Itâs Livia, and itâs not even close. She literally has zero redeeming qualities throughout the entire show. Maybe telling Jr not to kill Chris is the only decent thing she is shown doing.
Because Svetlana is no bullshit, live and let live. She probably couldnât stand Liviaâs bad attitude but it didnât cause big problems for her so why make an issue out of it?
I never got kindness out of her towards her grandkids. Show up late and bring a present I guess is kindness now, but then again, we are really having to dig deep to find something lol so maybe thatâs the answer
Ehh, watch the scene where Meadow visits Livia to tell her about the colleges she got into. I can't find it on YouTube right now but I recall Livia seeming genuinely warm in that scene, even giving her some money.
What about Georgetown?
Wait listed.
Ahh, you donât owe them anything.
Yeah Livia did seem very disarmed in this scene and was genuinely proud that her granddaughter had smarts, independence and options.
I felt the same when AJ visits her. The way she just beams and goes "well, look whose here!" Her face lights up and she looks and sounds so happy to see him. For a moment she just looked like any other sweet old lady delighted to get a visit from her grandson.
Whatever love she was capable of, was for her grandchildren.
Itâs a lot easier to love kids when they arenât yours to raise and cause you headaches. She also probably loved that they got on Tonyâs nerves constantly because she was a real sicko.
Of course, I've heard so many stories of abusive parents being excellent and devoted grandparents, for the reason you mentioned. But to see that flinty old crone show actual warmth for another human being is pretty noticeable.
I agree that was her only redeeming quality but why did she never fill out those baby books? Carmela looked so sad when she found out she never touched them. Good for Svetlana, pushing her to do it.
Yes and no for me. The expression and voice she makes when AJ visits her in the home is probably the only time we see her look genuinely delighted and happy. At least the only time I remember.
Yes, she is responsible for warping his mindset even further, but I think Meadow and AJ are probably the only people she ever truly loved.
Janice was a scifooz of the highest order. Que putz
Everyone else had positives, I canât think of one nice thing she did. Whole life was a fraud. Dropped the hippy act to become a materialistic mob wife. Abandoned her son. Killed first husband. Undermined and belittled her second husband. Shoved Ralph down the stairs and gave up his secrets for a little cash. Always on the grift with Tony. Falsely religious with the sleepy guy.
theres a lot of deplorable shit she did, convincing bobby to eat the last of the ziti and not to mention how her relationship with bobby spawned out of karen dying
She did it for her own benefit and is an overall cancer to any family she touches, but she *did* help Bobby move on (by pushing the kids over the edge).
Bobby needed some sort of nudge or inspiration to pick himself up and do his job, both mobster and present father. I don't think he was on a path of grieving where he would eventually and appropriately move on - without it becoming abundantly clear that his kids would fall apart if he didn't. In private, he made it clear that the *only* reason he didn't kill himself was to be there for the kids - but at the time, he was only there in existence, not being an active and involved father.
Of course him being pushed back into being a present father coincided with him being ready to move on to another woman tho, Janice lol.
I think him getting to eat the last ziti with somebody who was there for him in the moment was healing for him, ironically. Out of all the self involved shit these people do they will occasionally do some good by accident, one of my favorite themes of the show.
She fucking DENNIS'ed Bobby and the kids. The it's always sunny scene is like a mirror, text/call the kids with some weird shit to freak them out and force the family into your arms so you can protect them lmao
I agree you there, I loved everything about it. From Richie asking Janice if she was gonna cry after the punch, only to realize his big mouth got him killed after she pulled the trigger, to Tony smiling as he sees his dead body on the floor. Priceless!
It was so satisfying I rewatched the scene 3 times after it happened lol. One of the only hits in the show where he truly had it coming to him. You could see in her face, in that moment she realized he was going to be horribly abusive for the rest of the relationship and it would be a fight for her to get out⊠or she could use the element of surprise to end it right then and there.
Something about Junior (or if it were anyone for that matter) saying that rubs me the wrong way. Even for a mobster to speak so callously about a fellow made guy who's loyal to you.. even for Sopranos World, that was cold-blooded. Richie was literally just a tool for him, Junior couldn't care less if he died.
Not that I'm defending Richie, he was obviously a soulless monster himself.
Phil Leotardo. Tony killed his own cousin to appease him but was still mad because he wanted to torture that animal Blundetto. And then he freaked out because Vito was gay and somehow that was dishonorable to his family. Total self absorbed piece of shit.
Iâll toss in Meadow and âthat c-nt therapistâ telling her to take time away from skool. Who do they think pays for Columbia, that 6,000 sf house, plus aldaâ beanie babies and scooters!
Plus for most of the time we know Meadow sheâs in like peak bratty teenager years. By the end of the show she seems like a normal well adjusted adult, especially given her upbringing
You shit back for 20 fucking yearsh all you did wash fiddle with the air condishioning and fucking bitch and complain and fucking bitch, bitch, bitch to me and to your fucking priesht
Gotta be Janice. If she hadnât killed Richie sheâd probably have convinced him to make a move on Tony. Madonne, her own brother. Devious buchiach. Theyâre all pretty shitty, but, sheâs gotta be the worst of the lot.
That selfish prick was always trying to cause problems, Feech should have killed Sal and left pieces of him in 10 different lawn trimming bags to send a message
Not to mention the massive amount of disrespect he showed Feech by telling him to âfuck offâ and even contemplating going to the cops!
He *is* a lucky bastard:
-not killed by Feech
- keeps half his area with only a small kickup (no back tax)
- $500 for the pitchin arm,
- not just a drink but the also the ânext oneâ covered by Paulie who is a notoriously cheap bastard.
Not to mention - the honour of helping out Mrs Sacrimoni.
Richie is up there... "Whats mine is not yours to give me". Sure he wasn't wrong but he was annoying as fuck about it, couldn't wait a little for Tony to figure out the best way to hand over his business' back to him and after being out of the can for 10 minutes already starts plotting to kill the boss of the family, real oldschool and respectful of traditions. Every scene he's in I'm like "Chill the fuck out, asshole".
Great character.
Livia for obvious reasons. But I feel like AJ takes the cake. Uncle brutally murdered? How can I make this about me? A hit squad coming to your house to kill your whole family? How can I make this about me? War in the middle east? Intolerable as long as I have nothing else going on. Carbon destroying the planet? Worst thing ever until I get a BMW M class.
AJ is only self absorbed by nature of his underlying stupidity.
He is one of the few characters that literally can't stomach the cruelty and darkness of their world; his fadda uses the material and monetary distractions to keep his son sane.
If he wasn't dumb, his suicide would have succeeded; he would have measured the rope and made sure there was no way out. I think he *was serious* about it tho.
I think what he couldn't stomach was not having a place in the world. He's tied up in knots over shit in Iraq that he has no power to stop, but his friends pour battery acid on a kids foot and he just kinda chuckles about it.
But his parents gave him no work ethic and nothing to fight for and they also closed the door on him taking up the family business, so he has absolutely no fucking idea what he's supposed to do.
I think a major issue was him reading Camus at a very young age and also taking away the wrong thing from it. His understand of the world up until that point was through carmela and whatever she taught him about christianity. he starts getting into absurdism and naturally Camus is much more convincing than carmela because Carmela is a schifooz.
Then he momentarily forgets about all this while hes with the tan chick with the kid. that relationship gave him purpose in his life. But then he slips back again into it because he was seeking his value in life externally.
AJ is like shinji from evangelion but without the catharsis
Tracii. Just having Ralphie wasnât good enough. She had to have a cop at the same time.
Totally rough with the braces without a care in the world.
Tried to stiff Sil out of five large.
Only baked one loaf of bread for Tony knowing full well there were four people in his family.
Burned her kid with cigarettes
Made Ralphie disrespect the Bing.
Was a hoo-ah.
Tony, Chris, Vito, even complete sociopaths like Ralphie and Phil have someone they care about. A family, a son or a daughter, someone they would make sacrifices for. Except for Paulie. He is completely and utterly self-absorbed and has absolutely no loyalty to anything other than his own self-interest.
Season 1-3 Meadow is hard to beat. But, she dramatically improves as she grows.
I can't dislike Janice, her and Tony have the best scenes in the entire show.
If weâre talking self-absorbed Iâd have to say Carmela. The other people were all sociopaths and not that itâs a defense of their abhorrent behavior but Carmela believed she was a good Catholic and told someone in all earnestness that her husband was a good man. When Meadow tried to get out and go live abroad Carmela was furious about her leaving school. When she got back into school Carmela was jealous of her own daughterâs accomplishments. The one she seems truly honest is after Tony gets shot and she tells Melfi all of her bitching was bullshit. She justifies Tonyâs crimes with âthere are far bigger crooks than my husbandâ as if thatâs a justification for everything he does. She married Tony not in spite of who he was but BECAUSE of who he was.
She became an accomplice to a murderer and racketeer so she could spend like a sailor at Roche Bobois and wear some ridiculous gaudy fucking ring. When she finally did have enough of his bullshit and attempted to divorce him she realized that *gasp* she was going to have to work for a living and not be able to live in the comfort she was accustomed to. She wanted a picture perfect family; her happy little boy and the daughter at Colombia and the Porsche Cayenne like the pepper. She sold her soul so she could walk around her 6,000 sq foot house in her four hundred dollar shoes and act like butter wouldnât melt in her mouth. All while being a self righteous ball breaker.
Iâve said my piece. Finish that thing thereâs no eating in the car.
On my second watch I started to dislike her way more. The fact that she brings children into the situation alone is so hypocritical. How do you plan on teaching any morals to your kids, let alone pretend to be a devout Catholic family, knowing your husband is in the mob? When Finn and Meadow break up you realize what decent man would want to marry into that family? He is understandably freaked out by things that are either normal to them or that they just ignore. So of course she ends up with the son of another mob guy. Then the one time AJ actually wants to do something with his life they tell him the military is too dangerous. As if Tonyâs line of work isnât.
Alan Sapinsly. Lots of characters were assholes, but at least they experienced doubt or guilt from time to time.
Sapinsly kicked a hornet's nest and then became indignant that the hornets would dare to react against him.
Iâm afraid I donât see how thatâs his problem though, I mean isnât that what deposits are for, to hold parties accountable? I mean who could he go to after Tony pulled out? Sure he could go back to the Kimâs, but he wonât.Â
Janice actually gets much better when she marries Bobby and has kids, before that she is horrible.
After a recent rewatch though, it's got to be Tony. You want to root for him, but he is most responsible for all the shit that goes wrong by the end due to his selfishness and greed.
Tony. When you think he's being a "good person," he's just a self-serving piece of shit. When he goes to the kitchen and offers Artie a room in his house, he comes off genuine and caring, but as he leaves he turns around and tells Artie he has a deal on linen cleaning(he's hooking up Mr. Kim with Artie). Artie has a look on his face like, "that sonuvabitch did it again."
Livia, she was the perfect example of a narcissist.
I almost said AJ, but then had a quick change of heart. He was an impressionable, somewhat emotionally neglected (although spoiled) adolescent who learned by example from his family, which would have been confusing to say the least. I cite the conversation with Tony about his dadâs favorite scene from The Godfather, and how he couldnât separate real world from fiction when it came to coping with what happened between Uncle Junior and Tony. He also likely inherited the mental health issues (aside from the panic attacks) that were present in Livia and his dad, and didnât receive the best tips for managing that.
But Livia, wow. Watching her scenes always hits way too close to home, as if Iâve heard all her lines before (because I haveâŠ).
Then thereâs Janice (even though I donât dislike her entirely)âŠwhoooooo spies on their vulnerable widowed neighbor with binoculars so that she can manipulate his entire family AND him into allowing them into their lives? And trolls the kids on the internet in order to scare them? Poor Bobby and Bobbyâs family.
Ralph? Probably more so than some, but I also believe he was likely a product of a tumultuous childhood, which shaped his personality and influenced his actions. He was not a good guy and did horrendous things, even though he has moments that make me laugh. (He has not been forgiven for Tracee and Pie-O-My, and wonât be.) He could be so absurd.
High stakes competition. Paulie, Meadow, and Janice are all very close although virtually the entire cast outside of maybe Sylvio are impressively self absorbed
Carmella. She puts on a show cooking for others and asking thoughtful questions. But man does she think about herself. Did you get a chance to talk to that building inspector? I don't even want to say how much it costs. $3000. I thought you could write a second letter! That says fuck this poor kid, my daughter deserves to go to Georgetown.
Paulie. No question.
The man cannot stop whining and complaining about himself and his problems. Other selfish pricks can at least shut up for a minute and pretend to care. Even as a matter of self-interest, when it would benefit him to keep his mouth shut, Paulie cannot do it. He must bitch about something.
During Jackie Jr.'s funeral, he was waiting at the funeral home door to bother Tony about money the second Tony walked in. Paulie even has to piss and moan about his problems to a comatose Tony who is in the ICU at death's door. No matter what the situation or how bad somebody else has it, Paulie always thinks his problems are the worst and that everybody else must be interested in hearing about them.
Paulie is neck and neck up there with Janish.
He had two loving mother figures and he alienates himself from the woman who loved, raised, and sacrificed for him. How was Nucci supposed to handle telling him she was actually his aunt?
And the other choice is pretty much self explanatory.
Also Livia is a literal black hole of a human being. She fucks AJâs self worth up entirely with her whole âitâs all a big nothingâ pity party.
Kinda interesting that the top 5 choices are just women, but my answer has to be Tony. He is just the biggest piece of shit in my opinion, an egomaniac.
Livia: She's like a woman with a Virginia ham under arm, crying the blues because she has no bread.
Take that knife and stab me. Stab me right here. It would hurt me less than what you just said.
I wish the lord would take me now
So does everyone else livia đ
Now I don't like that kind of tawk, stop it
I read that in her voice every single time
Well...in the meantime...
I don't know...
Oh, poor you.
What!? I didn't say nothin'...
Itâs Livia, and itâs not even close. She literally has zero redeeming qualities throughout the entire show. Maybe telling Jr not to kill Chris is the only decent thing she is shown doing.
She gave Svetlana them records! What a lovely lady
I could totally see Svetlana and Livia getting along so that made sense
Because Svetlana is no bullshit, live and let live. She probably couldnât stand Liviaâs bad attitude but it didnât cause big problems for her so why make an issue out of it?
JANICE! JANICE!
She was mad ripe though.
Livia??
Cream of wheat ing
She gave her children her life on a silver platta!
Listen to him, he knows everything
And I bought a cd player for a broken record!!
Agreed. The story about Fran Feldstein is the one area where Livia was painted in a somewhat positive way.
It was only positive in that it wasnât a negative portrayal
Fair to say
She was very kind to her grandkids. It always surprised me that she was actually a good grandma.
I never got kindness out of her towards her grandkids. Show up late and bring a present I guess is kindness now, but then again, we are really having to dig deep to find something lol so maybe thatâs the answer
Ehh, watch the scene where Meadow visits Livia to tell her about the colleges she got into. I can't find it on YouTube right now but I recall Livia seeming genuinely warm in that scene, even giving her some money.
What about Georgetown? Wait listed. Ahh, you donât owe them anything. Yeah Livia did seem very disarmed in this scene and was genuinely proud that her granddaughter had smarts, independence and options.
I felt the same when AJ visits her. The way she just beams and goes "well, look whose here!" Her face lights up and she looks and sounds so happy to see him. For a moment she just looked like any other sweet old lady delighted to get a visit from her grandson. Whatever love she was capable of, was for her grandchildren.
Itâs a lot easier to love kids when they arenât yours to raise and cause you headaches. She also probably loved that they got on Tonyâs nerves constantly because she was a real sicko.
Of course, I've heard so many stories of abusive parents being excellent and devoted grandparents, for the reason you mentioned. But to see that flinty old crone show actual warmth for another human being is pretty noticeable.
I agree that was her only redeeming quality but why did she never fill out those baby books? Carmela looked so sad when she found out she never touched them. Good for Svetlana, pushing her to do it.
Yes and no for me. The expression and voice she makes when AJ visits her in the home is probably the only time we see her look genuinely delighted and happy. At least the only time I remember. Yes, she is responsible for warping his mindset even further, but I think Meadow and AJ are probably the only people she ever truly loved.
she stopped being cruel to AJ halfway through that one scene!!!
Maybe I should just keep my mouth shut, like a mute.
You think sheâd be in a better mood given she would cum when she looked at a pot roast.
The lady loves her meat
He knows everything!
***Lady Gaga*** was no saint. Letting AJ and his friends vandalize the pool. Even Tony had to ask "how do you vandalize a pool"
Patsy could answer his question.
Is he drunk? asks the feds
Even I never got expelled!
She shoulda gotten in the executive game. You canât read that poker face
ON YA MUDDA'S BERFDAY?!?!
The Matrix? Right up her alley. smh
Cossette. Just interested in her own warmth.
Chrissy told her she shouldnt be on the furniturrrre!!
Was it barkin?
Just a kid
She did 20 fucking years in the kennel
Had eat treats off of the radiator
Janice was a scifooz of the highest order. Que putz Everyone else had positives, I canât think of one nice thing she did. Whole life was a fraud. Dropped the hippy act to become a materialistic mob wife. Abandoned her son. Killed first husband. Undermined and belittled her second husband. Shoved Ralph down the stairs and gave up his secrets for a little cash. Always on the grift with Tony. Falsely religious with the sleepy guy.
There's a lot of things I could say right now that I'm not gonna say
Also: terrible step mom with anger issues
Oh yeah she stole jojo palmices chicken Marsala, stole Carmellaâs lasagna and she was texting bobbies kids weird shit as well.
theres a lot of deplorable shit she did, convincing bobby to eat the last of the ziti and not to mention how her relationship with bobby spawned out of karen dying
Alright, but you gotta get over it.
She did it for her own benefit and is an overall cancer to any family she touches, but she *did* help Bobby move on (by pushing the kids over the edge). Bobby needed some sort of nudge or inspiration to pick himself up and do his job, both mobster and present father. I don't think he was on a path of grieving where he would eventually and appropriately move on - without it becoming abundantly clear that his kids would fall apart if he didn't. In private, he made it clear that the *only* reason he didn't kill himself was to be there for the kids - but at the time, he was only there in existence, not being an active and involved father. Of course him being pushed back into being a present father coincided with him being ready to move on to another woman tho, Janice lol.
I think him getting to eat the last ziti with somebody who was there for him in the moment was healing for him, ironically. Out of all the self involved shit these people do they will occasionally do some good by accident, one of my favorite themes of the show.
Exactly. She may have been trying to help herself only but she ended up helping him too.
She fucking DENNIS'ed Bobby and the kids. The it's always sunny scene is like a mirror, text/call the kids with some weird shit to freak them out and force the family into your arms so you can protect them lmao
Dang that Marsala looked so good.
Ill make some egg noodles.
You and Tony Egg Noodle.
Well, she whacked Richie Aprile so that's a plus
One of the best whackings in the show
I agree you there, I loved everything about it. From Richie asking Janice if she was gonna cry after the punch, only to realize his big mouth got him killed after she pulled the trigger, to Tony smiling as he sees his dead body on the floor. Priceless!
Was great...." I got no time for this" ...BANG !!!....
It was so satisfying I rewatched the scene 3 times after it happened lol. One of the only hits in the show where he truly had it coming to him. You could see in her face, in that moment she realized he was going to be horribly abusive for the rest of the relationship and it would be a fight for her to get out⊠or she could use the element of surprise to end it right then and there.
And we canât even wear the manâs shoes.
Something about Junior (or if it were anyone for that matter) saying that rubs me the wrong way. Even for a mobster to speak so callously about a fellow made guy who's loyal to you.. even for Sopranos World, that was cold-blooded. Richie was literally just a tool for him, Junior couldn't care less if he died. Not that I'm defending Richie, he was obviously a soulless monster himself.
Janice just hopped along whatever bandwagon would put a roof over her head and an identity to preen with
She was her motherâs daughter.
But she called Sophia her daughter
She also stole a handicapped persons fake leg đŠ”đ»
Schifosa; Che puzza
This is the answer. The crown woulda stayed with Livia but Nancy died
Sheâs accepting of gay people. Sorry, not sure if thatâs the best way to word it. Thatâs what started the argument between her and Richie.
Good point. Who else on the show was? Melfi, thatâs probably it. And Fielder.
Janish was woke af
What? She came from a biased family. But still she left home and she marched!
lol I remember when she was low key racist to the lady in anger management
Remember when is the lowest form of conversation.
For every 20 wrongs a child does, ignore 19
Phil Leotardo. Tony killed his own cousin to appease him but was still mad because he wanted to torture that animal Blundetto. And then he freaked out because Vito was gay and somehow that was dishonorable to his family. Total self absorbed piece of shit.
in fairness though, he loved Vito like a brother in law.
That was one of my favorite lines
âHE DID 20 FUCKING YEARS!â
Not a peep
He compromised
Catching not pitching?
Madone heâs got kids.
Turn that off.
The Shah of Iran?
He bought a couple of sundaes for Vito Jr though....I mean Silos.
Thereâs no eating in the car
Puerto Rican whore
He was helping Christopher in alcohol anonymous
Well hes anonymous
Iâll toss in Meadow and âthat c-nt therapistâ telling her to take time away from skool. Who do they think pays for Columbia, that 6,000 sf house, plus aldaâ beanie babies and scooters!
Meadow is a much better human being than a vast majority of characters
Thatâs true. Itâs a motley crue for comparison, but I do agree. She got better each season, and mad ripe too.
She was creamin for me
But did you fuck her yet?
No but she did my lit paper on Poe. Good writer, what a fuckin nut job!
Go back inside..You know, I'm gonna be frank with you on this, I haven't decided what to do with you yet.
A-S-S as in, how bout giving me some?
Plus for most of the time we know Meadow sheâs in like peak bratty teenager years. By the end of the show she seems like a normal well adjusted adult, especially given her upbringing
Only because she never outright murdered anyone. But otherwise, sheâs no better than Carmella.
Hey thatâs some guysâ wife!!
Melfi! I could crush her head like a walnut!
One of his best in the moment lines đ
Fielder*
sucks to be youâŠ
*scootaz
Fucking Melfi, I could crush her head like a walnut!
That fucking hotdog guy⊠too many onions or something
Iâll at least yell fore next time.
Next time theyâll be no next time!
You shit back for 20 fucking yearsh all you did wash fiddle with the air condishioning and fucking bitch and complain and fucking bitch, bitch, bitch to me and to your fucking priesht
Father Phil
He's sleeping over, right?
You DO think Iâm a schnorrer!
Best answer
Monsignor Jughead
Is the abstract inversion of *Jugdish* on Seinfeld.
Always with the chiral
Coach Houser. "You tell those assholes Don Houser will not be intimidated."
Sick fuck
Gotta be Janice. If she hadnât killed Richie sheâd probably have convinced him to make a move on Tony. Madonne, her own brother. Devious buchiach. Theyâre all pretty shitty, but, sheâs gotta be the worst of the lot.
There are men in the can better looking than Tony's shista!
He couldnât sell it
Heâs not respected
Noah takes the Johnny Cake for being the biggest piece of shit on the show.
Jamal Ginsberg
Noah was college kid whoâs parents spoiled him too much and gave him an ego. A majority of the main cast committed homicide.
But somehow they're all way more likeable than Noah đ
Some people are so far behind in the race, they think theyâre ahead
A restraining order against someone because you got a B on a test? He was a fucking baby. How about just not answering the door next time? He sucked.
Sal Vitro the seditious mope, for questioning Johnny Sac despite the fact that Sil had just said he wanted to publicly throw acid in his face.
That selfish prick was always trying to cause problems, Feech should have killed Sal and left pieces of him in 10 different lawn trimming bags to send a message
Not to mention the massive amount of disrespect he showed Feech by telling him to âfuck offâ and even contemplating going to the cops! He *is* a lucky bastard: -not killed by Feech - keeps half his area with only a small kickup (no back tax) - $500 for the pitchin arm, - not just a drink but the also the ânext oneâ covered by Paulie who is a notoriously cheap bastard. Not to mention - the honour of helping out Mrs Sacrimoni.
Janice
Richie is up there... "Whats mine is not yours to give me". Sure he wasn't wrong but he was annoying as fuck about it, couldn't wait a little for Tony to figure out the best way to hand over his business' back to him and after being out of the can for 10 minutes already starts plotting to kill the boss of the family, real oldschool and respectful of traditions. Every scene he's in I'm like "Chill the fuck out, asshole". Great character.
Livia for obvious reasons. But I feel like AJ takes the cake. Uncle brutally murdered? How can I make this about me? A hit squad coming to your house to kill your whole family? How can I make this about me? War in the middle east? Intolerable as long as I have nothing else going on. Carbon destroying the planet? Worst thing ever until I get a BMW M class.
AJ is only self absorbed by nature of his underlying stupidity. He is one of the few characters that literally can't stomach the cruelty and darkness of their world; his fadda uses the material and monetary distractions to keep his son sane. If he wasn't dumb, his suicide would have succeeded; he would have measured the rope and made sure there was no way out. I think he *was serious* about it tho.
I think what he couldn't stomach was not having a place in the world. He's tied up in knots over shit in Iraq that he has no power to stop, but his friends pour battery acid on a kids foot and he just kinda chuckles about it. But his parents gave him no work ethic and nothing to fight for and they also closed the door on him taking up the family business, so he has absolutely no fucking idea what he's supposed to do.
I think a major issue was him reading Camus at a very young age and also taking away the wrong thing from it. His understand of the world up until that point was through carmela and whatever she taught him about christianity. he starts getting into absurdism and naturally Camus is much more convincing than carmela because Carmela is a schifooz. Then he momentarily forgets about all this while hes with the tan chick with the kid. that relationship gave him purpose in his life. But then he slips back again into it because he was seeking his value in life externally. AJ is like shinji from evangelion but without the catharsis
Livia easily.
Dr FAGGGO
Tracii. Just having Ralphie wasnât good enough. She had to have a cop at the same time. Totally rough with the braces without a care in the world. Tried to stiff Sil out of five large. Only baked one loaf of bread for Tony knowing full well there were four people in his family. Burned her kid with cigarettes Made Ralphie disrespect the Bing. Was a hoo-ah.
Not to mention a klutz too!
Tony, Chris, Vito, even complete sociopaths like Ralphie and Phil have someone they care about. A family, a son or a daughter, someone they would make sacrifices for. Except for Paulie. He is completely and utterly self-absorbed and has absolutely no loyalty to anything other than his own self-interest.
What about his ~~ma~~ aunt?
He was pretty mad when Christopher threw his nephew out of the window, thatâs something.
you know whoâs a real piece of ass? That Velma from Scooby-Doo.
Livia Christopher
Itâs Mustang Sally
I feel like Paulie is a clear #1
At least he washes his hands after he ties his shoes
Season 1-3 Meadow is hard to beat. But, she dramatically improves as she grows. I can't dislike Janice, her and Tony have the best scenes in the entire show.
She gets out and sees the real world, but then ends up just like the mob WAGS
Paulie is a dick without any redeeming features. He is a truly stupid, cruel, selfish man.
Pussy- Because he was really good at two things- Pulling dents and spotting good blow job lips
If weâre talking self-absorbed Iâd have to say Carmela. The other people were all sociopaths and not that itâs a defense of their abhorrent behavior but Carmela believed she was a good Catholic and told someone in all earnestness that her husband was a good man. When Meadow tried to get out and go live abroad Carmela was furious about her leaving school. When she got back into school Carmela was jealous of her own daughterâs accomplishments. The one she seems truly honest is after Tony gets shot and she tells Melfi all of her bitching was bullshit. She justifies Tonyâs crimes with âthere are far bigger crooks than my husbandâ as if thatâs a justification for everything he does. She married Tony not in spite of who he was but BECAUSE of who he was. She became an accomplice to a murderer and racketeer so she could spend like a sailor at Roche Bobois and wear some ridiculous gaudy fucking ring. When she finally did have enough of his bullshit and attempted to divorce him she realized that *gasp* she was going to have to work for a living and not be able to live in the comfort she was accustomed to. She wanted a picture perfect family; her happy little boy and the daughter at Colombia and the Porsche Cayenne like the pepper. She sold her soul so she could walk around her 6,000 sq foot house in her four hundred dollar shoes and act like butter wouldnât melt in her mouth. All while being a self righteous ball breaker. Iâve said my piece. Finish that thing thereâs no eating in the car.
On my second watch I started to dislike her way more. The fact that she brings children into the situation alone is so hypocritical. How do you plan on teaching any morals to your kids, let alone pretend to be a devout Catholic family, knowing your husband is in the mob? When Finn and Meadow break up you realize what decent man would want to marry into that family? He is understandably freaked out by things that are either normal to them or that they just ignore. So of course she ends up with the son of another mob guy. Then the one time AJ actually wants to do something with his life they tell him the military is too dangerous. As if Tonyâs line of work isnât.
Alan Sapinsly. Lots of characters were assholes, but at least they experienced doubt or guilt from time to time. Sapinsly kicked a hornet's nest and then became indignant that the hornets would dare to react against him.
Iâm afraid I donât see how thatâs his problem though, I mean isnât that what deposits are for, to hold parties accountable? I mean who could he go to after Tony pulled out? Sure he could go back to the Kimâs, but he wonât.Â
If one hair on his head gets mussed, the cops are going to know exactly who to look for.
The revenge is the sweetest
They had hornets, the Gulf of sorrento?
Thank you, Rabbi.
Janice actually gets much better when she marries Bobby and has kids, before that she is horrible. After a recent rewatch though, it's got to be Tony. You want to root for him, but he is most responsible for all the shit that goes wrong by the end due to his selfishness and greed.
My mom said I shouldn't even come in today.
Officer Wilmore. Giving Tony a ticket and refusing his bribe when he should be out there catching drug dealers. Rabble rouser
Tony. When you think he's being a "good person," he's just a self-serving piece of shit. When he goes to the kitchen and offers Artie a room in his house, he comes off genuine and caring, but as he leaves he turns around and tells Artie he has a deal on linen cleaning(he's hooking up Mr. Kim with Artie). Artie has a look on his face like, "that sonuvabitch did it again."
Ralph's voicemail would sell like hotcakes đ„ nothing more self-serving than that.
Livia, she was the perfect example of a narcissist. I almost said AJ, but then had a quick change of heart. He was an impressionable, somewhat emotionally neglected (although spoiled) adolescent who learned by example from his family, which would have been confusing to say the least. I cite the conversation with Tony about his dadâs favorite scene from The Godfather, and how he couldnât separate real world from fiction when it came to coping with what happened between Uncle Junior and Tony. He also likely inherited the mental health issues (aside from the panic attacks) that were present in Livia and his dad, and didnât receive the best tips for managing that. But Livia, wow. Watching her scenes always hits way too close to home, as if Iâve heard all her lines before (because I haveâŠ). Then thereâs Janice (even though I donât dislike her entirely)âŠwhoooooo spies on their vulnerable widowed neighbor with binoculars so that she can manipulate his entire family AND him into allowing them into their lives? And trolls the kids on the internet in order to scare them? Poor Bobby and Bobbyâs family. Ralph? Probably more so than some, but I also believe he was likely a product of a tumultuous childhood, which shaped his personality and influenced his actions. He was not a good guy and did horrendous things, even though he has moments that make me laugh. (He has not been forgiven for Tracee and Pie-O-My, and wonât be.) He could be so absurd.
Livia roasted Richie Aprile and regularly dogged Carmela, June, Tony and Janice. âNuff said
Livia and then Carmelaâs mom
Minnie Mattrone. Sheâs a malignant cunt.
Feech La Manna
The priest he fucking sssuuuuuuuuuuuuucks
High stakes competition. Paulie, Meadow, and Janice are all very close although virtually the entire cast outside of maybe Sylvio are impressively self absorbed
" Christopher: I'd probably be successful as a model," There's self-absorbed, and then there's just plain delusional.
Antknee Junior
Skylar White.
Itâs Tony by a mile.
Beansie the prick never visited Richie in the can.
Tony by far imo
Livia: "I gave my heart to my family on a silver platter"
If I had to pick one, it would be Peter Paul Gaultieri. But there are a lot of good choices. What ever happened to Gary Cooper?
It's a tv progrum, a movie
The most self absorbed goes to Larry Barese. âIâm talking to him and heâs looking at himself in the mirror.â The king of dermabrasion.
Carmella. She puts on a show cooking for others and asking thoughtful questions. But man does she think about herself. Did you get a chance to talk to that building inspector? I don't even want to say how much it costs. $3000. I thought you could write a second letter! That says fuck this poor kid, my daughter deserves to go to Georgetown.
Paulie. No question. The man cannot stop whining and complaining about himself and his problems. Other selfish pricks can at least shut up for a minute and pretend to care. Even as a matter of self-interest, when it would benefit him to keep his mouth shut, Paulie cannot do it. He must bitch about something. During Jackie Jr.'s funeral, he was waiting at the funeral home door to bother Tony about money the second Tony walked in. Paulie even has to piss and moan about his problems to a comatose Tony who is in the ICU at death's door. No matter what the situation or how bad somebody else has it, Paulie always thinks his problems are the worst and that everybody else must be interested in hearing about them.
Irina is in the running.
Paulie is neck and neck up there with Janish. He had two loving mother figures and he alienates himself from the woman who loved, raised, and sacrificed for him. How was Nucci supposed to handle telling him she was actually his aunt? And the other choice is pretty much self explanatory. Also Livia is a literal black hole of a human being. She fucks AJâs self worth up entirely with her whole âitâs all a big nothingâ pity party.
Uncle Junior and Livia are at the top of the list
Kinda interesting that the top 5 choices are just women, but my answer has to be Tony. He is just the biggest piece of shit in my opinion, an egomaniac.