Monday, May 08, 2006
Soprano's "The Ride"
This episode dived into the mental exercises people do to justify anything. The show starts off with Tony and Chis going old school and heisting a bunch of wine from some bikers ripping off a liquor store.
During their celebratory dinner, Tony offers up our clean and sober Chris a glass of wine – to which Chris rationalizes, hey, it only takes discipline. I guess he didn’t have much discipline as Tony and Chris are pretty well lit by the end of dinner.
We have Chris again offering advice to a drug addict, telling him you should seek help for your addiction, but Chris rationalizes again, hey maybe I can snort just a little bit. Once he did that, it wasn’t too far of a stretch to see him mainline some heroin.
Paulie is starting to fall apart. I predict he’s not going to last- someone is going to knock his crazy ass off. The Catholic Church represents itself well – the priest shakes down Paulie for a “larger” donation this year- when Paulie says no, the priest holds back the “golden hat”. These Italians are very superstitious, just ask my mom! And when St. Elzear makes the parade route without his golden hat, the old time Catholics are up in arms. Something bad is going to happen!
Paulie cutting corners in operations to squeeze a few extra bucks causes one of the rides to malfunction. Of course, Janice is on the ride with her baby and all holy hell breaks loose. Bobby isn’t too pleased with Paulie. I tell ya, Paulie’s days are numbered!
The episode ends with Paulie visiting his fake mother in the retirement home watching Lawrence Welk.
This episode was a peak into how people can justify anything. When Christopher is accused of killing Adriana by Carmela, Tony shoots that down by saying hey in order to have domestic violence, first, you need to have a body and second, their would be fiber evidence in either the kitchen or bathroom. I guess Tony is watching CSI on Thursday nights.
Best line of the night though for me was when Paulie confronts the priest who is shaking them down for more money Paulie torts back with “yeah, well it seems to me the church has plenty in its coffers for all those pedophilia lawsuits."
During their celebratory dinner, Tony offers up our clean and sober Chris a glass of wine – to which Chris rationalizes, hey, it only takes discipline. I guess he didn’t have much discipline as Tony and Chris are pretty well lit by the end of dinner.
We have Chris again offering advice to a drug addict, telling him you should seek help for your addiction, but Chris rationalizes again, hey maybe I can snort just a little bit. Once he did that, it wasn’t too far of a stretch to see him mainline some heroin.
Paulie is starting to fall apart. I predict he’s not going to last- someone is going to knock his crazy ass off. The Catholic Church represents itself well – the priest shakes down Paulie for a “larger” donation this year- when Paulie says no, the priest holds back the “golden hat”. These Italians are very superstitious, just ask my mom! And when St. Elzear makes the parade route without his golden hat, the old time Catholics are up in arms. Something bad is going to happen!
Paulie cutting corners in operations to squeeze a few extra bucks causes one of the rides to malfunction. Of course, Janice is on the ride with her baby and all holy hell breaks loose. Bobby isn’t too pleased with Paulie. I tell ya, Paulie’s days are numbered!
The episode ends with Paulie visiting his fake mother in the retirement home watching Lawrence Welk.
This episode was a peak into how people can justify anything. When Christopher is accused of killing Adriana by Carmela, Tony shoots that down by saying hey in order to have domestic violence, first, you need to have a body and second, their would be fiber evidence in either the kitchen or bathroom. I guess Tony is watching CSI on Thursday nights.
Best line of the night though for me was when Paulie confronts the priest who is shaking them down for more money Paulie torts back with “yeah, well it seems to me the church has plenty in its coffers for all those pedophilia lawsuits."
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