The Sopranos are picking-up a bit. Could have done without the "spendor in the grass" scene. I am not crazy about Vito either so it was good to see him get decked by the biker gay. The scene with AJ blowing the attempted murder of Uncle Junior was important though. AJ is really getting into the image of the tough-guy, gangster son that his lounge buddies have bestowed on him. He can't live up to it though. Tony was right when he told AJ that "you don't have it in you." When the girl that was giving him the back rub asked him what the family was going to do about Junior, AJ's reply that we don't really talk about it, he guessed he would have to do something, really seemed to turn her on. After all, at that age it is about getting laid. He can't live up to it though. Dropping the knife was so AJ. Could be AJ's downfall if he does not overdose first. My husband had an interesting theory. He thinks that everyone that was shown in the first episode opener when they were doing the song about the Egyptian souls that leave the body at death could have signified who was going to die this season. Eugene and Ray are already gone so who knows. Hopefully the season is picking up. I just wish it would have done it sooner. The exchanges between Melfi and Tony are dragging. It was good to see Elliot again. More wacking and less yakking! What is happening with Barone Sanitation? The FBI, all we know is that there is a terrorist ring in North Jersey and that they do business out of the Bing. Still to many threads left hanging. Stay tuned though, hopefully the next episodes will explode like David Chase said in the Season 6 special, "Season 6, it is a killer."
Review of Johnny Cakes
