★★★★★ Season 3: "Gloria, Ralph, and the End of Innocence" Plot Summary: This is the darkest season of the show. Jackie Aprile Jr. (Meadow’s dopey boyfriend) tries to rob a card game. Ralph Cifaretto—the most hated man on television—arrives to kill a horse and date Rosalie. But the heart of season three is Gloria Trillo. Gloria is Tony’s mistress, a Mercedes saleswoman as unstable as nitroglycerin. She is Livia with a sex drive. Their affair ends in strangulation (of the relationship, barely of her) and a suicide that Tony causes but refuses to acknowledge.
When you buy , you are buying the ability to watch character arcs that take seven years to resolve. You see Silvio Dante go from a comedic one-liner machine to a haunted consigliere. You see Carmela evolve from a compliant mob wife to a real estate shark who stares down the FBI. And you see Tony Soprano—James Gandolfini’s monument to human contradiction—laugh, cry, murder, and eat steak while the weight of his mother’s love crushes him. The Sopranos- The Complete Series -Season 1-2-3...
The cut to black. The onion rings. "Don’t Stop Believin’." We will never agree on what happened. Did the Members Only guy shoot Tony? Did the screen just go black because the show ends? David Chase has said, "It’s all there." The truth is, Tony has been dead since season one. Or he dies in that booth. Or he lives forever in our fear. That’s the point. ★★★★★ Season 3: "Gloria, Ralph, and the End