Was she aware that Tony was basically just a bum in charge of a glorified crew?
Why wouldn't she look for business partners among one of the serious New York families?

>>211974642 (OP)
junior explains this is in the episode, the sopranos have family ties with the zuccas and a business relationship going back decades

>>211974811
You expect people to actually pay attention for 50 consecutive minutes?

>>211974642 (OP)
Maybe her outfit is commensurately small in Italy. Plus there's tradition and honour and trust-building over decades. You don't just shop around for overseas business partners among your current partner's rivakj8ls and associates. Opens the door to all kinds of bad stuff, such as gifrel

>>211974642 (OP)
tony fucks every random woman in the show, it's just how "tv drama" protaganists

>>211974642 (OP)
The dude who played Furio said his character went back to Italy, eventually became the boss, and severed all business ties with the DiMeo crime family.

i'm simply hear to goon to superior mediterranean women

Tony exudes a sexual aura. This is the last time I'm going to explain.

>>211977055
Is that all you degenerates do over here

>>211974642 (OP)
That season was before David Chase decided to downgrade the DiMeos to a glorified crew. Remember S1 when the FBI had a major operation around nailing the DiMeos?
Sopranos is great and probably the funniest thing ever put to screen, but you can't take it seriously as a drama of consistent narrative. The only reason it did get taken so seriously is because standards were so low for TV at the time.

>>211974642 (OP)
A multi millionaire bum?

>>211974927
zoomers aren't people

>>211974642 (OP)
She was the prettiest girl on the show.

>>211978877
>downgrade
They were always far smaller than the 5 families. "glorified crew" is just new york shitting on them, like the sopranos did with the family from philadelphia.

>>211978927
He's not a multi millionaire. You forgot that episode where he struggles to pay back Hesh something like 100k for weeks?

>>211975933
just started season 3, Furio is my favorite side character. He's the embodiment of the GTA main character.

>>211979120
>struggles
He just doesn't want to. In that episode hesh says Tony is worth around 6 million, minus assets. When Renata dies Tony shows up with the full amount and it has zero impact on him.

>>211979120
He's a multimillionaire in assets, and I don't think the struggling to pay Hesh back was serious struggle. He had that cash available stashed around if he really needed. He was just A) trying to keep it coming out of his slush fund, not his savings, and B) struggling with the fact that he could just kill Hesh to wipe the debt and more or less get away with it.

>>211979120
Tony's boat alone cost over 3 million and his house would be at least another million.

>>211979289
Why would he kill Hesh for something that should be peanuts for him?
Oh right, because he is terrible with money, and can't build a stable fortune for shit since he prefers gambling/drinking/spending everything away.

>>211975933
greedy untrustworthy fuck

>>211979418
Cause he can. Cause he has the psychopathic gangster mindset to use power to fuck others over for petty gain. $200K isn't life ending for him, but it's sufficient that killing someone to save that amount would cross his mind, as a gangster snake. And yes, he has the added motivations of a bunch of shitty habits making it more enticing to just keep the money.

>>211979418
You retarded zoomers shouldn't bother with this show. All of the nuance goes over your head.

>>211979418
Vin Makazian owed Pussy $30,000. Sil basically says to Tony that they'd both be willing to kill to clear that debt.

>>211979547
>but it's sufficient
Because it's a noticeable amount of money for him. It shouldn't be, but it is, because mobsters are terrible with money which is one of the factors that forces them to remain mobsters.
He has to make an effort to gather that money i.e. don't gamble everything he earns right away, but he's such a weak-willed bitch that he actually struggles with that herculean task.
>>211979629
Said a retarded giganigger who missed the point and doesn't even know what he's arguing about.

>>211979289
>>211979418
Tony never srsly considered killing Hesh he just thought about not paying him and was generally irritated

>>211980121
Thinking about not paying him involved the consideration of killing him. Hesh implies it at some point when speaking to his negress, too, I think. It's never explicitly stated, but the way Tony would go about "not paying" Hesh is pretty clearly implied.

I fell in love with her hair and skin tone. Nice breasts. She isn't fat and I appreciate how clothes look on her.

>>211979289
>A) trying to keep it coming out of his slush fund, not his savings
>B) struggling with the fact that he could just kill Hesh to wipe the debt and more or less get away with it.
I think it also just amused Tony to not pay Hesh, because he didn't really have to.
Hesh made a mistake when he asked Tony for a vig, That demoted Hesh from a freind to a business associate in Tony's mind. Remember when Tony gave his portion of his tax back to Hesh? Tony came to Hesh as a friend, and expected to get a float like one would a freind, much as he did for Artie. The vigorish is inherently predatory, and Tony didn't appreciate being predated upon. So fuck it, just never pay Hesh back and humiliate him when asks for interest.

>>211981199
I remember Hesh refusing the vig as if it was embarrassing when they were sitting together, but not the including of it when the loan was made. Been a minute since I rewatched.

>>211981430
You're right. Hesh's mistake was bringing up the money when Tony just wanted to chat, and taking the money as interest when offered. But Tony was so easily offended by that stage.

>>211974642 (OP)
Who cares, everyone in Europe is amazed by the US, even if we don't amount to much

>tfw no dominant italian matriarch wife

>>211978877
The FBI would of course be interested in nailing the top crime boss in New Jersey whether it’s a glorified crew or not. The New York families are their focus as far as the Mafia goes but being a side project doesn’t get you out of the crosshairs, especially when they are so intermingled and do so many dealings together. Rats or arrests in Jersey could get you insight and leverage on NYC.

>>211979120
Tony has a lot of money tied up in assets (house, yacht, parts of their various legitimate businesses) that he can’t easily part with. He has a lot more money that might be liquid but it’s not legitimate, hasn’t been laundered. He can’t use it.

>>211982819
He can and does use it to pay off an off-the-books loan to Hesh.

>>211979145
>>211979452
I thought they introduce him in season 2. Anyways Furio is too based for the Jersey crew. He left at the right time.
>perfect team player never questions orders and gets shit done
>gets right to work and sets a flawless henchmen standard with the massage parlor
>Italian Fabio with a mane of hair that would make anyone jealous(his widow's peak is not too exaggerated either)
>respects boundaries and pulls away from Carmella when she gets too attached
>bails when the writing is starting to appear on the walls
>good judge of character recognizes Chrissy's goons are fucking fag retards
He was too good for them and when he started to notice and instead of being one of the wop crab in the buckets he respectfully dipped out back to his OG crew.

>>211974642 (OP)
go back to /lit/ cocksucka

>>211974642 (OP)
>when Tony stops seeing Melfi and for a moment tries to vent to Hesh
>Hesh immediately starts doing the same thing to Tony bitching about his issues
>That one moment Tony says some shit then Hesh bitches about his shit and Tony gets mad cause it was his turn
I hated this the first watching but on this rewatch I was laughing my ass off. I consider myself a raging antisemite but this go around Hesh is one of my favorite characters. I loved when someone showed up to his place and he had some black hookers with him.

>>211979418
>>211979120
This is why Chasing It is the worst episode. Tony's descent into degenerate gambler comes out of nowhere, but suddenly by the next episode he's back to normal and his apparent gambling addiction never gets discussed again. His yearslong relationship with Hesh (a character who has been loyle since the pilot in Season One and a prominent part of Johnny Boy's crew) gets torn up for purely contrived reasons (a debt Tony didn't need to take on at all and gets pissy about when he could clearly just repay it), and Hesh only survives because the writers decided his wife should suddenly die just before Tony whacks him and repays the debt. The AJ-Blanca relationship is also thinly written and not particularly compelling either, and the Nancy Sinatra cameo scene is really corny too. The whole episode just felt like the writers wanted the viewer to hate Tony so they had to retcon a lot about his character and his motivations. On top of all that, Vito Jr shitting in the showers is the low point of the entire series IMO.

>>211974927
Yes but I also expect to be disappointed

>>211984423
>Vito Jr shitting in the showers is the low point of the entire series IMO
I forgot that was the same episode. The writers really ran out of steam around mid to late Season 6.