Now way the family gets whacked.
No way, honestly, anyone was whacked.
Mob hit men don’t hang around so everyone can know exactly how to describe them to the police in great detail.
it is UNDERSTOOD in the US mob that civilians are OFF limits.
In reality, the NJ family would be dealing with mostly one of the five families and do favors for others.
NO WAY the heads of these families would approve a hit and the wife and child.
IT JUST DOES NOT HAPPEN.
Too bad the last episode was the least realistic.
You want to hit tony in a public place? You go in, shoot him and leave.
How did Gotti whack Castellano? By having the killers hang around him for 10 minutes?
How was Galante killed? Three MASKED gunmen in and out.
They DID kill two others, a Bonnano soldier and capo, so not civilians.
This is not Sicily. No civilian death are tolerated.
The outcry from the PUBLIC and demands for the FBI to go CRAZY on them would be deafening.
I have known guys that were killed by mobsters.
They all had a connection somehow.
Do women get killed by mobsters? Sure!!
But not because of business.
Just the same reasons every other a@@hole kills a woman.
If there is a woman involved in the business, then she is taking her chances.
Tony’s wife was NOT involved.
tony went out of his WAY to make sure she could never be an accessory after the fact.
He says it in one episode.
Those who say differently that what I have written here, with all due respect, or no due respect, are wrong :)
I never watched the series when it was on, but I have watched some of the YouTube compilations of various aspects of the series. It looked good, and once I would have gotten into it I'm sure, but I just don't get entertained by stories except for "true crime" stories on YT.
One of the things I did find appealing about The Sopranos is that took place in exactly the area in North Jersey I used to live in, around Hackensack, Lodi, Hasbrouck Heights, Teterboro, etc. There were little Italian places I used to go to to get take-out spaghetti, ziti, things like that, so I didn't have to cook. It never occurred to me that those places were possibly Family owned. They just seemed like nice places, but not luxurious at all. I did learn the hard way that you have to let it cool off before you try to eat the take-out food. This was 40 years ago, I don't know how it is now.
I never saw anything sketchy happen in any of them, but who knows what was going on in back.