in at the end (an obsessive analysis of The Sopranos)

Val and Alex dedicate an episode to discussing the overarching ideas throughout the entirety of season 6A. Hope you like it!

Alex and Val (Obsessive Analysis) dive into the deeper issues of The Sopranos episode by episode immediately after watching.  New episodes come out Thursdays at 2:30pm.  Email us at [email protected] and please rate and review!

Why are all the women Tony is with the same? Will any of Tony's experiences actually change him? Why would Carmela even get that beret for Tony? Alex and Val examine gift giving, power dynamics, drugs, manipulations, and AJ being great in bed. Thanks for a great Season 6A!

We're taking a little break but will be back on August 15th to close out the series!

Alex and Val (Obsessive Analysis) dive into the deeper issues of The Sopranos episode by episode immediately after watching.  New episodes come out Thursdays at 2:30pm.  Email us at [email protected] and please rate and review!

Val and Alex explore the cosmos and talk about Paris as an otherworldly domain. What is it you want from life, and does everything just get washed away? AJ's life is going medium, Alex gets nervous about French, and why would you bring Jersey on vacation? Isolation, statues, football helmets, and Eiffel Tower beacons. 

Val and Alex discuss working a real job (which is hard for jazz musician Alex), Meadow's blueberry fiasco, family, Vito's questionable decision to return, and proletariats. 

Alex and Val (Obsessive Analysis) dive into the deeper issues of The Sopranos episode by episode immediately after watching.  New episodes come out Mondays and Thursdays at 2:30pm.  Email us at [email protected] and please rate and review!

In a cheery episode, Val and Alex talk about how boring every day life is and how nothing really matters. Characters seek thrills and tend to self destruct when confronted with the mundane nature of their existence. Different types of family emerge and apparently life a is a crappy gift of socks. Yahoo

We'll both be out of the country so will be off our regularly scheduled releases until we return. Enjoy the summer and see you on July 18th! We'll be coming back until the end of the series on a once a week schedule (Thursdays) so that we can do justice to some of the most amazing episodes in TV history. 

Alex and Val (Obsessive Analysis) dive into the deeper issues of The Sopranos episode by episode immediately after watching.  New episodes come out Mondays and Thursdays at 2:30pm.  Email us at [email protected] and please rate and review!

According to Tony "if you have the chance to do something that makes you happy, you should take it." Vito and Tony share parallels, Tony freaks out when he doesn't get what he wants, AJ comes into his own as a jerk, and Melfi starts to recognize Tony for who he really is. Also Johnny Cake apparently says "I've got a kid."

Artie's back, and he's interested in his hostess... again? Like everyone in the show, Artie deals with questions of identity, mundanity and coping with his life. Da Giovanni sounds like it's pretty great, luxury lounges seem amazing and Nuovo Vesuvio seems like an "affordable elegance." Ben Kingsley and Lauren Bacall have it pretty rough, would love to see them in "Cleaver" though. 

Val and Alex talk about identity and how characters represent themselves to the world. Vito escapes Soprano orbit and has his own "who am I" moment while attempting to live free or die. Meadow evolves as a character (it's not good) and is "untenable" with Finn. Water, trees and the wind show up prominently and reenforce some of the main themes of the season. 

We'll be off Monday June 24th but back to our regular schedule Thursday June 27th!

Val and Alex talk about Tony's reintegration into regular physical life, the false representations everyone makes of themselves, and how Val doesn't like people who only watch scattered episodes of this show. Also Alex likes colors again. 

Alex and Val (Obsessive Analysis) dive into the deeper issues of The Sopranos episode by episode immediately after watching.  New episodes come out Mondays and Thursdays at 2:30pm.  Email us at [email protected] and please rate and review!

Val and Alex get metaphysical and dissect a key episode of the Sopranos in which different characters represent different philosophies of dealing with the world. John Schwinn gets real deep and Pastor Bob thinks the Flintstones is real. Paulie has an existential crisis, Tony might be changing, and we spend even more time contemplating the wind than we normally do.