Best Sopranos episodes

[Heavincent]

I'm rewatching the whole series. Just got done watching College (season 1 episode 5), which is one of my favorites. I also love Funhouse (season 2 finale). The list goes on.

Your favorites?

[BurningHammer]

Pine Barrens

[Smoke117]

Pine Barrens

Obvious choice...and a great choice. I dunno what episode it is...but the one with Chrissys intervention...most of the best episodes are the funny ones...like the one where Ralphie calls up Paulie's mom...no show was able to mix humor and drama like it until Breaking bad.

[24-Inch_Chrome]

Pine Barrens
Classic. :applause:

[Andrei89]

* Spoilers *

Pine Barrens obviously

"All Due Respect ". I found it genius how at the end Carmela lets the "bear" in the house.

"Fortunate Son" when Crissy gets made

However it is so difficult to actually pick an episode because all Sopranos episodes were pure class.

[JohnnySic]

Pine Barrens
This. :applause:

"He killed 16 Czechoslovakians!" :roll:

[Andrei89]

This. :applause:

"He killed 16 Czechoslovakians!" :roll:


" He was interior decorator or something"

- " His house looked like shit"

[highwhey]

Favorite episode is The Wire

[Thorpesaurous]

The one where ***** dies.

The one where Adriana dies.

[JohnnySic]

The one where ***** dies.

The one where Adriana dies.
I cant believe Christopher agreed to have Adriana wacked. What a douche.

[BurningHammer]

I cant believe Christopher agreed to have Adriana wacked. What a douche.
Chris is a slimeball who survived the show way too long thanks to the plot armour.

[Terahite]

Obvious choice...and a great choice. I dunno what episode it is...but the one with Chrissys intervention...most of the best episodes are the funny ones...like the one where Ralphie calls up Paulie's mom...no show was able to mix humor and drama like it until Breaking bad.

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[DukeDelonte13]

The one where ***** dies.

The one where Adriana dies.


That was cold blooded.

[Thorpesaurous]

It lacks the violence, but Mad Men is the funniest of all the super high end shows, and really as dramatic even though it plays with less life ending stakes.

[ArbitraryWater]

spoilers everywhere!!

i know.. i know

[Heavincent]

Pine Barrens

Love the scene where Tony laughs at Bobby's hunting apparel :oldlol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1OtWdYXTAQ

[Suguru101]

Employee of the Month.

The one where Dr. Melfi finds >white textgets raped.

I have never been as morally caught up in an episode of Television as i was when i saw that episode. It puts the viewer in a really tough position. Episode itself is also superbly done.

The acting too. Goodness.

[Styles p]

definitely the pine barrens because i live 20 mins from them. but i loved just about every episode except the one where tony was living as that business man.

[Thorpesaurous]

definitely the pine barrens because i live 20 mins from them. but i loved just about every episode except the one where tony was living as that business man.


I agree. There were parts of episodes I wasn't crazy about. All the Gay Vito stuff in the last season, and not even because of the gay stuff, but it was just so far from the central story. And a lot of the dream stuff was a bit inaccessible, especially that extended Tony the Salesman bit from the coma.



I'm really looking forward to Vinyl.

[Styles p]

i also loves the episode when they killed big puzzy. awesome way to kill a good friend lol take him out on the boat have some shots with him reminisce a little then let him know it's time.

[dazzer87]

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[JohnnySic]

spoilers everywhere!!

i know.. i know
The series ended almost 10 years ago (!). We are well past the statute of limitations for spoilers. :oldlol:

Edit: white text :lol

[DonDadda59]

Too many to list but I will say I love the dream sequences/episodes, which weren't always popular. Most unique and creative way to develop a character and continue plot, especially if you know anything about Freudian/Jungian dream interpretation. The Test Dream and 2nd-3rd episode of 6A were plain brilliant. Funhouse's fever dream was great too.

Some of them were just plain eerie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8rto8GTP2Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXi_mVNeIb4&feature=youtu.be

[JohnnySic]

I agree. There were parts of episodes I wasn't crazy about. All the Gay Vito stuff in the last season, and not even because of the gay stuff, but it was just so far from the central story. And a lot of the dream stuff was a bit inaccessible, especially that extended Tony the Salesman bit from the coma.



I'm really looking forward to Vinyl.
The gay Vito stuff was pointless because it never went anywhere. And even the way they ended up wacking Vito was anticlimactic. It just seemed like they were running out of ideas and needed some filler.

[DonDadda59]

The gay Vito stuff was pointless because it never went anywhere. And even the way they ended up wacking Vito was anticlimactic. It just seemed like they were running out of ideas and needed some filler.

The first run through, the gay Vito storyline pissed me off. It was the final season and they sort of put the main characters in the background to tell a minor and uninteresting character's pointless story. On rewatches it doesn't bother me as much and Season 6A, which was by far the worst in my eyes initially is much better.

And Vito was based on John D'Amato (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D%27Amato) who was an acting boss of the DeCavalcante Family in Jersey (the basis for the Sopranos), who was killed once it was revealed he was a homosexual.

[Heavincent]

Too many to list but I will say I love the dream sequences/episodes, which weren't always popular. Most unique and creative way to develop a character and continue plot, especially if you know anything about Freudian/Jungian dream interpretation. The Test Dream and 2nd-3rd episode of 6A were plain brilliant. Funhouse's fever dream was great too.

Some of them were just plain eerie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8rto8GTP2Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXi_mVNeIb4&feature=youtu.be

Absolutely. That's why I love Funhouse. Most accurate depiction of dreams I've ever seen in a TV show or movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8hUcqtRNWs

[Thorpesaurous]

I had read years ago that HBO had real trouble coming to financial terms with many of the main actors for that final season, and in order to secure them for the money HBO was willing to put out, they all demanded really limited work schedules. And that meant filling time with tertiary characters played by actors that were willing to take less money, like Vito.

I always thought that seemed strange, because they established the gay Vito thing many seasons in advance with Fin. But I know that theory is out there.

[Thorpesaurous]

Absolutely. That's why I love Funhouse. Most accurate depiction of dreams I've ever seen in a TV show or movie.


There were definitely some great dream sequences, and they played with the psychological stuff so head on with Dr. Melfi that it really works well, especially in the early seasons. I think at that point Chase was still working off of his original thesis for the show, "A Mob Boss in Therapy with multiple Family Issues". But there were other dreams that felt out of place to me.

Nucky Thompson also had some good dream moments in Boardwalk Empire, and it just seems like the subconscious is a topic that Terrance Winter likes to write.

[ScalsFan21]

Employee of the Month.

The one where Dr. Melfi finds >white textgets raped.

I have never been as morally caught up in an episode of Television as i was when i saw that episode. It puts the viewer in a really tough position. Episode itself is also superbly done.

The acting too. Goodness.

It definitely stands out in my mind for the same reason. I like almost every episode this show produced, but Employee of the Month is probably the most memorable for me for the exact same reasons that initially led me to hate it. Generally in the moment, and I'll be vague to semi-avoid spoilers, you want one character to handle a situation differently for "TV purposes", but then you realize that would just be too easy and too "TV", and instead it was one of the great blue-ballings I've ever seen in any show. The direction they took that episode (and that plot in particular) was flawless and true to the character.

But I still think "Long Term Parking" in S5 and College were my favorites, with the last few eps of season 3 right behind.

I really gotta rewatch this show.