That's so important - even if the episode was below average the endings left you with something that lingered in your mind for a long time afterwards. And so often they'd leave you with a new song you'd never heard before.
Favorite scene of the entire series. If you read the lyrics to The Valley it’s spot on to the next episode where Christopher is killed. “Out of the darkness and into the light”. What happens after the accident and tony starts to kill him? They are in the darkness of night and then a light sweeps across the sky from above. I love how at the end of the scene Christopher walks into the house and closes the door. The shot then stays on the door for a few seconds more then it should have. Then cuts to black and then stays black for longer then it should have , just like the final scene of the entire series. This Los Lobos album is actually really good.
This is David chase’s most moving piece of work throughout the series imo. So much contrasting imagery at play. Christopher’s overwhelmed conscious forcing him to replant the tree as if it somehow levels the score for the sins he’s committed. The contrast of how far he’s come materialistically from when we first met him as a poor but generally well-meaning kid (mansion, brand-new suv, expensive suit) vs how low he’s sunk morally to get there. A defeated man, caught hopelessly in the throes of addiction despite his best efforts, ridiculed by his supposed “family” and ruthlessly manipulated by his father figure, yet so cowardly the person he punishes for his own mistakes is one of the few people who ever genuinely cared for his well being. And of course, all brought together by a hauntingly soft yet chilling melody playing in the background. I would say this show was ahead of it’s time but that would imply others have met the standard it set in the 15 years since the screen cut to black.
More than any other Soprano’s character, Christopher’s character arc mirrored Tony’s perception of him. He went from the promising young apprentice who Tony viewed as a son in many senses to just another resented nuisance who was manipulated and disposed of once he no longer served a purpose. People talk about Carm or A.J. being the saddest characters but there’s no one Tony truly chewed up and spit back out more than Christopher. Sold his soul for a man who ended up hating him.
I don’t see why people think Carmela is the saddest character, Carmela is hypocritical, she’s an enabler, she knows full well what her husband does for a living and doesn’t care because she’s sitting on a mountain of luxury and even once admitted that Tonys life of crime and power turned her on, she thinks by going to a chapel and crying to a priest that it assuages her of any guilt just because she’s a practicing Catholic, she’s just a horrible human being, AJ on the other hand is just a product of his environment being spoiled and lazy, his parents failed him
This ending along with Chris throwing away his script floppy disks and Tony waking up at the Bing after killing Ralph will forever be my favorite episode endings.
For me I think House Arrest, Cold Cuts, and Stage 5 have the best endings. House Arrest (Season 2 episode, just the guys all happy, things are good, they witness a car wreck, Agent Harris and Tony have a friendly chat, Johnny Thunders "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory) Cold Cuts (s5 episode, Tony and Tony B mock Chris for his sobriety and then Tony later mocks and tears down Janice for bettering herself when he knows he cannot. The Kinks "I'm Not Like Everybody Else"). Stage 5 (Phil has finally had enough of everything, Tony and Chris share one last embrace, but the love is gone, John Cooper Clarke "Evidently Chickentown")
Phenomenal take but I would add Long Term Parking. The panning up from the leaves and Tony’s shoes as a visual cue for what their lives are built on with Shawn Smith’s “Wrapped in My Memory” is too good
Another incredible part of this show was the music. I’m one of thousands that discovered this awesome song as a result of watching the greatest show of all time!
I watched this scene with teary eyes. Oh.. how I missed Adriana in this scene when there was nobody to console him and talk his heart out. He could have gone, instead he chose to stay and cost him everything.
Plus when Christopher walks into the house and shuts the door the camera holds on the door for eight seconds, longer then it should have. While on the door the following lyrics are sung “work through the day , for as long as we are able.” After that last word it cuts to a black screen foreshadowing his death. He won’t be able to work much longer because he is killed the next episode. The screen stays black for three to four seconds.
This series had terrible people but they felt real. Chris was a reprehensible character. Like pretty much everyone else. But you couldn't help but feel empathy for him.
Its a reflection of his nature. He was groomed into this toxic asshole who betrays everyone by Tony, and then when he goes to his friend to vent about how much he hates his friends, the mafia, his friend doesnt even care about him, and just wants him to leave him alone. What is worse is that JT basically rejected Christopher's pity and regret and insisted that he is a mafioso bully, and nothing else. Or at least, that's how Chris interpreted it. The whole thing is just how absolutely alone Christopher is in life. Especially when he betrayed Adriana.
@@AndrewJ9673 these show had such reclusive characters. But they were great character studies nonetheless. You can't help but pity chris here. Or even tony.
This scene still has me on the verge of tears and very silent and nostalgic. I watched the series as it aired and remember knowing (even before the next episode aired) that this was the end for Chrissy. And the end of the show itself pretty soon. 😔
In ancient times To a place so far away Across the land Where the earth was As tough as clay Looked at their hands Looked all around And they seemed pleased At what they had found Here in the valley Bread on the table Work through the day For as long as we are able Green is the valley Blue is the night Out of the shadows Into the light They could have gone But instead they chose to stay To watch the clouds way up high As they turned to gray And through the dark Broke a crimson sun And at that moment Knew their lives had just begun Here in the valley Bread on the table Work through the day For as long as we are able Green is the valley Blue is the night Out of the darkness Into the light Here in the valley Bread on the table Work through the day For as long as we are able Green is the valley Blue is the night Out of the darkness Into the light
Chris is a terrible person and severely flawed, but even when he tries to pull his life together and improve he's just too broken to stand up straight and walk like a man.
It's so rare that a show will present you with a person like him, who just will not get better. Who, for every step forward takes ten steps back. It must be tempting to give him a redemptive arc, but the central brilliance of Sopranos and what made it unique is that it never fell into that trap. The characters didn't have arcs. They just existed, and, as we learn as we get older, people really don't change. Chrissie was just a terrible human being, and remained that way throughout. But you still root for him to make it. It still broke my heart a little when I saw him wailing in the fetal position when he finds out Adrianna's been informing behind his back. You see these two people who love each other, moaning in fear and agony, holding onto one another at their darkest moment, and for a moment you see that they both have a chance to do something genuinely brave, and make a run for it. Then the next season he's married someone new and never, ever mentions Adrianna ever again. He's a hypocrite and a coward, like almost everyone on earth, and he's occasionally hopeful and kind, and funny, like almost everyone on earth. We all contain multitudes. None of us are wholly bad or good; The Sopranos recognised this ambiguity and that's why these characters seemed so real.
I was struggling with heroin on and off during the run of Sopranos and the show always gave me strength. This ending of this episode with this song had me in tears and pondering life. Beautiful yet sad.
The music, the setting, cinematography, the metaphors: To hell with 'just' The Sopranos, this is quite possibly the best ending to any TV episode...ever. We are not worthy.
I only just realised this is where Christopher has a last attempt at fully dedicating himself to the mafia but it’s already too late he’s been ostrified, like the tree Christopher can’t fix what’s already been broken
The sopranos won't show it but you can just imagine how awful it must be to keep living after what he did. Big house and fancy cars and clothes or not damn he should have chose the people who actually loved him so sad. Pretty self explanatory why he got high and why tony killed him. The ade episode is really where I felt disconnected from all the characters and was just watching for q conclusion , only got worse (inside of the show not the show) from there lol
Christopher was always living in regret of what he did to Ade. He was more conscious of it at times than at others. He has nobody in his life left to vent to, like he did to Ade time and time again. He goes to some guy he knows from AA and all the dude does is brush him off and ignore his desire to change. Chrissy trying to fix that tree is just indicative of so much stuff for me too. He wants so desperately to atone for all his regrets and sins, but its way too late. The roots are broken, he's living in a hell that he's designed for himself.
As terrible of a person chris was he was somewhat of a tragic personality. This was a bittersweet send off to his character before being killed off in the next episode
Like all great shows/films its all casting. Chris is in fact a Pisces in real life and I think he is perfectly cast for a human that is dealing with emotional conflict, wanting to be loved, wondering what we are all doing here on the planet etc, real Pisces stuff and he brings that to the role.
Christopher knows he fucked up when he was smokin tar and when he whacked JT, that was it but after that he’s acting like none of that shit matters. True Gangster 💯
Chris literally killed JT out of insecurity, it’s not a “gangster” moment at all none of this series is. Chris has finally broken after all the shit his father figure Tony has put him through, nobody’s a “gansta” in this series, the morally corrupted lifestyle breaks them all slowly over time
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The plant stands tall but the roots are broken, just like Chris. Fantastic metaphor.
Didn't think of that. What a show.
Goddamn this scene broke me
Perfect comment
Chrissy never had the makings of a varsity gardener!!
Beautifully said
It's unbelievable how many Sopranos endings were so powerful.
That's so important - even if the episode was below average the endings left you with something that lingered in your mind for a long time afterwards. And so often they'd leave you with a new song you'd never heard before.
@@thesprawl2361 happy to say the sopranos widened my music interest by a lot - this song included.
They have that edge over every other show. Nobody did endings like The Sopranos.
This was definitely one of them idk how they did it back then this is a true masterpiece of a show
Season 6 had some of the best endings in tv history it's actually insane
Agreed. Part B of Season 6 alone has several of them.
This ending gives me chills. It’s perfect. And I’ve loved this song ever since hearing it from this episode.
Me2 just like the final shot where Bobby had just done his first hit.
@@easygrin1127 yes that one ! As " this magic moment " plays. Great scene
Me too
This ending, probably the only scene that beats the finale’s ending. Amazing.. just amazing
Dont forget the ending of the episode that ends with the song Evidently Chickentown. Chilling.
Agreed. It makes me incredibly sad for Christopher. He does most of it to himself, but still.
Breaking bad and better call saul learn from sopranos and how they added songs such as this from los lobos in the valley
@@stitch9677 Yes
@@stitch9677 What are you referring to?
Favorite scene of the entire series. If you read the lyrics to The Valley it’s spot on to the next episode where Christopher is killed. “Out of the darkness and into the light”. What happens after the accident and tony starts to kill him? They are in the darkness of night and then a light sweeps across the sky from above.
I love how at the end of the scene Christopher walks into the house and closes the door. The shot then stays on the door for a few seconds more then it should have. Then cuts to black and then stays black for longer then it should have , just like the final scene of the entire series.
This Los Lobos album is actually really good.
Im so glad everyone was as touched by this scene as I was.
God I love this damn T.V. show.
Jesus. What a Show.
This is David chase’s most moving piece of work throughout the series imo.
So much contrasting imagery at play. Christopher’s overwhelmed conscious forcing him to replant the tree as if it somehow levels the score for the sins he’s committed.
The contrast of how far he’s come materialistically from when we first met him as a poor but generally well-meaning kid (mansion, brand-new suv, expensive suit) vs how low he’s sunk morally to get there. A defeated man, caught hopelessly in the throes of addiction despite his best efforts, ridiculed by his supposed “family” and ruthlessly manipulated by his father figure, yet so cowardly the person he punishes for his own mistakes is one of the few people who ever genuinely cared for his well being.
And of course, all brought together by a hauntingly soft yet chilling melody playing in the background. I would say this show was ahead of it’s time but that would imply others have met the standard it set in the 15 years since the screen cut to black.
^ I know some of these words
Wow what a beautiful way to put it I envy people who can say things as well as you just did.
I agree. This might be my favorite Sopranos moment, and that's really saying something.
There is no show like the Sopranos. Simple
More than any other Soprano’s character, Christopher’s character arc mirrored Tony’s perception of him.
He went from the promising young apprentice who Tony viewed as a son in many senses to just another resented nuisance who was manipulated and disposed of once he no longer served a purpose.
People talk about Carm or A.J. being the saddest characters but there’s no one Tony truly chewed up and spit back out more than Christopher. Sold his soul for a man who ended up hating him.
Great way to put it
I don’t see why people think Carmela is the saddest character, Carmela is hypocritical, she’s an enabler, she knows full well what her husband does for a living and doesn’t care because she’s sitting on a mountain of luxury and even once admitted that Tonys life of crime and power turned her on, she thinks by going to a chapel and crying to a priest that it assuages her of any guilt just because she’s a practicing Catholic, she’s just a horrible human being, AJ on the other hand is just a product of his environment being spoiled and lazy, his parents failed him
The music on this show alone was deeper than most award-winning shows could ever hope for in their entirety.
This ending along with Chris throwing away his script floppy disks and Tony waking up at the Bing after killing Ralph will forever be my favorite episode endings.
For me I think House Arrest, Cold Cuts, and Stage 5 have the best endings.
House Arrest (Season 2 episode, just the guys all happy, things are good, they witness a car wreck, Agent Harris and Tony have a friendly chat, Johnny Thunders "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory)
Cold Cuts (s5 episode, Tony and Tony B mock Chris for his sobriety and then Tony later mocks and tears down Janice for bettering herself when he knows he cannot. The Kinks "I'm Not Like Everybody Else").
Stage 5 (Phil has finally had enough of everything, Tony and Chris share one last embrace, but the love is gone, John Cooper Clarke "Evidently Chickentown")
Phenomenal take but I would add Long Term Parking. The panning up from the leaves and Tony’s shoes as a visual cue for what their lives are built on with Shawn Smith’s “Wrapped in My Memory” is too good
Another incredible part of this show was the music. I’m one of thousands that discovered this awesome song as a result of watching the greatest show of all time!
This song always gets me emotional.
I watched this scene with teary eyes. Oh.. how I missed Adriana in this scene when there was nobody to console him and talk his heart out. He could have gone, instead he chose to stay and cost him everything.
Thanks for uploading this
This scene has really stuck with me as well as the song
This scene and Christopher’s drug trip in the carnival (Fred neil the dolphins)
Poor kid never had a chance
Plus when Christopher walks into the house and shuts the door the camera holds on the door for eight seconds, longer then it should have. While on the door the following lyrics are sung “work through the day , for as long as we are able.” After that last word it cuts to a black screen foreshadowing his death. He won’t be able to work much longer because he is killed the next episode. The screen stays black for three to four seconds.
This scene is so sad... It's the final of Christopher Moltisanti:'(
He died at the beginning of the next episode.
one of the few scenes in which I cried, very sad
@@PPopov-pi3mc he’s gone now our Chrissy 😢
He 100% wanted out at this point he realised he could be different than the rest
Tragic character. Could never get away from it. Never stood a chance.
The sopranos had a knack for making you feel pity for reprehensible characters
@@jonathanramos8414 It did. Its a masterpiece.
@@splinter360 the writers were just top notch
He sure tried he just couldn’t sell it
This scene solidified Christopher as one of the best TV characters of all time. Not only that but my favorite too ❤
I had this song stuck in my head for years. I forgot where heard it until rewatching this episode.
My favorite ending to my favorite episode.
xddd
A Tragic ending to a Tragic Character. There will never be anything like the sopranos.
This series had terrible people but they felt real. Chris was a reprehensible character. Like pretty much everyone else. But you couldn't help but feel empathy for him.
You feel so sad for Chrissy here that we forget he just murdered an innocent man who he saw as a friend.
Its a reflection of his nature. He was groomed into this toxic asshole who betrays everyone by Tony, and then when he goes to his friend to vent about how much he hates his friends, the mafia, his friend doesnt even care about him, and just wants him to leave him alone. What is worse is that JT basically rejected Christopher's pity and regret and insisted that he is a mafioso bully, and nothing else. Or at least, that's how Chris interpreted it.
The whole thing is just how absolutely alone Christopher is in life. Especially when he betrayed Adriana.
@@AndrewJ9673 these show had such reclusive characters. But they were great character studies nonetheless. You can't help but pity chris here. Or even tony.
@@AndrewJ9673I always say the only decent one was Bobby. But even he dies
Not alot of crime dramas deal with themes like existentialism.
every day i come home like this
You straighten that tree, Christopher.
And I’m crying
Probably my favorite ending to a sopranos episode. Being that los lobos are from my hometown of East Los Angeles makes it 100x better !🇲🇽🇺🇲
This scene still has me on the verge of tears and very silent and nostalgic. I watched the series as it aired and remember knowing (even before the next episode aired) that this was the end for Chrissy. And the end of the show itself pretty soon. 😔
Los Lobos! They are teeming with great songs ... in case you didn't know.
I’ve commented a few times on this scene here but I keep coming back to this because it’s the best Sopranos scene of all time and it’s not even close.
In ancient times
To a place so far away
Across the land
Where the earth was
As tough as clay
Looked at their hands
Looked all around
And they seemed pleased
At what they had found
Here in the valley
Bread on the table
Work through the day
For as long as we are able
Green is the valley
Blue is the night
Out of the shadows
Into the light
They could have gone
But instead they chose to stay
To watch the clouds way up high
As they turned to gray
And through the dark
Broke a crimson sun
And at that moment
Knew their lives had just begun
Here in the valley
Bread on the table
Work through the day
For as long as we are able
Green is the valley
Blue is the night
Out of the darkness
Into the light
Here in the valley
Bread on the table
Work through the day
For as long as we are able
Green is the valley
Blue is the night
Out of the darkness
Into the light
Chris is a terrible person and severely flawed, but even when he tries to pull his life together and improve he's just too broken to stand up straight and walk like a man.
It's so rare that a show will present you with a person like him, who just will not get better. Who, for every step forward takes ten steps back. It must be tempting to give him a redemptive arc, but the central brilliance of Sopranos and what made it unique is that it never fell into that trap. The characters didn't have arcs. They just existed, and, as we learn as we get older, people really don't change. Chrissie was just a terrible human being, and remained that way throughout. But you still root for him to make it. It still broke my heart a little when I saw him wailing in the fetal position when he finds out Adrianna's been informing behind his back. You see these two people who love each other, moaning in fear and agony, holding onto one another at their darkest moment, and for a moment you see that they both have a chance to do something genuinely brave, and make a run for it.
Then the next season he's married someone new and never, ever mentions Adrianna ever again. He's a hypocrite and a coward, like almost everyone on earth, and he's occasionally hopeful and kind, and funny, like almost everyone on earth. We all contain multitudes. None of us are wholly bad or good; The Sopranos recognised this ambiguity and that's why these characters seemed so real.
Chris wasn’t able to fix anything in his life. He creates a sense of peace “fixing” the tree. At least he was able to “fix” one thing
Fave ending in the entire series, perfect song for it too
Minha cena favorita.....personagem também
Barley keeping it together........is what I get out of this scene
We’re all just trying brother
I was struggling with heroin on and off during the run of Sopranos and the show always gave me strength. This ending of this episode with this song had me in tears and pondering life. Beautiful yet sad.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 glad you’re around still king.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 stay strong brother 💪🏼👑 you got this
@@flightofthebumblebee9529stay strong stay safe man
The music, the setting, cinematography, the metaphors: To hell with 'just' The Sopranos, this is quite possibly the best ending to any TV episode...ever. We are not worthy.
I only just realised this is where Christopher has a last attempt at fully dedicating himself to the mafia but it’s already too late he’s been ostrified, like the tree Christopher can’t fix what’s already been broken
My personal favourite episode
Art.
The tree was broken and needed to cover up its vulnerability. Same as chris.
1:14 Should have left with Ade, eh Chrissy?
My favorite episode ending, and probably one of the best goodbyes to a character I’ve ever seen.
This is a top 5 episode
Great fuckin show
THE BEST FUCKING SHOW !! 🤟🏼
Damn Chris reminds me of me. Nobody cares about us
Idk you but I care for you brother
D girl beginning and this the ending… his escape was acting, not writing(maybe later), however he couldn’t deal with the emotions it triggered. 😢
My favorite episode. Unfortunately, most relatable.
This little scene was so powerful.
The sopranos won't show it but you can just imagine how awful it must be to keep living after what he did. Big house and fancy cars and clothes or not damn he should have chose the people who actually loved him so sad. Pretty self explanatory why he got high and why tony killed him. The ade episode is really where I felt disconnected from all the characters and was just watching for q conclusion , only got worse (inside of the show not the show) from there lol
Christopher was always living in regret of what he did to Ade. He was more conscious of it at times than at others. He has nobody in his life left to vent to, like he did to Ade time and time again. He goes to some guy he knows from AA and all the dude does is brush him off and ignore his desire to change.
Chrissy trying to fix that tree is just indicative of so much stuff for me too. He wants so desperately to atone for all his regrets and sins, but its way too late. The roots are broken, he's living in a hell that he's designed for himself.
Totally different for Los Lobos...so fine!
was all great.
As terrible of a person chris was he was somewhat of a tragic personality. This was a bittersweet send off to his character before being killed off in the next episode
Damn Chrissy...
Like all great shows/films its all casting. Chris is in fact a Pisces in real life and I think he is perfectly cast for a human that is dealing with emotional conflict, wanting to be loved, wondering what we are all doing here on the planet etc, real Pisces stuff and he brings that to the role.
Sad fucking scene man
And he literally just murdered an innocent man. But this song makes you feel sorrow for him
No words…
Sopranos - anthisisis of song's lyric moral !
Then heidi and keneddy are next 😢😢😢😢
♥️🩸
Sad 😢
Duele quema me lastima
Hoy es la primera vez que vi este capítulo y concuerdo contigo, todo el día ha sido muy dolororoso, despues de ver esta increible escena.
Christopher knows he fucked up when he was smokin tar and when he whacked JT, that was it but after that he’s acting like none of that shit matters. True Gangster 💯
Chris literally killed JT out of insecurity, it’s not a “gangster” moment at all none of this series is. Chris has finally broken after all the shit his father figure Tony has put him through, nobody’s a “gansta” in this series, the morally corrupted lifestyle breaks them all slowly over time
Chrissy was addicted to the lifestyle and that's what cost him his soul.
He had an addictive personality
I think Christopher could never grow up that’s why he had to die he couldn’t walk like a man
Rwally wish chris killed paulie and not just all of a sudden lose his balls like what?