Tony leaves out the violence associated with his criminal career. Tony tells Dr. Melfi a story about ducks landing in his pool. He also tells her about his mother, Livia, a cold, mean-spirited woman with whom he has an openly hostile relationship. By the end of the first session Tony has admitted that he feels depressed, but storms out when Dr. Melfi presses him further about the relationship between his symptoms and the ducks. When the family visits Green Grove, a retirement community which Tony is trying to place his mother in, Livia's derisive outburst prompts a second panic attack.
Melfi prescribes Prozac as an anti-depressant, telling him that no one needs to suffer from depression with the wonders of modern pharmacology. Tony fails to attend their next scheduled session. At their next session Tony is still reluctant to face his own psychological weaknesses. Tony is quick to credit the medication for his improved mood but Dr.
Melfi tells him it cannot be that as it takes 6 weeks to work — she credits their therapy sessions. Tony describes a dream where a bird steals his penis — Melfi extrapolates from this to reveal that Tony projected his love for his family onto the family of ducks living in his back pool and this brings him to tears, to his consternation.
She tells him that their flight from the pool sparked his panic attack through the overwhelming fear of somehow losing his own family. In the episode " 46 Long " they continue discussing Tony's mother and her difficulties living alone. Tony admits that he feels guilty because his mother could not be allowed to live with his family.
We learn that he has been left to care for his mother alone by his sisters. When Dr. Melfi asks him to remember good experiences from his childhood he has difficulty.
He also shows that he blames Carmela for preventing his mother from living with them. Later they discuss Livia's car accident and Melfi suggests depression may have contributed to the accident - Tony misunderstands her and becomes angry.
Tony has a panic attack while visiting his mother's home after she moves to Green Grove. In a later session Dr. Melfi pushes Tony to admit he has feelings of anger towards his mother and he again storms out.
During this episode Tony introduces the concept of him acting like the sad clown - happy on the outside but sad on the inside. She tries to use it as an example of Tony's negative thinking contributing to his depression. Tony becomes angry and storms out because he feels she is trying to trick him and manipulate his thoughts using the pictures that decorate her office. After Jackie worsens and Tony is called a Frankenstein by a business associate he returns to therapy to discuss these things with Dr.
Melfi — she asks him if he feels like a monster. In " Fortunate Son " Tony discusses a childhood memory of an early panic attack. He saw his father and uncle mutilate Mr.
Satriale, the local butcher, and later fainted at a family dinner made with free meat from Satriale's shop. Melfi makes a connection between meat and Tony's panic attacks and also explores his mother's attitude to the fruits of his father's labor. Later Dr. Melfi tries prescribing Lithium as a mood stabilizer.
In the episode " Isabella " Tony sinks into a severe depressive episode and experiences hallucinations — he sees a beautiful Italian woman named Isabella in his neighbor's garden.
Tony sees Isabella several times during the episode and later learns that she never existed. Melfi theorizes that Isabella was an idealized maternal figure that Tony's subconscious produced because of he was deeply upset at his own mother's actions at the time. Melfi to go into hiding when he discovers that his Uncle Junior has found out about their sessions.
The relationship between Tony and Dr. Melfi has been up-and-down, with Tony reaching a level of comfort with Dr. Melfi that he has never experienced with anyone else before, not even his wife.
This closeness leads Tony to have something of a "crush" on Dr. Melfi, something that is unattainable. However, the "prying" from Dr. Melfi is uncomfortable for Tony and he often turns sarcastic and antagonistic towards her, leading to an ongoing strain in their relationship. In the episode when Tony's sister, Janice, goes back to Seattle, it is revealed during a rushed conversation between Janice and Tony that their mother suffers from narcissistic personality disorder.
During the episode " The Second Coming ", aired in part II of season six, Melfi's own therapist suggests to her that her work with Tony could be considered enabling toward Tony's sociopathic tendencies. Finally, in the penultimate episode of the series, " The Blue Comet ", Melfi severs her relationship with Tony as his therapist after reading research recommended by her own therapist that sociopaths can use talk therapy to actually improve their skills in manipulating others and using what is learned in therapy to become more capable criminals.
Tony sustains some injury to his ear which is partially shot off, and minor bruises and cuts from crashing his vehicle.
One of the two assailants, Clayborn, is shot dead by Ray in an attempt to kill Tony, and Ray is left bruised but runs off. He manages to dial but loses consciousness before being able to tell the operator what happened. The second episode of the sixth season, " Join the Club " reveals Tony is currently in a medically-induced coma in the hospital.
In the second and third episode the viewer sees Tony in a dream-like state, eventually arriving at what could be purgatory, where he is greeted by a man who takes the physical form of his late cousin Tony Blundetto.
The shadowy figure in the doorway of the house has the profile of his mother, Livia, who is dead. The voice of a younger version of his daughter calls him back. At the end of the third episode he awakes from his coma in a confused but stable state. Tony's attitude to life has been changed by his near death experience. He has yet to discuss his experiences while unconscious with anyone close to him. However, On December " Kaisha " , he admits to Phil Leotardo who had just suffered a heart attack , that while he was in a coma, he went to a place, but he knows he never wants to go back there.
He talks philosophy with John Schwinn, another patient at the hospital, and mentions that while in the coma he had the experience of being drawn towards somewhere he did not want to go and narrowly avoiding it. In November " Kennedy and Heidi " , Tony sustains minor injuries in a car accident that seriously injures his nephew Christopher Moltisanti whom Tony killed by suffocation while Christopher succumbed to his injuries.
Tony was on bed rest for a few days and quickly recovered. Nonetheless, this gave his family quite a scare and a painful memory of his nearly fatal shooting the previous year. Tony sometimes has vivid dreams that are shown to the viewer. In June " Pilot " , Tony tells Dr. Melfi about a dream he had wherein a screw in his belly button, when removed, causes his penis to fall off.
He tries to find a car mechanic who had worked on his Lincoln when Tony drove Lincolns to put it back on, but a duck swoops down and snatches it from his hand. In September " Meadowlands " , Tony has a dream of several people in his life in Dr.
Melfi's office, causing him to be paranoid that people will find out he is seeing a psychiatrist. The dream ends with Tony confronting Melfi, only to find out he's speaking to his mother, Livia.
He becomes convinced that he is in love with her, but she turns him down when he makes advances towards her. In March " Isabella " , Tony, suffering from depression after Big Pussy disappears, acquaints himself with a dental student named Isabella who is staying in the Cusamano home while they are on vacation.
He later discovers that he'd hallucinated Isabella due to taking too much lithium, and that Isabella represented the mother he never had. On June 9 " Funhouse " , an extended dream sequence exposes many of Tony's subconscious thoughts and feelings through symbolic and sometimes bizarre events: he attempts suicide to preempt a doctor's diagnosis of early death by dousing himself in gasoline and lighting himself on fire, witnesses himself shooting Paulie "Walnuts" Gaultieri to death during a card game, has an innuendo-laden conversation with his therapist Dr.
Melfi while sporting a prominent erection, and a fish that speaks with the voice of Sal "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero confirms his suspicions that the longtime friend and soldier is a federal informant. He visits her apartment and finds her in a black dress with a black scarf around her neck.
She is cooking dinner and when she goes over to the oven the scarf drapes across Tony. Plaster falls down in front of Tony and when he looks up he sees that the chandelier is almost pulled out of the ceiling.
Gloria is suddenly back at the table and offers Tony a choice between seeing what she has under her dress or under her scarf. As she goes to peel away the scarf, Tony wakes up and makes his way to the bathroom for some medication. In the first he is being driven by Carmela in the back of his father's old car while Ralph sits in the passenger seat.
There is a caterpillar crawling on the back of Ralph's head. Tony's fellow passenger in the back seat changes — Gloria Trillo and Svetlana Kirilenko are both seen. The caterpillar turns into a butterfly. Melfi later tells him that the dream signifies a change for Ralphie recently killed by Tony and Carmela being in control.
In the second dream Tony follows Ralph to an old house, which Ralph enters. Tony is dressed in trousers, suspenders and an undershirt. He knocks on the door and a female figure descends slowly in shadow; the door creaks ominously. Did you know Edit. Trivia After the pilot aired, a real-life "wise guy" told James Gandolfini never to wear shorts again.
The encounter seems to have been incorporated into season four, episode one, "For All Debts Public and Private", when New York City mob boss Carmine tells Tony that he'd heard about his recent backyard party, and that "a don doesn't wear shorts.
All gas stations in New Jersey are "full-serve," meaning that only gas station attendants are permitted to pump gas. Quotes Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr. Scenes featuring nudity, sexual activity and violence were replaced with alternate versions or were excised completely. The profanity was dubbed over.
User reviews Review. Top review. The Sopranos is one of the best TV-shows I have ever seen. The show is mainly about Anthony "Tony" Soprano and his life as a father, husband and leader of a mob in the 21st century.
The show is as far as I know realistic, compared to many other mafia shows and movies I have seen. The actors fit like a glove to their parts. This show made me realize how good many of these actors are in other shows and movies.
This show has it all; humor, action, drama, good music, good actors, good "behind the camera" people and a good plot. FAQ Is Tony really a sociopath? What is the title of the theme song? Season 3: What happened to Valery? Details Edit. Release date January 10, United States. United States. HBO Official Facebook.
English Italian Russian. Made in Jersey. Just as Asbury Park and Freehold vie for Bruce Springsteen, and Salzburg and Vienna can lay equal claim to Mozart, so many a community would be proud to have Tony Soprano as its favorite son.
There are people who view the mob stuff with a little bit of pride. But what town can make the best case? Who was Tony Soprano? Let's meet our contestants. He came from mob royalty. He was the son of the legendary Ruggiero "Richie the Boot" Boiardo, who apparently got his nickname from stomping people to death. A member of the Genovese crime family, he worked his Newark beat during the day, and returned at night to a suburban home in Essex Fells, near Montclair.
Like Tony Soprano, he went to a therapist on the down-low — such a trait would not do his reputation any good. He wasn't the first: Mobster Frank Costello also went to a shrink, in the s.
He was a bit beefy. And he was named Tony. Ring any bells? More: 'The mob and rock 'n' roll is a good combination': The real story of musician Tommy James. More: Gianni Russo, 'Godfather' actor and mob associate, spills it all on tape. It wasn't a beautiful lady. He screwed up the numbers-running operation Richie had going, and he did a few messy hits.
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