46 Long

"46 Long"
The Sopranos episode
Episode no. Season 1
Episode 2
Directed by Dan Attias
Written by David Chase
Cinematography by Alik Sakharov
Production code 102
Original air date January 17, 1999
Running time 50 minutes
Guest appearance(s)

see below

"46 Long" is the second episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos. It was written by David Chase, directed by Dan Attias and was originally broadcast on January 17, 1999, in the United States.

Starring

Guest starring

Also guest starring

Episode recap

Christopher and Brendan Filone hijack a shipment of DVD players and assault the truck driver to avoid suspicion. They deliver the players to Tony, Silvio and Paulie Gualtieri at their strip club, the Bada Bing. Tony distrusts Brendan and tells Chris he does not like his friend's meth habit.

Chris and Brendan's truck hijackings also upset Junior Soprano, who is being paid to protect the truck they're targeting. After Junior has a sit-down with Tony and the DiMeo family's acting boss, Jackie Aprile, Sr., he complains about the duo's shenanigans. It is revealed that Jackie has cancer and is musing over naming his successor. When Tony leaves, Junior complains about Tony's treatment of Livia. Tony relays Junior's message to Chris, who complains to Tony that he is due his button after his work on the Kolar dispute. Tony throws out Brendan when he insults Jackie. He takes Chris's $15,000 tribute and pockets $5,000, only giving Junior $10,000 while not telling Chris and Brendan.

Brendan and Chris, both high on crystal meth, ignore Jackie's edict and plan to hijack a shipment of Italian suits. However, when Brendan arrives to pick up his partner in crime, a sober and reflective Chris decides to sit the job out. Brendan proceeds with the hijacking along with two cohorts, Antjuan and Special K. Special K accidentally kills the truck driver from the ricochet bullet, causing the accomplices to flee while leaving Brendan behind. After Tony learns of this from Chris, he orders his nephew and Brendan to return the truck and pay restitution, but not before his crew help themselves to a small number of suits.

Paulie and Big Pussy are sent to find out who stole the car of A.J's science teacher. They are able to find the perpetrators but find the car has been "chopped" into parts, which forces them to steal a new one in its place. After the teacher receives a similar-looking vehicle, thinking it's the same one, A.J. mentions that his father is a hero. The teacher, however, is confused as to why the paint is still wet, the interior is a different color, and the key is different despite the presence of identical plates.

After a fire in Livia's kitchen, Carmela suggests that she needs to live with others and even offers to have Livia come live with her family. Livia rejects both offers and becomes distraught about the loss of her husband, a "saint." Tony hires a Trinidadian nurse to take care of her. Livia complains to Tony that the nurse has been stealing, and makes racist comments which cause the nurse to quit. Livia drives her friend Fanny home and accidentally knocks her over while attempting to back out of the driveway. Her doctors say she cannot live alone any longer, and Tony places his mother in the Green Grove retirement community. While visiting her house to pack up her things, Tony has another panic attack, this time a minor one.

Tony's therapy continues with Dr. Melfi. He is feeling guilty about not being able to have his mother live with his family. Melfi tries to show him that his mother is a difficult person, pointing to her relationship with Tony's siblings and lack of happy childhood memories. Tony blames Carmela for preventing his mother from living with them, and refuses to shift his blame for the situation onto his mother. In another session, Melfi pushes Tony to admit he has feelings of anger and hatred towards his mother, causing him to storm out. Later, Georgie, the barman at the Bada Bing, becomes confused when using the telephone in a manner similar to Livia. Tony beats him with a telephone handset, showing the displacement of anger Dr. Melfi warned him would occur if he did not accept his feelings.

First appearances

Deceased

Title reference

46-Long is a large man's suit size.[1] Silvio, Pussy, et al. try on the Italian suits Christopher and Brendan hijacked.

Cultural references

Production

Reception

Alan Sepinwall was mildly positive toward the episode, writing that "some of it – particularly anything involving Tony and Livia […] feels fully-formed and very much of a piece with what we would come to know as one of the greatest shows ever made. And some of it is David Chase still fiddling with the knobs and levers"; Sepinwall considered the family-oriented scenes strong while viewing the subplot about the car theft as "still on the broader, lighter end of the comedy spectrum, […] It's not bad, but it's not quite right, either."[2] In The A.V. Club, however, Todd VanDerWerff praised "46 Long" as "a confident expansion of the show's universe", considering it an example of "the show's keen sense of generational conflict, of the ways that different kinds of people come into conflict with each other."[3]

Music

References

  1. ↑ Petersen, Stephanie (January 31, 2012). "Men's Suits Buying Guide". Overstock.com.
  2. ↑ Sepinwall, Alan (June 10, 2015). "‘The Sopranos’ Rewind: Season 1, Episode 2: ’46 Long'". Uproxx. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
  3. ↑ VanDerWerff, Todd (June 9, 2010). "The Sopranos: "46 Long"/"Denial, Anger, Acceptance"". The A.V. Club. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
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