[SOP] A Hit Is A Hit

TV Programme: The Sopranos
Season: 1
Episode: 10
Date I watched this episode: 16/03/2009
Time since I last watched this programme: 2 days.

I was quite disappointed with this episode, and it may well be the worst episode of the season so far. The storyline was just bad, not in keeping with the coolness I have come to expect, too predictable, corny, and altogether felt like a B-Movie. I mean come on, calling a character “Massive-G”, how un-Sopranos-like is that?

This episode featured Christopher quite heavily, which was nice to see, but didn’t really develop his character very much. It also featured Adriana, Christopher’s girlfriend played by Drea De Matteo, in her biggest series role to date. Despite the fact that the only programme I’ve ever seen Drea in to date is Joey, quite a shockingly poor programme, I still think from that that she is quite a good actress. Here she just didn’t have a chance to excel because she was given some really bad, cringe worthy lines. I know her character is not meant to be very bright, but she was just incredibly annoying to the point of contributing to ruining the episode.

Jennifer was also featured a little bit in a side story. Here I thought she was an amazing actress as usual, but again it was quite a bad scene. The lady who was talking about “whackin’” was also a bit annoying. I know these are supposed to be “working class” people, but the environment didn’t fit with the style of the show. The only thing I think this story did add was to show how intrigued Jennifer genuinely is with Tony’s world, which goes some way to answering the question of why she took Tony on in the first place.

I hope that this is the last we’ve seen of the story, but it was hinted during this episode that it might continue. The last we see of Massive-G, he says “see you in court”, and the storyline was not really wrapped up. I certainly hope that in hindsight, the writers realise what a painfully bad episode this worked out to be.