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The Sopranos Season 3 Episode 2 'Proshai, Livushka' Full TV Reaction!! (Patreon)

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2022-12-06 07:27:50
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The Sopranos Season 3 Episode 2 'Proshai, Livushka' Full TV Reaction!!

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Marcus Cato

The remembrance scene for Livia is one of my favorite scenes in the entire show. So much tension, humor, and truth bombs all at once. Great performances all around. Glad you're still enjoying.

Robert Livingood

That post funeral reception for Livia is one of the all time great scenes on this or any other tv show, though it will be surpassed, amazingly, in season 4 (episode 10, The Strong Silent Type) in what, for me, is the most I’ve ever laughed at a tv show. I think Janice’s motivation in trying to have everyone share warm memories of Livia is the same for insisting they have a full Funeral Mass et al, despite her mother's wishes—to make herself look good and loving, and importantly, make everyone feel guilty that they don’t have anything nice to say. Or she could have just insisted on a big event as a last fuck you to the old lady, knowing it would turn out horribly. A couple of notes: 1) Ray Curto, the member of the Soprano family that is revealed to have been flipped by the FBI is a captain who was been seen here and there on the periphery since season 1. In fact, after Jackie Aprile died, he was approached by the other captains to become acting Boss (to keep the power away from Junior) but he begged off saying he promised his wife he’d work less. 2) The old movie Tony was watching is the Warner Bros 1931 gangster classic The Public Enemy starring the legendary Jimmy Cagney. The scene where he smushes the grapefruit into his grilfriend’s face is one of the most famous moments in film history. It would never get any views, but if you like gangster movies and are ever interested in privately seeing how they began this one’s a good one to start with. 3) Yes, of course Tony’s racist, but for his ilk, he’s more open minded than most, I think. Fainting at the sight of Uncle Ben always makes me laugh. I won’t repeat them but the words you guys didn’t understand that Tony uses with Meadow’s friend Noah actually are Italian words for different foods while, unfortunately, having also been coopted by certain members of the Italian American community as racial epithets 4) Good judge of character regarding Ralphie having a darkness to him. Really good instincts there.

Anonymous

Can't wait until you watch E:11 Pine Barrens, one of my favorite episodes. Hilarious episode.

Anonymous

I think they added that scene with Livia in the beginning, I don't remember seeing that before. It didn't look good at all though.

Future Boy

Livia, RIP. You were awful and you were wonderful, and the Lord finally took you, just like you wanted. About this week's reactions: just fantastic, as they always are. It's so great to have so much life put back into a show I've seen so many times. Next week's episodes are gonna be something...

esclad

RIP Livia, Nancy Marchand was a great actress and I loved her character; but that's why we hardly ever saw her in Season 2 and some of her scenes had to be digitally added/altered, she died of emphysema :(

TBR_Schmitt
>>97022780

LOL it was great! I definitely think Janice's motives are always selfish! Ooh thank you for explaining this! There's so many people on this show, we need a family tree LOL -Sam

David Wilkins

Another great couple of reactions. They’ve become one of the highlights of my week. One thing that sticks with me, is that David Chase, the show’s creator, wrote these two episodes. The creation of the Livia character was deeply personal for him, being based upon his troubled relationship with his own mother. When he learned of Marchand’s passing, his heart and soul, and his writer’s mind, clicked into gear. The introduction of Joe Pantoliano was another great element by the show runners. If you want to write it down somewhere, I highly recommend an eventual reaction to ‘Bound’, in which Pantoliano plays a major part. It’s an excellent mob-based thriller, written and directed by the Wachowskis, who went on to make ‘The Matrix’. As their first feature film, it’s an effort of smaller scale, and it’s excellent. One of the best debut directorial efforts.

JG

As others have mentioned, Joe Pantoliano plays Ralph Cifaretto. He's a soldier in the Aprile crew. Here's his backstory... Shortly before Season 1, Jackie sent him to Miami to oversee the family's real estate rackets. He did this because: 1.) He's considered a good earner 2.) Most members of the family find him extremely obnoxious (even by Mob standards) and prefer not to deal with him on a regular basis. When Ritchie "went into the witness protection program", he came back to NJ to hopefully stake his claim to become Captain and run his crew.

Anonymous

"You know who had an Ark? Noah."

Anonymous

It was the Gabbagool not the ditsoon. What don't you understand?! lol jk

Michael Chavira

You guys missed the obvious Godfather reference at the funeral parlor. They copied the same interior shot of the elevator lowering down to reveal the funeral director waiting for them. He then uses the Godfather's words "I will use all my power, all my skills". Tony would definitely recognize what he is referencing. You can tell Tony is annoyed by it, and tells him to calm down. :)

Donna Castellano
>>97025589

It was in the original airing. Honestly, it looked worse in 2001 (or whenever this first aired). I remember kinda wincing and going, "Oh that doesn't look good". The floaty head was much more obvious. I'm rewatching on the first release DVDs tho. No idea if they cleaned it up. Didn't look as bad as I remember.

Mitchell Smilie
>>97025589

And there was no reason to include it. Dialogue and previous scenes covered everything story-wise. One of the few mistakes of the show (although a story decision and scene in "Employee of the Month" remains bewildering to me twenty years later).

softshoes
>>97043747

Joe Pantoliano was also great in Risky Business with Tom Cruise where he played Guido the killer Pimp.🤣

Anonymous

When y'all discussed that scene where Tony was racist toward Noah in the outro, I think one of you asked the question, "Was that a slur, or negative, or racist, or were they just talking about food?" Turns out the answer is all of the above: Tony calls Noah a 'mulignan' which is an ethnic slur for a black person. I think it literally translates to 'burnt eggplant'. The series constantly reminds the viewer how casually and openly racist Tony is.

Anonymous
>>97182867

Mulignan is just eggplant and "tizzun" is "burnt one/ burnt end/ and or just burnt. It's like calling them charcoal briquette

TBR_Schmitt
>>97043747

Aww we love to hear that, thank you! I’m sure, I feel like a good portion of the dynamic of the show was brought by Livia. So sad! Thanks for the recommendation! -Sam