Livia was a horrendous, toxic person. She talked about killing her children throughout her life, she conspired to actually have Tony killed, she ground Tony's father into the dirt, she manipulated and lied. She was a black hole of a person. Tony is not feeling sad at the end because he feels sorry or guilty about Livia. He is feeling sad because he didn't have a loving mother.

@kellyyork3898

9 ай бұрын

Totally spot on. I’m glad you pointed this out. Otherwise, I would have done do. Like a lot of older kids/adults with narcissistic or psychopathic parents, once a parent is dead or once you get away from them completely, you have to grieve the loss of a parent you always wanted but never had…. and never will have.

@SurvivorBri

9 ай бұрын

Yes because the mom on the show he was watching was loving and kind. Everything his mother wasn't.

@dudermcdudeface3674

8 ай бұрын

Tony didn't have a mother at all. He's super lucky to have found Carmella for a wife instead of some sociopath nightmare like his girlfriends.

@captain_hat6247

8 ай бұрын

The only way Livia could ever get into heaven is if the devil begged Jesus Christ to take her and He would say “No”.

@lokomike2911

8 ай бұрын

The actress was amazing at playing her sadly she passed away and they used CGI on another woman for this episode.

Nancy Marshand the actress who portrayed Olivia passing allowed Janice to return to the show. Originally when she entered the charted bus after killing Richie, that was supposed to be her last appearance. The original script had Olivia testifying against Tony, because she really wanted to ruin him.

@blackjohnny9570

9 ай бұрын

Kinda a blessing in disguise cause Janice is a great character. Love to hate her just like Olivia

@eliasj8402

9 ай бұрын

Olivia?

@shastealyomeal

9 ай бұрын

​@@eliasj8402Livia is shortened from Olivia

@blackjohnny9570

9 ай бұрын

@@eliasj8402 yes Tony's mom, they always called her Liv in the show so you probably never caught her full name.

@sketis2012

9 ай бұрын

Damn, never knew that and I’m a hardcore sopranos fan. Cheers! I imagine there must have been a delay then for season 3 to drop since a LOT had to be written all over again

"Log off. That cookie shit makes me nervous." -Tony Sopranos

@rd30000

9 ай бұрын

"don't eat that peppa!"- Johnny Sack Sr.

For anyone who doesn’t know, Mama Soprano also played the mayor in The Naked Gun.

@Whycee54

9 ай бұрын

and the newspaper owner in The Mary Tyler Moore show

@agitatedmongoose

9 ай бұрын

And was a character in the show Lou Grant, a spinoff from the Mary Tyler Moore Show.

@agitatedmongoose

9 ай бұрын

​@@Whycee54I think you mean in Lou Grant, the drama spinoff of The Mary Tyler Moore show.

@MJXtube

9 ай бұрын

hahaha, I've seen that movie soo many times and I never realized that!

Nancy Marchand died during the production of season 3, so in true Sopranos tradition, they wrote her death into the script. Hers was an iconic character in this series, and the scenes involving Mrs. Soprano were pivotal plot points. And anyone who ever had relatives from North Jersey, as I did, can tell you Ms. Marchand nailed that accent.

@LiveINtheGood53

9 ай бұрын

If Nancy didn't die, I wonder how this would have played out in Season 3 as it would have effected the rest of this great show.

@sebastianblack6506

9 ай бұрын

She actually died between season 2 and 3. Her one appearance in S3 Ep1 was done with CGI and audio from previous seasons.

@lucianaromulus1408

7 ай бұрын

She reminds me of my grandmother, who isn't Italian (but married one) and is from Philly 😂

Hiiii ❤; and tony's mother passed away so suddenly because the actress herself had passed away that year. Her scenes after she (the actress) passed were made with CGI. If you pay close enough attention, you can tell.

@blister9366

9 ай бұрын

The editing and sound cuts for this perfect show was far from perfect but it still works 😅💙

@woahblackbettybamalam

9 ай бұрын

Its absymal CGI😂

@formansredforehead

9 ай бұрын

@woahblackbetty7691 yes to the point of almost being creepy 😂

@blister9366

9 ай бұрын

@@formansredforehead her floating head 😁

@BlazedxRican

9 ай бұрын

Holy crap i always wondered why her scenes looked so weird sometimes lol

That was Pussy's ghost in the mirror, there are several scenes that show that ghosts and that kind of stuff are real in the universe of The Sopranos, kind of like the scene in season 2 when Paulie goes to the psychic and he knows about the people Paulie killed.

For those who don't know, Nancy Marchand, the actress who played Livia died between the filming of season 2 and 3. This was her only appearance of season 3 but it's a mixture of old footage and CGI.

Hi Asia & BJ. Another great reaction. So, the mom’s passing is sudden because Nancy Marshand (actress that played Tony’s mom) died after season 2. They had to write off the character. The scene with her here is created using early CGI

@menonra30

9 ай бұрын

Soon as i saw that CGI I remember this must be the episode. RIP Nancy Marshand

@LiveINtheGood53

9 ай бұрын

@@menonra30 and in real life, Nancy Marshand was a very nice person who got along with everyone for real from the show. She played the mayor in the Naked Gun Movie (1988) with Leslie Nielsen.

@menonra30

9 ай бұрын

@@LiveINtheGood53 OMG i just watched that the other day and didnt even realize but now you bring it up, i dont even need to see the face to remember. Had no idea that was her!

The placement of the electronic bugs in the house happened in the real life mob too. I read the Boss of Bosses in the 80s and they did it much the same way it was done here in the show. Paul Castellano was the Boss they bugged (John Gotti and Sammy the Bull later gun him down). Paul Castellano also had a friendly FBi Agent (2) visiting him at his deli on friendly terms too just like in this series. The same guys friendly with him were in charge of putting the electronic bugs in his house. Though genuinely friendly to him too just like in the show.

Wow another Sopranos upload so soon, I must be dreaming! Thanks!

As a testament to how amazing this show was, Mama Soprano was supposed to be a huge focal point in the show, and then they instead bring back Janice who becomes a good part of this show. The show thrived despite a main character's real life death.

The Public Enemy (1929) was among the first of the Hollywood “gangster” films starring James Cagney. It began a genre that continues to this day. Another early film was “Little Caesar” starring Edward G. Robinson.

Awesome reaction just wish you put in the part where Carmela’s dad was going off at Livias funeral “WHAT ARE YOU MINISTER OF PROPAGANDA”

@flarrfan

9 ай бұрын

All the truth-telling at the remembrance is the highlight of the episode, too.

Subtle, brilliant acting and character exploration defines these episodes. The last scene of e2 hits hard. Also; the use of "every breathe you take" in e1 is pure gold. Like "Paparazi" when Junior became the boss; When David Chase on a rare occasion uses famous songs like this, it just clicks. Big ups from Norway🌍

During this reaction you guys actually show Tony saying he knows Janice thinks their dad hid a huge amount of money somewhere in the house before he passed. This is why Janice has always been so obsessed with owning their mom’s house.

FYI the actress who played Tony's mother died in real life between seasons 2 and 3. The last interaction between Tony and his mother was computer generated...you can tell if you look closely at the scene again.

Love rewatching Sopranos with y’all! Love how you guys are truly into it and get it. I’m so hyped y’all are on season 3 and you get to meet Ralphie. The Sopranos soundtrack is highly underrated too. So many classic jams! Keep the reactions coming!

It ain't the "whacking" or action that makes The Sopranos the best, it's the scenes that have Tony's crew sitting around talking shit and throwing absolutely gem 1 liners

I find it interesting that the episode that has Tony watching the James Cagney movie also is the episode that introduces Ralphie to the show and Ralphie's character acts like a James Cagney character.

Hold on to your butts!! Season 3 is CRAZY!!!!

You guys are the best.. Having seen the entire series back in like 2019, I look forward to your guys reaction… much love and respect! You guys would love Once Upon a Time in Hollywood from Tarantino..! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

@mrgmusicclass

9 ай бұрын

With ost of the reaction channels I was loyal to in 2019/2020, I've kind of drifted away. Still loyal to Asia & Beej

@jefmay3053

9 ай бұрын

But please read a little bit about The Manson Family ahead of time, I think it will enrich your experience of the film. 🔥

I know you've already seen all these, but it always feels so good when you get to seasons 3 and 4. They are peak Sopranos. And welcome Raphie Cifaretto! Best character to join the show midway. He's the Ramsay Bolton of Rhe Sopranos

I love Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood mostly for the Peter Gunn/Police mashup!

And you just got introduced to the next psycho character....Ralph Cifaretto!

@jesseblackmore8338

9 ай бұрын

Joe Pantoliano was excellent as Ralph.

I've watched this whole series as it dropped and rewatched at least 10 times and this is definitely one of my all time favorite seasons.

Between the wiretapping in episode 1 and then funeral in episode 2 just wow. Season 3 is king ! And here we go the next great villain. Ralphie.

Awesome Show and Work Guys, Thanks 👍👍👍😎 Greetings from Helsinki, Finland 🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸🇫🇮🇺🇸

Asia was right. The actress who played his mother died in real life

Keep em comin!! Loving this Soprano adventure

The scene from "Public Enemy" when James Cagney shoves the grapefruit in his girlfriend's face is one of the more memorable moments in movie history.

This series is a classic. It's fun revisiting it again. Love the reaction. Ralphie Cifaretto is the guy to watch in Season 3. Also Jackie, Jr . And , yes, Nancy Marchand passed away before the third season started filming. She had cancer the entire time she was on the show. R.I.P.

I love that y’all are hooked into this show. Best show ever created in my opinion

The scenes with Olivia were some of the first examples of cgi combined with old footage in tv history bc Nancy Marchand had passed away during production

You’ll have been a blessing for me rn I’ve had an awful flare up from my crohns and watching your alls content has really helped me through all this. Much love to the both of you from a white boy from KY ✌🏻

James Cagney is a legend. Famous gangster movies. Public Enemy is his most iconic.

GUD WORK SOLDIERS. love everything yall do. legit rewatching the sopranos just because of you guys

The scenes with Tony talking to his mother about what she’s gonna say if they ask her questions was a bad CGI moment for sure. They had to hire an old lady to replace Nancy because she had already passed, and they replaced her head with Nancy’s from clips they had from previous shoots. It’s pretty obvious when you watch it.😎

These first two episodes(though they're a bit slow paced) set the season up extremely well. It's crazy how everything that happens going forward is rooted right here. Great reaction guys!

21:28 I guess he too was upset about Uncle Ben dying

“I wish the lord would take me now” RIP Nancy Marchand

Makes me miss my dad who passed 4 yrs ago.. I loved the reaction y'all ❤

I must've seen this show half a dozen times start-to-finish and never noticed Puss in the mirror until now.

Nancy Marchand the actress who play Mama Livia Soprano passed away between the filming of season 2 and 3 causing them to use cgi and making her an unexpected death in the show, if i recall

I’m currently watching The Sopranos for what must be the 10th time. First watched it in 2000, in Miami,when I went to visit a girl I had met a year earlier. That didn’t work out, so I had a lot of time to kill for 3 weeks,and the hotel room had HBO on the tv. So in between getting hiiiiighhh on Mexican grass, having dalliances with various South American women, shopping, sunbathing and eating wonderful food..I would binge watch this amazing tv show. Has to be greatest series of all time. Love your reactions by the way.🎉

I just realized you guys are also very good at Playlist organization. I'm planning on binging this series' reactions after the final season. It''s easy to go straight to the playlists.

For my money season 3 is the best

Livia soprano's last scene was actually a CGI head on an extra's double. She died before season 3 so they switched up the storyline. Watch her last scene again, it's obvious her head was put on an extra's double, saying things that were filmed in the first 2 seasons.

That old film is Public Enemy 1931 starring James Cagney. He was like the De Niro of the old days. If you get a chance you should watch him in White Heat. It's one of the greatest gangster films ever.

Moma Soprano is the Mayor in The Naked Gun!!! C'mon Fam, you knew that!

The actress that played Tony's mother died before the 3rd season started. That was a body double with the mother's face superimposed

Loved that Tony watched The Public Enemy. Used to watch Cagney,Bogart films with my Granda and Granny.

Ralphie's hair plugs are so early 2000s. 😂

Nancy Marchand died between season two and three the death of Livia was cgi generated and was a tribute to her passing

Oohhh myy geeeesh yes!! I'm so happy you're going for season 3 as well! Enjoy & thanks :)

Please react to Public Enemy. By James Cagney. It was the movie Tony was watching. Great Gangster film😊

These are coming fast and I’m loving it ! Thank You

James Gandolfini wasn't acting at the end. He was crying for Nancy Marchand. They grew close during the show.

The worst part about this show you gotta remember was that it wasn't Netflix binge watching then....week to week and sometimes Yeats between seasons....every Sunday ppl tuned into this religiously way ahead of its time....there was nothing like it then....everything was network and censored like Seinfeld or west wing...it was literally like Sunday night football😂

I knew you two couldn’t stay away very long! 😁 Season 2 ending was too good to wait😉

In the scene showing footage of Tony’s Mom when Tony is visiting her…. The actress Nancy Marchand is superimposed from other scenes. It’s not a live performance during that scene. Watch it again :)

inspired by CGI effect used with Oliver Reed in Ridley Scott's Gladiador, for The Sopranos it cost about $250,000 and took two weeks to put together previous footage of Nancy Marchand on a body double! too bad her hair and the lights don't match the scene... it's a great tribute of a final act though! rest in peace Nancy Marchand and as for Livia Soprano, who's sorry now...who's sorry now...

You two couldn't wait to get back and started on S#3 !

Something did actually happen to the actor that played Livia, she died around that time and they had to go to a plan B for ending her character. The writers originally wanted to keep her around for longer.

Yeh...That was Nancy Marchand’s last episode (Livia/Mama Soprano)..She had passd away a few episodes into Season 3...They had to come up wth a quick cause of death, it hapend so fast ..So a massive stroke/heart attack or bad fall down the stairs..seemd like the most plausible way to explain away her sudden passng..

Ralph is finally here! This is such a good season

Creepy fact; the actress who played Tony’s mom had already passed away by the time this episode was being filmed, so they had to CGI that last scene with Tony.

The background music playing during the FBI operation is The Theme from Peter Gunn (an early 1960s private eye TV series) composed by Henry Mancini

I know everyone probably already mentioned this but the actress that played Tony's mother died in real life. Thats why they had to kill her off. The footage that they used in this episode was actually old clips that they clipped together.

Awwwwwwww Yeahhhhhh! More Sopranos with the crew!!!!

I love how Furio just goes along with everything. We're doing some drugs, ok. I bet he didn't say a single word that entire time over there. He's just always in complete harmony with his environment.

LOVE THE "PETER GUNN" SOUNDTRACK!!!!

Italians pronounce Capicola Gabagool!

The entire show's trajectory was shifted by Nancy Marchand's death between seasons, they brought back Janice and made her a core character who was probably like Ritchie gonna be a one season character given her exit in the season 2 finale and the whole stolen airline tickets debacle which seemed like it was heading towards Livia testifying against her own son got dropped when it may have well been the focal point of season 3. A lot of little things in the real-world like 9/11 and the war in the middle east also influenced the show's direction so it's interesting to think of what could have been the original vision although I think the show changed for the better in most cases.

The FBI sending flowers was a sincere gesture. I'd say more but no spoilers

Tony's mothers face was superimposed in that episode because the actress had already passed away 🕯

The actress that played Tony's mother passed away a little before that episode.If you look back at the previous episode it was a CGI version of her.Look closely

Season 3 and 4 are so FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOOO GOOOOOOD!

The actress who played Tonys mother passed away. She looks weird in the scene because its bad CGI with a body double.

They took Olivia off the show because she passed in real life. If you noticed her last scenes, they were computer-generated because she already died before they filmed that part.

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Nancy Marchand, the actress who played Tony Soprano's mother, passed away in 2000 between the filming of seasons 2 and 312. Rather than replace the actress, the show's creator, David Chase, opted to abandon his plans for the character and instead kill her off, using CGI to give her and Tony one final scene together.

The actress who played Tony's mom was very sick. They had to use CGI in the scene with Tony - "In The Sopranos season 3, Marchand only appeared onscreen once, in the aforementioned scene that used CGI. Tony confronts his mother to warn her not to incriminate him to the FBI. The conversation turns into an argument about Livia's refusal to fill out the books his wife Carmela Soprano (Edie Falco) had bought for her 20 years ago - journals designed for her to share her life experiences with her grandkids. The subtext of the scene is clear: Tony is furious with his mother for her refusal to act maternally. Ultimately, Tony Soprano's mother had to be rendered in CGI because their story wasn't over yet."

Cappacola is the proper spelling of “Gabagool” as the pronounce it in the show. AJ is listening to Slipknot while doing homework about death just after the passing of his grandparent. There’s a lot of us that did that. Also FTP 😂

I like to think that Noah punched Tony’s lights out in the end. The reason Livia looks weird in this episode is that the actress died before the season started so they shot some scenes using clips of her from previous episodes to wrap her storyline. The James Cagney movie that Tony watches is called Public Enemy. One of the greatest gangster films of all time and obviously inspired The Sopranos.

You two sat there and couldn't tell that Tony's moms face was digitally added for this episode!!!! Wow

Little fact, the last scene she was in and tiny was shouting at her in her house, that was actually green screened…they had to take another scene from her and put it in that scene coz the actress actually died before it. If I look back at the scene she kinda looks funny and she dies T actuallyvtslk. She wasn’t actually there.

its crazy how the CGI they used for Tonys mother in this season is actually insanely high-tech for this time. she passed away before S3

Enter Ralphie

Yess season 3

Asia you’re sharp. You picked up on the door mirror reflecting Pushy’s image instead of Paulie’s. The Sopranos isn’t a supernatural show. Whenever they do something unnatural or odd like that it’s because the writers are foreshadowing events that will happen eventually (one way or another). You (and the viewers) have to figure why. Why was Pushy’s image in the mirror when Tony opened the door & Paulie’s image in the mirror when he closed the door??

@tobe1207

9 ай бұрын

There's hints of supernatural elements that are never figured out...just like irl

The big floaty mums head will always be a piece of legendary tv lol

Your gonna love Ralph

Such a fun and loveable episode

And enter Joe Pantoliano! I love him!! Good guy, bad guy, I’d watch him in anything.

The old movie Tony is watching is an old gangster movie. James Cagney role is a mirror of Tony’s role. I haven’t watched that old movie, but I think rival gangsters were the ones that said he’s coming home. I think they took care of him and dumped at the front door. That’s why Tony looks so emotional when he’s watching that scene. My story and I’m sticking to it! 😁

@flarrfan

9 ай бұрын

No, the brief scenes of Public Enemy at the end are all about Tony watching a loving and supportive mother and wishing he had had the same.

Actress who played Tony's mother, won Oscar for film "MARTY" with Ernest Borgnine. Great film!!!👍

Bada Bing, Baby Bing!!! HILARIOUS

This dropped quick🔥

We watch it with you doeeee. Love ya'll!!!!!!!!