The Sopranos - Meadow arguing with Finn about the mafia

[@LongLongLists]

"You talk about them like it's an anthropology class...": proceeds to talk about them like she's giving an anthropology lecture

[@TPBass1224]

Best comment here.

[@Poopscipade]

Not to mention the fact that what he was saying sounded nothing like that...

[@joshuatarka1698]

Yeah I have no clue how "These guys are fucking crazy" sounds like a lecture, whereas "The conflict resolution stemmed from the old country where all politicians are corrupt" doesn't sound like a lecture. Especially given the fact that neither her nor her father were actually from the old country.

[@Matt-ky8re]

She’s such a woke fuck lol

[@CustomFitted]

Meadow has like 3 or 4 scenes where she just takes a passage out of a school textbook and uses it in conversation lol

[@VMonee81]

Meadow was the son Tony always wanted.

[@JavierRodriguez17565]

VMonee81 yea if meadow turned out to be a mobster, she would’ve been made right off the bat

[@nickdangelo1649]

That is pure nonsense!!

[@necipfortniteksakurek4725]

@TheRealist 811 AJ in season 6 was more like his father but much weaker version in character

[@TTUploads]

Recep Fortnite Kısakürek He was a wannabe, but deep down he was still his mother

[@geordiejones5618]

Smarter than Chris, more loyal than most of his guys, she would have been like Tom Hagen...

[@betrousaltaweel]

Finn eventually saw through Meadow's bullshit. In season 6 he said "don't give me that poverty of the mezzo shit were in North Caldwell, New Jersey"

[@jayh1096]

BB1349 NORTH CALDWALLL NORTH CORRDWALLL

[@chrisestrada6722]

Jay h fuck north calwell

[@Aivottaja]

Indeed. Finn was the smartest of her boyfriends.

[@pethrosuriahson6156]

He was smart enough to RUN!!!! Let's suppose Finn married Meadow and had babies with her. Getting the girl does not always mean you win, especially if it costs you your life(death by mob hit), soul(hell for a lifetime of sin) or freedom(jail), which is a strong possibility of all 3 in this family, any time he disagrees with his new wife, he could get whacked, is that how you want to live in a marriage, if you are dating a mobster's daughter you better be hardened, like Tony and Christopher, Finn can find another fiance what he can't find is another brain after its blown out, he has to keep his children away from their grandpa, and uncle Christopher and any of Tony's associates,

[@Aivottaja]

I would imagine marrying a mafia boss's (or even a made man's) daughter would be one of the stupidest decisions you could make. You're even walking on thin ice the other way around (like with Kelli's father). Barbara's husband seems to be rather immune from the poisonous effects of mobstering, but that's because Barbara is the most level-headed and most distanced of the Soprano children. I've often wondered how she turned out relatively normal while Janice and Tony are so fucked up an soaked in the ways of the mob.

[@keiko909]

lmfao! hey, even meadow is dropping the "it was the blacks" line lol

[@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess]

Based

[@KolchaksGhost]

I think I seen a couple running that way

[@keiko909]

@@KolchaksGhost oh. THOSE two guys....

[@georgeorwell126]

Those two guys are always up to something!

[@moonie1825]

I swear someone needs to catch those dudes, public menace you hear

[@78996thefox]

"I can't eat, It's too hot." "but I made dinner" Eats anyway cuz he's a good BF. Yeah, you made Chili when it's during a heat wave, poor Finn was suffering at every turn with this girl.

[@hullbreach33]

Meadow was a total crazy entitled bitch. Remember when Finn hadnt slept in over 24 hours and she wouldnt let him go to sleep because she wanted to fight over the fact he got a suitcase out of the closet?

[@balwc147]

😂😂😂 yeah fuch meadow

[@LigmaFoundation]

he can't complain, he the the soda of his choice

[@matthewmorris5893]

@@LigmaFoundation he did also get any kinda sandwich he liked so..is that better than the pizza parlor? Who can say, Quasimodo predicted all that. It was some greaseball shit.

[@crupert23225]

And then had to witness the BJ incident and that awkward encounter with Vito outside the porta Jon.

[@mhia4]

Ok so I guess we're all just going to ignore the fact that it's about 95 degrees in that apartment and she makes chili for dinner. Probably a nice piping hot pot of coffee with dessert.

[@slacker20012]

yeah because where chilli is from it's always freezing. duh

[@mhia4]

Slacker20012 oh... well that makes sense then.

[@frankfurlacker5219]

how about some Apple Pie for dessert after that Chili.

[@mhia4]

Frank Furlacker maybe a soak in the hot tub?

[@convoy814]

I was thinking the same thing

[@felipepn3397]

Meadow is what Tony is from outside. AJ is what Tony is from inside.

[@timothy4011]

Wrong

[@rtcrump0079]

If only AJ didn't have the Soprano curse, aka panic attacks, he'd have actually been better off than his family even if not financially.

[@xbacongrizzler6929]

​@@rtcrump0079 panic attacks were the only thing wrong with him? 😂

[@yaqubebased1961]

AJ basically represents all of Tony's inabilities. While Tony has learned to deny them and keep going forward (and thus digging himself deeper), AJ cannot lead a double life like that without huge cognitive dissonance. All of AJ's problems are the problems Tony has buried inside all these years, and in order to help him as a father he must confront his own first, but he can't. He claims he hates AJ, but we all know he really just hates himself and his complete impotence in helping him.

[@rahatahmed6188]

Facts, but meadow is weak too.

[@RobynHarris]

The total Carmelanization of Meadow.

[@NewWesternFront]

i'd love to caramelize here caramelization

[@GeorgeSmiley2023]

@@NewWesternFront HAHAHA

[@dtraversodt]

💯💯💯

[@maxxmarino6500]

Wrong BF

[@kanodogg]

@@NewWesternFront MY DAUGHTER? MY FUCKING DAUGHTER? YOU MOTHERFUCKER! MY FUCKING DAUGHTER?

[@brianpatrick7411]

I love how Meadow has selective wokeness when it comes to placing blame.

[@radioheadinc]

Brian Patrick too true

[@stefanobaita8617]

It’s called denial lmao

[@JessePinkman08]

Brian Patrick just like current SJWs. Only cares about being progressive when it suits them

[@discomfort5760]

The most dangerous of evil hides behind advertisement of virtue and good.

[@drivewaystar6485]

Daaamn selective wokeness, that's a good one sir.

[@cobblerwillorange]

I love watching Meadow defend her mafia family. I always hear "I like money" instead of whatever point she is making.

[@colewagor4745]

@@nickimillennium carmella was one of the stupidest characters in the whole show,she wasn’t much more intelligent than AJ

[@balwc147]

@@colewagor4745 😂😂😂😂 yeah true

[@Mainlyeverything]

@@colewagor4745 carmella wasn't actually dumb She was smart because she would always relay messages to tony that benefitted her even when she knew she shouldnt. She did this numerous times to get Tony to react Carmella has given up because she has nothing else in life so is okay with taking as much money and raising her kids. Shallow is probably the better word

[@Capcoor]

Don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family.

[@hankgonzalez6074]

“Hey dad, you think you or one of my “uncles” can “find” a window unit for me?” “ You know, one that “fell off “ the back of a Comley truck.”

[@infernocanuck]

Watches a man get violently beaten in front of him, is told he's overreacting, stressed and hot... and she guilts him into eating. I'm so glad Finn ran as far away from Meadow and the Sopranos as fast as he could.

[@ClitmasterDave1]

I've seen loads of people get beat, I've been beat and I've beat people, if I came home and saw that tanned hotty sitting there I'd be telling her the story of what happened while we were both lying in the buff smoking after ransacking her

[@SanDeezyBreezy61986]

This is when Meadow fully transformed to full-blown Mafia apologist.

[@dreamsprayanimation]

Mob wife material.

[@dtraversodt]

Yes and while scary at first it really defined her arc up till last episode

[@Georgefloydthesneedster]

this is when meadow fully transformed to heisenberg

[@Jon14141]

@@GeorgefloydthesneedsterBravo George RR Martin 😯

[@ntinosaggelopoulos6718]

What is next she going to become a captain

[@AJBfc]

man meadow is just parroting the lies tony says, but she does it with an annoying university vocabulary.

[@divingduck1970]

"Conflict resolution."

[@garyklosner2468]

Maybe an opening for Meadow to start her own family? Not sure if it would work without the patriarchal dynamic though. Just throwing it out there...

[@eightball8008]

lol eugene smashing paulie resolved the shit out of that conflict

[@johnaddeo2251]

Third generation hypocrite. But politically correct. Notice how she didn't call black people, "moolies" or even blacks. She referred to them as African-Americans. Just perfect for this generation of "millienials." Disgusted with the world they live in, attending Columbia and sipping $7 lattes on their parent's dime.

[@ballinglikechoji]

Typical for a liberal. Just repeat what they're told.

[@hey.alright.8362]

Mafia indoctrination of their kids. Great storytelling in how it came full circle for her - she's defending what she once snorted at. Meadow being an intelligent person was able to rationalise mob rule. I always wonder how this show translated to genuine crime families and if it's all that realistic.

[@godzilla2653]

David Chase grew up around this

[@DeltaPi314]

I don't know if the American mob acts this way, but it does not relate well to Italian mob reality. If you want to watch a show about the latter, I suggest you go with Romanzo Criminale or Gomorra. Edit: Note that the mob from Naples (Camorra), Sicily (Cosa Nostra), Calabria ('Ndrangeta), Milano (Comasina) and Puglia (Sacra Corona Unita) all work differently and are organized a bit differently.

[@kmma1094]

I’m Irish but my dad was high up the ladder in crime here so I have sort of a perspective of it although I’m not Italian nor from Jersey lol. I see alot of similarities in the family life of the show but then in other ways not at all. My dad was always open about it with me because he wanted to pass the torch to me but then my younger brother that had a different mother (12 years younger than me) for him we were never allowed to speak about crime infront of him and that’s where I see the similarities because he told me last year that from about the age of 8 he always knew. I always thought he knew too but not that young. As far as him talking like a psychiatrist and justifying the things his family done I don’t see that. I don’t know how my younger brother justified it if his girlfriends brought it up. We probably grew up with different views on a lot of things that people that obey the laws do. Just because we committed crime and done bad things doesn’t make us bad people either. Just the same way people say they hate the police until they need them people also say that criminals are scum but then when there’s a child predator they say that they want people like us to deal with them in prison. Just like police some criminals are sick fucks but just like normal people some of us are nice guys that got into crime because we were born into it or made a mistake at a young age and ended up with no other options. Now I mentor young teens to try and not have them go down the path I went down but even when I was a criminal I was still someone that put others before me.

[@SuperChunk19]

​@@godzilla2653I don't think he grew up near organized crime though

[@br3akstuff]

​@@SuperChunk19He did not grow up around the mafia at all you are correct

[@AliensAnonymous]

"I told you I was making dinner tonight." -- I hear Carmela all up in there.

[@daytondaytona4624]

the best part is nto in here, fin retorts " poverty of the mezzogiorno my ass , you grew up in a mini mansion in fucking caldwell, new jersey"

[@frankfurlacker5219]

I know, she got to eat Streudli, Sfogliatella, and all that other fancy shit.

[@KolchaksGhost]

@@frankfurlacker5219 get out of here with that fat

[@denverbritto5606]

"West-Cald-well" not "Wescaweh"

[@hankgonzalez6074]

@@denverbritto5606 watch out, that comment might get you a beat down and left in a koy pond.

[@xxlamaxx1]

Thats not this scene but its a great moment

[@hutch1197]

After years of calling out her Dad on his crimes, her Dad's sociopath gene finally kicks in.

[@balwc147]

Damn good comment

[@hankgonzalez6074]

She enjoys history, just like her dad…….when it’s convenient.

[@rogergarrison4271]

She likely felt she could do it but this "outsider" had no right.

[@hutch1197]

@@rogergarrison4271 Except that she's done this before with an "insider" after Jackie Jr's funeral. Jackie's sister was calling out their family and Meadow denied anyone was involved in the mafia.

[@rogergarrison4271]

@@hutch1197 yeah that's true

[@francescotamburini5790]

I wish Dr. Melfi came out of the laundry basket to shout: “what does the poverty of the mezzogiorno got to do with your life when you get up everyday and make chilli for your boyfriend on a hot summer day?”

[@yannick245]

Hahaha! That sounds like an SNL skit.

[@cardinals3902]

"You talk about these guys like it's an anthropology class" *proceeds to analyze their behavior from an anthropological perspective*

[@anthonymcnamara3862]

Here in Italy this would be a typical conversation between a Northern and a Southern Italian.

[@anthonymcnamara3862]

You can find all sorts of hair and eye colours throughout the country, but it is true that on average northern Italians are lighter. The south was part of the Spanish Empire for a long time while the North fell often under Austrian and French influence.

[@anthonymcnamara3862]

I am 100% Italian. (south but not sicily) My DNA test was 99.2% European, 0.8% unknown. It really depends on the person.

[@JohnDoeTheGoodGuy]

+IknowUbutUdontknowme Sicilian were conquered by Arabs long ago (Moors). They mixed with the Italians who were there, that's why most of them look like Arabs (light or tan skin, dark brown or black hair, green/gray/brown eyes, etc...). Most of the time, you can't tell the difference between a Sicilian and a person from North Africa.

[@JohnDoeTheGoodGuy]

***** Yeah, people from North Italy mixed with Germans and other Europeans, that's why they have Aryan traits (Blue/light green eyes, blonde/light brown hair, fair skin, etc...). Southern Italians (including Sicilians) have Semitic traits (Hazel/gray/brown/olive green eyes, dark hair, tan skin, etc...)

[@sandrobindelli5607]

+John Doe No way. There are many Sicilians with blue eyes and blond hair because of the domination of the Normans from 1000 to 1174 AD. the Normans in their almost 200 year old stay in Sicily left their genes in the local gene pool so it's not uncommon to see blond/blueyed Sicilians (less than in northern Italy but still...). Here are some examples of Sicilian personalities: Costanza Caracciolo: 4.bp.blogspot.com/-bAQlIvZ16xM/Tuhza3bskJI/AAAAAAAAAIw/KWtpgx-8S-U/s1600/Costanza+Caracciolo+bis.jpg Giusy Buscemi: www.notizieshock.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/miss-italia.jpg Armando Avellino: static.fanpage.it/gossipfanpage/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ARMANDO-AVELLINO-638x425.jpg Francesco Testi: th.tvblog.it/TlSUIcum3-TLU1ymyICMBjoDElg=/fit-in/655xorig/media.tvblog.it/8/810/francesco-testi-620x350.jpg

[@DistantLights]

“You talk about these guys as if it’s an anthropology class” *proceeds to talk about them as if it were an anthropology class*

[@geordiejones5618]

I don't see that at all. She perfectly summarized where the mafia comes from: the inherent lack of trust in all higher institutions of power, including the church. That's not to say that they should be viewed as somehow less corruptable, but its just not the black and white "they're evil!" at all. Just imagine most of your community being dirt poor and every member of authority making sure you STAY dirt poor. Its really no surprise some people decided to take advantage of that arrangement. The Sopranos demonstrates many times how the mafia self polices, self governs, and hold their own in negotiations with larger and more powerful groups. In Italy it's way more intense with police AND judges being killed or bribed. Yeah, they accomplish a lot with violence, but how is that any different from how any police or government operate? They just don't pretend like it's something else or for anyone's interest but their own. If money is being made and no one causes issue there's relative peace. If someone needs to be killed it's for a specific reason, and honor bound.

[@robertobrien7102]

DistantLights you can’t help who your parents are. Stick up for them because they’d do the same but realize that you have to do something different. I can relate

[@prometheus5405]

@@geordiejones5618 you sound like an anthropologist. Lineage doesn't justify violence. You know that.

[@eromicafrancisco5477]

@@geordiejones5618 yes it doesn't excuse their behavior she is defending them like hurting people is okay just because of tradition and where you are from. She is deplorable hypocritical, spoild, selfish brat and her voice especially when she yells makes me want to jam ice picks into my ears. They call themselves "soilders" making themselves out to less than they are witch is crupupt hypocritical assholes who easily put a gun to a loves head over some aoth that sounds juvenile and self serving no wonder Meadow and Aj were fucked up pieces of crap look at where they come from its sad. Still good show though just can't stand Meadow, Janice, that priest, and Tony's wife Carmella.

[@yannick245]

​@@geordiejones5618 It seems like you didn't get the scene at all! _"Distantylights"_ explains it plain and simple. While there might be SOME truth to Meadow's little lecture. Finn wasn't talking about then like in an anthropology class at all. He simply stated that Eugene and the crew are like animals. Which is most definitely the truth!

[@lazylion420]

Meadow's character dichotomy is so great... on the one hand, she always understood that her family was in the mob and would often challenge her dad about his own lies to her... on the other hand, she still has all these childhood memories of Tony's capos and soldiers who she grew up calling 'uncle,' each of whom treated her like a princess while hiding their true nature... "Eugene Pontecorvo? He's so sweet" LOL oh poor little Meadow

[@hemanthnair1290]

Also the cognitive dissonance she must have when some of these 'uncles' randomly vanish and if they're brought up at all they've gone into 'witness protection'.

[@sergio_jose]

And then they end up like tony's sister

[@RobRains-ot8uy]

and uncles that disappear into "witness protection" all the time.

[@hellomate2405]

She was only treated like a princess because she was the Don's daughter. Imagine she was a civilian, and was killed by someone. They would spend the rest of the lives not even thinking about her

[@walterlv01]

Nothing like making piping hot chili for dinner when it's 95 degrees with 90 percent humidity in the middle of summer and the apartment has no working air conditioning. What a catch she was.

[@fuzzyone99]

"Modes of conflict resolution" - lol. Best euphemism ever.

[@sandrobindelli5607]

+fuzzyone99 And also very untrue. Mafia originates form the beginning of the 1800 and then the so called "mezzogiorno" or southern Italy was not poor at all. Actually it originated from teh so called "massari" who where land-holders that would manage the crops in Sicily for the nobles, especially barons, exercising violence and extrortion onto the farmers and peasants tha worked on them. As long as economy was based on agricolture, fish trade and such southern Italy was extremely rich.

[@Rambo4699]

+Sandro Bindelli That is completely untrue. Southern Italy hasn't had anything come out of it since the days of the Byzantine Greeks and Arabs hundreds of years ago. What little wealth there was, was only in the hands of few. For the most part, southern Italians were victims of a long lasting feudal system since Western Europeans took the area from the Arabs and Greeks. In the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars in the early 1800s, the feudal system continued in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies under a Spanish Bourbon monarch, and the situation got even worse after the Risorgimento in 1861. The mafia, like many other organized crime syndicates, sprung up against these oppressors. Notice how most of the Italian population who immigrated to the Americans in the early 1900s were from the south? In the last 900 years, it's been the same situation in the south, with foreign powers taking over and reaping the benefits at the expense of the population. Even the state of Italy today, is messed up. Did you know that the south's gdp in the last 7 years has grown half as much as Greece? The south should be it's own country, governed by it's own leaders, as it is a clear victim of imperialism. 1000 years ago, the population was either Greek orthodox and Muslim. We are a different ethnicity than northerners, with a completely different history and culture.

[@Mike73010]

Higher authority is still corrupt, unfortunately.

[@Scyllax]

Watch Ryder The Spanish Moors later invaded Southern Italy. The poor of the Mezzogiorno (literally "Mid-Day", but, idiomatically, like our "Deep South") were cruelly and viciously exploited by the landowners and the church and treated much like blacks. Most American Italians are Southern Italians, and most mafiosi were Sicilians (their Alabama and Mississippi). No European country lost more people to emigration than Italy. Both "Dago" and "Wop" are Spanish words, referring to South Americans of Italian descent. As many of them went to Chile and Argentina as the US.

[@nikko.lottsahcocc6917]

SNL is lame a fuck today and has been for the past decade.

[@howdydoo7571]

Vito was black?

[@swampwitch6133]

she had one boyfriend that was african-american but Tony ran him off, not sure if that was before or after this?

[@mynameisnotimportant2854]

rob coffman it was before this. She loss her virginity to the “Hasidic Homeboy.” 😂😂😂

[@joemckim1183]

@@swampwitch6133 That guy was mixed and it was when she first went to college, it was before Jackie Jr even.

[@swampwitch6133]

@@joemckim1183 ok been a while since I watched thought that was when she was still in High School

[@cantankerouspatriarch4981]

Jamal Ginsburg

[@ronoccc]

I know she's hot but christ imagine being Meadows boyfriend. What a nightmare.

[@dylankane9709]

ronoccc he's a puss.

[@garnunce786]

as with most hot bitches

[@deathrager2404]

as with most bitches*, ftfy. and yes, all women are like that.

[@evilubuntu9001]

Finn always regretted not going to that game with Vito.

[@robertpreston2220]

Just re-watched every episode and omg Meadow is the most annoying character on the show!

[@angelcla23]

Meadow has a lot of Tony’s traits, just polished up with a University level education

[@xbacongrizzler6929]

Tony also had that semester and a half at Seton Hall

[@GeometricPidgeon]

​@@xbacongrizzler6929he understands Freud, and therapy as a concept, but in his world, that chilli is not going down

[@jch010]

@@xbacongrizzler6929 eating lunch and had a good chuckle at this.

[@manco828]

Without the big gut or heavy breathing.

[@hopoff9968]

Meadow blossomed into such a little gaslighter, Tony's own mafia princess😂

[@YD-uq5fi]

It doesn't even occur to Meadow why all the mafia underlings are nice to HER.

[@johnmwakilili]

shes right when she says she never saw any violence growing up..........meadow is like a baby lion cub telling the wildebeest how her mother is sweet

[@diegonunez5600]

Her tone would be different if she found out her dad ordered Jackie Jr and Adrianna to be whacked

[@PrometheanRising]

This is likely true. The cognitive dissonance would be too great.

[@jch010]

she knew deep down. Im pretty sure its alluded too in the first half of the last season.

[@connorjohn2752]

He didn't order Jackie Jr.'s hit. He even wanted to give him a pass but Ralphie decided otherwise.

[@beaglemommyjay]

Who the hell makes chili when it's 100 degrees out????

[@betrousaltaweel]

+beaglemommyjay Texans.

[@Zamolxes77]

+beaglemommyjay mexicans.

[@hanniballanda794]

+Zamolxes77 Chilli is not Mexican.

[@2wingo]

+beaglemommyjay Texans.

[@beaglemommyjay]

Then you guys Texans are nuts :)

[@navyguyinva]

Shaggy had more brains than Ms Ivy League...

[@nagihangot6133]

Excellent.

[@dustywaxhead]

Exactly. Same intelligence level but much more wise

[@dr_vpamd]

“Take the kids, what’s left of them anyway” sounds more and more nascent the longer the series goes on.

[@Yaapesta]

When arguing with Tony, Meadow always questioned his 'work' and deeds. But when other people did that she always defended the 'family'. So she was pretty loyal in the end.

[@eromicafrancisco5477]

Hypocritical brat when ever it suits her

[@lancegoodthrust546]

This episode where Meadow and Finn have problems in their relationship is too good. Reminds me of fights I had with an ex that went no where but lasted forever into the night lol. That's one of the great things The Sopranos did well, not just capture mob life but regular life as well. It will always be a classic show.

[@jayteegamble]

Yes, it's the best depiction of a college relationship i've ever seen

[@drknow1997]

Fights that went nowhere 😂 oh gosh youth is wasted on the young. I use to have those stupid ass fights too… if I only knew what I know now… I would have saved myself so much sleepless nights and heartache

[@DeltaPi314]

Meadow is basically a cabron copy of my ex. I can only imagine the feels.

[@DeltaPi314]

@@drknow1997 Strange that you wised up when you realized nobody wants you no more. Why do women always do that?

[@yannick245]

_"Don't give me crap of the Mezzo shit. We're in North Caldwell!"_

[@kakarotlifted7302]

Meadow's a spoiled child who's never had to earn anything nor handle an unavoidable altercation.

[@AlwaysHalloween000]

98 Degrees in the apartment and Meadow makes Chili.They pick on AJ all the time but Meadow wasn't exactly the sharpest tool in the shed herself

[@jameslubin5100]

Exactly....she was a MORON

[@lawson4094]

James Lubin A hot moron

[@ZorbaTheDutch]

Spicy food is at its best when the temperature is hot.

[@Vincent-ri5cr]

mejico we make always de chili!! and it is always very very hot here!!! gringos need shut up!

[@Vincent-ri5cr]

@General Guile yeah cuz body temperature adjusts

[@yoshi999z7]

The real mafia are the two black guys, they are close to gods at this point in the sopranos universe.

[@AlyssMa7rin]

Oh! Leonardo Da Vinci over here!

[@smokescreen69]

@@AlyssMa7rin Hey! Were not makin a western here!

[@GurkanwarKhangura]

Finn eventually realized Meadows family were bloodthirsty monsters, and rightfully left her- especially after he saw Vito was killed. He found someone who aligns with his values and moved on. One of the few happy endings.

[@Lengstrom]

Scariest thing about the violence is the way she rationalizes it like she's been hypnotised

[@sergioizzaqt7707]

I love how earlier in this scene she defends Vito. The guy who killed Jackie Jr.

[@cantbanme8971]

Love it when Finn throws this fucking nonsense line back in her face later haha

[@joshmccollen700]

First, you notice Meadow's deliciously sweaty body. Then you notice hot chili being served in hot weather. Finally, you notice Meadow giving Finn the anthropology lesson she had just accused him of giving her.

[@cleanremarks]

That's what I love about this show: it really showed how insufferably smug and unaccountable the whole family was while committing mass murder.

[@patrickrobinson317]

Finn holds his fork like a caveman.

[@erictrenbeath9680]

Haha! I saw that too

[@questionauthority7377]

Or someone in prison

[@squakrock]

Man*

[@notdaveschannel9843]

@Justin Taylor The only thing stopping me from calling that comment creepy is the fact that I was about to post "Sweaty Meadow is the best Meadow".

[@LANGI902]

* LIKE A MAN

[@runevi]

In some ways the most frightening scene not involving the gangsters directly. Meadow uses her intelligence to rationalize and excuse her father's criminal behavior; in a way making her a more intelligent Carmella. In fact she sees him as a victim of persecution later on in the show.

[@smokescreen69]

You could tell towards the end of the show where things were going with MEadow. It's likely she was going to become a criminal defense lawyer and more than likely become involved in the "family" business.

[@garrettchandler1948]

I love the irony that she doesn't know jackie was actually killed by Vito who ends up threatening to kill her other boyfriend.

[@Ronnicus]

Look at her eyes at the end....welcome to the dark side Meadow

[@kaczynskis5721]

Michael Corleone had the same look when he said he would take out Sollozo and McCluskey.

[@hulkhogan2830]

Exactly the same look..Finn better watch his back from now on..Meadow might take him out. One night her and Finn might be eating at Louie's Restaurant in the Bronx when all of the sudden Meadow pops out of her seat and using the gun she just pulled out from behind the toilet in the ladies' room, she pumps two bullets into Finn while he's taking a bite of Veal Parmigiana.

[@AlyssMa7rin]

That's the exact look that Michael Corleone had just before he killed that corrupt cop, and the turk(?) Tony also gives that look to so many people when he's 'pulling the wool', or is pretending to be nice.

[@aidanchilders9043]

If you look closely, you can pinpoint the exact moment where everyone in America realized that AJ is in fact the BETTER person of the Soprano family offspring, and it's not by a little bit either, by a country mile.

[@trakrekkid]

she looks so smoking hot in this scene

[@Gumbocinno]

More like in every scene.

[@rhey81]

You're just willing to look past the ignorance and craziness huh?

[@jayazathoth8530]

@@rhey81 Yes.

[@eightysbaby8798]

I'd smash her shine-box

[@BucketOfSuck]

@@rhey81 Crazy girls are the best fucks. This is known.

[@tacitus6384]

Man, Meadow might have only been in her 20s here, but god damn: - She's very attractive. - It's hot out, and some of the gloss glistens on her skin. - She's made a nice-looking meal. - She deflects Finn's concern using a combination of her natural articulation and Tony-euphamism-through-the-filter bullshit. - She's essentially dissuading Finn's concerns, unspokenly getting him to "look the other way" or rationalise things, as she has. Given the heat, her honey-toned words her attractive/seductive appearance and the unspoken bargain she's bringing Finn into, Meadow has blossomed into a Devil in this scene. If Finn continues down the marriage path with her, he is essentially signing a deal with the devil.

[@AlyssMa7rin]

She's like a succubus, drawing him into her trap and then sucking the life out of him. Just like Carmella was doing to Tony. She's the perfect combination of all the traits that made Tony and Carm who they were. From a character perspective, it's terrifying, and terribly sad.

[@caprice28]

Meadow became an enabler like her mother. No one is that oblivious unless they want to be.

[@bub74sc28]

I swear the two black guys can never catch a break

[@DanielJamesEgan]

"THEY'RE NOT VIOLENT!!" *20 seconds later* "THEY HAVE A UNIQUE CONFLICT RESOLUTION STYLE!"

[@davehansen9124]

At this point, Meadow knows that Jackie Junior was killed by "the family" but is reluctantly defending them just as she did during the argument with Jackie's sister on the night of his funeral. She never approved of what her father did for a living, but eventually grew into the part. After all, it's family.

[@davehansen2255]

+IncredibleGoliath Meadow shows two faces. One where she defends the family from outside insults, and the second side where she regularly insults the family in front of Tony and Carmella. Jackie Junior is whacked in the final episode of season three for robbing Junior's card game with the ensuing gunfight causing the death of one of the highrollers and an injury to Furio. The robbery of course was spurned on by Ralphie telling the story of how HE and others robbed a wiseguy card game when HE was a kid. After they catch Jackie's partner standing in the street holding the bag (and kill him) then Christopher and the gang know that Jackie was behind it. Jackie goes into hiding, but is later whacked by Vito , (the hit ordered by Ralphie, on suggestion by Tony). Tony did everything he could keep Jackie Junior out of the mob, because he knew that Jackie Senior wanted it that way. The story about Jackie Junior's death got to Meadow that "Jackie was killed by Black drug dealers" (she knew Jackie Junior was in to dealing drugs). She didn't know about the card game robbery. After the wake they go to Rosalie Aprile's house, and Meadow is seen in the kitchen arguing with Jackie Junior's sister, who is convinced that her brother was killed by the mob. Meadow steadfastly defends "the family" in this instance - denying that they were involved. Then just a couple of scenes later everyone shows up at the evening Memorial dinner. Junior starts singing traditional Italian songs is his smooth tenor voice alongside a man playing the guitar. Everyone is entranced, and even a few of the women start crying. But not Meadow. She is now drunk and belligerent. She sits that the table and starts throwing little pieces of food at Junior trying to distract him. Tony notices. Meadow picks up another piece of food and tosses it. Then she says in her drunken stupor "whoops, I did it again" in an apparent parody to a Britney Spears song of the day, and then gets up and starts walking towards the door with Tony following. Meadow is now walking down the street with Tony calling out to her "Come here !" he yells "Did you hear me ! I said come here !" ........... Then she turns around and confronts him. "This is such bullshit !" she says, and then runs across the street, almost getting hit by a car. Tony calls out "Maddow !" Just as she safely scampers across the street with several of the party watching from the window of the restaurant. Meadow is pretty sure that the mob had her friend killed, and in a couple of short hours has become a hypocrite. But everyone who is watching understands the predicament that she is in. And that is just a small part of why this is the greatest drama series of all time.

[@JSuelto1]

+Dave Hansen Ralphie didn't partake in the robbery , it was Tony and Jackie Sr

[@davehansen2255]

+JSuelto1 Thanks, I have to re-watch the episode.

[@curtisduggan8301]

+Dave Hansen It' wasn't Junior's card game that Jackie robbed, it was Ralph's card game run by Eugene Pontecorvo.

[@davehansen2255]

+Curtis Duggan But didn't Eugene work for Tony ? He was the guy that hung himself after Tony didn't let him quit, right ?

[@hurrdurr25]

Meadow never had the makings of a varsity athlete.

[@brianadams9535]

haha

[@expertinmovies]

She had small hands..that was her problem.

[@questionauthority7377]

hurrdurr25 Hahahaha 😂

[@joemckim1183]

Defiinitely doesn't have the makings of a varsity chili maker.

[@bberllam]

I get the joke but she was actually all state for soccer no ?

[@alexanderchapman2525]

There can be only one animal, and that is the Animal Blundetto.

[@johnandrews389]

That animal bludetto I can’t even say is name

[@sporter527]

wes cahl well

[@MJSpiritual]

I can see Tony saying to Meadow here what Marcus Aurelius said to Lucila in Gladiator: “If only you had been born a man, what a Caesar you would’ve made.”

[@hdjksa52]

Meadow Soprano and her mother. Great examples of the saying "No one is as blind as a person who refuses to see."

[@menikmati789]

She even parrots the “it was 2 black guys” defence

[@michaelsieger9133]

Meadow watching Finn like a hawk to make sure he eats his chili always sends me into hysterics. Such a mom/little boy dynamic.

[@isaacfaith9369]

Is it just me or is Finn one of the more relatable and likeable characters in this series?

[@TheHawkdaddy]

"Modes of conflict resolution" Christ that's so obnoxious

[@romeisfallingagain]

i disagree. how else to deal with corrupted institutes and people?

[@romeisfallingagain]

@Vasilijan Nikolovski no, they were part of the nosetribe.

[@erikkjems2635]

Total Machiavellian approach

[@babalarassrah]

both italians

[@oneeyedking7465]

"You talk about these guys like it's an anthropology class", she then proceeds to talk about the mob as if in an anthropology class...

[@LordPidgeon]

As an italian the way she said mezzogiorno made my ears bleed

[@d.b.scoville]

Making chili in hot weather isn’t that strange guys! You’re as bad as the people who won’t eat ice cream in winter.

[@losouknoso22]

“It’s too hot anyways” has on a long sleeve shirt lol 😂

[@TTUploads]

Meadow had real psychopathic tendencies in this scene

[@bookbm]

Chili is always great to have in the middle of the summer in an apartment with no AC

[@muhammadamnan3561]

Very hot place, almost no lighting, serves chili, people like Eugene is considered sweet.. Can you guess where is this location? I give you a guess, it rhymes with bell.

[@queensmickey]

Hell!

[@heartnetxd5939]

Lmao steve

[@coolguy02536]

Yeah, Eugene the assistant manager was slipping drugs into everyone's tacos and no one ever stopped him.

[@stevekaczynski3793]

Taco Bell.

[@TheCubeTube1101]

“Modes of conflict resolution” LMAO Those four words made me laugh harder than anything Amy Schumer has ever said. 💀😂

[@thesaltyonion4899]

0:53 dam, those 2 black guys always like to attack and kill anyone connected to the Soprano glorified crew

[@AWMK101]

“You know you talk about these guys like it’s an anthropology class” Precedes to talk about them exactly like an anthropology professor

[@gorgolyt]

Meadow: "You understand? They were just good fellas. Wise guys."

[@manco828]

It was a thing with the Italians, real greaseball shit.

[@saltybrackishfresh]

Meadow is the most accurate example of modern day liberals in TV history.

[@MenelikTheFirst]

Seeing Meadow go from self-possessed young lady trying to shirk her family’s endemic dismissal of their own toxicity to just another mob-wife making excuses like her mother is one of the saddest story arcs to me.

[@MenelikTheFirst]

@jool7793 You’d sacrifice dignity for family?

[@billiebleach7889]

Meadow was the Analisa of New Jersey.

[@mrj9224]

Jackie was shot by Vito not African American drug dealers lol

[@dylankane9709]

Joe Cool some fat fuck in see through socks.

[@magicargo1232]

Take your pic they all look alike

[@pethrosuriahson6156]

Finn made a wise decision when he split, find another girlfriend and get out alive

[@shriharihudli]

Fuckin' parade float.

[@patrikpatriksson]

Actually, Joe, you have no basis to say that.

[@SuperBigdude77]

It's amazing how naive meadow actually is

[@stevekaczynski3793]

I don't know about naive. She's realised she's a mafia princess. Short of a total break with that world, she is going to rationalise it. The "conflict resolution" thing is almost like something she memorised from a textbook.

[@mottthehoople684]

Meadow building the walls of denial

[@sammyl1467]

Why even engage in self denial? If my father made millions being a sociopathic murderous mob boss I would not give a shit, while still openly acknowledging to myself that he'll likely end up in prison for life or shot to death. Wise guys choose that life knowing how it will end and they enjoy the ride while they can. It's not me committing the crimes, I had no choice in being born to a gangster father, I would not give a shit.

[@jackj9816]

Sammy L yes but she try’s to plant him as a victim and says his like that because of how he has been treated growing up yet he has hurt so many people

[@ttaylor758]

The transition of Meadow is one of the most interesting parts of the show

[@palberto_exe]

Meadow could have been a Michael Corleone type.

[@Hgvcunk]

When she told Finn that her ex-boyfriend got killed by some unidentified black guys he knew he were in a bad spot dating that mafia Princess

[@samuelcapritta1086]

Sweaty Meadow is best Meadow

[@Shredow2]

Meadow blaming the people who were hiding Jackie Jr. to excuse the mob is hilariously fucked up. Tony succeeded in corrupting her. Sad to see.

[@sw995]

00:20 Finn goes to Columbia but holds the fork like a neanderthal

[@charlesxavier6785]

The moment Finn was disgusted enough to not want to eat he should’ve left her right then and there. He was in such an unfair position to begin with, but if your significant other has a stance which makes you physically disgusted you must leave them. A part of happiness is being able to talk and compromise but also having core values which are similar.

[@hugo13231]

During WW2 the Sicilian mafia greatly assisted the allied war effort, to the point the Allies supplied them with large amounts of weapons and resulted in them having significant influence in post-war Italy.

[@danielyoung6778]

You make it sound like it was a good thing, their job was to beat and kill the union leaders and communists who actually opposed fascism throughout the war.

[@elloowu6293]

"Chili! Red hot Texas-style chili! And we got ginger ale! Boiling hot, Texas-style ginger ale!"

[@UpfulWarrior]

Funny how Meadow finally started embracing her Mob background.

[@followengland_ballsonig2938]

the mezzogiorno was my favorite character, i wish they did more with him

[@Kryptsanies]

Meadow here is displaying the epitome of cognitive dissonance.

[@francismcgee9463]

That air conditioner was a great way to foreshadow how that relationship was dying a slow painful death.

[@Kblog777]

Wonder what Meadow would have become had the show carried on? I can imagine AJ ending up a homeless wino.

[@jimgag2]

sum body A lawyer for the NJ mob.

[@danielyoung6778]

She was probably going to just straight up be a mob lawyer hiding her disgusting morality behind an ivy league education. AJ I guess it's dependant on wheter he saw his dad get his brains blown out, out of all of them he seems like the only one with a sliver of humanity left in him by the end and he might have a chance to get out of he moves far away, if not he may end up another Chris at least on the addiction front.v

[@eijiniizuma6184]

remember the female mob boss in Italy? that was meadows future

[@James12361]

@@eijiniizuma6184nope. In America women cannot become made members

[@eijiniizuma6184]

@@James12361 There was no reason or requirement for Meadow to get made to run the crime family, all meadow had to do was to set up a situation mirroring that of her fathers with Jnr wherein Patrick Parisi her husband, is the front boss and she rules under cover.

[@Cuoreromano90]

Curious how the meadow character developed during the seasons.In the early seasons she hated everything about italian culture but in the last season she defends italian culture included criminal action.In one of the episodes she even insults FBI(calling agents"bastards")for arresting his father.

[@davidsato1]

"In a democracy, armed rebellion is criminal, not political." JC Denton

[@kieferclarkf1674]

What's hilarious is that finn heard the exact same it was a couple of black guys line about Genes beatdown of little paulie.

[@antoniosi5137]

She is the one sounding like an antropologist to me