For him, that kind of obsession is as misguided as asking, "What happened to the Russian in 'Pine Barrens'?" - a reference to a season-three episode in which two men in Tony's crew, Christopher Moltisanti and Paulie Walnuts, drive a Russian mobster they have severely beaten up to the snow-covered New Jersey Pine Barrens to kill and dispose of him. Watch Vox culture editor Todd VanDerWerff explain the controversy around The Sopranos's final episodeĬhase, he wouldn't tell.
The questions have not yet stopped since the episode aired in June 2007. What did it mean? Was this Chase's way of artfully - or contemptuously, depending on your opinion of Chase’s attitude toward his audience - creating Tony's death? Some recalled that Bobby Baccalieri, Tony's brother-in-law, once said that when the bullet with your name on it arrived, you probably didn't hear it coming. At THIS moment? Then the credits rolled, and all hell really broke loose. Is my television broken? we wondered, each in our individual homes. Millions of television sets across America went dark and silent suddenly. Inside, Tony raises his head, and - CUT TO BLACK.
Outside, Meadow burns rubber trying to get into a parking space and then runs across a street against the light as cars whiz by her. Tony (James Gandolfini), his wife (Edie Falco), and his son (Robert Iler) are waiting for his daughter, Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler), to join them for dinner at a popular restaurant, while a number of suspicious characters mill around. Instead of giving Tony a final scene in which he is either killed or arrested - the two possible fates Tony and his fans had imagined for him - the last episode ends unexpectedly during a domestic scene with an ominous tinge.
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