The Sopranos: The Complete Second Season: Disc 1

Released 2001
Starring James Gandolfini, Dominic Chianese, Edie Falco, Jamie-Lynn Sigler, Lorraine Bracco, Robert Iler, Steve Van Zandt, Tony Sirico
Directed by Allen Coulter, Martin Bruestle

Please note that this is volume 1 of a 4 disc set. For the conclusion of this feature, you will need to rent The Sopranos: The Complete Second Season: Discs 2, 3 and 4.

For Tony Soprano, there's no such thing as business as usual. Balancing the demands of his immediate family - wife Carmel, daughter Meadow and son Anthony Jr. - with the demands of his other family - Paulie Walnuts, Silvio Dante and Bompensiero - means walking a tightrope no self-respecting mobster should have to walk. With his mother and uncle plotting against him, his older sister Janice wreaking her own special kind of havoc, and the very real threat that one of his closest allies is wired by the F.B.I, Tony needs the support of his psychiatrist more than ever.

This disc contains the following episodes:

Episode 14: Guy Walks In to a Psychiatrist's Office
The more things change, the more they stay the same - and create agitation for Tony Soprano. Tony still has his two 'famiglia,' but he's now the sole Boss of the professional one, as Junior's been indicted on twelve RICO predicates. So while his uncle spends his days sporting an orange jumpsuit, Tony is running the business bunker style and trying not to draw the Feds' attention himself. Things aren't any easier for Tony with his other family. Livia is still hospitalized - either recovering from a stroke or hiding from Tony - and his long-lost sister Janice has come home from Seattle. As for Carmela, all she wants is for Tony to get back into therapy. Unfortunately, that isn't possible, as Dr. Melfi won't let Tony anywhere near her and she refuses to refer him to anyone else

Episode 15: Do Not Resuscitate
When Pussy goes to the doctor for steroid injections in his back, the person leafing through old magazines in the waiting room is FBI Agent Skip Lipari. As they drive home afterwards it's revealed that Sal Bompensiero, AKA Pussy Bompensiero, made man and life-long friend of Tony Soprano, is facing a heroin possession charge and has become an informant for the Feds. Junior is out of jail on a medical release pending trial-- and even though he's under house arrest, the disgruntled old capo is nursing a molto grande grudge against his nephew. If that weren't enough, Freddy Capuano, the Director of Green Grove, has been going around telling people that Tony likes to fluff his mother's pillows. Although Tony doesn't know about Pussy, and Junior's not an immediate threat, this Capuano situation needs to be taken care of quickly.

Episode 16: Toodle-F-Oo
Big brother of the late, great Jackie Aprile, Richie has just finished ten years in prison and is looking to pick up where he left off. He figures it should be pretty easy, too. After all, the jerky kid he used to look out for in the old neighborhood has grown up to be none other than the current Boss, Tony Soprano.

Episode 17: Commendatori
Tony goes to the old country to conduct new business while Carmela stays home and contemplates the nature of marriage.

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The second season starts slowly. --Bill Alward