Thursday, July 20, 2017

Just finished "The Sopranos" and...

There is no scene in any TV show more masterfully crafted than the ending of "The Sopranos." The final scene features Tony Soprano waiting for other family members to come at a restaurant. Whenever the bell rings, he looks toward the door to see if they already arrived. Carmela and A.J. (his wife and son) came, and Meadow (his daughter) is trying to park her car outside the restaurant. While this is happening, a man is looking suspiciously towards Tony. The man then went to the bathroom. The bell rang, Tony looked toward the door, then the scene cut to black. The black screen lingered for ten seconds, and then the credits rolled.
At a previous episode, Tony and Bobby talked about what it feels to die. Bobby hypothesized that you may not even feel anything when it happens.
The man going to the bathroom is a clear homage to the restaurant assassination scene in "The Godfather."
For a show with lots of deaths, this death stands out since we witnessed the main character dying in his own perspective; the only TV death that made us really feel what it is to die.

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