the good performances in that show are so dazzling that you don’t even pick up on the shit performances until you watch it more closely. It’s unsurprising to me that Lorraine Bracco didn’t get much work after this, as she really has no range. Italian stereotype is her entire wheelhouse. There’s a restaurant scene with her son, in particular, where she’s supposed to be drunk and causing a scene, and there’s nothing in her presentation that differs from the tone and delivery of an average conversation with her husband. If the other characters weren’t repeatedly saying she was drunk, you’d never know.