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The Sopranos Season 5 Episode 7 'In Camelot' Full TV Reaction!! (Patreon)

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2023-04-03 18:09:21
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The Sopranos Season 5 Episode 7 'In Camelot' Full TV Reaction!!

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Shaun Eberle

Junior was attending all the funerals just to get out of the house because of house arrest.

Marcus Cato

I know this is a least favorite episode for a lot of people, but the chase scene with Tony and Phil to the song Rock the Casbah is an all time favorite of mine. "You okay in there, mistah?" 😂 And Junior's emotional breakdown is a really well-played emotional moment.

Joe Lazarus

Fran is pretty cringeworthy, especially during the Happy Birthday song but she is supposed to be that way. She goes from classy woman to cringey to show Tony another side of his father. He wasn't just a "cool" guy who was manipulated by Livia (Tony likes to put it all the problems on his mother) but was a huge dick who would leave his pregnant wife in the hospital while he was fucking some chick. It's overall an important episode in Tony's arc/

Michael Chavira

I'm so glad you guys finally spoke about the opening credits. I have often wondered what your thoughts are about it. Hopefully you'll say some more in future episodes. It does follow Tony's drive home from New York. You get to see the transitions in the neighborhoods, from the big city, to the industrial/commercial zones, into various residential areas where the houses start to get bigger along the way, then arriving at the upscale suburbs where Tony lives.

Michael Chavira

Yeah, he wasn't stalking that woman. He just found himself a legal loophole to get out of the house. He had fun being in the company of people and eating good food. But, what he didn't count on was being confronted with his own mortality. Being at that many funerals forced him to realize the sad end he has waiting for him. Dying alone with no children to carry his legacy.

Sol95

Alright, I’m going to bat for this episode because I feel like it’s one of the most maligned episodes of the show. In my opinion not only is it brilliant but a pivotal moment in Tony’s arc. This episode is about how the past that Tony always longs for and romanticizes wasn’t as rosy as he thought it was. Right off the bat we see that Tony, a grown man, thinks that his childhood dog spent out his days in a farm. Instead it was “gassed”, and later revealed that Tippy lived with his father’s goomah for 10 years. Interestingly enough, Tony was under the impression that Livia had the dog put down, and ironically enough Fran had him put down instead, the woman who supposedly provided for Johnny Soprano what Livia couldn’t. There’s so many psychological aspects in that alone. Fran is a quasi-mother figure to Tony this episode. She represents the glory days of his father’s youth. She bonds with him right away, reminds him that his father loved him and even better to Tony was that she had a fling with JFK. As it turns out, Fran was responsible for one of the biggest rifts in the Soprano family, when Livia had her miscarriage. Papa Soprano decided to spend the night with her instead of visit her life and Tony covers for him, probably causing some resentment in her to build that persisted into the series. It turns out Fran is very materialistic and it almost seems like she conspired to bump into Tony, because she knew she’d help him out. The narrative in the show and in Tony’s mind was that Livia was the source of misery and torment in the family. But this is a landmark episode showing her in a sympathetic light for the first time ever. She was the victim of circumstances in the life she lived, sort of like Carmela and even Tony himself. This doesn’t excuse her actions during the course of the first two seasons, but it’s obvious she carried her sorrows due to her husband’s action. This relates to how Tony often hurts his own family. Tony almost comes to the realization that his father was just as wicked if not more so, but he can’t bear to admit it and digs in deeper. That’s why he concocts the story of Fran almost breaking up JFKs marriage, because he wants to continue the lie he keeps telling himself. The final scene with the lightning and thunder going on in Tony’s mind, seen in his eyes, as he lies at the bar is phenomenal nonverbal acting from Gandolfini. I also like how everyone is just humoring Tony as he tells his story. Carmela is right, he has no friends just lackeys. I liked how Tony B seems incredulous, which kind of alludes to some of the tension they had in earlier episodes. Also, the Phil and JT storylines were great too.

Stan the Man

Also? Points for the sopranos closing an episode with Session from Linkin Park

VivendoBem

Funniest line to any Law and Order junkie: “I have a meeting with Rene Balcer!” Also you guys wondered who the actor was playing the TV writer: that’s veteran Tim Daly (brother of Tyne Daly, Dirty Harry’s female partner in The Enforcer, btw). He’s been working solidly, mostly in TV since the early 1980s and he’s been in a ton of stuff including the Cheers spinoff Wings (for an inexplicable 8 seasons) and the Grey’s Anatomy spinoff Private Practice.

VivendoBem

Don't know if you, or anyone, really care(s) but since you mentioned it, I think Tony’s route in the opening theme is basically emerging from the Lincoln Tunnel on the NJ side, the Turnpike, I-95 by Newark Airport, Lincoln Highway, Pulaski Skyway, I-280, Through the towns of Jersey City then Kearny then Cedar Grove and finally to his house in North Caldwell.

Laura Palmer

Thank you for beautifully articulating this. This is one of the most important episodes of the series.

David Murray

Sam's facial expressions during the Marilyn impersonation were priceless.

Kevin Charley

Chasing It is the only episode of The Sopranos where after it aired I thought "That wasn't very good."

JG

Christopher from S4 and A Hit is a Hit from S1 are way worse episodes than In Camelot. At least with this episode, we get more insight into Tony’s upbringing. Those 2 episodes were simply throwaway fillers that added no substance to the overall story or character arcs.

Christophe

You're still letting Chris way too much off the hook here in your post-episode discussion. He's a loan shark exploiting a gambling addict, like he's mostly responsible for all the shit that happens to JT in this episode. Y'all are kind of drinking the mafia loansharking Kool-Aid here a bit, it seems to me. JT looked to be doing mostly okay before hooking up with Chris, yes, he was gambling, but he was sober and it seemed like he was doing his betting through legal outlets which also means that he was naturally limited in his losses, he couldn't just take out on-the-spot loans way past his income or liquidity. Chris was the one that invited him to an illegal backroom game where he knew he could take advantage of JT's addictive personality. He says it like he was just inviting him to this cool, "exclusive" game but who are we kidding, he did it for his own profit, after he had already offered to take his action on football betting for the same reason. These guys don't really want someone to be able to pay their principal on time, with a 1.5 point interest or whatever and that's that. The whole point of this sort of loan-sharking is to juice people week after week after week for their vig without the principal getting significantly smaller, that's where the real money is. Yes, everyone is responsible for their own actions but with JT, the show makes the connection to an addiction disease even clearer than with Davey. Guys like Tony and Chris and all the rest of these mobsters love to frame it as them just doing people a favor by loaning them money and that it's the debtors, the "degenerate gamblers", who are solely responsible for their own misfortune. But there are reasons why loansharking like this, with sky-high interest rate and weekly collections, is illegal, and it's not just because of the leg-breakings, it's because it's fundamentally exploitative. I actually think this was a real turning point for how we view Chris, how dark and cold he really is. Not just abusive and violent but really sociopathic. JT is supposed to be his friend and he does all this without a second thought and without even considering that he was in fact the one causing his relapse and really ruining his life that seemed to be getting back on track. This is also the one highlight in this episode for me because, like most people, I don't enjoy the Fran stuff, even if I can kind of see its thematic value.