01/22/2004: "Withdrawl symptoms"
We’re suffering “Sopranos” withdrawls in the Romkey household.
HBO has been re-screening the episodes, but that’s been over for a couple of weeks. Sunday nights are bleak enough without an episode of “The Sopranos.” Each episode is packed with violence, amorality, jealousy, family tension, and seething resentment. The program never fails to cheer me up.
I visited the gangster soap opera’s website this morning for a fix. There’s a blurb on the home page indicating the show cranks up Feb. 16, but the preview trailer says March 7. Normally I’d complain about this kind of bone-headed inconsistency – doesn’t anybody edit these things? – but I don’t want to get whacked, so I’ll keep my mouth shut.
Omerta.
Our other Sunday-night fave is “Six Feet Under.” That show’s website is equally mysterious about when the new season kicks in.
As is HBO’s program-guide data base.
Go figure.
Maybe there should be an episode at the end of the 2004 season where the two programs merge. I’ve been wondering if Tony is going to whack Carmela. (At the end of the last season, Tony was adjusting poorly to Carmela’s demand for a divorce.) It could happen in LA, and the funeral could be held on the “Six Feet Under” set.
Maybe Furio will come back this season, in the final show, and whack Tony so he can consummate his fling with Carmela.
We miss Furio, who disappeared in the middle of the 2003 season. He was nice and evil at the same time, which isn’t an easy thing to pull off. Come to think of it, you can say the same for Tony.
They all would make good vampires.
