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Mob Experts on The Sopranos, Week 11

Entry 5:

From: Jerry Capeci|Posted Monday, May 17, 2004, at 2:43 PM ET

To: Gerald Shargel

5: Let's Not Beat a Dead Horse
From: Jerry Capeci
4: Parsing the Dream Sequence
From: Gerald Shargel
3: Tony Soprano Leads a Life of Not-So-Quiet Desperation
From: Jerry Capeci
2: How Is Tony Soprano Like King George III?
From: Gerald Shargel
1: What Was With That Dream Sequence?
From: Jerry Capeci

Dear Jerry,

Hmmm. You say I'm missing all the double entendres and symbolism, but rather than beat a dead horse, I'll just say I'm ignoring them in favor of the real action.

As for my craving too much blood and guts, I'll take Tony B. shooting Billy and Philly any day over Tony Soprano watching Tony B. shoot Philly with a cocked finger. Or over watching Tony run through the streets with a horde of past, present, and future dead people chasing him. Like you said, this IS The Sopranos we were watching last night—and what this Jerry will be watching next week—not Shakespeare or some cockamamie rendition of King George III's Days of Wine and Roses.

Take care,
Jerry

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Jerry Capeci is author ofThe Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia and Jerry Capeci's Gang Land: Fifteen Years of Covering the Mafia. His weekly column about organized crime, "Gang Land," appears in theNew York Sun and at www.ganglandnews.com.