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Summary: Wonderful acting
Review: This show is not for teh sensitive type. It is for people who can appreciate a darker side of New Jersey mob life. The actors are superb- you will not believe how goo dthey are until you see this. This is the best season, the most drama occurs here- the second season was rather slow.
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Summary: Brilliant TV
Review: The DVD quality is good, the features excellent. The series marvellous. I don't have cable and was loaned Season One by a friend. Wow. The only way I can describe my viewing of the series was gluttony. I spent several days watching it until 2AM.I loved all three seasons, what can I say? I come from that part of the country and they DO talk like that, they DO look like that, and they DO dress like that. I used to work in a shady office in construction where things did, indeed fall off the back of the truck. All the little verbal tics and slang expressions are geniune. For Season Three: The characters grow more complex. In this season, I found Dr. Melfi to be exceptionally compelling as she grew to understand her relationship to her patient and how his role in her life changed. Tony Soprano is a complicated man - repulsive and cute, amoral and loyal, seemingly unintelligent, yet an avid reader of "The Art of War". That's just the tip of the iceberg. All of the characters, even the poor dopey strippers, have complex inner lives, desires and motivations. A truly gripping series, best watched in huge marathon chunks. Get the set. Order a pizza. Turn on the DVD player. Find yourself getting up from the sofa 8 hours later...
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Summary: SUPERB
Review: I didn't want it to end, undoubtedly the best TV series ever made. Different from Series 1 & 2, a bit more humour as well
as unpredictability.
Cant wait for series 4.
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Summary: The Sopranos As Greek Tragedy
Review: The role of the therapist in the third season of The Sopranos is one of moral observer without the power to intervene effectively.
Similar to the role of the Greek Chorus in ancient tragedies, the
position of the psychiatrist is one of an observer who knows more than the individual characters. In one example, an elderly
psychotherapist refuses to take "blood money" from Carmela, who continues on with her life unaffected by his admonition. Tony refuses to listen when his therapist wants to explain the real reasons for his actions. Much like Oedipus, Tony is doomed to compulsively act out his unconscious destiny. Not simply a cultural icon, the therapist reflects on the entire process and explains it on a deeper level to the audience.
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Summary: Addictive
Review: I ordered the 3rd season to be shipped to the Netherlands since I was addicted to the show during my stay in the US. I allready had the first two seasons and this one is as addictive as the others. Couldn't stop watching! Awesome show and I hope it will last a couple seasons more.
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Summary: Best Season Yet!
Review: Judging from the sluggishness of Season Four, this season may be the best of the best. What is there not to like about The Sopranos? The direction, editing, and camera work are exceptional. The acting is supreme...James Gandolfini is amazing. Very best episode: Pine Barrens, directed by Steve Buscemi. A must-buy for any Sopranos fan!
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Summary: The Sopranos - Series Three
Review: I waited a few months before I finally received my order, and it was well worth it. The first two seasons had made The Sopranos my favourite television programme ever. The third installment could have been a let down, it could have just carried on in the same vein or it could have blossomed in all the right areas into almost perfection. There is less violence, less comedy but the overall package even tops the first two seasons. The characters are looked at more carefully. Tony shows his love for Carmella even if it means having an affair to keep them from arguing! Meadow has grown into a woman and AJ has even more traits of his father. Is Paulie on the verge of moving away from the family? Will Ralphie get his comeupance? These questions and more are thrown into the equation and we will all wait on tenterhooks for Season Four to deliver the answers. Season Three also gives us the greatest episode ever (Pine Barrens). Directed by Steve Buscemi, it is hilarious. Paulie's, "stop getting ... with me" and "mix the relish with the ketchup" had me in stitches.
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Summary: I gotta bad feeling about this one Tone
Review: If you want a summary of the plot, read the other reviews, this is a little thought peice on the reasons why viewers have such a "mo fo" (Tonese for "amour fou") relationship with this series. First of all, I agree that this season carried on with the best parts of the first two seasons, but its darker and maybe even wearier in tone than the last two. This is (in my humble opinion) one of the great things about this series as TV drama: the characters are on long enough temporal arcs that they can undergo serious changes in character and temprament in a thoroughly convincingly human way. And it is to the writers' directors' and actors lasting credit that they make it convincing, engaging and utterly compelling. This is ensemble dramatic work at its absolute best. One example is Tony himself. In the first two seasons you see his charismatic side at work brilliantly. He's on his way up and his brutality and ambition are juxtaposed against his native intelligence and charm in a thoroughly captivating manner. By the third season, the viewer can sense Tone's increasing sense of being burdened by his past actions. He has gained weight, and is becoming more and more irascible, even as the immediate problems in his life (his mother and the loose cannon Richie Aprile) meet their appropriate fates. Rather than conflicts between characters (though there is plenty of that, with the grating Ralfie and the N-Syncly boorish Jackie Jr. as major examples), it is really Big Pussy's betrayal and the Family's response to it that stands like a looming ghost over Tony, Paulie and Silvio. Try as they might in their various ways to bluff and bluster their way past what has happened, its clear that that whole incident has pulled each of these men closer to a psychological abyss. Silvio is no longer the ever affable "man about town". The episode set in the strip club was chilling in its intensity and in its casual revelation of Silvio's ruthless side. Even more disturbing, the formerly poised and level-headed Paulie has become territorial, mean-spirited and querelous perhaps even to the point of defection. Treachery and despair lurk in the corners of this season of the Sopranos like drunken bigoted relatives at a wedding. Even Christopher (rapidly evolving from youthful idiot to a more stable and likeable character) feels the ripples of this new turn in the series' arc. On a more human level, Carmela, Meadow and Anthony Jr. also struggle with their own disaffections and problems with their involvement in "the thing" leading to confrontations by turns, comic, disturbing and wrenching with Tony's dark side. Perhaps most pitiable is poor old Artie whose personal life just seems to hit rock after rock with no end in sight. He seems utterly bereft of any of the support the others gain from each other, and thus apparently at least, doomed. Tony himself is deep in the woods of his own psyche. For my money, one of the most disturbing scenes comes in the Christmas episode where he struggles to show his appreciation for the stolen "Billy Bass" innocently given to him by an Meadow while at the same time being overwhelmed by the toy's resemblance to his imagined reincarnation of Big Pussy as a dead fish on a fishmonger's display. Rage and terror play across his face and writhe into nervous good humor and "seasonal gratitude". James Gandolfini deserves every cent he earns as an actor for that one scene alone. This season has turned the violence of the show inward on its protagonists. By sprinkling levity (as others have noted most obviously during the episode directed by Steve Buscemi - with shades of "Fargo", "Twin Peaks" and "A Simple Plan"- , but also in slyer moments such as Furio's intimidation of an arrogant doctor -"You gotta bee onna your hat" is now one of my favorite lines-, the archival footage of the OJ trials, and the appearance of a bland and annoying rock band called "The Miami Relatives") through this dark vision, the series maintains its dramatic integrity and its hold on the audience. I have not experienced any series that has been able to hold my attention and satisfy my taste for intelligent human drama like "the Sopranos" and that is why this DVD series gets 5 stars. Hey I'd give it fifty if I could, but I have to send some of them up the food chain.
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Summary: Mean Streets
Review: The third season of The Sopranos is marked by a violent streak throughout the season. The year starts off slowly with the first episode revolving around the Feds trying to place a bug in the Soprano household. It really is a wasted hour. The second episode is also slow, revolving around the death of the family matriarch, Livia (due to the passing of the great Nancy Marchand). Being that the first season of the show and really the basis of the show are Tony's struggles with the psychological abuse his mother placed on him, the show doesn't really spend much time with the incident. But after the first two episodes, the season gets on role. The new year introduces Joe Pantiliano as Ralphie Cifaretto, who has a nasty mean streak, a perverse obsession with the film Gladiator and a big problem with Tony. The season's violent streak involves powerful episodes revolving around the rape of Dr. Melfi (Lorraine Bracco has never been better in her portrayal of how a rape can scar one both physically and emotionally), Ralphie viscously beating and killing his stripper girlfriend (in the same episode Silvio smacks the girl around for skipping out on work), a man get savagely beat with a golf club, we learn that Tony had his first panic attack after witnessing his father chop off the finger of the butcher, Mr. Satriale and Tony comes to blows with his new girlfriend Gloria (played by Annibella Sciorra) that is one of the most intense and gripping scenes in the show's history. As usual, James Gandolfini shows why he is the best actor on television right now, with another brilliant season of acting. The Sopranos is one of the best television programs of all time and the third season adds to its legacy.
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Summary: Better and Better and this DVD rocks!!
Review: after seeing one show of the The Sopranos I was hooked. I love they interact with each other. This DVD is awesome. It is 4 D Disks of dark and witty humor.(episodes 27-39) So there are a lot of shows to watch.. The Dvd also hosts..Commentary tracks from writer/actor Michael Imperioli, episode director Steven Buscemi, and series creator David Chase, Behind-the-scenes featurette,Episodic recaps and previews,Widescreen anamorphic format. I am a big fan of the MORE that a DVD hasd to offer the better it can be. I love being able to watch the show when they are not filming.. they are VERY funny!! If you are a fan than this is the DVD collection for you. Would be a great present for Christmas. Maybe you could do a "whole" theme. Thank you :)
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