Well, anything serious would probably take a while (and would be interesting, for me personally) but in season two both the episode where Tony goes to Italy ("Commendatori") and "D-Girl" are excellent, and great back-to-back. The first one is absolute David Chase, this kind of padded nihilism in which the colors are bright and the edges are soft and no-one actually has a conversation, because conversation would require understanding and that's impossible. So it's perversely cruel, and then D-Girl, where Tony Jr finds that talking about Camus - just using the word existentialism - is better at shaking up the grown-ups than...anything of which he could have DREAMED. Just watching the adults twitch at the word "existentialism" is...awesome, lovely, and satisfying. So these two episodes are kind of about the same thing, explicitly, even, but the feel couldn't be further off. And they're in the same world with the same actors! So that's an experience I can easily recommend, and even be envious of.
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Date: 2012-02-18 03:38 am (UTC)