Sopranos Season One, Episode 02 - "42 Long"

Sopranos Season One, Episode 02 - "42 Long"

Giacomo "Jackie" Aprile, acting boss of the family, is deathly ill with cancer - and Tony's about to get into a power struggle with Uncle Junior he doesn't even want. Tony finally gets Livia to live in the retirement community after much fuss. When the car belonging to Anthony Jr.'s teacher is stolen, Tony sends lieutenants Big Pussy and Paulie Walnuts to work over the thieves and get the car back. After Christopher and his associate Brendan agree to pay Uncle Junior a 15K "tribute" for accidentally jacking a Junior-protected truck full of DVD's, the none-too-bright Brendan hits the same trucking company again -- this time ending up with a casualty and some gorgeous Italian suits.

Sopranos Season One, Episode 01 - "The Sopranos"

Sopranos Season One, Episode 01 - "The Sopranos"

Tony Soprano tries to be a good family man on two fronts - to his wife, kids and widowed mother - and as a capo in the New Jersey mob. The pressures of work and family life give him anxiety attacks, so Tony starts seeing a psychiatrist; which is not the kind of thing a guy advertises in the circles Tony moves in - it could get him killed. So he keeps it to himself.

What caused all this stress? On the home front his marriage is shaky and his mother needs to be put in a nursing home (he calls it a "retirement community" but she still won't go). Uncle Junior wanted to use Tony's childhood friend's restaurant to whack a guy named Pussy Malenga, but Tony prevented the hit by blowing the place up. When a Czech mob attempted to move in on the Sopranos' waste management business, Tony's hot-headed nephew Chris "handled the problem" by murdering their representative and dumping him on Staten Island without getting the permission of the administration. To top it all off, Tony is haunted by the feeling that the glory days of mob life are long gone, and that he might not measure up to the titans of the past.

Madon'! It's enough to make anyone want to see a shrink.

Sopranos Season One Episode Index

Sopranos Season One Episodes

Sopranos Season One, Episode 01 - "The Sopranos"
Sopranos Season One, Episode 02 - "42 Long"
Sopranos Season One, Episode 03 - "Denial, Anger, Acceptance"
Sopranos Season One, Episode 04 - "Meadowlands"
Sopranos Season One, Episode 05 - "College"
Sopranos Season One, Episode 06 - "Pax Soprana"
Sopranos Season One, Episode 07 - "Down Neck"
Sopranos Season One, Episode 08 - "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti"
Sopranos Season One, Episode 09 - "Boca"
Sopranos Season One, Episode 10 - "A Hit is a Hit"
Sopranos Season One, Episode 11 - "Nobody Knows Anything"
Sopranos Season One, Episode 12 - "Isabella"
Sopranos Season One, Episode 13 - "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano"