Redux 1.08 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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