October 25th, 2021 @ 12:18 am

so i haven’t watched the sopranos since it was on television originally.  i find it so weird and different watching these things straight through in binge mode vs. waiting on a weekly basis for years.  man, my generation really was the last generation to have to have patience regarding things like that.  i mean, sure there are plenty of shows still airing weekly, but now you have so many options to not have to deal with it.  i think the last shows i watched on a weekly basis were “younger” and “the walking dead”.  i eventually gave up on the walking dead (i intend to binge it in the future when it’s finally over) and the last season of younger was completely ignored until i could stream it.

anyways, back to the sopranos.  i “took notes” from this round of watching, and  these were of my favorite things…  in no particular order, other than how it was watched:

1. annika pergament was the main news anchor throughout the series!  she’s been a regular on my tv since the 90s on NY1.

2.  my dad looked exactly like big pussy (RIP dad, RIP big pussy):

3. relatable content:

4. meadow had so much of my wardrobe from the late 90s.  there was so much delias, but most notably, my favorite platform vans that vans REFUSES to re-release because they are bums.  hers are tan, though.

5. “it was a homeless woman with a daily news up her butt!” – meadow’s weird boyfriend scolding her roommate who was trying to help a homeless woman

6. (tony gets off the phone with pauly, who is lost in the woods with christopher in pine barrens)
“you’re having coffee right?” – carm
[audible sigh] – tony
“…my father has glaucoma.” – carm [looks of anger and disbelief]

7. this imagery:

8. this imagery:

9. “what’s different about you” – tony
“HE HAS NO EYEBROWS TONY!” – carm

10. WTF HAPPENED TO THE RUSSIAN GUY IN THE WOODS?! (upon research: valery’s fate)

11. “it’s a hermies (hermès), supposed to be the best!” – tony giving carm a silk scarf

12. “whoa, slow down, slow down… you’re supposed to savor it, it’s important in life.” – tony to AJ, sipping champagne

13. “you smell that? it’s fucking autumn.  it’s like the first fall night when you’re a kid, and the air’s all crisp and you start smelling people’s fireplaces.” – tony talking to christopher, while outside on a crisp night

14. “there’s nothing holding us together but DNA” – janice to tony

15. the scene where junior’s mind is going and he’s watching tv and thinks he’s larry david and that jeff is bobby.

other shit:

spoilers ahead

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April 23rd, 2018 @ 12:53 pm

my boyfriend keeps frasier-shaming me.  i’ve only rewatched the series fully thrice (okay, okay FINE! i watch it anytime it’s on the hallmark channel at night, but they episodes aren’t in order), but he seems to think i’m on number like, 6.  anyways, i decided to rewatch it again recently bc i finished the show i was binging when i was going to bed.  i figured i’d just watch a couple of episodes just to fall asleep, and then it just turned into a full rewatch.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i mean, if i’m not sick of it and it’s still making me LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARL, who cares?

i’m currently in the last season, and wendie malick’s character ronnie comes in.  tl;dr (no real spoilers), she’s the brothers crane’s babysitter back in the day and they find her in present day.  frasier ends up trying to cash in on his childhood crush on her, but she ends up dating their father (named martin).

what inspired this post, is that she was also on a show in the 90s that i watched as a youth on HBO called “dream on”.  she played judith tupper, a woman who divorced a schleppy, NYC book publisher named martin tupper, and basically tortured him marrying “Mr. Perfect” aka richard stone.  the entire time you’re watching the show, you’re basically hoping at least 40-60% of the time that they get back together.

i honestly don’t remember how the show ended.  i own seasons 1 & 2 on DVD, but they never released seasons 3-6 on DVD.  i don’t want to look it up how the show ended or if they ever got together in between.  maybe they did reunite, maybe they didn’t.  either way, i bring this up bc on frasier, in one of the episodes, martin finds out she’s going out on a date with another man in addition to newly starting to date him.  she actually ends up going out with a guy named richard, but ends up choosing martin in the end.  i thought it was kind of poetic justice, and i wondered to myself if the writers did that on purpose or not.  i googled it, but i couldn’t find anything concrete.

that really would make me so happy…  sticking it to dr. richard stone, HHMMPH!  🙂