Product Description

Some suburban households have two cars. Some have two houses. But Tony Soprano has two families. This could be why the FBI is going to such lengths to wiretap his home. Why the son of his dear late friend Jackie Aprile is causing him such agita. Why a Russian housekeeper is searching for her missing leg. Why his son is vandalizing school property and his daughter is getting her heart broken. Why his wife Carmela is both consulting a psychiatrist and confessing to a priest. And it's also why Tony Soprano is still seeing Dr. Melfi for his anxiety attacks. It isn't easy heading-up the mob in New Jersey. But that's what puts dinner on the table for the two families of Tony Soprano.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Biographies
Featurette
Interactive Menus
Other
Scene Access

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1174 in DVD
• Brand: SOPRANOS
• Released on: 2002-08-27
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Dubbed in: Spanish
• Number of discs: 4
• Dimensions: .85 pounds
• Running time: 780 minutes

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"So," Tony Soprano asks analyst Dr. Melfi in the wake of not-so-dearly-departed Livia's death, "we're probably done here, right?" Sorry, Tone, not by a long shot. Unresolved mother issues are the least of the Family man's troubles in the brutal and controversial third season of The Sopranos. Ranked by TV Guide among the top five greatest series ever, The Sopranos justified its eleven-month hiatus with some of its best, and most hotly debated, episodes that continue the saga of the New Jersey mob boss juggling the pressures of his often intersecting personal and professional lives. The third season garnered 22 Emmy nominations, earning Lead Actor and Actress honors for James Gandolfini and Edie Falco for their now-signature roles as Tony and his increasingly conflicted wife, Carmela.

The Sopranos continued to upend convention and defy audience expectations with a deliberately paced, calm-before-the-storm season opener that revolves around the FBI's attempts to bug the Soprano household, and a season finale that (for some) frustratingly leaves several plot lines unresolved. The second episode, "Proshai, Livushka," confronts the death of the venerable Nancy Marchand, who capped her career with perhaps her greatest role as malignant matriarch Livia. A jarring scene between Tony and Livia that uses pre-existing footage is a distraction, but Carmela's unsparing smackdown of Livia at the wake redeems the episode. "Employee of the Month," in which Dr. Melfi is raped and considers whether to exact revenge by telling Tony of her attack, earned Emmys for its writers, and is perhaps Emmy nominee Lorraine Bracco's finest hour. The darkly comic "Pine Barrens"--another memorable episode, directed by Steve Buscemi--strands Paulie (Tony Sirico) and Christopher (Michael Imperioli) in the forest with a runaway corpse. Other story arcs concern the rise of the seriously unstable Ralph Cifaretto (Joe Pantoliano) and Tony's affair with "full-blown loop-de-loo" Gloria (Emmy nominee Annabella Sciorra). Plus, there is Tony's estrangement from daughter Meadow (Jamie Lynn Sigler), his wayward delinquent son Anthony, Jr. (Robert Iler), Carmela's crisis of conscience, bad seed Jackie Jr., and the FBI--which, as the season ends, assigns an undercover agent to befriend an unwitting figure in the Soprano family's orbit. Stay tuned for season four. --Donald Liebenson

Customer Reviews

The Sopranos Season Three: Got Yourself a Gun...
I'm glad I bought this for my dad for Christmas, the season is rich in excellence, especially the episode "Pine Barrens", being the primary highlight of the season. Very good season, won't go into crazy detail so as not to spill spoilers, but I will say that the opening sequence has a caertain eerie touch to it (the image of the World Trade Center, as these episodes aired only months in 2001 before the September, 11, terrorist attacks).

Plus, the golden cigar-box-like case is a great motif.

It's the Sopranos, what more do you need
I am a tremendous Sopranos fan. The minute I saw the first episode, I ate it up. The combination of the Mafia and family drama, along with the heavily symbolic writing, makes for my personal favorite show. That being said, it is possible to understand why it is that many fans don't like the Third season as much as the previous two. There is much more of a focus on the family edge of the show and there's less of a show of the Mafia side, at least for the first half of the season. Don't get me wrong, it is still amazing; the cast is still stellar; the story lines are still engaging; and for those of you who love to see the usual crime sprees of the characters, that is still there, just not as much as in previous seasons. In short, you may not enjoy it as much as seasons 1 and 2, but you will definitely still have a good time watching.

Stroke of genius
Wow, season 3 of the Sopranos is a memorable one for me. I thoroughly enjoyed the previous 2 seasons, but by season 3 every storyline, every line that was muttered by a character, every shocking or subtle development, was a stroke of genius.

In this season, the cast and writers alike, SHINE. Here we really start getting to the meat of things. And it's nothing if it's not like riding a fast-paced thrilling rollercoaster. One you will not want to get off of.

I highly recommend the Sopranos series. I am not a big action or mafia movie goer, nor am I big into the violence...but something within this show is bigger than all of that. Something about family and a persons will to survive. Much of what these characters go through, we all experience on some level or other. Don't miss out on this fantastic show!!