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(S06E12) After a week’s layoff that felt like forever (we should be used to that by now with this show, frankly), we’re roped right back in to what the boys from Jersey were up to. Julianna Margulies’ character has made her way back into the show, in a way that I’d heard on the down low was going to happen, and she turns out to be just the troubling influence that one of the main guys didn’t need. Carmela appears dead set on finding out what happened to Adrianna, something that Tony is more than interested in halting from happening.
Going in to this week’s season finale, I was curious as to if we’d be left with a serious cliff hanger, or brought into a false sense of security. Unless I missed something, the latter seems to be the case. Christopher seems to be having cold feet about his marriage and impending new addition to the family, and is taking out his frustrations elsewhere. Phil and the New York crew appear to be plotting something very, very bad for the Jersey crew. And most importantly, of course, AJ seems to have made a new friend at the construction site. But like they say, “at least she’s Catholic.”
So, were you at all surprised to see Christopher getting it on with the woman that Tony wishes he was banging? I most certainly wasn’t, after hearing that spoiler a few weeks back. What I was surprised about was that not only did Tony refrain from kicking Christopher’s ass over it, but that Christopher actually owned up to doing it. Hope he remembered to bring his wife home a quattro formaggi. Oh, come on. You know he forgot.
I loved how Tony managed to deflect Carmela’s attention - hopefully - from searching out Adrianna’s killer by making Sil lean harder on the building inspector, allowing her to do construction on her spec house. Wonder if that’ll stick, considering the business card she pulled out of her bag and onto her end table. Tony also provided for some comic relief when meeting with Dr. Melfi, especially when he was seemingly complaining about the “type” of women that he always ends up wanting to get with. She asks him “what he thinks it means,” and I so thought he was going to make a snide remark about wanting to have sex with his mother, but we missed out on that.
Now, I don’t know about you all, but I most certainly look at the New York crew, and except for The Hairstyle, they’re looking pretty “dead” already. I mean, John’s in prison and out of it, Phil’s now had a bad heart attack, and the guys who remain look like they could all be offed with a twist of Tony’s wrist. When Tony had his “little chat” with Phil in the hospital, I honestly wondered whether Phil was really crying because he was taking Tony seriously, or that he was just so miserable that he couldn’t do anything after trying to curse out his fellow boss that he had to let it out somehow. What I do know is that if that group of semi-loose cannons decides they want to cause some trouble across the Hudson, they might just do it.
Towards the end, it appeared that things would end ever so simply as Christmas occurred and the family got together at the Soprano home. Heck, even Uncle Junior got a visit from Bobby in the home, and it was funny to see him receive an envelope, meant for Bobby’s family, and then give it to an orderly. Oddly quiet and simple was this closing, so much so that either David Chase and crew wanted us to think that things were calming down in the Newark area, or to make the final eight episodes that much more effective. And really, who saw Agent Harris as a legit enough guy to help out Tony, telling him that the boys in Brooklyn had it in for someone in Jersey, and there’s no way that Tony would let that happen. So either Harris *wants* to get things rolling for his fellow federal agents, or he was just being polite because of the Christmas season. Oh, come on, that’s never happening.
Now we have more than half a year to take our guesses on what’s going to happen next. Some have said they think Junior will be offed, I almost wouldn’t be surprised if both of the crews end up wasted, more or less. Will Adrianna’s killer be unearthed? Is Meadow’s move out to California the beginning of the unraveling of Tony’s actual family? Anyone want to take bets on who actually lives through this entire series? And finally, do we want a happy ending or a crazy ending, once it’s all said and done?
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(S01E12) Well, you just knew that the Henrickson family secret was going to be exposed. What makes it so surprising is that they all seem shocked by it. But I guess they deluded themselves into thinking that they were a “normal” family, at least in their own community.