More of an analysis, than a review
Future spoilers as well. This episode is clever in that it's theme is discrimination/class, which is what the name University implies. Noah discriminating against Meadow because her father's profession isn't prestigious enough..."waste management". Also Tracee's life holds less value because she's "just a whore". University is one of the top 15 episodes (maybe 10) of the Soprano 86 episode series. Ralph seems like a decent guy. He just busts balls a lot and he has an element of genuineness to him, until this episode. Just one more dimension added to Ralph Cifaretto's character, whose character btw is one of the best in the Soprano series. One can only wonder in confusion, why the creators/writers would have killed him off in the 9th episode of the 4th season. When you have such a great character and actor why would you kill him off prematurely? They could have used his help in the 5th season big time (which btw is/was the worst season of the Sopranos by far, could probably be stated as a fact).
Noah and his father turn out to be quite the discriminators themselves. Waste management isn't prestigious enough for the father, who apparently has a much stronger influence over Noah's actions/beliefs as opposed to Meadow and Tony. A great angle the writers took on discrimination, demonstrating discrimination can go beyond race through Noah's hypocrisy. The restraining order part was great as well when Meadow says, "couldn't you just talk to her?" Just like, if the roommate was in the room bugging him for several hours, couldn't he have just asked her to leave?
Noah and his father turn out to be quite the discriminators themselves. Waste management isn't prestigious enough for the father, who apparently has a much stronger influence over Noah's actions/beliefs as opposed to Meadow and Tony. A great angle the writers took on discrimination, demonstrating discrimination can go beyond race through Noah's hypocrisy. The restraining order part was great as well when Meadow says, "couldn't you just talk to her?" Just like, if the roommate was in the room bugging him for several hours, couldn't he have just asked her to leave?