The Sopranos

[Dorvid Barnas]

I liked it and I say he knew exactly how to end it.

Me, too.  Meadow's parking job was symbolic as all hell, even if I'm wrong about what it symbolizes. 
There was certainly nothing capricious about it; that final sequence was amazing.

Thumbs way up.

Cats > People

[Chris L]

My beef is, he could've easily done that 3 or 4 years ago and saved us A LOT of filler.

[Laurie]

I'll admit, I really liked the cat. I especially loved that Paulie Walnuts was so scared of him, staring at Chrissy's picture. Awww.

[bruce]

My beef is, he could've easily done that 3 or 4 years ago and saved us A LOT of filler.

This iwhy I stoppd watching all those years ago and just stuck with The Wire. At least that show never dissapoints

[buffcoat]

I thought it was great.  It was certainly polarizing - many people seem to have taken it as David Chase's "f you" to the audience.  I disagree - the viewer was given a lens into the life of this very interesting family, and the lens went away when the series ended.  That doesn't mean their lives don't go on as before, albeit with the constant threat caused by the protagonist's job.

And Phil got what was coming to him.

[Laurie]

You don't suppose the shifty-eyed fellow who went into the mens' room came out with a big gun AFTER the lens pulled away, do you?

[KickTheBobo]

That episode was worth my hour for these reasons:

-Phil's death
-Paulie & the cat
-the script that Daniel Baldwin gave to Tony to read.

the ending? I'll admit, I laughed out loud when the screen went black. As a joke, it was pretty good. I'm not gonna look further into it.

[Sploops]

I haven't watched the show in years but is it just me or did the guy that shot Phil look a lot like Falco?

[Laurie]

I haven't watched the show in years but is it just me or did the guy that shot Phil look a lot like Falco?

As in Edie Falco?

Or this guy?

[Chris L]

I haven't watched the show in years but is it just me or did the guy that shot Phil look a lot like Falco?

As in Edie Falco?

Or this guy?

Would you all hate me and possibly consider banning me if I made this joke:

"The episode's alternate title was 'Whack Me Amadeus.'"

You would?  K, just checking.

[Emily]

"Made in Salzburg"

[Chris L]

One thing I'm kind of perplexed by is Agent Harris' enthusiasm for helping Tony. What was that "We might win this thing!" outburst about?   Was he talking about the power vacuum left by Phil's death?  He's not assigned to mob cases anymore though.  Did he have a grudge against Phil for ordering the rape of that FBI agent he mentioned a few episodes ago?  Wouldn't the murder of Adrianna kind of balance that out? 

[Laurie]

You know how sociopaths are supposed to be charming and draw you in? I think they were playing on that dynamic with Agent Harris.

[Dorvid Barnas]

I think it meant that Agent Harris allowed Tony to incriminate himself in a major way and that the "good guys" might just win.

[Chris L]

Again though, he's assigned to terrorism now.  And really, he was rather stupidly compromising himself by offering that info about Phil.  They seemed to me to be lumping him in with the bored rubberneckers and voyeurs like Melphi's shrink who get a charge out of their tenuous association with gangsters.   You'd think an FBI agent, even a corrupt one, would be inured to that kind of thing after seeing firsthand the fallout and consequences of that lifestyle.