With Tony being whacked eating dinner, Sil in a coma, it would appear obvious Paulie is the highest ranking member left unscathed.
Both New York and New Jersey were completely decimated come the season finale.
Is he boss material? Kind of reminds me a bit of Phil Leatardo. Maybe not expecting much from him at first at the top of the tree but surpasses everyone's expectations in the role.
Who is left that we know of who could be new Captains, Underboss etc?
Paulie didn't even want to be captain of the Aprile crew. I doubt he would be the guy to take the big chair.
Assuming Silvio didn't recover, I think the new boss would probably be Albert "Ally Boy" Barese. Supposedly they were the largest crew in the family.
Wasn't Paulie promoted at the end of the show to Underboss?
Albert Barese was only "Acting Capo" whilst Larry Barese was in jail.
Would imagine if Larry got out though that he'd be Boss.
I thought it was Bobby as UB toward the end and Larry was in jail for good.
On second thought, it might have ended up being Paulie. Since I suspect the hit on Tony was done by New York - either Butchie or Little Carmine - it seems reasonable that someone with NY connections might have become boss when the smoke cleared. As far as I recall, Paulie was the only one other than Tony who had some relationship with the New York families.
Bobby Baccala was killed buying his kids toys I think. The relationship between him and Jr. was one of my favourite aspects of the show.
Think your right about Larry Barese though.
Find it interesting as to who would fill out the Captain positions. Think it's Benny who was given his button after he almost got killed. Maybe a bit young to be a captain but they never seemed to show many crew members from the Barese side.
Likely someone in that crew would be bumped to Capo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sc1JP6OaeE8
I'm pretty sure Paulie would be the new boss. There was a bit of foreshadowing in this last ever scene with Tony and Paulie outside of Satriale's. Notes from this scene: Christopher drives by in a silver sporty car, Paulie's look of dread, and after Tony walks away Paulie is all alone sunbathing and the cat(Christopher?) saddles up to him.
In the end, Carlo has made a deal with the FBI. Junior's in a hospital with Alzheimer's. Bobby got whacked. Silvio's in a coma with little chance of ever waking up. Tony is about to be killed..the whole crew has been wiped out..all this means you know who's running North Jersey..Paulie Walnuts and Patsy Parisi.
Albert was nowhere to be found in the final season though. Seriously, watch it again especially during the conflict with Phil Leotardo
sharePaulie's stint at being the boss would be a short lived disaster. He completely lacks the savvy & temperament to be an effective boss. Paulie seemed best suited as a senior street soldier/ captain and then only when Tony was there to keep him in line.
sharePaulie is the only remaining member of the made men crew, all the others have died, he is also the oldest and once who has been doing this thing the longest since he used to run with Tony's dad, yet the only one who has survived, kinda funny and ironic.
shareHe survived by the skin of his balls just like when the Colombo's were going at it.
shareBenny Fazio criminal mastermind
shareYou are assuming Tony got wacked.
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