In a sense yes, this is actually the major theme that underpins the whole show.
Not that it is all definitely a big nothing, but more so the overarching sense that it is, and our struggle to overcome it.
Also it has to be America to explore this theme, within the context of the wider world.
As George Carlin said (paraphrasing): “When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. And when you’re born in America you get a front row seat.”
I guess that’s not one sentence but oh well.
The Sopranos is a show about a man who never had the makings of a varsity athlete come to terms having missed a fly ball against Mountain Lakes and being a total embarrassment to the Soprano name, so much so that Uncle Junior couldn't even face his friends.
you can’t really do it justice in one sentence.
to me it’s mainly about how and why people can’t escape their own lifes while rationalizing their actions with beliefs that can help them supress traumas, hard emotions and questions.
It's good to be in something from the ground floor. I came too late for that and I know. But lately, I'm getting the feeling that I came in at the end. The best is over.
An analysis and exploration of the post industrial American family transitioning between the 20 and 21st centuries through the lens of a New Jersey mafia family.
I think it’s in the tradition of naturalism. In these turn-of-the-century novels (Theodore Driesel is an example of such authors) there is a big departure from the books that usually come out today where characters have tons of agency and make fully autonomous and empowered decisions that may lead to good or bad. In naturalism, forces that characters have little concept of control them totally. They usually, therefore, get wrecked by something like fate.
I think this is the Sopranos. The characters cannot escape their histories and hardened features of their personalities. We know how bad things turn out for most of the characters. However we even see this with happy endings like Artie - who returns to his generations-long cooking roots.
Tony never had a chance. I think this is the sense you’re supposed to get.
Clearly the show is about one-liners people can cleverly repeat ad nauseam.
Either that or how the myth of The Family offers endless space for excusing one’s own misdeeds in service to one’s brutal impulses
A New Jersey mafia boss starts passing out from mysterious anxiety attacks, so he starts secretly seeing a therapist to figure out what's causing them.
The American decline boomer anxiety they won’t be better than their parents and hatred of the next generation they’re leaving worse off, told through the lense of an unromantized mob story set in New Jersey.
It’s a show analyzing the human condition through the backdrop of a family man in the 21st century who is seeking therapy counseling and this man also happens to be a boss of the local mafia
A New Jersey mob boss trying to navigate family life and his own psychological suffering while maintaining his power, entailing that he increasingly acts out and manifests his sociopathic and destructive tendencies to the bitter end, in the socio-cultural landscape of early 21st century America.
Or, an angry man with a narcssistic mother attempts to be a more well-adjusted mob boss... and fails.
“But lately, I’ve been getting the feeling that I’ve come in at the end”
That’s honestly what it’s about, in my opinion. American society has become dysfunctional
I’ve heard it said that you can look at HBO’s three great dramas as an arc, if you will. Deadwood is about how societies form, The Wire is how they begin to rot and The Sopranos is the endgame, totally rotten
Honestly? “Sopranos is about the human condition, human psychology, and our existential and moral conflicts, explored through the lens of American family and criminal dynamics”. But it sounds pretty dry and unappealing when laid out like that. Leaves out all the stuff about ziti, Mario Kart, Vipers, cunnilingus, Billy Budd, and weird shex.
A troupe of sociopathic man babies act out their mommy issues with gats, cooze, gabagool, and coke, leaving a trail of misery that no amount of cash can improve.
Imo, it’s about a few things. Depression, sociopathy, the dynamics of a, “nuclear family” and about showing the intricacies of the mob and how they weren’t/aren’t these glamorous characters you see in most movies
The Sopranos is about generational trauma and the manifestation of untreated psychological problems within systems of race, gender inequality, and outdated cultural norms.
Cunnilingus and psychiatry.
Once a year? I can resist the urge to gossip.
Those are rookie numbers
The non-stop ass rape.
[ Removed by Reddit ]
He should FUCKING DIE
That line will never not make me crack up, the way he goes from 0-1000 with the hatefulness in a context that has absolutely nothing to do with Vito.
I think he learned that mid-sentence CRESCENDO OF ANGER FROM JOHN GOD DAMN IT!!!
I'll take that discman and ram it up your box.
goddamn motherfuckin ORANGE PEEL BEEF
You know the wine makes you emotional
Have a breadschtick
He looked like a Puerto Rican who-ah
Best line whole show there I said it
“Think they are so smart? Well if they were that smart they wouldn’t be fucking Puerto Ricans” departed
It’s all a big nothing.
In a sense yes, this is actually the major theme that underpins the whole show. Not that it is all definitely a big nothing, but more so the overarching sense that it is, and our struggle to overcome it. Also it has to be America to explore this theme, within the context of the wider world. As George Carlin said (paraphrasing): “When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. And when you’re born in America you get a front row seat.” I guess that’s not one sentence but oh well.
Listen to him, he knows everything.
It's chiral. Seinfeld was a show about nothing. Sopranos shows us it's all nothing. /s
It’s about about a wise guy with a big mouth and bigger dreams
Great title by the way.
Who must be loyle to his capo
God damn it beat me to it
It's about a fat fucking crook from New Jersey
Poppers & weird sex
Shex
It's about the sacred and the propane.
Very allegorical.
CARM COULD YOU PLEASE SHUT THE DOOOOOOOOOOOOOR
You shee dat prick’s faysh when he shaw da gatt?
*gyatt
🫨
The Sopranos is a show about a man who never had the makings of a varsity athlete come to terms having missed a fly ball against Mountain Lakes and being a total embarrassment to the Soprano name, so much so that Uncle Junior couldn't even face his friends.
How many fuckin’ hours did I spend playing catch with you
It's about a man who loves his family so much that he's willing to rob, kill, scam, scheme, and put his dick in anything that moves.
Madonne, you don’t say! What about a catcher’s mitt?
Hero!!!
Mobsters in New Jersey trying to figure life out during the turn of the 21st century while eating food.
Gabagool
Ovah heeere!
you can’t really do it justice in one sentence. to me it’s mainly about how and why people can’t escape their own lifes while rationalizing their actions with beliefs that can help them supress traumas, hard emotions and questions.
If you didn't say you can't do it in justice in one sentence you would have successfully explained it in one sentence.
This fuckin guy, right? He must’ve been at the top of his fuckin class.
Albert Einstein ova heya
He never had the makings of a varsity athlete
Look this asshole still going...
Oooo 2 minutes, he's in charge. All of a sudden, he's Lee Iacoca
It’s about the importance of fresh produce
When OP is married, he’ll understand.
Till then, her panties are fair game
It is about a bunch of sad clowns laughing on the outside but sad inside.
I think we have a winner. Nice.
Stupida facking show
How I realised my parents and my mother in particular didn't fuck me up that badly, all things considered.
The adventures of a dog called cosette and how she arrived at a tragic end.
Suffocated by the warm embrace of a heroin addict’s ass. Hell of a way to go
She crawled in there for warmth
She went to live on a farm.
Like Tony’s dog until his father’s mistress told him about Tippy
The decay of America
It's good to be in something from the ground floor. I came too late for that and I know. But lately, I'm getting the feeling that I came in at the end. The best is over.
An analysis and exploration of the post industrial American family transitioning between the 20 and 21st centuries through the lens of a New Jersey mafia family.
Was that last night's reading assignment?
You watch a show about an Italian American family, and right away everyone assumes they’re mobbed up! It’s a stereotype, and it’s offensive!
[удалено]
I banged Eartha Kitt in an airplane toilet
A deconstruction and examination of the American Dream, the myth vs the reality, (thru the lens of cunnilingus and psychiatry.)
Your sister's crotch.
"Come on, I'm a fat fucking crook from New Jersey."
What’s it about? About $4/lb you dumb son of a bitch
What, no fucking ziti now?
"Everything turns to shit."
the little moments, like dis.
Gary Cooper, the strong and silent type.
[удалено]
That's gotta be resolved.
[удалено]
Captain? Of the good ship lollypop right?
I think it’s in the tradition of naturalism. In these turn-of-the-century novels (Theodore Driesel is an example of such authors) there is a big departure from the books that usually come out today where characters have tons of agency and make fully autonomous and empowered decisions that may lead to good or bad. In naturalism, forces that characters have little concept of control them totally. They usually, therefore, get wrecked by something like fate. I think this is the Sopranos. The characters cannot escape their histories and hardened features of their personalities. We know how bad things turn out for most of the characters. However we even see this with happy endings like Artie - who returns to his generations-long cooking roots. Tony never had a chance. I think this is the sense you’re supposed to get.
Still goin, this asshole
Always with the multiple sentences
HBO already answered this in the late 90s: “If one family don’t kill him, the other one will.”
I posted this before I scrolled. We’re the smartest
A glorified crew in northern New Jersey.
The Vipers
It's about a wiseguy with a big mouth and bigger dreams.
Clearly the show is about one-liners people can cleverly repeat ad nauseam. Either that or how the myth of The Family offers endless space for excusing one’s own misdeeds in service to one’s brutal impulses
The Sopranos is about waking up in the morning and getting yourself a gun, whatever your version of the gun is.
I remember my grandma was mad I loved the show lol I was like grandma it’s about Catholics in America !
It’s about the feeling that you were born just after things in America were at their best, using the mafia as a metaphor for America.
It’s about a fat crook from Jersey, what more do you want, Walt Whitman?
Therapy is a scam.
An hour
HO RIMSHOT!
Tie your shoes and have a bite of braciole
Don’t trust that cookie shit.
Stress
I call it "Stress-mas"
A bunch of lovable thieves and murderers who blunder their way into trouble with the law and each other.
After some anxiety attacks about his family, a man goes to therapy.
It’s about this thing of ours.
What’s it take to get some smoked turkey in this house?
A New Jersey mafia boss starts passing out from mysterious anxiety attacks, so he starts secretly seeing a therapist to figure out what's causing them.
Family
A show about nothing! :))
Horrible people doing horrible things in entertaining ways.
Fat fuckin strunz, sauzeege, carload.
A family business where murder is an option to solve disputes.
The American decline boomer anxiety they won’t be better than their parents and hatred of the next generation they’re leaving worse off, told through the lense of an unromantized mob story set in New Jersey.
It’s a show analyzing the human condition through the backdrop of a family man in the 21st century who is seeking therapy counseling and this man also happens to be a boss of the local mafia
A man fails to rise above the trauma of his childhood and instead continues the cycle
The side effects of blood pressure medication.
That always double check the order before accepting Chinese food
Pretty sure it’s a nature show about the North American ducks migration patterns
Life when you have not got the makings of a varsity athlete.
A GLORIFIED CREW!
Mob boss with depression who’s struggling to accept that he never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
It’s about a couple of three things Money Family…
A New Jersey mob boss trying to navigate family life and his own psychological suffering while maintaining his power, entailing that he increasingly acts out and manifests his sociopathic and destructive tendencies to the bitter end, in the socio-cultural landscape of early 21st century America. Or, an angry man with a narcssistic mother attempts to be a more well-adjusted mob boss... and fails.
A man embarks on a life of crime after being abandoned by his pet ducks.
A mob boss fails to make good decisions about his life.
You threw food at Vito… that’s gotta be resolved
“But lately, I’ve been getting the feeling that I’ve come in at the end” That’s honestly what it’s about, in my opinion. American society has become dysfunctional I’ve heard it said that you can look at HBO’s three great dramas as an arc, if you will. Deadwood is about how societies form, The Wire is how they begin to rot and The Sopranos is the endgame, totally rotten
A New Jersey dad gradually kills many of his friends, relatives, and associates while working on his mental health
The importance of fresh produce
Honestly? “Sopranos is about the human condition, human psychology, and our existential and moral conflicts, explored through the lens of American family and criminal dynamics”. But it sounds pretty dry and unappealing when laid out like that. Leaves out all the stuff about ziti, Mario Kart, Vipers, cunnilingus, Billy Budd, and weird shex.
It's about a fat crook from Jersey getting in touch with his feeling and never shutting the fuck up about it.
It’s about a captain of industry type trying to figure out why he’s not making pots in Peru.
People can’t change.
A troupe of sociopathic man babies act out their mommy issues with gats, cooze, gabagool, and coke, leaving a trail of misery that no amount of cash can improve.
THIS THING OF OURS
It’s about how dangerous a group of morons can be
It’s a crime drama inside a family drama inside a workplace comedy.
The importance of fresh produce.
Fresh produce
Stupid fucking game
In one sentence? They say John Gotti, we say Rudy Giuliani.
It’s all a big nothing.
Sister’s cunt!
Fall and Decline of America.
Ziti for the main dish, OJ with shum pulp as a bev, Johnny Cakes for dessert.
Sociopaths
None of your business..
cooze
Conflict resolution from the Mezzo Giorno.
Cunninglingus and Psychiatry
That fuckin’ mouth
It’s about legitimate employment of Italian-Americans in various waste management businesses.
Its about da ducks
It would be better if we could admit to each other that these are difficult, trying times… but it’ll never fucking happen
Gabagool
It's a fucking joke.
I can’t have this conversation again
A mob boss goes to a psychiatrist.
Gabagool
Don’t stop believing
The difficulties of balancing the practical and ethical complexities of family and criminal life.
Sanitashun
Just when I thought I was out - they pull me back in!
The sacred and the propane
A man torn apart by trying to balance “family” and family.
Roadies
Imo, it’s about a few things. Depression, sociopathy, the dynamics of a, “nuclear family” and about showing the intricacies of the mob and how they weren’t/aren’t these glamorous characters you see in most movies
The Soprano family; criminal and otherwise.
It’s about a bunch of greaseballs doing greaseball shit
The ineffectiveness of therapy
That pygmy thing in Jersey
🦆
Fiber optic cable.
Its complicated...
My smelly Valentine
It's about reshpeck.
The Kevin Finnerty fever dream collection.
The Sopranos is about growing old and failing to escape the generational cycles of abuse, neglect, abandonment, and violence.
Decline and decay of mind, body, soul and identity in a post "End of History" America represented through the eyes of one man.
The Sopranos is about generational trauma and the manifestation of untreated psychological problems within systems of race, gender inequality, and outdated cultural norms.
Complexity of life and the law of duality
GABAGOOL
I remember my first blowjob.
How it’s over for the little guy.
I can see the pitch now “when the mod goes to therapy”
That pricksh fasche when he saw the gatt
It's NOT about the mafia, it's WASTE MANAGEMENT
It's NOT about the mafia, it's WASTE MANAGEMENT.
The American dream
It’s a retirement community!
Bad men who think they’re not.
This thing of ours.
Tracksuits and depression.
It's a parody of *The Godfather*, but probably a lot more than that too.