I finished watching season 6 of Game of Thrones over the weekend. I'm impressed with how strong it continues to be. In fact it seems to get better every season. Moreover, every episode is compelling.

This is a high standard even among highly acclaimed shows. For example, The Sopranos was great overall but dragged multiple times in seasons 4-6. ( Read more... )

I finished watching the first season of Game of Thrones about a week ago. See my season 1 wrap-up. Before diving into season 2 I figured I'd take a break for a few days. I don't like bingeing streaming TV, per se; I enjoy pacing myself, even if at an accelerated pace of ~5 episodes per week. After those few days of break passed, though, I've found ( Read more... )

This week I started streaming Game of Thrones on HBO Max. I figure I might as well catch up with last decade! GoT originally aired 2011-2019. The last streaming series I caught up on was The Sopranos, and that began in the late 90s. I finished that one about two months ago. Hey, at least I'm moving quickly through the decades! 😂

As when I started ( Read more... )

It's been a little over a week since I finished watching The Sopranos. For a show I watched so avidly- finishing 86 episodes in just under 7 weeks- you'd think I wouldn't have let writing about the series finale lag so long. Well, I have. And frankly it's because... I've forgotten about it. Yes, the ending was so disappointing it made me largely ( Read more... )

Hawk and I finished our binge of The Sopranos yesterday. I'll write soon about the ending; I have strong feelings about it. For now I just want to acknowledge that our binge-watch is complete.

When I started the series in September I thought it might take 3 months or longer to complete watching its 86 episodes. I noted that even 1 hour/day of TV ( Read more... )

From the first episode of The Sopranos (link to my blog from several weeks ago) it was obvious that Christopher and his stormy relationship with Tony would be a major element of the saga. And it was. And here's how that part of the story ends.

( Spoilers for late season 6 )

I've finished season 6-B episode 4 of The Sopranos. There are only 5 more episodes left in the series, and I... don't see where it's going. I mean, I know a little bit about how it ends because spoilers have been impossible to avoid 100%, but based on how the story's been developing- or not developing- lately I don't see it moving toward a ( Read more... )

Throughout the whole series of The Sopranos there have been a variety of scenes showing that the adult characters subscribe to regressive cultural norms as they consider themselves pious Catholics. One of those norms is opposition to homosexuality. "It's a sin!" the characters protest. But it gets worse than that....

The theme of homosexuality and ( Read more... )

Last night I watched The Many Saints of Newark. It's a 2021 feature-length film that's a prequel of sorts to the TV series The Sopranos that aired on HBO from 1999 to 2007 ( Read more... )

Hawk and I recently finished watching season 5 of The Sopranos. The 11th episode (out of 13), "The Test Dream", left us wondering if the season was going to run off the rails.

"The Test Dream" is dominated by a 20 minute dream sequence. Well, the episode's Wikipedia page says 20 minutes, but to us it felt a lot longer because it was unfocused. Tony ( Read more... )