New trailer up http://www.hbo.com/sopranos/index.shtml

That still looks like Macbeth.

AJ is all growed up!

I heard a rumor that there might be a full season's worth of episodes after all?

Can't wait for this season to start.
It's been so long since they had a new season, I've been watching some of the old episodes, on demand.

AJ sure grew up.

Just finished watching the last season again...it really was a stronger one than most people gave it credit for.

Sixth season 12 new episodes premiering on March 12, 2006. In August 2005, HBO announced it was also producing eight "bonus" episodes that would debut in January, 2007. It is currently believed that those eight bonus episodes will be the last of the series.

Bit worried that the guy thay directed all the final episodes (John Tiffen Patterson) is no longer with us.

News on Season 6 http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06014/637898.stm

Season 6
"Members Only" Wrier: Terence Winter, Director: Tim Van Patten March 12, 2006
Tony ponders an associate's retirement request, and shares a recent windfall with Carmela. Junior takes Tony on a backyard treasure hunt; Hesh seeks restitution for a wrong perpetrated on his son-in-law.

"Join the Club" David Chase, David Nutter March 19, 2006
Tony suffers from a case of mistaken identity during a west coast business trip.

"Mayham" Matthew Weiner, Jack Bender March 26, 2006
Silvio divides the spoils from Paulie's latest score, and heads off a territorial impasse between Bobby and Vito. Carmela turns to an unexpected source for help with AJ; Christopher turns to an old writing acquaintance, JT Dolan, for help in a new venture.

"The Fleshy Part of the Thigh" Robin Green & Mitchell Burgess TBA April 2, 2006

"Mr. & Mrs. Sacramoni Request" Terence Winter Steve Buscemi April 9, 2006

"Live Free or Die" TBA TBA April 16, 2006

"Luxury Lounge" TBA TBA April 23, 2006

"Johnny Cakes" TBA TBA April 30, 2006

"The Ride" TBA TBA May 7, 2006

"Moe and Joe" TBA Steve Shill May 14, 2006

"TBA" TBA TBA May 21, 2006

"Summer Finale" TBA TBA TBD (I've heard this will be 2 hours long.)

Brits like American mob movies and shows? Cool.

I still need to see Season 5. Damn.

What are some good Brit mob movies? The Krays comes to mind.

What was that one where the boss had those huge glasses - I think Guy Ritchie directed it. Snatch?

Yeah it's crictically praised here but doesn't really get big audiences or anything. Unlike The Simpsons which is arguably more popular and fawned over here then in America. I watched the first run on Ch4 in 1999 after hearing so much about it. Still my 2nd favourite programme ever after Fawlty Towers.

Yes, Snatch

Snatch, Lock Stock, Layer Cake, The Business, Revolver would all be modern examples of varying quality. I'd say you'd be better off with Brighton Rock, Get Carter, The Long Good Friday, Sexy Beast and even The Lavender Hill Mob.

Wow. That trailer told me about as much as this candle on my desk did about that episode.

Sad to say I don't have HBO anymore and will have to resort to Torrents.

this is when i adore ondemand. i'm re-watching seasons 4 and 5 right now (halfway through 4).

my parents won't stop talking about it.


(and with good reason)

Never seen an episode of this show because we don't have cable, but I guess I should check this out on DVD.

I thinks you're going to enjoy these, Snausage.

Gotta love that AJ went and became a real criminal in between seasons and is still on the show. Must feel like an NBA player.

Isn't on demand wonderful? Watched an edited Wu-Tang reunion concert on there, the bleeps throw everything off, but still nice to hear em bringin da ruckus almost 15 years later. Didn't realize Sopranos was available this month, thanks for the heads up.

That ad makes it look like Melfi's gonna die this season (is she already dead? can't even remember most of last season, it's been so long).

Cannot cannot cannot wait.

I am a Sopranos junkie. An absloute addict, and have been saince Season 1's first airing. Have Seasons 1 - 5 on DVD, and have watched them all multiple times. Currently about 3/4 of the way through Season 3 in my attempt to go all the way through as prep to Season 6.

Not exactly cutting edge here, but if you are a Sopranos fan and have the time, I highly recommend Television Without Pity's Sopranos recaps and forums. Look for Aaron's recaps in for some of the later seasons . . . the guy is funny as hell, and really knows his shit about the show. They are fantastic companions to the episodes themselves. Nice discussions in the forums too, not to mention some nifty spoilers, but I don't post because they are ridiculously anal. http://www.televisionwithoutpity.com/show.cgi?show=44

Shits about to great crazy in the Meadowlands, y'all.

Early prediction: AJ's the big death this year.

He's getting into too much trouble off-screen. I can't think of a more logical guess prior to the season airing. I'm looking forward to it. Season 5 was a strong return to form.

Loves me some Sopranos!! Grew up in Jersey and had a best freind who's family I'm CONVINCED was connected (they ran a couple gas stations, but no one really worked and they always had tons of money, and whenever we would break something or mess up the house his grandpa would scream in his thick Sicilian "it's my blood, It's my blood that gave you this house")

Anyhoo - *Spoiler for anyone who doesn't follow the show, yet:


I'm gonna miss that Adrianna - I was literally shaken up for a few days after she bit it (yeah, I know - she was a fuckin cunt

Brilliant show - can't wait!!

can't wait to see

That episode was on last night! When Silvio drags her out of the car and calls her a cunt...priceless. There was am interview with Edie Falco promoting her new mvoie and she said she didn't know what to do if Carmela is gone from the show....a hint of what is to come?

There is no way Carmela would leave the show unless she killed herself.

I fear for Wide Guy (aka Vito Spatafore). Oh my gay little capo, what awaits you down the road?

I, for one, will really miss Ade. You couldn't help but like (and eventually sympathize with) her. Plus, who else could look so unbelievably hot while ironing in leopard print underwear with a cigarette hanging off her lower lip? Now we're stuck with Ginny Sack.

For some reason, I see Paulie Walnuts getting whacked early in the season.

Just when I thought I was out, THEY PULL ME BACK IN!


Less than a week to go so it's quote time.

I'm like King Midas in reverse. Everything I touch turns to shit.

What, no fucking ziti?

Federal marshals are so far up my ass I can taste Brylcreem.

I could stick this fork in your eye!

Have you ever had a prostate exam?
Are you kidding? I don't let anyone wag their finger in my FACE.

What am I doing on television?

Next time there won't be a next time.

Is everyone in my life fuckin' bananas?

For all we know, he could be out there stalking us.
With what? His cock?

It wasn't like it was friggin' Cobain! It was just a little suicidal gesture, that's all.

and my favourite, when the crack houses get shot up on request of Tony and Zellman

I told you young people that crack is some baaad sheeet

4 days....

i just want them to bring Furio back for an episode or two. he was the man.

i'm really lookin forward to this sunday. it's been a while since sunday night HBO has been on in our house.

I'll watch and and have already programmed the DVR. gonna check out Big Love afterwards- see what Chloe looks like without a cock in her mouth...

Silvio: The other thing with bears is, if you're ever chased by one, run downhill. For some reason, they can't do that.

Feech: It's the moss.

Chris's Goomar: They attack when you're having your period, too.

Tony: No, that's jungle cats.

- - - - -

Christopher to Paulie: Steaks! Three-pound lobsters! The shrimp fucking cocktail you made everyone get. And then, on top of everything else, you send those skanks a bottle of Cristal? Not to mention the Lyonnaise fucking potatoes you didn't even touch!

Paulie Walnuts- He said the guy killed 16 Czechoslovakians, and he was an interior decorator.

Christopher- Interior decorator? His appartment looked like shit.

That episode has so many fantastic quotes, its amazing. Paulie introducing himself to the Russian as "KGB, motherfucker. Open the door." Not to mention after seeing the Russians' home theatre system with a universal remote, Paulie volunteers "Universal remote… You probably wiped you ass barehanded before you came to this country." Or Chrissy, when spending the night in the abandoned van, bitching about how he was hungry and "we should have stopped at Roy Rogers" with Paulie screaming "well, I should have fucked Dale Evans but I didn't!!."

But I think the best exchange was this one:

Christopher: The Russians? They're are not all bad.

Paulie: How about the Cuban missile crisis? Communits cocksuckers put nuclear missiles down there and pointed them right at us!

Christopher: That was real? I saw that movie. I thought it was bullshit.

"You're late."

"Yeah, sorry. The highway was jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance powerdrive."

carmela - "if you want her to be with him, just keep playing the race card. you're gonna drive her right into his arms."

tony - "not if i cut off those arms."

Fantastic quotes. The one when Paulie and Christopher get lost in the woods was directed by Steve Buscemi.

and it was SB that threw the steak at Tony's head.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The end is finally near for America's favourite mob family, and Las Vegas is cheerfully setting odds on who gets to sleep with the fishes.

After a 22-month absence, the hit gangster drama "The Sopranos" returns on Sunday to cable TV network HBO for the first of what its creator swears will be the last 20 episodes.

The show is supposed to end in 2007 with Tony Soprano and family finally out of business after six seasons that created a social phenomenon and added a new cast of characters to modern American folklore.

In interviews leading up to the series' return, creator David Chase seemed to be saying: "If you want any more, you can fuggetaboutit."

But no matter how loudly Chase protests that his arm can't be twisted to keep the series going, or that there are offers he can refuse, speculation continues that there will be an encore. One of the first characters he introduces in the new season is a mobster who wants desperately to retire to Florida but can't get approval from his bosses.

"There's no retiring from this," Tony Soprano tells him.

Certainly there is no retiring from America's love affair with mob stories, and Chase has virtually sparked outbursts of national mourning by killing off some memorable characters.

Betting Web site PinnacleSports.com has created odds on which of the show's 18 main characters will be "whacked" first in this season's 12 episodes and next year's special supplement of eight shows.

The two favorites so far are Tony Soprano's near-demented uncle, Junior, and his murderous nephew, Christopher.

Chase refuses to speculate on how the series will end -- a series of whacks or whimpers, Tony alive or dead. He claims he doesn't know yet.

Few programs have won as much praise as "The Sopranos," and few have luxuriated in a more morally bankrupt and ruthless cast of characters, men for whom killing is their day job.

Tony Soprano, played by James Gandolfini, is a man whose own mother tries to have him killed and who winds up in therapy trying to figure out why she didn't love him.

While "The Godfather" film saga gave some of its Mafia chieftains the grandeur of Renaissance princes, "The Sopranos" turned its mobsters into ordinary northern New Jersey businessmen who seem, on the surface, indistinguishable from their neighbours and therefore are twice as scary.

"Brutality and Betrayal, Back with a Vengeance," headlined a clearly pleased New York Times review.

The Hollywood Reporter's Ray Richmond said, "What separates 'The Sopranos' from the pack and renders it a show for the ages is its richly textured characters. These people may be thugs, but they're thugs we somehow care about.

"Even Chase's flights of fancy, where he takes liberties with our loyalties to travel esoteric back roads, serve to build on the drama's broad themes of loyalty, obligation, fear, betrayal and (subconscious) remorse."

In a meeting last summer with TV critics, Gandolfini suggested he was ready to move on to more gentle roles.

"I'm too tired to be a tough guy or any of that stuff anymore," he said.

The actor added he was working on plans to produce and star in a feature film about Ernest Hemingway and his relationship with third wife, Spanish Civil War correspondent Martha Gellhorn. They fought an awful lot.

Latest odds from the site "First Character to be Killed/Die on the Sopranos"

201 Vito Spatafore +713
202 Uncle Junior +250
203 Christopher Moltisanti +690
204 Bobby Bacala +1490
205 Patsy Parisi +730
206 Benny Fazio +2234
207 Paulie Walnuts +3000
208 Artie Bucco +3000
209 Phil Leotardo +1107
210 Silvio Dante +3000
211 Janice Soprano +2682
212 Johnny Sack +3000
213 Dr. Melfi +7500
214 A.J. Soprano +7500
215 Tony Soprano +7500
216 Carmella Soprano +7500
217 Meadow Soprano +4102
218 None of these characters die in Season 6 +218

Tony: I need you to get a hold of your guy at the phone company.

Silvio: Who? Gerrard?

Spoiler: But I read this in Newsweek



Highlight text after here: I read that there will be a murder, a suicide, and a heart attack (I think fatal)). The magazine is at work on my desk, but I remember reading that in an interview with David Chase.

No, that was Annabella Sciorra, Tony's psycho car dealer girlfriend.

No, that's the character who threw it off camera. The steak was thrown by Steve Buscemi.

Ahhh, lol.

"Whaddya got to be worried about? That club of yours?"

"What about war, Christopher? The middle east?"

"Don't you listen to the President? We're gonna mop the floor with the whole world, the rest of the world is gonna be under our control, so whaddya got to worry about?

I've read an episode guide for the first episode, I don't think it's real though. It seems to be a fleshed out on the plot we do now and some made up stuff around it. If it is the actual episode it has two WTF moments.

Enjoy tonight, hopefull I can get to see it before 24 is on else the ol' compter will be straining come Tuesday morning. My only hope is that the spoilers I've heard are not true.

Curto drops dead whilst talking to the feds and Junior accidently shoots Tony in the stomach

This absolutely sucks....we are experiencing a heavy thunderstorm right now and our satellite TV is out. Which means no season premiere of The Sopranos. Talk about blue balls!

wow.

i was worried about the thunderstorms too, but the tv stayed on throughout. whew. the other HBOs usually repeat episodes during the week.

yeah, mitch, the rumors are true, except curto hung himself.

I liked it. A lot. A really, really a lot. Had a lot going on, but there were no huge leaps on character changes or continuity. The premiers for the prior three seasons have all been a bit slower episodes. This once came out gangbusters. Obviously there were a few cast appearances shoehorned in just to get all the returning characters some face time, but I'm sure as the season progresses, things will settle down into their normal rythm.

Rest of this post has some spoilers . . . sort of.






















No. That was Eugene Pontecorvo, not Curto. Cutro cacked talking to Agent San Severino. Twat. She's like the fucking grim reaper on that show. Everyone she talks to croaks . . . Ade, Curto, and Eugene.

oops! it's been awhile

that hanging was brutal to watch though

I laughed at AJ's white trash hair. I nearly cried at how beautiful Meadow's little bra and panties dance was.

That whole pre-show build up was annoying 5 after 8 and we had to hear what The Sopranos means to Matt Laurer and Aiden fucking Quinn.

Wow, they wasted no time getting started. Glad I didn't read any of that spoiler nonsense.

The William Burroughs prologue was brilliant, the best opening to a Sopranos season since Season Two.

So is this on bittorrent yet?

Ditto on both.

What an ending... I can see why they didn't show scenes from next week.