The Existential Gangster - The Sopranos
I’ve been up late at night, fighting my demons whilst watching the Sopranos when I found myself laughing out loud at this hilarious clip from The Sopranos s2 e7 where hardened gangster Tony Soprano and his wife are perplexed at their son bringing up his existential thoughts in the house. The context needed to understand the scene is that AJ decided to take his parents car for a ride with his sister Meadow and her friend - but he ended up scraping the car alongside a large truck. 'Now that would've been interesting ' exclaims AJ when his mother tells him he could've killed the girls in the car with him. In the show, Tony, the father, is the mob boss of the Soprano crime family. Tony is a hardened criminal and a murderer, so this generational clash over philosophies between father and son was a particularly comedic moment in the show. I find Tony’s reaction to AJ particularly comedic as Tony Snr. is so deeply intimidated by AJ's introspective questionin...
