Today’s disabled character of the day is Corrado John Soprano, Jr. (Uncle Junior) from The Sopranos, who has dementia
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[Image Description: Photo of Dominic Chianese playing Uncle Junior. He is looking to the left of the frame, He is sitting with a white mug in front of him. He is wearing a pale gray button up, black glasses, and a white flat cap. He has short grey hair and brown eyes.]
There are some beautiful quotes in the Sopranos, but what really moves me is when Uncle Junior says, “It’s complicated. Because they think if you’ll suck pussy, you’ll suck anything… ”
The older, increasingly feeble men characterizing the heirs accordingly—pinning what’s wrong with them on being unexposed to the harsh realities of the world.
Whereas we have the lost children using plant imagery to explain their perceived strengths—both during a time of familial turmoil.
Makes me wonder if Logan told Connor he was a desert wildflower and he bought Austerlitz thinking that.
I read a Reddit comment a little while back from a guy who claimed to be a "huge Sopranos fan" but his first two times watching it, he was skipping all the home and family segments to get to the violence faster?? Like this isn't even "how can you claim to be a Sopranos fan when you don't care about half the characters" it's "how can you claim to be a Sopranos fan when you're quite literally missing the characters' motivations and explanations for their actions and the fallout that comes after"
With Brendan dead, Christopher isn't sure exactly who is after him. When he realizes it was Uncle Junior, he's prepared to start a war. Tony meets his uncle but with Jackie Aprile on his last legs, there is little room for compromise. When Jackie dies, the capos want Tony to take over but he has another idea, one that he thinks will still leave him in charge. At school, AJ has a strange encounter with a classmate. His sister Meadow clues him in to exactly what their father does for a living. Tony begins to have erotic dreams about his psychiatrist, Dr. Melfi, and gets a broken down cop on the take to keep tabs on her. He oversteps, just a little.