Pine Barrens Episode Director
Steve Buscemi! I had no idea.
shareThat episode was great television.
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I've noticed he directed several.
shareIf it's the ep' I think it is, it's one of my favorites. I know the eps had names, but most shows don't actually show the name of the ep during the show, amirite?
shareCorrect, they do not show it during the credits. This was the episode where Paulie and Christopher ended up in a fight with a Russian guy and thought they killed him, so they put him in the trunk and drove out to the Pine Barrens (a densely wooded area of New Jersey) to dump the body. I don't want to say more just in case you haven't seen it.
shareThanks for your consideration. I have seen the whole series, but I also forget a lot of details. I know the one you're talking about, but it's not the one I was thinking of, a very early episode that features that great black humor The Sopranos is known for. Some low-level mobster is having a fight with his girlfriend and goes out for a run in the woods. The girl bitches him out as he leaves. The poor guy is dispatched out during his jog, and when the TV news people talk to her, she's balling her eyes out saying how much she loved the guy. It's a complete 180 from how she treated him just a few hours earlier, and very funny. I don't remember who the guy was, who he worked for and who killed him, so I don't think this is much of a spoiler.
shareYou're thinking of Mikey Palmice, who worked for Corrado "Junior" Soprano (Tony's uncle). He was killed by the same guys I mentioned -- Paulie and Christopher -- near the end of Season 1.
Pine Barrens was probably the funniest of all the Sopranos episodes. Probably 75% of it consisted of the same kind of black humor that surrounded Mikey's assassination.
One of my fave Soprano episodes is when the Italians are pissed because people want to eliminate Columbus Day and they end up admiring Native Americans and considering the casino business. It seemed to have a little less carnage and had an ironic humor to it. Not that Sylvio lacked screen time, back I think this episode featured him a little more, but I'm not sure about that.
shareYou are right, Silvio was the driving force behind the effort to defend Columbus Day in that episode.
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