Striving for suggestion

Tag: The Sopranos


  • “A homeschooled pimp who argues with bins…”

    “A homeschooled pimp who argues with bins…”

    I refuse to feign interest in a Rolling Stone article, but this tweet from Phil Purser-Hallard – and they’re all tweets, as even the dank one himself knows – is as dull as the story it objects to. To watch The Sopranos as “macho gangster pulp” is to admit you watched it in the most…

    Continue reading


  • Mise en abyme

    Mise en abyme

    Similar to the above but seemingly unrelated, we have The Paradox of Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Sopranos. There’s an episode of The Sopranos where Uncle June’s dementia has got so bad that he sees a clip of Curb and thinks it’s footage of his life. The vague visual resemblance between Larry David/Jeff Greene and…

    Continue reading