Okay, you’ve had time to watch.

I thought last Sunday’s episode was pure entertainment. Even though I said there were spoilers I don’t want to give away everything. But from the meeting at Flatbush Bikini Waxing, to the importation of Italian immigrants to do jobs Americans won’t this was the most enjoyable Sopranos in a long time both on the dark front and the comedy front. I hope that AJ’s whiny screams about his tailbone are the last things we ever hear from him. I wish that Sunday’s episode had been the first of this mini season rather than the second to last. We didn’t need all of AJ’s therapy to discover that he’s a useless waste of space.

I shared Peter’s fear that the finale might be anticlimactic in its therapeutic thumbsuckery. But it seems like that’s almost impossible insofar as so many plotlines have been tied-off. Of course, there could be a lot of annoying dream sequences, but I doubt it.

I don’t think there’s much that’s new and interesting that can be said about the series by now. But last Sunday’s episode demonstrates the fundamental truth of the show. It’s possible to like truly evil and bad characters if they are well-written and well-developed because we all share similar shortcomings with evil people, just in smaller amounts.