Unpopular opinions about The Sopranos

The tone shift in season 6 felt too abrupt and unnatural, especially when it came to Tony’s character

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even more unpopular opinion about the sopranos; it was nothing like the real mafia. Plenty of ex mob guys have said that Tony would've been killed by his own crew if anyone ever found out he talking to a shrink; guys were killed over much less.
Another big misrepresentation is how much money the mob makes. IRL the guys living the high life are "racketeers" or white collar criminals. Guys like Tony, who run strip joints and hijack trucks, make shit money. IRL tony's entire crew wouldn't have pulled a million a year. But on the show even two bit crooks like Christopher live like kings.
The biggest knock the is the crime. In the eighties mob bosses took a nuke to the dick. The heads of all the families where imprisoned for life. By Tony's time the mob would've been a shell of it's former self.
Donnie Brasco is what mob life is really like. Dude struggling open parking meters, driving around in junkers, and fighting over pennies.

you realize that everything we think know about the mob is from rats, right?

>it's a Tony suddenly develops a gambling problem 6 seasons into the show episode

Tony’s strip club and other businesses were money laundering fronts. He made must of his money in the show in construction scams and illegal gambling

Christopher lived in a shitty apartment, struggled to pay the bills in restaurants, spent all his time having to work.

Pasty was reduced to trying to extort coffee shops for protection money

Well no shit, who else is going to talk?

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Exactly. It’s funny too how in the earlier seasons a strong part of Tony’s attitude was from being above the vices he peddled in, even abusing one of his best and oldest friends for being a degenerate gambler, Christopher for being a junkie, and never messed with the Bing’s strippers like Sil or Ralph

Come season 6 he’s using all kinds of drugs, fucking strippers and gambling away all his money all of a sudden with no self-control

he was lashing out against his fatha, read Tony's Vicarious Patricide theory

>8 years
>suddenly

The entire show is about Tony's midlife crisis

Even though that user is retarded, 'Ndrangheta is in Europe. They control like 90% of the coke supply in Europe. And they still hold that old school code similar to omerta. The clans mostly consist blood relatives as well. Kind of what Tony was trying to do unsuccessfully. Really fascinating, unfortunately there's not much info because of how secretive they are.

In US it's a whole different story at this point because of RICO and popular media etc. Who knows what they're up to now, mostly white collar schemes etc.

That's the Italian mafia though, not the Americans pretending they're still Italian, mafia.

They control most of Italy and therefore a whole host of routes for drugs in particular to come in from North Africa and Albania.

you don't have a midlife crisis for almost a decade. you buy some stupid zoomer shit, realise material wealth has little value in the grand scheme and either kamikaze into drugs/alcohol or start coping with religion

Season one is extremely dated compared to the rest of the show and while it has great moments, it is the worst season.

Last session between tony and melfi was rushed stupid

Filtered, it was the second best season. S3 being the best

You go to Italy, you lift some weights, you watch a movie

It is. The entire season is tony subconsciously rebelling against his father figures because being shot by Uncle Junior, someone who he genuinely loved, and then the near death experience genuinely fucked him up bad and he's stoo much of a tough guy to talk about it.

Melfi literally sees this, talks about, and then comments about it to her therapist, but then decides lmao psychopath and calls it quits even though she's seen Tony for almost a decade and for the first time he's undergoing a real emotional crisis

I feel bad for Carmela