The great thing about Sopranos is the continuity debate it brings up amongst its fans. OK, that's an understatement, there are loads, and loads of great things about the show, but this episode is brilliant in its ability to recap so much of what happened in the 18 months since season 5.
We follow up on Carmella's new pet project, AJ's academic (?!) career, Meadow's professional one, not to mention what's happened to all the made guys, Hesh, Dr. Melfi, what about the rats, Ray Curto etc. It makes you think that at any given point they can pick up on a theme mentioned before and it's a flawless transition, and even if you've forgotten it, you are reminded with a 'bang'. Needless to mention the cultural continuity, the restaurants, the arguments, the chemistry it's all there.
This episode is unique in several ways, for one it's LOADED with events, due to two reasons, the first being a lot of plot-lines are resolved, and the second is that Season 5 ended in a very transitional phase (Johnny Sack's arrest). Nevertheless, it's an episode that will surely capture everyone attention, as once again the week by week gut wrenching commences as we wait for next week's episode.
I feel like I can keep going on, discussing that it was so well made, that the IMDb boards are full of people discussing it, and comparing it to the season poster, and the trailer. The cliffhanger ending is classic, and we are comfortably drawn into the chaotic world of Tony Soprano as he utters the doom-inducing words "just as things were going good" (sic).
We follow up on Carmella's new pet project, AJ's academic (?!) career, Meadow's professional one, not to mention what's happened to all the made guys, Hesh, Dr. Melfi, what about the rats, Ray Curto etc. It makes you think that at any given point they can pick up on a theme mentioned before and it's a flawless transition, and even if you've forgotten it, you are reminded with a 'bang'. Needless to mention the cultural continuity, the restaurants, the arguments, the chemistry it's all there.
This episode is unique in several ways, for one it's LOADED with events, due to two reasons, the first being a lot of plot-lines are resolved, and the second is that Season 5 ended in a very transitional phase (Johnny Sack's arrest). Nevertheless, it's an episode that will surely capture everyone attention, as once again the week by week gut wrenching commences as we wait for next week's episode.
I feel like I can keep going on, discussing that it was so well made, that the IMDb boards are full of people discussing it, and comparing it to the season poster, and the trailer. The cliffhanger ending is classic, and we are comfortably drawn into the chaotic world of Tony Soprano as he utters the doom-inducing words "just as things were going good" (sic).