The Sopranos eases into it's final nine episodes as fans across the globe speculate how America's best loved home-grown Mafia family completes Season 7. When the doorbell rings, Carmela's opening line to Tony in bed, "Is this it?" sets the episode in motion. It's only fitting that Tony leaves the house in a terry cloth bathrobe after his arrest on lame gun charges. Released on bail, Tony and Carmela end up at his brother-in-law's lake house in upstate NY to celebrate Tony's 47th birthday."No risk, No Reward," Tony muses during a conversation sitting in a motor boat fishing with Bobby.
Music plays as much a character as the family members do. There's karoke singing with Carmela appropriately crooning, "Love Hurts." Jazz fans will enjoy hearing Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" throughout a game of monopoly and during Bobby and Tony's drunken fist fight. Bobby feels compelled to defend Janice's honor after Tony insults her. "We're family, these things happen," says Janice the next morning, everyone is hung-over. Another great scene follows this one with Tony sitting alone on the dock lamenting to Carmela, "I'm old Carm, my body has suffered a trauma it will probably never recover from." Tony continues to brood over last year's life-changing shooting and heart attack.
Episode 78 ends with Bobby taking care of business. He blows away some skinny long-haired chump in a laundromat and returns to the lake house where his children are having a tea party out by the lake. As Bobby's young daughter runs toward him, "This Magic Moment" begins to play. We watch Bobby embrace his daughter---the one pure good thing in his life.
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