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by Tom Biro, posted Apr 24th 2006 12:30AM
(S06E07) The only hitch I find in coming up with a show as popular - or entertaining - as The Sopranos is that when the plot gets a little thin from one week to another, it's more and more disappointing. Sure, seeing a hit on one of the New York crew evolve and watching Christopher have a bit of fun with Sir Ben Kingsley was a hoot, but a whole week dedicated to how Artie's restaurant is having some issues? All right, I guess.
Last week's promo showed Christopher asking Tony about heading out West with Little Carmine to work on potentially bringing in Kingsley to the slasher-meets-Mafia flick that they're attempting to pitch one of these days. Of course, that goes about how you'd expect it - poorly - but not before Chrissie spends a bit of time with a local working woman (the comments about her most likely silicone-enhanced breasts were key), and falls somewhat off the wagon. I guess at least he had the sense to call in his sponsor, right? Yeah, didn't think so.
The boys from Italy lay down the hit on Rusty Millio, putting quite a few slugs in him and his driver. I thought it was curious that his wife - who had just stuck her head out to remind him of something - didn't come screaming out the door when the gunshots went off. Yeah, they were somewhat quiet, but still. I thought the Benz rolling backward slowly into the street as just so Sopranos, very well done. And Tony's statement that he had nothing to do with the hit when Phil Leotardo asks him about it means that there's a pretty good possibility that the story about the boys from Naples is over.
In any case, this week's show was a bit too much about Artie, as I was suggesting earlier, but I think that's just the impending finality of this show coming to a close in the next year. In a good way, I guess we can see some serious problems between Benny and Artie, even if Tony has stepped in. I really really really thought that Benny was going to take him out, but there is no way that Artie's wife would let Tony live that down, especially that as it turns out, Benny's "girlfriend" and he were the ones behind the credit card scam that was just one factor hurting the Vesuvius.
One of the more comical things I found tonight was how the credit card scam seemed to reach out pretty far, and was looped into Christopher's Middle Eastern pals. Well, that's not the best part. It was more about how one of the spots that was in on the scam was a hotel, where the Jewish desk clerk / manager probably wouldn't be too happy to hear about where the credit card data was going. Or maybe that was just me noticing the irony.
Thoughts on the future: AJ manages to get his way into the family business, though probably backing into it, based on how Tony seems to be looking at his son in the previews. This whole movie business is going to be a problem for the family, if only just for Christopher and his wagon habits. Will Vito actually get whacked or are we just going to be teased about this? I think his calling of his family might just be a problem for him, especially since the boys can get to an investigator who can "track you down by the corn in your sh*t." And is it just me, or is it comical that all the Hollywood types are poking fun at award ceremony swag on a show that wins more awards than most others?
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