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Other narrative threads include Christopher's (Emmy nominee Michael Imperioli) descent into heroin addiction, Uncle Junior's (Dominic Chianese) trial, an unrequited and potentially fatal attraction between Carmela and Tony's driver Furio, and a rude joke about Johnny Sack's wife that has potentially fatal implications. Other indelible moments include Christopher's girlfriend Adriana's projectile reaction to discovering that her new best friend is an undercover FBI agent in the episode "No Show," Janice giving Ralph a shove out of their relationship in "Christopher," and the classic "Quasimodo/Nostradamus" exchange in the season-opener, which garnered HBO's highest ratings to date. Freed from the understandably high expectations for the fourth season, heightened by the 16-month hiatus, these episodes can be better appreciated on their own considerable merits. They are pivotal chapters in television's most novel saga. --Donald Liebenson
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Stop after the first three seasons!,
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This review is from: The Sopranos: The Complete Fourth Season (DVD)
In the fourth season, this show starts to get repetitive. REALLY repetitive. Every few episides a new family member will either turn and start working for the Feds, or will become disenchanted and threaten to betray Tony. Tony can't control his temper. Get it? No? Then, we will have to watch him lose his temper every few minutes to prove it. Did I mention it gets repetitive? Tony threatens his own marriage, which he clearly values, my cheating on his wife every chance he gets. The same stupid neurotic type each time. Because -- they're like his mother. Get it? No. Then, we'll repeat it until you're sick of it. Tony is a hypocrite, screwing a partner's girlfriend while beating another associate for dating one of Tony's old girlfriends -- even after Tony gives his blessing. Because Tony can't control his temper. It's been a few minutes since the last pathetic rage, we needed to be reminded. Tony can't control his temper. Remember? Carmella, who I used to love, has become positively dippy and pathetic. She's gone from silly little school girl crushes on the family priest, a wall-paper hanger and now the driver, Furio. Christopher, whose heroin addiction was barely tolerable as a plot device, is now going into rehab -- because there might be one more laugh that hasn't been mined out of mob guys trying to do therapy. Tired, tired, tired. Has anyone else noticed that The Sopranos borrows it's structure from the Lion King, which borrowed it from Hamlet? The Prince, whose father has been slain, broods around the castle as his father's brother plots against him. Junior is Scar. This show was GREAT for three seasons. Plots used to have a satisfying arc, but in the 4th season, they start and stop with no rhyme or reason. It seems like they just try to repeat whatever worked in the first three seasons until you're sick of it. If it is funny to see a Mob Guy get offended and exact bloody revenge because of some stupid little joke, why not repeat this plot device over and over? They're all supposed to be tough, but they're REALLY thin-skinned, get it? No? Then, we'll just keep repeating the gag until you're sick of it. And Ralph is just Richie Aprile. EVERYTHING repeats until you're sick of everybody. Tony, after cheating on his wife with his partner's girlfriend, killing a guy, beating another for no good reason, sits in his psychiatrist's office and cries about how crappy world has become. What a pathetic dousche bag he has become. Somebody, please wack this guy before he emotes again! What, you're not sick everybody yet? Well then....
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love the show... but not so much the price...!,
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This review is from: The Sopranos: The Complete Fourth Season (DVD)
This show is great, but come on, does it really need to be so pricey when it comes out for sale? After all, you only get 4 CD's for this price. HBO has a tendency to boost the price up. If they need to put the price up because of the box set quality (because it is quite nice), well maybe they should look at something a little less costly.Other than that, this series is quite entertaining and the cast are honestly first-class and credible. If you like any type of mafia movies or shows, this is the one you want to see!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another Brilliant Season,
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This review is from: The Sopranos: The Complete Fourth Season (DVD)
Above all other seasons, the forth in this groundbreaking series focuses on the complex enigma that is Tony Soprano. Creator David Chase allows Gandolfini's character to go places rarely reached in television or film. Traveling through these thirteen episodes with Tony, a viewer will get to experience utter joy, limitless rage, and the unequaled pain that accompanies an acknowledgment of personal culpability in creating one's troubles. Tony comes to realize how others truly see him in the early episodes of Season Four. He laughs at his friend Artie and his cronious cohort Councilman Zellman when they nervously try to discuss different requests. He does not understand why they should be so afraid. But soon, he validates their concerns and sees the monster inside that drives away the closest people in his life. His marriage is also falling apart, a plotline most associated with this season. Gandolfini and Falco provide career performances, particularly in the finale's blow-up scene. But Tony's most powerful moments concern two important losses in his life. Sudden news of the passing of an old acquaintance sends an unstable (and violent) Tony back to therapy and another tender relationship with an animal (remember the ducks) ends with Tony out looking for blood. Chase loves to allow small incidental moments to provide the genesis for much of the show's conflict, a comment on the fragile nature of life. In the first season, the jokes about Junior's acquired "taste" of his girlfriend drive the wedge between he and Tony that causes many to get whacked. In this season, a throw-away line made about the weight of a tangential character builds and festers animosity all season. Plot built in such a masterful way is just another example of why The Sopranos is television's finest hour.
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