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The Sopranos: Amour Fou (2001)
Scorria is overrated
Compelling episode as always. But IMO opinion in this episode, one can tell Annabella Scorria isn't a very good actress. It's in the eyes. A good actor, such as James Gandolfini, always acts as if it's a real situation. That means that the eyes take part in every emotion a person is having. However, when Gloria is furious (which she is on multiple occasions in the ep), her eyes remain neutral. That is absolutely unnatural and would never occur in real life. One's eyes would spit fire!
In the case of Tony for example, or Adriana, or Carmela, or Paulie, their eyes always take part in the emotion portrayed. That's how it should be. Scorria is IMO overrated as an actress.
It's in the eyes, folks, it's in the eyes.
The Sopranos: Proshai, Livushka (2001)
A little awkward
As some other reviewers pointed out, this episode was a little awkward. Nancy Marchand, who played Livia, had suddenly died. As a result, they had to make an episode about Livia who had died, but without the actress!
What to do?
They solved it by filming Livia from behind so they could use a stand-in with same hairdo. Also, Livia's head was edited into some scenes, where I think they used her head from scenes of seasons 1 and 2, particularly because she doesn't say anything.content-related in the conversation with Tony. What she says is all very general and would be applicable in any situation.
Understandably, this all.makes up for a not-so-typical Sopranos episode that wasn't very compelling.