I haven't been critiquing the quality of episodes much in these posts, but that's because they've all been outstanding so far. Not so with the unfortunate Boca, an episode that establishes three things heretofore unseen in the Sopranos universe - that Meadow plays girls' soccer, that her teammate is a constant presence at their house, that Junior has a mistress he's been seeing for well over a decade, and that Junior and Tony go golfing together sometimes. This latter one is quite plausible, given Junior's already established interest in athletics, but the previous two things are artifacts of a world where serialized storytelling was not the norm.
I just don't have a lot to say about this one. The Junior arc about cunnilingus feels like a true story someone told the writers that they thought they had to put on screen, and it doesn't quite work. Tony's arc is about justice and is a question as old as Aeschylus. Meadow's is probably worth addressing - the fact that she tells her father about her coach having sex with one of her teammates and he refuses to believe this at first seems of the moment, and that she sees him stumble home completely drunk after the soccer coach is arrested instead of killed. Given that we're shown this entire scene from Meadow's perspective, we're meant to consider what she thinks about this - Tony seems giddy about having this pressure taken off him, but his giddiness looks like blitheness to Meadow. She'll never know that he went through an ostensibly difficult decision to not kill someone.
Random Observations
I can't remember the malapropism in this one.
"You yap worse than six barbers!"
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