DVD : The Sopranos: The Complete Second Season
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783119366
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783119364
Label: HBO Home Video
Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: HBO Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 06, 2001
Running Time: 696 minutes
Sales Rank: 1002
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 10, 2000
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For Tony Soprano there's no such thing as business as usual. Balancing the demands of his immediate family - wife Carmel daughter Meadow and son Anthony Jr. - witht the demands of his other family - Paulie Walnuts Silvio Dante and Big Pussy Bompensiero - means walking a tightrope no self-respecting mobster should have to walk. With his mother and uncle plotting against him his older sister Janice wreaking her own special kind of havoc and the very real threat that one of his closest allies is wired by the F.B.I Tony needs the support of his psychiatrist Dr. Melfi more than ever.Running Time: 680 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA UPC: 026359924729 Manufacturer No: 99247
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In its second season, The Sopranos sustains the edgy intelligence and unpredictable, genre-warping narrative momentum that made this modern mob saga the most critically acclaimed series of the late 1990s. Creator-producer David Chase repeatedly defies formula to let the narrative turn as a direct consequence of the characters' behavior, letting everyone in this rogue's gallery of Mafiosi, friends, and family evolve and deepen.
That gamble is most apparent in the rupture of the relationship that formed the spine of the first season, the tangled ties between capo Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) and monstrous matriarch Livia (Nancy Marchand), whose betrayal makes Tony's estrangement a logical response. Filling that vacuum, however, is prodigal sister Janice (Aida Turturro), whose New Age flakiness never successfully conceals her underlying calculation and opportunism. Soprano's relationship with therapist Jennifer Melfi (Lorraine Bracco) also frays during early episodes, as she struggles with escalating doubts about her mobbed-up patient. At home, Tony contends with wife Carmela's ruthless ambitions on behalf of college-bound Meadow, as well as son Anthony Jr.'s sullen adolescent flirtation with existentialism--the sort of touch that the show handles with a smart mix of sympathy and amusement.
Without spoiling the surprise of the season's climactic last episode, it's worth noting that only on The Sopranos could we expect a scene that sets up a mob hit with a perversely funny touch of magic realism--a talking fish, lying on a fishmonger's iced display, speaking with the voice of the victim. It's a touch at once morbid and goofy, and consistent with the show's undimmed brilliance. --Sam Sutherland
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Very fast delivery to Belgium. Item corresponds 100% to its description. Will not hesitate to buy agains from this seller
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Each season of The Sopranos has many fine merits, and the second season is one of the best. It has the break-the-mold elements that separated it from other television fare with the betrayal by Pussy and the unexpected hit on Christopher. It has one of the darkest characters ever on television in Richie Aprile and one of the best narcissistic psychos in Janice Soprano. It also features some of the best Sopranos comedy in From Where to Eternity (when Christopher tells Tony and Paulie Walnuts that hell is an Irish bar where it's St. Patrick's Day every day and the Irish patrons win every throw of the dice in the eternal craps game happening there).
The DVDs do add a lot of value for a committed Sopranos fan. The directorial commentary is uneven, with some directors really telling you detail you'd find riveting and others just giving a basic play-by-play that you could get just by watching the show. I found about half of the commentary really interesting. For me, a strong fan, that was enough to warrant buying the DVDs. For the less committed fan, use Netflix and rent the discs.
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Season 2 of the Sopranos is much like season 1, filled with a lot of character development. We also get to see more about Tony's career choice and how it affects him. We also get introduced to some new characters, the least of which is his memorable sister Janice.
Season 2 the cast and writers seemed to hit a groove, a familiarity and the show just flows along much more naturally. By season 2 I was fully addicted to the show. Getting to watch an episode or two each night was what I looked forward to all day long.
One of the best TV shows of all time. A stellar cast. Don't miss out! Buy it, rent it, borrow it from a friend...just watch it!
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Its the sopranos, its #1, its perfect. Amazon is the only place to get a good deal on it.
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What an awesome series! Too bad they didn't go longer than six seasons. This is not you're modern "Godfather" in that you don't see all the real gory violence, but there is still enough you wouldn't want your small children to see it. Great series.
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starring: James Gandolfini, Edie Falco, Dominic Chianese, Nancy Marchand, Michael Imperioli
directed by: Allen Coulter Tim Van Patten
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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 9780783119366
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0783119364
Label: HBO Home Video
Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: HBO Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 06, 2001
Running Time: 696 minutes
Sales Rank: 1002
Studio: HBO Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: January 10, 2000
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