Monday, May 14, 2007

The Sopranos: Tony's going to hell. - By Jeffrey Goldberg, Timothy Noah, and Brian Williams - Slate Magazine

I'd like to go out to the middle of the desert, take peyote and have sex with a super hot chick.

So, here's the invite to Tony Soprano to join disorient this coming year. He's what? Fictional?

Think they ran the end credits with a Calexico song.

The Sopranos: Tony's going to hell. - By Jeffrey Goldberg, Timothy Noah, and Brian Williams - Slate Magazine: "Tony, who spends his life being comfortably numb about the reality of what he does for a living, can't in this instance abide the hypocrisy of pretending that Christopher died in the accident and that he's sorry Christopher is gone. He escapes to Las Vegas and looks up Sonya, an old girlfriend of Christopher's who's working her way through college as a stripper. (I assume Sonya figured in the show a few seasons back, but I don't remember her. Do you?) They have sex, and then Sonya introduces Tony to peyote. At first it makes him puke, but later they wander, high, into a casino, and Tony soon finds himself winning at the roulette wheel. His streak of bad luck is over, he realizes; killing Christopher ended it. Remember how Tony told Carmela a few episodes back that he was fated to survive Uncle Junior's shooting? The peyote deepens that delusion. The episode ends with Tony and Sonya in the desert, Tony shouting, 'I get it.' Mario Puzo meets Carlos Castenada.

Tony is good and comfortable with his numbness now. Drugs made Christopher weak, but they make Tony strong. Christopher was a loser, Tony is a winner. This goombah is headed for some kind of serious fall, don't you think?"

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