So Tony Soprano goes into a diner, picks out Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" from the jukebox. As it starts playing, Carmela steps in.
I didn't know what to expect the entire time. The camera shifts to Tony, who looks expectantly at the door, then shifts back to the jukebox. Then you see ominous characters around and you can't really decide if they're hit men waiting to whack Tony or the Feds waiting to apprehend him.
Then his son AJ steps in and moments later. They have this family moment over onion rings. In the meantime, Tony's daughter Meadow struggles to parallel park outside and fails a few times before finally parking the car at the side of the road across the diner. She runs to the diner. The bell rings and Tony looks at the direction of the door again.
"Don't stop--"
And the screen goes black and silent.
I thought for a moment that there was a technical problem with my cable feed. Apparently, that was it.
I can't decide whether to say it was brilliant or merely infuriating. I suppose it's appropriately ambiguous. I never really kept track of "The Sopranos", but almost every episode I'd seen was brilliant. This one, I'm not sure what to think. At best, everything that followed was left to our imagination.
