Saturday, 3 May 2025

TV Series: The Sopranos Season 2 (Part 2)


The fourth episode of season two introduces a new character, Furio Giunta. Tony meets him while on a business trip to Italy to discuss the delivery of stolen cars. To compensate for receiving a lower price, Tony is given Furio to work with him in America. In order to get him immigration papers, Tony asks his friend Artie Bucco to give him a job making cheese in his restaurant. When Artie sees how badly Furio works he lets him go, but Furio retains his job on paper, the expenses paid by Tony himself.


Dr. Jennifer Melfi finally agrees to take Tony back as a patient. She returns to the familiar routine of flashing her legs while staring him in the eyes and asking him to confess his innermost secrets. She comes to the conclusion, quite correctly, that it's the women in his life who are making him feel weak.


The most dangerous woman in Tony's life, as far as his mental health is concerned, is his mother. She's the only person in the series who is pure evil.


Tony's elder sister Janice is also a problem. She's returned to New Jersey motivated by greed. Tony tells her that she can't take whatever she wants, but she can wrap him around her little finger. She builds an alliance with her mother against him. She was always her Daddy's favourite, as we saw in flashbacks in the first season.


Is history repeating itself? Tony's favourite child is his daughter Meadow. He admires her intelligence and intuitive understanding of the family business. He doesn't consider his son AJ (Anthony Junior) to be a suitable successor. He says it's a shame that Meadow wasn't born a man. He denies the rights of women, even though the women in his life have so much power over him.


Ironically, Tony's wife Carmela is one of the lesser problems in his life. She knows he has mistresses, but she puts up with them. As she confessed to her priest in the first season, she was glad that they gave him sex, so that he would leave her alone.


But Tony has other women problems that he's brought upon himself. His current goomah is Irina, a Russian immigrant from Kazakhstan. Goomahs are usually Italian, and they know how to behave discreetly. As a Russian Irina has a strong will and openly tries to get more from Tony. She has unrealistic dreams of him leaving his wife to be with her. That can never happen.


The only other thing I'll mention is that the sixth episode starts a new trend of famous people appearing as themselves. Frank Sinatra Junior takes part in a high stakes poker game, which Tony calls the Executive Game. The game is for men only. Of course.

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