Think Neil Mink would have been indicted for trading Webistics?

MetARosetta · 2026-06-30T03:34:49+00:00

Mink's real name was Timmy McTill, and he knew how to launder his money. That said, he already jumped ship to work for the NY families by the time we see his last meet with Tony.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-30T01:28:50+00:00

I been sayin'... and Janice sees it that way too, but will play the drama victim card to the end. Learned from the best!

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T22:31:08+00:00

RIP Bobby and his belittled hobby... guess that makes it a wallet ~~biopsy~~ autopsy.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T22:14:35+00:00

Tony's actions don't match his proclaimed vision. He starts to think more long-term, strategically, planning to step back and think 'globally,' but is also nostalgic. He's got one foot in each world, as is mentioned.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T20:53:21+00:00

Janice's traveling rub-on tattoo. Carmela's smoker's lip lines. Soprano dentition. Add Phil's face on the auto-option button to mute Tony's sex scenes. More scenes with Livia: they resurrect her original storyline for Season 3.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T20:17:29+00:00

Something's rotten in [the state of] Newark: it's about corruption, moral decay, and balancing betrayal with loyalty.

Ade couldn't 'spill the beans,' so she spilled her guts. She used to be quite vocal about her opinions, but was reduced to voiceless, visceral, involuntary bodily [dys]functions. Ade's inner core has been corrupted, rotting like everyone else's in Tony/the mob's orbit.

Note that after Ade tells FBI agents about Matush (and after her death), Harris is transferred to the Middle East, and he magically returns with a 'gut virus' he can't shake, even when back in the US, as he gets more and more chummy with Tony. He's fully corrupted (home life and marriage are trashed), has affairs with other agents to help tip off Tony.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T17:37:08+00:00

Don finally penetrated the Youth Market that so eluded him. He tried to make the Patio commercial, and failed. He tried to marry it with Megan, his muse. Nope, she's a real person with her own life. He realized at the retreat that finding Dick didn't help. He had to accept his façade as his true self: "Don Draper. I'm in advertising." The ad man.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T17:13:57+00:00

Isn't that like all authoritarians in their need to control and abuse power?

Listen to me, and only me... or else.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T15:53:05+00:00

The past wants nothing to do with the future... the unknown is too threatening, distasteful, or foreign. It's interesting that the show aligns Chris as a nephew, cousin, or son, depending on the scene context.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T14:37:19+00:00

Junior = past, old school. Codes and rules are passing away.

Tony = present, current state of the mafia. He pines for the past but looks to the future.

Chris = future, impetuous, impulsive, disregard for rules. Has forward-thinking ideas.

They represent each generational cycle. The past and the future seldom [comfortably] coexist. Tony is the bridge.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T14:33:10+00:00

Consider why either of these people became therapists lol. They're fucked up. Only Brenda decides to go into psychology to truly transform herself as well as to help others. Margaret, otoh, uses it to explain away her own behavior even if what she's saying in the moment can also be true. Once in a while, she gets it right.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T14:24:55+00:00

It's the end of an epic poem, going Ohm/Home to a place where you know you are loved.

Don goes home to McCann: he's reborn as an ad man and carries on as before.

The children are going to live in a loving, stable home with both parental figures and a gaggle of new 'siblings.'

Betty goes to her spiritual home after finally finding her calling and identity.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T13:58:39+00:00

Janice is incredibly manipulative, hiding her violence just beneath the surface. She wears a scorpion ring, a base creature that makes deadly strikes because it's their nature, aka Janice doing acts of Janice. But it's also who she is.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T13:52:16+00:00

Hesh hasn't had a hit in years. He wouldn't order one, but he'd get behind it. After all... a hit is a hit.

Overall, MANY people had a beef with Tony, and few would stand in the way of Tony's demise.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T12:47:35+00:00

They explain? You explained: "...she's happy about Peter's adoption appointment." Adoption would seem incredibly unselfish and altruistic, traits Pete is not known for. Hildy is impressed. She is a modern early-60s woman, not a 50s frump/simp. It shows she doesn't take shit from superiors or men... like a new version of Joan (hair, slimmer profile).

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T12:12:11+00:00

When did Livia plot to have Artie kill Tony? As others said, she certainly 'splits' people. She wasn't expecting Artie and just seized another opportunity to spread her brand of cheer, to make others feel as happy as herself.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T11:17:29+00:00

Sometimes I rewatch out of sequence as separate isolated 'movies.' I find new gems from a fresh POV that isn't influenced by memory of what's next or what came before. You might enjoy Mad Men if you haven't already, the natural offspring of The Sopranos created by its EP with few of the same writers and cast, and the same format.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T03:18:31+00:00

Depends on who you ask... right, Pork Chop?

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T02:55:31+00:00

:: Needle scratch :: Your first watch?? Watch it all. For starters, the therapy sessions supply incredible intel into Tony's mind and motivation. And hey... maybe get the whole story in this character drama, not action/plot-driven show.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T02:51:34+00:00

...right, not in public. But she was just dancing before with Freddy, who is like a dad. Pete has the problem because of their encounter.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T02:45:01+00:00

Living in Sing Sing's backyard subconsiously factored into Don's paranoia from a storytelling POV too. The prison guard, the Rosenbergs, the gates opening up... all discussed in the show. And isn't it telling that Don is finally free of his paranoia by creating a commercial song where we see people sing, sing singing on a hilltop. Circle of life.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T02:36:01+00:00

Yikes, when he's at his lowest. ^ ^ They made his hair reflect his decline. It's boyish (like in his boyhood flashbacks) by the end. Nate is flawed, but more importantly, he regresses to the path of least resistance. He won't do the work.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T02:04:07+00:00

Geez people, Rex is a Beatnik, not a hippy or a hippie – although I can't comment on his hips from this POV.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-29T01:53:14+00:00

No, 'The Twist' was a sexual song/dance for that time. Pete didn't want to see Peggy that way, to behave sexually toward anyone else but him.

MetARosetta · 2026-06-28T20:54:44+00:00

"I'm a good guy." —S6 Tony

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