I should start out by saying that I used to be a huge fan of The Sopranos, but I’ve kinda fallen off the bandwagon because the last two years plotlines have been kinda lame and the character development has pretty much been stillborn. The only interesting part of the last season was the pressure on Andrean to dime out the family to the FBI. Other than that, I could care less.
It also irks me that The Sopranos need to take a TWO YEAR hiatus. What’s that about? I’m sorry but I totally lost interest in the show in the past two years, and I’ve moved on.
That said, I’m not a total hypocrit either. I watched last night’s premiere episode of the final “full” season of the show, just in case someone wanted to talk about it around the water cooler.
I need to digest the show a little more but was anyone else suprised at the gross amount of product placement in the new season? What, did James Gandolfini ask for THAT much of a raise? (No wonder they’re trying to kill him off!)
I’m surely missing some but here are some of the product placements on last night’s episode:
- Eating food from Stewart’s at Bada Bing
- The Philips TV at Junior’s
- The Brianna Loves Jenna movie poster in the Bing
- Tony’s Cingular RAZR phone
- David Yurman watches
- Carmella’s Porsche Cayenne
Yuck! No thanks.
I’ll stick to 24, thank you.
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April 7th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Even Chrissy says it’s time to wrap the series. I used to be a big fan - now I just want to watch entourage.
‘Sopranos’ star Michael Imperioli says ‘timing is right’ to wrap up the HBO mob drama