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The Sopranos: HBO Season 6 (Part 2 - The Final Episodes) [2007] | ![The Sopranos: HBO Season 6 (Part 2 - The Final Episodes) [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BCPyxNw7L._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Directors: Steve Buscemi, Danny Leiner, David Nutter, Alan Taylor, Steve Shill
Actors: Tony Sirico, Steven R. Schirripa, Aida Turturro, Michael Imperioli, James Gandolfini
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  13 reviews
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 540 Minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.8 x 1.4
EAN: 7321902178479
ASIN: B000UI2XNO
Release Date: November 19, 2007
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 Quite astonishingly brilliant - gutted it's over August 21, 2007
M. Lee (London, UK)
68 out of 74 found this review helpful
After the slight drop in form in Season 6 Part 1, the nine episodes that make up Part 2 are all of astonishingly high quality. Whilst there were a couple of episodes in 6.1 where you sensed a degree of drift and inaction, each one of these episodes is so packed with various plot developments they all merit repeat viewing. I'm very conscious of the need to avoid any spoilers but I think I can get away with saying that there's a real melancholic "end of empire" mood across this entire strand, a sense that as Tony himself once observed - the good times are in the past and as in real life - they start to turn on each other. Added to that, Tony's health is failing, the feud with Phil Leotardo intensifies and AJ in particular causes Tony and Carmela serious grief. The humour that was also missing in 6.1 returns here, particularly with Paulie and AJ's storylines. If you're a big Sopranos fan you've probably been unable to avoid all the moaning about the final ending. Well again, avoiding spoilers, I can assure you that it is by a long shot the finest final episode of any long running series I've ever seen and if you expected a clear Hollywood wrap up then you clearly don't get what makes the Sopranos so uniquely outstanding. Enjoy.
What absolute, utter, unadulterated GENIUS!!!!! October 29, 2007
D. Lynch (At Home)
41 out of 54 found this review helpful
Now that the series and its long awaited finale has aired I feel it is time for spoilers. The title of my review relates to the final ten seconds of the last episode, a black silent screen which left me and probably everyone else wondering if their tv had broken. Let me give you my view on the final episode... Tony was getting very cosy with agent harris but they were both playing each other for information to further their own causes, Tony wanted Phil dead so he could succeed him and get closer to New York thereby becoming a big player, agent harris wanted Phil dead so the indictment of Tony would be easier. Without having to indict Tony's gang ( because most of them were dead ), and without having to indict Phil who was a much bigger player than Tony.
The cat, what the hell was all that about? I think the cat represented Tony, unable to take his eyes off the photo of Christopher, clearly regretting the necessary action he had to take by killing another member of his family to protect The Family, he tried to make the point that his luck at the gambling table had improved since Chris "died" but even Tony didnt believe his own words. This also explains why Paulie was so unnerved because it represented the fact that Tony would always be keeping an eye on Paulie even if his empire had expanded into Brooklyn.
The death of Phil was spectacular I didnt think they could top Bobby's execution but they did. The most poignant scenes were 1) Tony's reluctant visit to Sil, he was clearly shaken to see his right hand man reduced to a vegetable on life support. 2) The meal with Meadow where she said it was his constant harrassment by the FBI that had led to her becoming a lawyer to help the oppressed Italian Americans ( The Mafia ), Tony's face fell when he realised he had brought his daughter into his world. This combined with the fact that the only way of saving AJ from his suicidal ambitions to join the army was to get him a job working for little Carmine's film company, another mafia influence on his children! This is why he touched AJ's arm in the diner in a rare show of affection and regret.
And so to the diner, all of the customers were a representation of people whose lives had been touched by Tony's actions or people who wanted him dead, the boy scouts who witnessed Bobby's brutal death, the two black guys who were a reminder of the hitmen sent by Uncle Junior, the Arab at the counter who kept making eye contact with Tony, by that point my blood pressure was off the scale, hoping that a crappy hollywood style "bad guy gets shot" ending wasnt about to happen. Then the recap of the scene with Bobby wondering if you saw or heard the bullet that kills you.
Well we got our answer! As the arab went to the toilet Godfather style, as Meadow finally parks the damn car and runs to enter the diner. To the sound of the doorbell that announced the arrival of every customer and made Tony a little more unsettled realising that he was going to spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder (was it all worth it?). Then suddenly, inexplicably the screen goes black and it is us the viewer that has met our end and we certainly didnt see that coming! We leave the Soprano's to carry on with their lives wondering if one of his many enemies will kill him before the FBI arrest him. Will he take a back seat and have more meals in lowly little diners like a normal family. Who knows? The point is that we have to draw our own conclusions based on our own understanding of the entire series.
To anyone who doesnt understand why the bad guy didnt face justice for his crimes, then you really have missed the point of the whole thing, what a waste of eight years of your life then. If you remember the very beginning we joined Tony Soprano in a dressing gown wading into his pool to get closer to the ducks that had landed in his yard, and we left him in a roadside diner fearing for his life and realising that he had done the one thing he tried to avoid, brought his kids into The Family business.
Where he goes from here we will never know because we have been violently ripped from the world of Tony Soprano as many of his victims before us and it is our voyeurism that has cost us our viewing lives. The title of my review sums up not only the ending but the last eight years of the greatest show that will ever be seen in my lifetime, and i say that with some confidence. IT WAS BRILLIANT!!!!!
Wow - but no more Soprano's! October 3, 2007
Tangerine (North Yorkshire)
25 out of 27 found this review helpful
I watched this via satellite television from the USA as it was aired over there. Having been desperate to watch this I was not let down. It is a brilliant, crowning glory to a superb television series. In an effort to not spoil anything I can say that the issues between New York and Jersey get worse and the odd behaviour of AJ causes more concern for Tony. Perhaps most odd of all is that the penultimate episode was meant to be the last. You will know what I mean when I say it would have been a brilliant ending. The episode that became the final installment.....well lets just say you probably won't believe it! James Gandolfini is brilliant as ever as Tony and with a host of tremendous actors and actresses around him the series finale oozes class. The only thing wrong with this series is that it has ended. It is such a shame as life was much better knowing another series of this was in production. Enjoy it whilst it lasts!
THE FINAL GENIUS EPISODE EXPLAINED!!! November 16, 2007
J. E. Massey (UK)
11 out of 16 found this review helpful
First off, i think i should clarify some of the clues that were so very evident right throughout the final episode. At the very start of the final episode the camera is locked tight on Tony and it looks like he's lying dead in a coffin and there's even an organ playing on the radio that sounds rather like funeral music. The main clue throughout the episode is the colour orange because we constantly see the orange cat and tony even eats an orange in front of his family. The colour orange is linked to death, especially in the Godfather films. Also when Tony is sitting in the diner at the end there is a big orange tiger behind his shoulder on the back wall of the diner. It's part of a collage. Other clues include the dying trees as there are no leaves and when meadow takes three attempts to park correctly it is representing the two failed attempts on Tony's life, so it is third time lucky. Rememeber back in season one when Tony was buying orange juice and those two black assassins were going to kill him.
Tony is also wearing the same T-shirt that he was wearing when uncle Juniour shot him and the guy that walks into the bathroom is wearing a members only jacket. I believe the final scene was a tribute to the Godfather because David chase has done so in the past so i presume the gun is taped behind the toilet as seen in the first Godfather. The last five minutes could be seen as the final supper and notice that the Soprano family is eating the onion rings rather strangely. They put them on their tongue like communion wafers instead of chewing them. i believe this is done at funerals in catholic churches, (sorry if i'm wrong.) Perhaps the lyrics to the final journey song are a clue as well because it starts as soon as Carmela enters the diner and the lyric goes, ''just a small town girl, living in a lonely world.'' She will have to go on living without Tony. Of course the biggest clue is when Tony and Bobby are in the boat and Bobby says, ''You probably don't even hear it coming, right?''The black screen at the end was Tony's death from his perspective, just think about it because when you die it all goes black. The black screen was originally going to last 30 seconds which would have removed all doubt but HBO wanted a compromise therefore there was only ten seconds. David chase did say all the clues were up there on the screen and remember he is a genius and he's hardly gonna resort to predictable tripe that you would see in Friends or other garbage.
Well anyway, the Sopranos deserves to go down in history as the greatest show ever made and it's rather depressing to think that as viewers we will never get to watch anything remotely as intelligent, funny and damn right addictive ever again. The replay value is astonishing!!! Thank God for David Chase and his masterpiece creation. TRULY AWESOME!!!!!
p.s the dvd commentary on the penultimate episode said that david chase ended it that way because he didn't want to show if crime paid or it didn't pay. the actor that plays Carlo mentions that David Chase said that to James Gandolfini when they did the final script reading in rehearsal. also in the book David Chase mentions that events have a tendency to happen around us and we don't even realise that they're in motion. This is also a reference to the episode, 'stage 5,' where Silvio is at a restaurant and he is temporarily unaware of an assassination attempt on a new york member, as it goes into slow motion.
What subtiitles? November 3, 2007
B. Hendriksen
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Can somebody please inform all of us in Europe longing to see the last episodes, what subtitles are included?
Is it Region 2 ?
Thanks!
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