Friday, June 15, 2007

why the sopranos ending doesn’t matter

Only turning professional witness offered him a real chance at a new life, or any sense of redemption. Whether he lived another three seconds or three decades, T.S. would die a gangster. How that happened, quite frankly, is incidental. As a character, he reached the end of the line.

I’m surprised there hasn’t been any big comparisons between Tony and literature’s great sociopath – Humbert Humbert. Monsters that need to be loved — on the next Springer.