Tonight's show was all over the place. I give it a 6/10. Paulie finds out about his real mother...and goes berserk...beating up poor salf centered Jason..and cutting off his "mom" at the posh nursing home.
The born again Colson minister stops by and Soprano and boys are quietly respectful... they actually pray together in the first meeting although the bit about the dinosaurs was exagerrated.
I didn't care at all for tonight's episode. One of my least favorites in the show's history, right up there with the Columbus Day episode and the one with the creepy JFK/Papa Soprano's girlfriend. The episode was too preachy (New Age Hollywood Buddhist preachy), and riddled with stereotypes. I didn't see who wrote it, but it wouldn't have surprised me if Imperioli wrote it, because the last episode that had characters talking according to stereotype (HMO person, the rappers, the easy target creationist, the "enlightened" scientist who acted as the "voice" for the episode), was the Columbus Day one that he scripted.
Has Oliver Stone or Scorsese gotten to David Chase's ear? The valoration of an old Ojibwe saying reeks of pretentious and desperate anti-Western Civilization identification. What's next, a close up of an eskimo shedding a tear when Tony kills someone in the next couple of episodes? Why not an episode thematically built around a phrase from one of John Locke's works, or Friedrich Hayek's, or Roger Bacon's, you know, authors/philosophers whose views of the world have been validated time and time again--instead of this sanctimonious Rouseau-ian valoration of the "noble savage"? Ah, because the Zinnchomskys of the world would call you a fascist if you did that.