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Do you need an introduction to The Sopranos here, or even want one? It’s The Sopranos. It helped redefine what television could be, and had cinematic qualities that put a good deal of actual cinema to shame. It revolved around a mob boss going to therapy while struggling to balance the professional and family sides of his complicated life, and could be funny, surprising, intense, and even frightening, sometimes all at once.
“College” helped highlight the no-tolerance policy the mafia has toward informants, and so Big Pussy’s informing sees him get coldly executed in “Funhouse” by people who, not much earlier, were close friends of his. His absence is felt going forward, with Big Pussy, and the memory of his death, figuratively haunting Tony at certain points post-season 2.
It’s to the credit of David Chase and the other writers of The Sopranos that “Whoever Did This” made such an inevitable demise still feel surprising. There’s a physical altercation that happens, as perhaps was expected, but then the violence of this fight escalates until it becomes apparent that it’s to the death… and it happens when there’s still four more episodes left in season 4, which is perhaps the most surprising thing about it .
The sequence of Adriana imagining herself escaping her fate – which will also fool any first-time viewer – before a snap back to reality is especially gut-wrenching, as is the fact that her death itself happens just off-screen. It’s an upsetting and brutal hour of television, and establishes beyond a shadow of a doubt that things are going to get bleaker going into season 6, given the loss of Adriana lingers throughout the entirety of that final season.
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