TONIGHT'S "SOPRANOS": WE'RE BORED
Tony's bored. No kidding.
A little movement tonight, continuing in the two-character-focus mode. Tonight's featured players: Christopher and Paulie.
While everyone else sat on the bench spitting sunflower shells, Christopher found out his girlfriend is pregnant, got married, shot a biker while stealing cases of wine with Tony on a road trip, fell off the wagon with booze, fell off the wagon with heroin, and had a flashback about Adrianna, whose mother still thinks he killed her.
Meanwhile, Paulie was having a hard time running the annual street fair, had some religious trouble with the statue of the saint and its (withheld) gold hat, cursed at and then, by episode's end, sort-of reconciled with his mother (the one who raised him, not her sister the nun and Paulie's real mother), screwed up by cheaping out on hiring a lousy carny ride operator who had an accident and hurt ridegoers including Janice Soprano, and had difficulty with a prostate cancer scare.
And Tony, after the fun of the impromptu wine holdup, essentially told Dr. Melfi he's feeling bored.
Looming issues: the feds looking at Adriana's "disappearance," Paulie's prostate, Tony and Phil Leotardo cutting Johnny Sack out of a deal, Bobby Baccala's weakness, Christopher's descent into alcohol and drugs. Forgotten issues: everything else. Another episode bogged down in subpolts, but at least we're a few inches forward.
The preview of next week's episode looks weak- Johnny Sack's attorney suggests cutting a deal with the feds, some more Bobby-Janice-Tony stuff- but last week's preview of this week's episode was very misleading, promising a lot more action than we got. Even paulie wasn't as entertaining as we'd been led to believe he'd be. So you can't tell anything from that.
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