My favorite Paulie moment was him returning to Jersey from Italy and beaming with pride at the garbage-strewn freeway underpasses
A major theme of the show is how everyone is 10th generation Italian American suburbanite pretending to be deeply entrenched in Italian culture.
I remember the Christopher Columbus episode when everyone was praising Columbus and Furio, who is actually from Italy, chimes in and says his people hate Columbus because Columbus and his region were classist. The other mobsters were just silent because they’re completely uneducated on their homeland history outside of vague pleasantries they tell themselves to make them seem like hard working blue collars
Uh, achully, I can easily tell an Eye-talian by their skull shape. :anti-italian-action: :calipers:
I honestly don’t know how the audience managed to blue curtain this show. There are videos on YouTube titled shit like “Tony explains why liberalism fails” or something like that
And in the video, Tony explains to AJ that black people are lazy and scammers, and that his ancestors built a church and community and that you need to work hard to get what you want.
But the clip comes from an episode where Tony is literally scamming the government using HUD housing and kicking black people out of their homes.
One thing I noticed is that the characters often discriminate every minority you can think of, but whenever they end up in the hospital because of some shooting or accident, the doctor is often a minority like a black person, or a woman, or an Asian guy
Also after committing horrific crimes, the scene often cuts to some family friendly scene of everyone eating and joking around and playing with kids. If your brain can’t catch these contrasts then :confusion:
I think that as a metaphor for why liberals fail, it actually works. Liberals fail because they believe that incisive artistic commentary can change the minds of chuds.
It doesn’t, most people will self-edit the fictional media they watch to fit their preconceived notions of what is ‘real’, which in capitalism is also mostly simulacra from ‘the news’. But it does make for some damn good TV.
