Favorite Episodes: Sopranos Home Movies and Pine Barrens
Least Favorites: Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office... and Christopher
Best Gag: Paulie's weight joke about Bobby and Vito
Favorite Mob Character: Paulie
Least Favorite: Ralph Cifaretto
Favorite Character Not in Mob: Artie
Least Favorite: AJ
Best Murder: Ralph getting beaten to death, this is tops cause Joey Pants hairpiece gets ripped off during the cleanup.
Worst Murder: Paulie on the old lady
Best Scene: Everything in the Pine Barrens.
Worst Scene: Columbus Day bullshit
Season Ranking
1. 4
2. 3
3. 6B
4. 5
5. 2
6. 1
7. 6A
Kinda fucked up that Season 1, which is one of the best seasons of TV ever gets 6th place. Maybe my rankings are fucked up. But the show is that great.
I realize this post is 6 years old, but I just finished my own rewatch and I want to do my own take:
Favorite Episodes:
1. Pine Barrens
2. Long Term Parking
3. The Blue Comet
4. Funhouse
5. Knight In White Satin Armor
6. Whitecaps
7. Sopranos Home Movies
8. I Dream Of Jeanne Cusamano
9. Kennedy And Heidi
10. Made In America
Honorable Mentions - College, D-Girl, Big Girls Don't Cry, Isabella, Whoever Did This, Amour Fou, The Strong Silent Type, Irregular Around The Margins, Cold Cuts, All Due Respect, Members Only, Join The Club, The Test Dream
Least Favorites:
1. Christopher
2. A Hit Is A Hit
3. In Camelot
4. Luxury Lounge
5. Kaisha
6. Chasing It
7. Sentimental Education (The Carmela/Wegler stuff just doesn't do it for me)
8. Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood (I get the love for this one, but I can't find myself caring about the FBI characters. This feels like a filler that was made because of Nancy Marchand's death. I did like Patsy's storyline, but I find the episode kind of boring)
9. Live Free Or Die (I'd have the Johnny Cakes episode here, but AJ trying to kill Uncle Junior was a great story line and his scene with Tony was incredibly. This episode has a few laughs, but the Vito derails everything.)
10. Commendatori (Feels like a missed opportunity. The guys in Italy should've been more interesting than it was. At least it introduced Furio.
Best Gag: The Interior Decorator mixup from Pine Barrens or Paulie repeating jokes to Tony
Favorite Mob Character: Tony's the best Mob character hands down with Chris right behind him, but Paulie, Junior, Silvio, and Bobby are all entertaining and hilarious. I also love Johnny Sack more with every viewing as he's just so damn cool. I guess if push comes to shove, I'll go with Paulie.
Least Favorite: No other choice but Vito. The actor is terrible and his New Hampshire storyline could've been great with someone that wasn't so wooden. He had zero screen presence or charisma or charm or likability.
Favorite Character Not in Mob: Carmela. Edie Falco is so amazing, she has to get the top spot. Janice is a really frustrating character, but Aida Turturro totally nailed that character and deserves a mention. I imagine most everyone has someone similar to Janice in their family. Her character was ultra realistic.
Least Favorite: Melfi after Employee of The Month from season 3. The therapy stuff had some great Tony moments, but around the middle of season 3 and after felt a bit like padding. It's usually pretty obvious from Gandolfini's facial expressions what Tony is thinking and a lot of the scenes felt like useless exposition. Elliott is also pretty bad, but not in enough scenes.
Best Murder: Phil's death is spectacular. Just everything about it is amazing.
Worst Murder: I don't really know. I guess for being icky, Adriana's, Bobby's, and Tracee's make me uncomfortable.
Best Scene: Carmela and Tony's two arguments in Whitecaps, Phil's Murder, Janice killing Richie, Tony and Ralph's fight, Christopher freaking out after Adriana told him she's been talking to the feds, Paulie at the psychic, Paulie and Christopher during Pine Barrens, Bobby and Tony's fight, the ending with Evidently Chickentown playing when Tony and Chris give that hug with both guys looking expression less, Tony yelling at AJ after he pathetically tries to go after Junior, Tony's final scene with Junior, and so many more
Worst Scene: The goomar of Tony's dad singing Happy Birthday, Vito's Johnny cakes line, or Carmela's weird freeze frame after telling Wegler she's going back to Tony
Season Ranking
1. 6B
2. 2
3. 5
4. 1
5. 3
6. 4
7. 6A
It's really hard to rank. 6A is clearly the bottom, but I do love most of 3, and 4. I just think 1 and 5 felt more cohesive I guess. You can have 1-6 in any order and it would feel right to me.