Finn and Meadow go through problems, whilst Tony's guilt over his cousin races to the surface.
This is an excellent episode with great character drama and humour.
The story has several characters deluding themselves over the reality of situations and the lie attributing two black males as the cause of various problems is an amusing recurring point. In the exchanges between the two Tonys it is especially ironic by the writers.
New Jersey's souring relations with New York is set up well by Tony's deception and it puts you on edge waiting for what happens next. Others have mentioned the George W. Bush parody of the "brainless the second" Little Carmine character, which was bizarrely too subtle for me to notice first time round, but I can clearly see it now with his malapropisms and the influence of surrounding characters.
Finn and Meadow's scenes are quite melodramatic, but are so well written and performed that for me they avoid feeling like a soap opera. Jamie-Lynn Sigler is very amusing during some of her character's spoilt-brat, emotional outbursts. Aside from one quite nasty violent incident, all the scenes on the construction site are hilarious to me and I never get tired of seeing Finn trying to navigate the mafia world with the likes of Paulie and Vito breathing down his neck.
The situation between Carmela and the divorce attorneys feels especially realistic, as you imagine it would be for an estranged wife pursuing this type of action against someone like Tony.
As always the acting is excellent and the production values are superb.
It's a 9.5/10 for me but I round upwards.
This is an excellent episode with great character drama and humour.
The story has several characters deluding themselves over the reality of situations and the lie attributing two black males as the cause of various problems is an amusing recurring point. In the exchanges between the two Tonys it is especially ironic by the writers.
New Jersey's souring relations with New York is set up well by Tony's deception and it puts you on edge waiting for what happens next. Others have mentioned the George W. Bush parody of the "brainless the second" Little Carmine character, which was bizarrely too subtle for me to notice first time round, but I can clearly see it now with his malapropisms and the influence of surrounding characters.
Finn and Meadow's scenes are quite melodramatic, but are so well written and performed that for me they avoid feeling like a soap opera. Jamie-Lynn Sigler is very amusing during some of her character's spoilt-brat, emotional outbursts. Aside from one quite nasty violent incident, all the scenes on the construction site are hilarious to me and I never get tired of seeing Finn trying to navigate the mafia world with the likes of Paulie and Vito breathing down his neck.
The situation between Carmela and the divorce attorneys feels especially realistic, as you imagine it would be for an estranged wife pursuing this type of action against someone like Tony.
As always the acting is excellent and the production values are superb.
It's a 9.5/10 for me but I round upwards.
