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The second series of The Sopranos, David Chase's ultra-cool and ultra-modern take on New Jersey gangster life, matches the brilliance of the first, although it's marginally less violent, with more emphasis given to the stories and obsessions of supporting characters. Sadly, the programme makers were forced to throttle back on the appalling struggle between gang boss Tony Soprano and his Gorgon-like Mother Livia, the very stuff of Greek theatre, following actress Nancy Marchand's unsuccessful battle against cancer. Taking up her slack, however, is Tony's big sister Janice, a New Age victim and arrant schemer and sponger, who takes up with the twitchy, Scarface-wannabe Richie Aprile, brother of former boss Jackie, out of prison and a minor pain in Tony's ass. Other running sub-plots include soldier Chris (Michael Imperioli) hapless efforts to sell his real-life Mafia story to Hollywood, the return and treachery of Big Pussy and Tony's wife Carmela's ruthlessness in placing daughter Meadow in the right college. Even with the action so dispersed, however, James Gandofini is still toweringly dominant as Tony. The genius of his performance, and of the programme makers, is that, despite Tony being a whoring, unscrupulous, sexist boor, a crime boss and a murderer, we somehow end up feeling and rooting for him, because he's also a family man with a bratty brood to feed, who's getting his balls busted on all sides, to say nothing of keeping the Government off his back. He's the kind of crime boss we'd like to feel we would be. Tony's decent Italian-American therapist Dr Melfi's (Loraine Bracco) perverse attraction with her gangster-patient reflects our own and, in her case, causes her to lose her first series cool and turn to drink this time around. Effortlessly multi-dimensional, funny and frightening, devoid of the sentimentality that afflicts even great American TV like The West Wing, The Sopranos is boss of bosses in its televisual era. --David Stubbs
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Just keeps getting better,
By Mikey "Reader" (Antrim, N.Ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Sopranos: Complete Series 2 [DVD] [1999] (DVD)
If you're wondering how the greatest TV series of all time can get better, just watch this. The scripts are as sharp as ever, the production values are flawless, and the acting from Gandolfini, Falco, and crew deserves all the awards they got (and didn't get)!!! Among the newcomers to the cast here, Aida Turturro and David Proval as the loving couple from hell, and Louis Lombardi as the everyman, lisping FBI agent Skip Lipari excel.The mini-documentaries, interviews, etc that make up the DVD extras are great too. The only criticism I have, in fact, is where's Series 3???
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
IT GETS BETTER & BETTER,
By whispering gravy (Los Angeles,CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Sopranos: Complete Series 2 [DVD] [1999] (DVD)
series 2 doesn't let up, the writng acting and direction are on a par with series 1. You feel a lot of emotions brewing whilst watching this excellent programme, pain ,anger, hatred not to mention empathy. The lighter side of the writing is very funny and keeps your feet on the ground. All in all this is by far the best tv series ever made
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Best TV series made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Sopranos: Complete Series 2 [DVD] [1999] (DVD)
This series is amazing and gets better by the episode, Its captivating, humorous and full of action, a perfect reflection of the modern day mafia, and if Don Corloene (The Godfather) watched this he would be very very very impressed!!!!! A masterpiece 100/10 praise the mighty HBO :)
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