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Summary: It DOES slow down
Review: The first four shows here are as great as any the show has done. The Columbus Day episode which Michael Imperioli co-wrote is thoroughly brilliant writing. "Whoever Did This" is truly startling television with some psychological depth. The season finale "Whitecaps" confounded viewers' expectations, but in retrospect is quite brilliant and powerful.In between though, there's quite a bit of drift interspersed with interesting ideas. The show lost some focus and vigor at this point. Viewers did not get the same level of excellence which they had become accustomed to. Still a fine show, but if you haven't been watching "The Wire", "The Shield", and "Six Feet Under" then you haven't been seeing the best shows on television for a while.
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Summary: Just to be heard
Review: I don't have anything to say about the set I just want to be heard about the fourth season. There was so much complaining done about it. I liked it alot actually and found that some of the most memorable things came out of it. I think this furthered the characters and plot line a great deal- to completion for some of them. I only had one gripe and I will not spoil it for anybody who is going to just watch the dvds and hasn't seen them on HBO Already. A certain character who I happen to be entertained very much by committed an act that I thought was even out of character and out of the question for his character who is a killer and a thief already. It bugged me alot. Yes I know Mr. Chase wants everybody to know for sure that even likeable mob characters are still bad mamma jammas despite the whole nobody is 100 percent bad or 100 percent good thing and what not. But still Mr. Chase what gives? Anyway like I said this season was great in my opinion and please don't be persuaded to not buy the fourth season just because some brainless pallisaggio didn't get enough whackings to satisfy his craving for meaningless plot twist deaths.
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Summary: Great Entertainment Value
Review: I have nothing but the highest regard for this series and its actors' accomplishments. Worth every penny. Also an excellent value and HIGHLY recommended, "New Sex Now."
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Summary: The LAST season! Really...
Review: I used to Love this series when it first aired. I bought all the dvd box sets and watched every sun night always waiting for the new episode.But I feel this fourth season set is the last in the series as James Gandolfini and greed derailed this last years(almost 2 years!) worth of episodes!The fourth season was indeed dull and I found myself waiting for Six feet under instead.
So enjoy the first 3 seasons and remember a great show that is no more...too bad.
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Summary: ROOM TO GROW!
Review: I initially hadn't wanted to write a review, because I am too biased after reading all the others. I would like to point out, however, that Edie Falco's performance was inferior to NONE! She will surely win the Emmy on Sunday for a third time. Meadow's character as well as AJ's was stale and boring. I loved when Adriana got busted by "Danielle" and was forced to turn into an informant, albeit an inept one. Throwing up on the FBI was genius! Christopher becoming an interim Cappo while Paulie was in the can was nice, even though no one respected him. I fear it will be the end for Paulie, though, if Johnny Sack turns on him. What a shame Carmine has no idea who he is. The actress who plays Johnny Sack's wife is horrible. If not for his coaching during "The Weight," she would have ruined a really fine scene.
Most of all, Janice "massaging" Ralphie's backside in bed was almost as hysterical as Christopher chopping off his head and not realizing the hair he grabbed for leverage was a rug. "You were so messed up, you wouldn't have known if your mother's muff was on his head." Forgive me if I misquoted!
I miss Nancy Marchand. Please air the seasons closer together. A year and a half between them is too long.
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Summary: The End Of A Generation As It All Begins To Crumble
Review: Many have refered to Season 4 as a set up but I saw it as a necessary decline of business, friends, associates and family all being brought down by the lifestyle they have chosen. The Soprano's have enjoyed "the good life" for far to long in the wake of everyone else's suffering and piece by piece all the relationships surrounding Tony are disintigrating. This season is finally beginning too show that greed, imorality, drug abuse, promicuity, stealing and murder will eventually take it's toll on everyone. Carmella realizes she sold her chance at love and true intimacy for a life of financial comfort and the ability to "buy things." Adrianna lives in daily fear of being found out and unable to know which way to turn. Tony's closet associates begin to fall by the way side, either figurtivly or literally, and he no longer can trust or enjoy the care free "little boy" life he has always lived. It is becoming painfully clear that you cannot enjoy a life when you are unable to trust the people around you and the toll a life of secrecy can drain from your spirit. In Season 4 everyone suffers and "It is about time!" From the capos to the Russian mistress and Ralpie's "bowling" trip, everyone begins to receive their come-up-ence! What surprises me the most is in a world where no one is innocent I still find myself wishing someone would "Whack Janice," who we've never seen comit a crime. (ripping off the govenment doesn't count) This goes to show you when it come to entertainment, being annoying is far worse then being a murderer!
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Summary: The FanBoys need to give it a rest.
Review: Season 4 was awful. Storylines that went nowhere, characters popping in and out for no reason other than to draw a paycheck, improbable romances, etc. You know it's bad when a racehorse gets more screen time in Season 4 than Uncle Junior. Get the first 3 seasons and skip this one.
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Summary: Reviews & Reviewers
Review: Gee...it would be nice if a couple of these passionate reviewers would learn to spell and make proper use of language! As for the fourth season it was, as one person said, all a setup. That's the main problem and the fatal flaw of T.V. miniseries in general [the level to which the best written show since M*A*S*H has now declined]. Somewhere during the course of 13 episodes you need a payoff, not just a payday. Season 4 is the reason season 3 will likely be the last Sopranos series I purchase.
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Summary: Family Man
Review: What I find interesting about Tony's character is that he has one foot in reality (his wife-and-children-family) and one in a world that we can only grasp through movies (thank God). His ability to keep them separate amazes me. His own family goes about like any other (remember Meadow getting upset when Tony might not be able to make her graduation--never mind that he had been cuffed and stuffed by the Feds.) The only one-dimensional character is the son. His character is just space-filling and time-filling. Carmella is very complex and I admire her ability to not fade into the background.
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Summary: Different yet equally successful
Review: I haven't given this 5 stars simply because it's The Soprano's and is my favourite TV series. Many people seem dissapointed with the pace and subject of this series,however i feel the slightly unorthadox pattern is both neccessary and refreshing.
As a Tv series the directors and writers have realised the need to change formula. The essential aspects are prominent, but the genre of TV as a continuation of story every week cannot reflect the ideal poignant nature of film, the very thing i love about Sopranos- not more but differently to The Godfather and Goodfellas, is the in depth nature, the total lack of grandure as oppose to film. You cannot continue to churn out the same aspect of the Gangsta tale, people will become bored, the same things can't happen week after week, series after series- (this isn't scooby doo).
I have found the change of direction fascinating, the Furio-Carmella storyline has added much needed depth and purpose to her charachter. We were drawn increasingly closer to her throughout series 3 and 4, and the triumph as she stands up to Tony as no other will brings him back down to earth and modernises the cliche tale into reality.
Christopher's drug habit was another important aspect of the series and the directors focus on outward degredation of the families through non-violent ways provides poignant dramatic irony propelling the absurd situation of the series.
Certain moments stick in my mind from series 4 including Carmella's not so subtle outrage over the interpretation of classic literature as homosexual. The killing of Ralph also sticks in my mind as a reminder of how we have become romanticised by a gangster, we love Tony and are drawn to his charachter, that which has been responsible for so many death's yet cries only at the death of pie-o-my.
I was however quickly bored of the Janice- Baccala plot, and pleasantly surprised by the development of Adrianna as acharachter in her own right, rather than Chris's tacky, shallow other half.
This is not my favourite season, yet is not far from it, and i can't wait to see what happens in season 5.
I know Tony and Carmella will reunite, yet i'd love to see Furio back and have a feeling we wont have seen the last of Dr Melfi, the Paulie story line is sure to prove equally interesting.
Long live Sopranos, but please give me enough time- the box sets are expensive!
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