About the Sopranos

So, I'm like the only blogger, academic, and New Jerseyan who never got into the Sopranos. I know my stock with all of you just dropped a hundred points. My excuse was that it began when there were plenty of other goodies on TV, and I was afraid of getting sucked into something new. Bad move, Mr. Bond. Because all last week, it was a major topic in the seminar room, in the blogosphere, and at the school bus corner.

On Sunday night, we flipped on the TV about 9:45 just to see what was up. It was a cool summer evening and our windows were wide open. The houses on our block were all built in the 1910s, so our homes all close together. The smoke from MaryAnn's Marlboro Lights wafted into our living room from next door. As the TV went black at the end of the show, there was two seconds of silence and we could hear our entire block groan. MaryAnn shouted, "you gotta be fuckin' kiddin' me!"

This is Jersey, baby. If don't have a bitchin' Camero, you better just move to Long Island.

Comments

[meg]

I'm not and have never been a New Jerseyean, but I'm about the only academic I know who doesn't follow the Sopranos. Not because of my frame of mind when it began, but because we don't have premium cable. There too I think we are the only academic household without. Maybe that's the tie-in to your next post, about class...

[Lisa V]

We are long time fans. We had a small gathering, when it ended three cell phones and our phone all went off with people on the other end saying versions of "rat bastards" and "What the fuck?!"

That was my first reaction. Then I thought about it for an hour and decided it was perfect and should have been expected.

[Jody]

I love that image! And I can totally see it in my mind's eye.

We never got into the Sopranos here, either, partly because I adored Northern Exposure and Chase never had a decent thing to say about it (hello, you were the show-runner, own up for your own part of the problem) and partly because we're too cheap to shell out for HBO.

I have thought, hmmm, DVDs, but you know, I've got three discs from first-season Battlestar Galactica on my TV right now, they've been there for weeks, and I just don't think DVDs are going to be our show-watching method of choice.

If I don't have to watch something when it's first broadcast, or don't happen to stumble on it and then make it weekly appointment TV, I'm unlikely to justify the time-sink after-the-fact.

I really am a throwback.