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March 27, 2006
Sopranos Rewind: Take A Deep Breath, Silvio
Episode Three of this season's
The Sopranoswas notable more for the coming attractions for Episode Four than anything on Sunday night.
Namely: Tony recovers from a gunshot wound to the belly, and resumes giving hell to the rest of his family in his never-ending job of keeping them in line.
Episode Three was also notable because it showed us a side to Silvio Dante that we never knew existed. The Soprano's consigliere and acting boss (while Tony was comatose) was so stressed out at smoothing over rifts between capos Bobby Baccala and Vito Spadafora, and between Paulie Walnuts and Vito Spadafora, that his asthma flared up and he wound up in the hospital.
"I can't breath," Silvio muttered on his way to the ambulance. "I can't breath."
So it's clear that series boss and creator David Chase has gotten across his message; the only one capable of running the family for now is Tony Soprano, brain damage or no brain damage.
Chase also leaves us seeing a slimmed-down Vito doing nothing but making enemies inside the family, or literally reaching out and sidling up to the one man who knows about Vito's "secret life."
The path has been established. Vito is painting himself into a corner so that, eventually, he may have to blast his way out...with bullets or carrot sticks.
Petitenavir saw the episode, and came up with this suggestion - which has too much potential for network executives to ever go for it:
So most of the episode (aside from the alternate reality) took place in a hospital. I was thinking of how awesome it would be if Tony were in the Scrubs hospital. Like JD telling the family how to act around Tony and Elliot saying somthing weird around Carmella or somthing. Dr. Cox pissing off Paulie, The Janitor trying to get JD in trouble with the mob... In short, least likely yet BEST CROSSOVER EVER.
Posted by Ed Moltzen at March 27, 2006 06:27 AM