TV Series: The Sopranos Season 2

The second season of the Sopranos is characterised by people returning. Some were gone for a long time, some shorter. Tony's older sister Janice returns after an absence of 20 years. She joined an ashram in Washington and changed her name to Parvati. Tony accuses her of only coming back because she wants money, and based on her actions it seems to be true. She blocks the sale of her mother's house, supposedly so she can return home from the nursing home Green Grove, but also so that she can have somewhere to live.

Richie Aprile, the brother of the former boss Jackie Aprile, is released after a 10 year prison sentence. He grudgingly accepts Tony Soprano as the de facto boss while Junior Soprano is in prison, but he's obviously bitter about being overlooked in the succession.

Pussy Bonpensiero returns after an absence of a few months. In the first season there were suspicions that he was a rat, betraying his colleagues. Now we find out that it's true, wehen we see him talking to an FBI agent. He fled New Jersey, because he thought that Tony was on to him. Now that he knows that Tony no longer suspects him, he feels comfortable returning. He tells everyone a story about being in Puerto Rico for back treatment.

At the end of the first season Tony told Jennifer Melfi to get out of town to avoid reprisals for acting as his psychiatrist. Since then she's been using a motel room as her office. Was she also living there? It's not made clear. Now Tony tells her she can come back, but she's not yet ready to take him back as a patient.

At the end of the first season Junior Soprano was arrested. He applies for compassionate release due to a heart condition. The judge agrees to release him under conditions of house arrest. He's only allowed to leave his house for doctors' appointments and food shopping. He has to wear an electronic bracelet to prove that he's obeying the conditions.

Luckily Junior has an understanding physician who allows him to use his surgery for business. In America it's not allowed to place listening devices in doctors' surgeries. Tony tells Junior that he'll allow him to keep his stripes, i.e. still be recognised as boss, but Tony himself will run business.

A new business venture is started under the control of Christopher Moltisanti, who's used crooked means to be accredited as a stockbroker. Shares are sold of a non-serious company, Webistics. His brokerage has bought 400,000 Webistics shares for 60 cents each to be sold for inflated prices to elderly people who don't know what they're doing.

I think that's all the major changes this season. If I've forgotten anything, I'll mention it in my next post.

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