Poda Bing: a Sopranos retrospective

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

Note: Poda Bing Redux is also on YouTube.

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

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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 runs it back.

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Poda Bing's farewell to The Sopranos.

It's been an incredible ride. Thank you.

Much love,

Vik

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All aboard Poda Bing's examination of Blue Comet, the penultimate episode of The Sopranos.

Selected topics discussed/References made:

Macrumors.com, Highlander, Marlo Stanfield, McKann, Jay Z, John Creese, Mariah Carey, Jamiroquai, Kobe Bryant, Collateral, Albie's gestures, Ethereum, blockchain, DHL, Con Air, Nicholas Cage, Tim Grover, The Hart Foundation, Burt Reynolds in Deliverance, Biff Tannen, Bunk Moreland, William Wallace, and more!

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

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