Poda Bing: a Sopranos retrospective

Poda Bing runs it back on "Nobody Knows Anything".

Note: Poda Bing Redux is also on YouTube.

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Poda Bing runs it back on "A Hit Is A Hit".

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Poda Bing runs it back on "Boca".

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Poda Bing runs it back on "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti".

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01:11 The connection between Christopher and espresso machines

02:07 The art of iconic opening shots

02:56 Merz b. Schwanen vs. Members Only

04:32 Espresso machine symbolism?

05:09 Opening shots across cinema

08:07 The art of iconic opening fits

08:45 What Christopher's dream said about Adriana

10:45 On going places we don't want to

14:31 Tony's "spring cleaning"

17:14 Christopher's writing travails

20:02 Christopher wants a NIL deal

21:11 Another installment of Vik's Legal Corner

21:55 Understanding derogations

26:29 Joan Didion's could have helped Christopher

26:54 Writer distractions

28:43 Establishing shots and *possibility* of conflict

29:31 (Some more) thoughts on the final Soprano sequence

30:04 How Vito got made

32:18 Some "sweeping" tactics

33:44 The lengths one must go to to get Livia to eat lunch

35:20 The art of working in tight spaces

36:57 Chris and Paulie have a moment

39:10 Shlomo would have had something to say about arcs, too

42:49 Noah's "arc"

43:42 On the matter of where the bodies are buried

45:26 Richard's "two tickets to paradise"

46:45 Tony understands, it just takes time

49:03 The elite-ness of Agent Harris

52:00 Comparing and contrasting a Melfi family dinner with a Soprano one

52:48 What Columbus and Meucci have in common

53:29 Melfi's payment policy laid bare

54:06 Livia's semi-annual meeting of "Mothers Betraying Sons"

55:10 On receiving *that* phone call that spurs us to action

56:10 The different prisms of therapy on the show

56:37 Therapists with a flair for storytelling

58:15 Outro

-Poda Bing is an Alternate Thursdays production created by Vik Singh (@helloimvik)

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Poda Bing runs it back on "Down Neck".

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00:00 Intro

01:53 Sacramental wine 101

04:45 Hoopers portrayed in cinema

06:06 Call the Union!

09:54 The art and science of Gandolfini

11:58 Soprano math

12:49 Cross talk stagecraft

17:43 The hold of "The Holdovers"

19:36 Scene dimensions

21:18 (One of the reasons) why Tony keeps us coming back

22:16 Like father like son

24:22 The "wisdom" of crowds

26:03 Is it all just a big nothing?

26:45 What would Tony think of generative AI?

28:44 Feech shoulda hired Clarence Darrow

30:00 What if Tony got that electric organ?

32:06 Better halves

33:52 How to receive bad news from across a table

34:23 Carmela distinguishes herself

35:01 The best therapy

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Poda Bing runs it back on "Pax Soprana".

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00:00 Intro

01:00 The importance of skin care in this thing of ours

02:25 The importance of proper Italian delis

03:27 Bridge awe (again)

04:16 Sinatra all over Tony's shirt

05:09 Melfi's flirt meter

06:28 Best part about coffee dates

08:38 The power of Melfi's non-answers

10:41 The Elia Kazan-ness of certain shots this episode

12:39 Junior and David Stern

14:00 The respect for everyday characters in the show

14:30 Choice cuts

18:59 Would Tony be a fast texter?

21:25 An idea for Dua Lipa

22:03 The surgical precision of Johnny Sack's introduction

23:56 People at tables waiting

24:52 General writing nerdery

25:56 The ritual of garage conflicts

28:36 How not to court someone

30:45 Chase and Kandinsky connection

31:47 I miss "Flight of the Conchords"

35:11 Tony's path to coming clean to Melfi

39:39 How to handle being a witness to a crime perpetrated by O.C.

43:32 The notion of intermediaries and how Livia is *not* a good one

48:04 "Hesh's Horses" and Vik's quotation book

50:05 The sweet & sour of this episode

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Poda Bing runs it back on "College".

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Poda Bing runs it back on "Meadowlands".

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Poda Bing runs it back on Anger, Denial, Acceptance.

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Poda Bing runs it back on 46 Long.

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Poda Bing is an Alternate Thursdays production created by Vik Singh (@helloimvik)

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