Over at his blog, Matt Zoller Seitz asks the question that, consciously or not, is in Sopranos fan’s minds as we watch the last season of the HBO series: In this final season, is Chase truly revealing a sense of moral accountability that was often AWOL on “The Sopranos,” or just jerking our chain? In past seasons, the writers and producers responded to audience gripes about dangling plot threads by saying, in essence, “Some episodes of this show are not chapters in a novel, they’re the equivalent of self-contained short stories with recurring characters — we’re not about plot, so […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 20, 2006The Washington Post runs its obligatory Sopranos story this week with David Segal’s “Death by Script,” a surprisingly entertaining look at the actors whose careers have taken a hit when their characters have been rubbed out on the show. Here’s actor John Fiore describing the events after he received the sad phone call from Sopranos creator David Chase: In an instant, Fiore knew he was a dead man. Well, his character was a dead man, and that meant his “Sopranos” gig was over, which for an actor is like getting whacked for real. Fiore did what anyone confronting a killer […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 9, 2006