The Sopranos: What Was Junior's Problem?

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[bazjr]

Junior setting up card games in the mental home was comedy gold 😂

[littlekingtrashmouth]

Junior’s problem is that he went 🎵south of the border, where the tuna fish play🎵

[PJ-poxy]

It's crazy that Dominic Chianese is outliving most the cast and is still alive

[Teddyisoffline]

he's problem was that tony never had the makings of a varsity athlete

[no-barkthechosenone]

“Believe me, there’s plenty I’d like to forget”

Tragic line, great way to end the video

[nsaad]

I always found Junior as one of the characters the audience could learn from. Never let your ego get beyond what you're willing to work for. Junior was obsessed with superficiality.

[rzasha]

One thing that gets overlooked, almost all of Junior's crew was loyal to him till the end. Not just the old timer like Murph, Beppy, Tommy and Bobby Sr, but even the younger guys like Chuckie Signore and the Parisis brothers stayed with him through the years. Mikey Palmice and Bobby Jr practically worshiped Junior. The only one to ditch him was Gigi. That's saying something these days...

[DioBrandoWRYYYYYY]

Junior is a cautionary tale about holding on to things for too long and never reflecting on if they're still important or not. Like Junior was never meant to be a leader, but he could have been a great right hand man like Syl, but instead he ruined things for himself by being petty.

[VicenteAlonso-htui]

The thing is Tony and Junior are very similar: men with insecurities, and not too cruel, in an enviroment of merciless predators. Unlike Johny Boy who aparently was a perfect adjusted psycopath. And Corrado raised Tony almost as much as his own father

[ncapone]

Dominic Chianese's performance as Corrado was one of the best in the show

[danielrichwine]

The fact that as a grown man and as the oldest member of the family he still called Junior tells you pretty much everything you need to know about the character

[Sean]

It didn't help that Junior was under house arrest and had health issues. That's a major factor of why he was the way he was. If he'd been in the club or pork store he could have solved problems easier and not relied on people like Tony as much.

[Max-mitz]

Rip James Gandolfini. He would have been 62 today! RIP TO THE LEGEND

[enak]

One scene that shows how really doomed Junior is ... when he sees Larry David on television and starts freakin' out wondering why he's on t.v. So funny and sad at the same time ... just like uncle June (and/or Mr. Magoo)

[isaacoglan]

Junior has the saddest ending to me. Left alone with no one and nothing to show for his whole life.

[Lexthebarbarian]

Sharp as a fucking cue ball...Unfortunately, it did not lead to promotion within the hierarchy. The scene where Tony asks if he doesn't love him is strong. Love that one.

[miajenn]

Tony in the beginning: “Someday soon, you're gonna have families of your own and if you're lucky, you'll remember the little moments like this, that were good.”

Junior at the very end: "We used to play catch"

🥺

[bosunbill]

A guy called "Junior" with insecurity issues? Big surprises.

[tacitus]

Junior really was, ultimately, a rather sad and pathetic figure when you think about him. He grew up in the shadow of his more successful brother, he never married, never had kids, a family of his own, he was single for most of his life and just seemed bitter and miserable. He sold his soul to the mafia and what for? The guy lived a material life no better than any pensioner, and any sense of power he had was immaterial as those around him didn't respect him and even used him as a lightning rod for the feds and at the end of it all his mind rotted away and he died of dementia/Alzheimer's.
He lived a pretty sad and empty life and he sold his soul in exchange for power, wealth and respect yet acquired very little of it.

[licmir]

Junior in the first season seems like a completely different character from later seasons. I couldn’t understand how he became a capo being so incompetent, oblivious to what all the other capos thought of him and instead listening to Livia Soprano. After the second season he became quite savvy and gave Tony great advices. It’s a pity he became a joke in the prequel film.