The Sopranos & a tearful finale
This is a really old photo of us that I think is cute.
So for those of you who don’t know and who just happened upon this blog (I can’t imagine it is many because who blogs any more right?), I recently left my NYC home of 14 years and moved back to my childhood home to save money and figure some ish out. So while I’m here trying to figure out my life I’m also trying to spend as much time with my momma as possible. And if you know me you know my love language is TV. I think that TV brings people together and my mom hasn’t been well educated in TV so here I am to bring my wisdom. There, now you’re all caught up. So what is this blog about you ask? Well, I thought if anything it would be funny/a great way to remember this journey together. Therefore, I will be blogging about all the TV we watch in the next year or so. I mean I’ve only been home about two months and we’ve already watched quite a bit of it.
To start off this television marathon I thought I would introduce her to The Sopranos on HBO. Why you ask? I have no idea. I think this is just a show that I feel like had she watched while it was live she would have loved it and it was an easy way to start our binging because it is VERY bingeable.
Rewatching this show through my mother’s eyes reminded me just how fucking violent Tony Soprano was. Also, it reminded me that his eating scenes drove me fucking nuts. Like close your mouth or fix your nose cause you’re blowing your food everywhere as you breathe AND chew.
But I digress. As we started out the show I think she was definitely interested, but it wasn’t until we started losing main characters that I could tell we had her HOOKED.
Big Pussy might be the first death that really shook Ann. When they got on that boat she was sweating bullets. and kept asking me “Are they gonna kill him?”. I mean I will say for someone who doesn’t watch as much TV as me she is almost if not MORE perceptive than I am when it comes to guessing what will happen next. A lot of our Sopranos binge was spent with me saying things like, “Maybe….don’t remember” *shrugs shoulders* or “Ummmm that’s a good question, let’s keep watching and find out.”
Here are a few of my favorite moments from watching this with Momma Ann.
My first favorite thing was my moms love for Carmela and Tony. She rooted for them the entire show. With little comments like “I think they really belong together,” or “I know that he’s an ass but they really do love each other.” In some not-so-subtle ways, I think that Carmela and Tony reminded her a lot of my dad and her. And even though they divorced there was still some love there. When they got back together she kept saying “I’m glad they are back together.” I loved her watching that because I too loved Carmela and Tony. I know that Tony was pretty terrible a lot of the time but they really did have a strong love and bond.
The other moment watching this that I loved was the ending. At first, she was so confused, a blackout? What happened? Did I click something wrong on the remote? No, mom. Tony died. There was about a five-second pause and then just TEARS. She was not okay. As someone who is also emotionally affected by powerful storylines, I get it. But it was such an aww striking moment to watch her realized what had just happened. And from there I knew watching these things with her was going to be a GREAT idea.
After it was over we wanted to watch something light so we decided to catch up on Wandavision, needless to say, it was a terrible decision. Until the next time!!
Tata for now! Off to start my own Mafia!
