Calling All Cars
- Episode aired Nov 24, 2002
- TV-MA
- 48m
Tony's dreams seem to tell him where his life is headed, but he still feels as though he's out of control.Tony's dreams seem to tell him where his life is headed, but he still feels as though he's out of control.Tony's dreams seem to tell him where his life is headed, but he still feels as though he's out of control.
- Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri
- (as Steven R. Schirripa)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe hotel Tony is seen in before the end of the episode, the Fontainebleau Hotel, is featured prominently in the movie Scarface (1983) and has a smaller role in Goldfinger (1964).
- GoofsJanice uses a Mac to talk to Bobby Jr. through AIM, but her screen resembles a Windows desktop.
- Quotes
Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: You know, there's this Russian woman. She told me something that's very true. She said, only here, in America, do we expect to be happy. I mean this woman, she had a terrible leg disease since she was 9. She was dirt poor. She's getting on with her life. I mean, over here, we come and we bitch to shrinks. I mean, what the fuck?
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: Well, part of that may be true. But, who said that after getting out of the dirt and the poverty, do we have to stop looking for pain and truth?
Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Pain and truth? Come on, I'm a fat fucking crook from New Jersey.
- ConnectionsFeatures Max Payne (2001)
- SoundtracksClocks
(uncredited)
Written by Guy Berryman, Jon Buckland, Will Champion and Chris Martin
Performed by Coldplay
This is a very strong reflective episode with great character insight.
Livia's lasting legacy on the Soprano family looms quite largely over an episode that portrays some fairly diabolical behaviour from Janice and a pretty poor show from AJ.
There are some very well made Tony dream sequences with lots of imagery to interpret. These are some of the best aspects of the episode and leaving them unexplained is the major strength. They link back to past episodes and characters brilliantly. The final one in particular has an incredible sense of foreboding after the decision Tony makes regarding Dr Melfi.
Other aspects of the overarching season narrative slow burns well, with the New Jersey mob's relationship with New York starting to heat up, along with the suspicion of Paulie, and Corrado's trial.
Visually it is quite brilliant at times, especially the final scene which includes a wonderful location reveal.
- snoozejonc
- Sep 10, 2022
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- Runtime48 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1