The Sopranos - Season 6, Part 1

The Sopranos - Season 6, Part 1
by Daniel Attias, Jack Bender, Peter Bogdanovich, Henry Bronchtein, Martin Bruestle

The Sopranos - Season 6, Part 1

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Actor: James Gandolfini
Director: Daniel Attias, Henry Bronchtein, Jack Bender, Martin Bruestle, Peter Bogdanovich
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 720 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: HBO Home Video

DVD Reviews of The Sopranos - Season 6, Part 1

DVD Review: Not the best Sopranos season, but still great
Summary: 5 Stars

The Sopranos is my favorite television series of all time. It first aired on January 10th, 1999, and after 5 great seasons it finally came down to the final one. I definitely miss the series. The combination of great writing, acting, drama, and even humor made me want to never miss an episode.

Season 6, Part 1 is not my favorite season of the entire series. Without spoiling anything, I suppose it is because two of the major storylines in Season 6, Part 1, include what is going on with Tony in episodes 2-4 and one involving Vito in episodes 6-11. These two storylines, while good, are not among my favorites in the entire series. But that really is being picky because all of the seasons are so good. These are the episodes that comprise Season 6, Part 1:

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Mayham
The Fleshy Part of the Thigh
Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request
Live Free or Die
Luxury Lounge
Johnny Cakes
The Ride
Moe n' Joe
Cold Stones
Kaisha

My personal favorites from this season were Mr. & Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request, The Ride, and Cold Stones.

Some people didn't like Season 6, Part 1, and as I've stated, it is not my favorite. For me though, that says more about how great the other seasons are more than reflecting anything negative on this particular one. It is still a very good season for an excellent series, and sets up the final episodes.

DVD Review: sopranos
Summary: 5 Stars

This series is a fictional study of the personal, family and social stresses within organized crime. The true nature of dad's work is perceived at different depths by family, friends and neighbors ("Do you think a garbage man lives in a house like this"). The mobster's denial of his own life creates stresses leading to somatic manifestations, bringing him to a psychiatrist, providing the viewer with a perspective of the complex and unreal relationships between masculinity, loyalty, religion and a contorted rationalizing morality. Dialog and action are heavily weighted away from family viewing. Acting, sets, accent and character portrayal create a convincing story that holds the viewer's attention.

DVD Review: The Beginning of the End
Summary: 5 Stars

Season 6 Part One of the Sopranos begins to set the scene for the series finale. At least that's how I viewed it. We got to see some older storylines that hadn't been brought up in years (Christopher's quest to make a screen play) come out of the shadows. We also begin to see characters growing up and changing due to recent events, like AJ handeling his fathers coma. We see the tensions with NY start coming to a head, a showdown, which is where it's been headed all along.

I thought Season 6 was a strong season. Not my favorite, as I still felt the Chris storyline weak. I didn't mind the Vito, it was sort of funny and unexpected, but yes maybe it didn't have to go on for so long. And I admit that AJ gets on my nerves more and more. But I found the relationship between NY & NJ fascenating, I couldn't look away. The tension is building and building with each episode until you are just dying to know how it ends!!

While it's sad to see this series coming to an end, it's good to see it building into an exciting finish.

DVD Review: Soprano's Season Six, Part One DVD
Summary: 5 Stars

The one missing piece to my entire collection. In stock, delivered quickly. Great service and availability, as always!

DVD Review: Weakest overall season...three stars for the risks taken
Summary: 3 Stars

I agree with the Amazon review on two points.

First, the Vito story line overstayed its welcome in epic proportions. What should have been a minor subplot in the season became its centerpiece instead (sharing almost equal screen time with Tony's recuperation and lessons learned).

Second, after 5 seasons of significant season finales, the low-key, "so what" episode in Season 6 Part 1 seemed like more of a ploy to dash audience expectations than to craft something of quality. When the "Season 6 Part 1 and 2" plan was announced, the immediate reaction from series fans was to hold out hope for a season 7, season 8, season 9...and my personal belief for the entire 12 episode run of Season 6 Part 1 was that creator David Chase was trying to wean his audience from their stubborn attachment. The fact that Season 6 Part 2 came back with a vengeance supports this.

The one strength of the somewhat tedious story arcs in Season 6 Part 1 is Tony's ongoing "If they perceive you as weak" paranoia, but once again, it's played out in a clumsy manner during his altercation with "Penne Arrabiatta" at Satriale's.

If the Sopranos seasons could be expressed in terms of Rolling Stones albums, this would be "Their Satanic Majesties Request"...some mildly interesting elements that never quite gel into a satisfying whole and only leave us hungry for the hopefully better efforts that follow.

Description of The Sopranos - Season 6, Part 1

Several crises threaten Tony and his crew; for starters rival boss Johnny Sack (Vince Curatola) is in prison and the always-tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack?s surrogates. Then there are the inevitable power struggles that ensue when certain family members are eliminated by natural and other causes.Running Time: 720 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC:?026359330124 Manufacturer No:?93301

The Sopranos, Season 6, Part 1 is the most contentious release yet in the acclaimed series' history. While many fans think it jumped the shark at the exact moment Vito said "I love you, Johnny Cakes" , this season also contains some of the series finest moments and plumbs new depths of character, while continuing to add to the body count. Things get started with a bang, literally, that unexpectedly sends Tony (James Gandolfini) to the hospital and into a coma where he experiences an alternate reality while in limbo. At one point he awakes and asks "Who am I? Where am I going?" encapsulating this season's central theme in a moment of desperation wrapped in a fever dream. But it's not all existentialism. With Tony and Uncle Junior both of the picture, the capos in the Soprano crew try to take advantage of the situation and begin jockeying for position while a reluctant Silvio (Steve Van Zandt), acting in Tony's place, struggles to keep everyone in check. Things aren't going much better for Tony's family, as A.J. (Robert Iler) confesses to Carmela (Edie Falco) that he flunked out of school, and while at Tony's bedside, swears revenge for his injury. The stress of the situation finally gets to Carmela, who takes up Dr. Melfi's (Lorraine Bracco) offer to help and finds herself in the strange position of confiding in her husband's therapist, revealing for once that she feels some guilt over making the kids complicit in how Tony makes his living-plus there's the issue of whether she really loves him. Christopher (Michael Imperioli) continues to provide much of the comic relief for the series, culminating in one of this season's best episodes when he flies out to L.A. in a bumbling attempt to get Ben Kingsley to sign on for his fledgling movie (Saw meets The Godfather), and ends up mugging Lauren Bacall for her goodie basket at an awards ceremony. Sowing further discord in the ranks, Vito (Joseph Gannoscoli) finally gets outed as homosexual, and is forced to flee for his life up to New Hampshire where he meets "Johnny Cakes." Finally, even with New York boss Johnny "Sack" Sacramoni (Vince Curatola) in prison, Phil Leotardo (Frank Vincent) makes plays against Tony and eventually sets in motion a hit against someone on Tony's crew, and now a larger war with Johnny Sack's crew seems to be looming.

Series creator David Chase seems to be saying with this season that character is destiny. If so, then Season Six, Part 1 is taking the necessary time to flesh out who these people really are, and is leaving the destiny part up for Part 2. The fact that the series' writers have been able to maintain such a strong show with so many interweaving storylines for so long is a feat not to be taken lightly. That said, this season of The Sopranos does deserve some of the criticism it's received: the Vito storyline would have been better served by resolving it in fewer episodes, and the season ending is the most unsatisfying one yet, leaving many fans wanting more. But the bottom line is that this season deserves more praise than criticism, proving that even at its weakest, The Sopranos is still the strongest show on TV.--Daniel Vancini

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