her sleep... I'm still reeling from all of it. Thank you for your videos because it gives me a welcomed distraction from my everyday woes

@TheYoli182 11 месяцев назад

Sorry for your loss.

@DrJ-hx7wv 3 года назад

Junior was always an adult. He didn't "mature" into anything. Also, Livia never had dementia. It was an act that shows nothing. Tony's behavior isn't a symptom of the disease.

@zubileegluckgluck 3 года назад

This video is chock full of misunderstanding about what's happening on screen.

@Jennifer-ns9ym 3 года назад

Agree with what you say about Livia.

@SopranoTheories 3 года назад

Sure Junior doesn’t mature into an adult but he ages and can barely remember his own name. Livia 100% had dementia.

@bradjohnson482 3 года назад

@@SopranoTheories Livia 100% acted like she had dementia. It was clearly laid out in the storyline and I'm surprised that you really don't seem to see it.

@NateOfLight 3 года назад

I'm on my first full rewatch of the sopranos after just finishing the show. I'm convinced Livia did not have any mental impairments.

@84blizzle 3 года назад

The scene with her and Tony was just showing how difficult Livia can be. Saying she wants things but then decides she doesn't, won't answer calls after dark but constantly complains know one cares about her and so on. And who doesn't have a Grandmother who's always trying to feed you after you said you already ate.

@SuspiciousFace 2 года назад

The dementia wasn’t an inherited trait in the Soprano family: it was all that charcoal-broiled meat those people ate. Of course, nobody told them until the 80’s.

@ndogg20 3 года назад

Correction @ 4:35 It stated in the video that Livia showing up at Tony's house asking about her late sister was more of her dementia. This is not so. Although Livia was having early signs of dementia, she wasn't yet that far gone. She was faking it in order to cover up the fact that she convinced Junior to kill Tony. Much the same way Junior faked senility in order to get out of sentencing in court.

@bobbybustos426 3 года назад

With Olivia they made it clear that she was doing it all as an act. She was definitely crazy and could’ve had little signs. Junior tho, his was real.

@n.dhingra7765 3 года назад

Great video. You don't show the scene where Junior very reluctantly accepts that he has to feign dementia. His fate is especially tragic because he constantly worried about being "a source of amusement," like his brother Ercoli, and remained ruthless while dismissing "human interaction." At the end, he can't maintain what he thought was the source of his dignity, and what really matters are the fleeting memories of human interaction.

@theicelander06 2 года назад

One of my grandpas passed away from dementia back in January, 2018 and it was the first death that I had experienced in my life and it was so heartbreaking. This video hits home for me aswell 😔 Great Video.

@sunonaro 3 года назад

dementia scares me, ive personally had a medical condition when i was younger that caused confusion, memory loss, and other things like that, and only after it had cleared years later did i realize how messed up it all was. imagine that small window when you wake up in an unfamiliar place, that 5 second window were you dont quite recognize anything and you cant get your mind to focus on what you looking at/thinking of, its that, non stop

@cygnustsp 2 года назад

Yep, I'm in for it. My dad and his dad got it bad. My shirt term memory is getting really bad. I'll put my phone down then 5 seconds later I can't find it. I've been "losing" things and then finding them a month later. Definitely scary.

@joshuavillagomez8369 3 года назад

Funny how he always feared death but in the end he didn't know what that fear was

@JumbleJammyJokes 3 года назад

That very last scene between Tony and Junior is brilliant. One of my favourite scenes from the whole series!

@TheSoonToBePurgedJackMeHoff55 2 года назад

My grandfather had vascular dementia, it's was a rough 3 years for him and for all of us in the family. He was terrified of nursing homes so we all chipped in to take care of him at home, and that is where he died... in the home he built himself... in his sleep. Exactly how he wanted.

@CopiousDoinksLLC 2 года назад

My Grandma passed away from dementia last year at 93 as well. She wasn't herself at all toward the end but she still somehow managed to remember my face every time I saw her and she never stopped saying kind and gentle things to me, even when I knew she didn't really understand what was happening around her. I can only hope I'm that brave if the same thing ever happens to me.

@tonyreyes3780 2 года назад

My mother has dementia. She was a sharp, no-nonsense lady who ran a business with my father. They were like their own little titans of industry. Put 4 brats through college and bought a house. Now my dads passed and I’m having more and more Uncle June moments with my mom. Tough stuff.

@randogirl3441 2 года назад

Thoughts for you and your Nonno. What a meaningful way to tie it in to reality. My nana also suffered dementia in the end, and was placed in a facility. The way you described the facility being just like Junior’s mind-dirty and empty, was disturbingly accurate and I had never made that connection of why I hated it so much. Thank you for tying this video to your family and something so precious and meaningful.

@DRSTRANGELOVEIN Год назад

My father’s mother succumbed to Alzheimer’s. Looking back, since I was just a little boy, it’s hard to remember her but I remember her sons and the toll it took on them. Dad couldn’t bear to see her wither away like that, and for years she existed without any motor function or consciousness. His dad couldn’t bear to let her die, said it’d be “giving up on her.” They didn’t speak for years after that, and they loved each other. That’s what gets me, is knowing my father and his father, the two were almost destroyed by what that disease did to her.

@thizlam4810 2 года назад

Livia didn’t say she didn’t remember who called her in the pilot episode, she said “someone called after dark” and that she didn’t answer because it was dark out. And all that stuff about her looking for someone else and forgetting meadow, that was all because she orchestrated the hit on Tony and started “conveniently” forgetting things.

@shellbacksclub 3 года назад

How didn't Tony realize that Junior didn't actually mean to shoot him?😞

@MultiEvil85 3 года назад

Yeah...it's weird! I mean it's obvious in so many occasions that Junior has Alzheimer's.

@mushmouth1872 2 года назад

My father had dementia since I was 11 he recently died from it last year, and I can say the signs that Olivia and uncle jr show are almost 100 percent how a person with dementia would act

@J_Clean_1996 2 года назад

His mom legitimately made me want to scream whenever she was on the screen. A very, very amazing actor to be able to be THAT annoying.

@eileenmaher2101 2 года назад

The only word to describe Dominic Chianese's performance is Magnificent. And thank you for the clinical Alzheimers and Dememtia. It is the nastiest thing that can happen to someone. I would not wish it on anyone. No matter what.

@illiteratethug3305 3 года назад

Livia and Jr were related by marriage, so the "runs in the family" bit doesn't really work. Great vid though

@sitcomchristian6886 3 года назад

I think he's referring to Tony. Jr was his uncle and Liv was his mom.

@perisword7918 2 года назад

My father died of dementia. It’s a tragic disease. The depiction of it in the Sopranos was very good.

@davidmiller4758 2 года назад

My grandma had Alzheimer's. We kept her at her house n took care of her as long as we could but eventually it became impossible as she needed 24 hour monitoring. She would walk out of her house and wander down the street and become lost, we had to go searching multiple times for her finding her one time in the school near her house about 1 block down the Rd from the house shed lived in for 60+ years. She had no clue where she was or that her house was only a 2 minute walk away. Sad to see the mind go like that and they forget who you are when you see em every day

@lean.2366 Год назад

Tony: "do you even remember me?" Uncle Jun: "I would if you were a varsity athlete goddamit"

@atthehousepublishing-glora5375 3 года назад

Thanks for bringing to light scenes that reflect the sufferings of people and their families misunderstandings of Alzheimers.

@orourkeda 2 года назад

Probably my favourite character. He certainly had the most of the best lines.

@Cazz8203 3 года назад

I'm gonna be bummed out if they don't have a scene of junior and Tony playing catch in many saints

@dudelebowskithe2nd373 3 года назад

I kinda wish that Uncle Junior had not had dementia. He was one of the most entertaining parts of The Sopranos. I missed all the one liners

@JaySplash00 3 года назад

Well done video, man. My grandmother was kinda like Junior in her old age. So sad to see happen to anyone.

@9odfathr 2 года назад

First watched the Sopranos while my grandpa was living with us, and Junior shows off the Alzheimer’s way better than Olivia did imo

@colincampbell7928 2 года назад

Uncle Jun is my favourite character in the show. Fantastic. 'Go shit in your hat'.🤣

@9odfathr 2 года назад

At least we know Junior used to get his hands dirty😂

@marcusanders5320 3 года назад

You have my humble appreciation and thanks for this video. Not only for the fandom of The sopranos but for the shining little light of Alzheimer's dementia. I lost my father to the disease 10 years ago and we were very close. Fast forward now currently my mother is going through the element of dementia. I take care of her full-time and I'm looking forward to trying to make the most of the situation with as much comfort and understanding. I'm looking forward to more of your videos and thank you again for your human heart and empathy.

@purge2--u--nite342 3 года назад

When you hear that intro tune....you know what's up... On junior.... I think he just lost his mind and finally cracked. #PUSSMALENGA

@superawesomeboy 3 года назад

I work in nursing and all I can say is that his portrayal of dementia is chilling. He NAILS IT. For me, it's especially the repeating questions. Just today, I cooked eggs for this old fella. It's so tragic; 1 year ago, he was still eccentric, but I talked shit with him and he was funny and stuff, but eventually, he has degraded. BADLY. I boiled four eggs for him, he requested it, and after he asked for me to boil them, he forgot it 30 seconds after. When they were finished, he kept asking how I boiled them in the microwave. I told him that I boiled them on the stove. He kept repeating how he was amazed that I cooked them in the microwave (don't fucking boil eggs in the microwave, lmao) I'm not gonna rant on for too long, but this portrayal should definitely win an Emmy, I've seen so many people degrade like this, and it's always so tragic. Great video! Peace to you and your NoNo.

@MrGuggisberg 3 года назад

Do alzheimers patients think the mailman is a spy?

@sitcomchristian6886 3 года назад

Thanks for treating the people you work with with respect.

@alanmcpherson3682 3 года назад

Thanks for posting. Great video. Good to highlight the terrible condition Dementia is.

@themightyatom1031 3 года назад

Would've been sick if after Tony got killed, jnr rocked out of there in a three piece suit with a crew outside saying, "hello Godfather"

@chogokin666 Год назад

My grandpa had Alzheimers and I can tell you Domenic Chianesi's performance is steller in it's accuracy.

@rustykuntz94 3 года назад

“$40,000 I had, from my Bohacks haul in the 70s.”

@mikefloyd3152 3 года назад

Did you wrap it right?

@kylenewby2332 3 года назад

Moles...you got em in your yard too?

@daveyboy_ Год назад

He thought him and Bobby were on Curb Ur Enthusiasm . I should not laugh but lmao

@masterzombie161 3 года назад

If only Junior didn’t listen to Livia, or become Boss. Junior should’ve been Consigliere.

@MultiEvil85 3 года назад

His ego! That was his problem.

@mikeippolito2927 3 года назад

The SoCal accent is strong with this one

@9odfathr 3 года назад

My grandpa has had Alzheimer’s 5-6 years now he lived with us for a year and he moved to a nursing home in July and yeah it’s really like that I enjoyed watching Uncle Junior so much cause he reminded me of my grandpa he likes westerns tho and watched them everyday for the past 5-10 years he’d be talking bout wild stuff sometimes then he’d be really messed up and confused. He might cry for his mom which I think he thinks is his wife which is my nanny.

@alanbrady7116 3 года назад

Hey Sopranos Theorist here's one for you. At 8.43 I think mayor Lori Lightfoot plays a cameo role. You can see the beetlejuice resemblance

@michaelcalland801 2 года назад

You left out the scene/sign of dementia where Jr calls Tony B …Tony Egg… “Make my nephew an Egg…”. “You told me already …he doesn’t want one”

@GuidoLuzzi Год назад

she didn't forget who called. she said she doesn't answer the phone after dark and all italian moms will try to feed you regardless of how much you already ate

@willy565 3 года назад

"These Prarie Dogs.....They sleep during the day."

@Opry99er 3 года назад

Good vid!! One thing though, Junior and Livia both having Alzheimer's can't be due to the disease "running in the Sopranos family" as they are not related.

@SopranoTheories 3 года назад

I get what you’re saying but I read an article that said possibly the lifestyle two people live and the food that they eat could lead to Alzheimer’s. My Nonno had it and my Nonna, despite both not coming from the same generic family tree.

@joemarsden68 6 месяцев назад

What's so bad about wearing a bathrobe in the middle of the day lmao I feel attacked

@xXClassicUserXx Год назад

Had contact with alot of Dementia, Alzheimer patients this guy was on the nail with how it progress and acted

@BillBraskyy 3 года назад

I'm glad you ended up doing this video topic!

@Lebby-lc9co 7 месяцев назад

Junior’s biggest strength was always his intelligence, so it’s definitely some type of poetic justice that he’s the one to develop dementia

@hollyh-zw1yb 2 года назад

We lost my mother in law to dementia, a hard way to go. Do sad, we could not see her before she passed, she was in a nursing home.

@camillecarroll106 7 месяцев назад

Livia was not related to Junior by blood, only by marriage.

@jamietaylor7770 Год назад

The straw that broke the camels back with Juniors dimentia was when he got attacked by that Asian kid in the mental hospital. In the show, his glasses fall on the floor and the camera pans to them to symbolize that any part of junior that was left is now gone.

@jedahn 2 года назад

If the X-Files and the sopranos were to come together, it'd be a government conspiracy that led to Jr's dementia.

@DrJ-hx7wv 2 года назад

I like it

@signoguns8501 Год назад

Thats kind of sweet that the one thing Junior remembers is playing catch with Tony. That shows how much those memories meant to him.

@TheCousinEddie 3 года назад

I'm still confused: Did Tony have or not have the makings of a varsity athlete?

@papichefitup 2 года назад

This storyline was rough for me uncle Jun didn't deserve that kind of ending.

@KutWrite 3 года назад

Sorry for your loss. You did her proud with this video. Dominic Chianese taking out his teeth made his transformation all the more visible, believable and poignant. It reminded me of Walter Huston doing the same for his definitely NOT demented character in "Treasure of the Sierra Madre."

@ofearghailthefearless6481 13 дней назад

One interesting thing to note is that both times when Tony was dealing with Livia and then Junior, they both had Alzheimer's and in a way tried to kill Tony which could've been easily avoided but due to Tony being completely ignorant of their problems, it nearly cost him his life twice!

@bezolsmate 2 года назад

man wore a suit to an over-the-phone sitdown

@wawaelias8842 3 года назад

Meadow laying on the couch kissing a random Hispanic dude, was the most random scene and character on the Sopranos. I witnessed haha!!!

@misterx6276 2 года назад

Uncle June was one of the best combined written and acted characters ever. He was always in the middle of things until the end.

@guychi-chifly950 2 года назад

“The tipping point to release the Alzheimer’s in his brain” Lmao

@kingrama2727 3 года назад

I hope Soprano Theories is kicking up what he owes to Pure Kino

@bluecomet1109 Год назад

People say little carmine was the genius behind the scenes but I think it was really uncle junior. Dude probably faked his dementia so he wouldn't be dragged into the war with new york. He pulled a livia. GENIUS

@preahko 2 года назад

I think the first sign of Junior's deteriorating mental capacity occur very early, in (I think) Season 1, the first time he says the "varsity athlete" line, while kind of wistfully gazing off. Don't know if that was intentional, but given what we see later, it now seems ominous to me.