Until last night, I’d never seen a single episode of The Sopranos. Last fall I bought the Season 1 DVD set and we just got around to sampling it now. We watched the first two episodes. Interesting. Tony’s mother is a real piece of work. “He was a saint,” she says about his deceased father, though the reality was that he was something less than that. The notion of having him suffer from anxiety attacks requiring counseling is an interesting one. Has Lorraine Bracco always been such a terrible actor? I’ve been peripherally aware of her for years. She plays Jane’s mother on Rizzoli and Isles and she’s dreadful. Fortunately, her part on The Sopranos doesn’t require a lot of range from her, so she manages to stumble through, but there was one point in the first episode where it almost seemed like she’d forgotten the end of her line. The delivery was wretched. I have no doubt that we’ll go through the first season, but whether we decide to go on from there remains to be seen.
I’m participating in a podcast tomorrow morning. I’m not sure when it will air, but I’ll be sure to post a link when I do. The topic is the recent Bag of Bones miniseries.
