Sunday, April 23, 2006

CONIGLIO: Tonight's episode had, by my count, four of the most shocking episodes of violence in the show's history, and that's setting aside the one human death which occurred during the episode. "Convivial host," indeed.

This episode may not satisfy those looking for Major Plot Developments, and a lot of major characters basically took the week off (from Meadow and AJ to Paulie, Dr. Melfi and Vito) but we got some nice additional shading on New Tony, as well as confirmation on a bad development for Christofuh.

So STFU, Artie, and let's get on with the Comments.

edited to add: Sepinwall's take: "'Luxury Lounge' worked because it took Tony's oldest friend seriously. For the first time since the season one finale (which got referenced both with Artie's hunting rifle and Tony's story about Vesuvio being his port in that storm), Artie wasn't just the clown good for nothing but making antipasto. He was the honest man in the dirty town, the guy who struggles trying to do things the right way while his pal Tony is rolling in crooked cash. . . . Artie's usual feeling of inadequacy compared to the mobsters paralleled neatly with Christopher's latest Hollywood humiliation. Christopher has always viewed himself as a top-of-the-food-chain kinda guy, but when he got a look at the kind of bling available to movie stars, he realized he was a guppy, not a shark. Basically, Ben Kingsley is to Christopher as Tony is to Artie."

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