Denial, Anger, Acceptance

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"Denial, Anger, Acceptance"
The Sopranos episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 3
Directed byNick Gomez
Written byMark Saraceni
Cinematography byAlik Sakharov
Production code103
Original air dateJanuary 24, 1999 (1999-01-24)
Running time45 minutes
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"Denial, Anger, Acceptance" is the third episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos. It was written by Mark Saraceni, directed by Nick Gomez, and originally aired on January 24, 1999.

Synopsis

Hesh, who obliquely suggests threatening him with castration
; Ariel yields. Teittleman then attempts to renegotiate the agreement, but Tony menacingly refuses.

Bada Bing
, posing as a nurse, for a "private party". But Jackie, whose condition is deteriorating, cannot think of anything else.

Charmaine cater a charity event at the Sopranos' home; an argument between him and Tony turns into a boyish food fight. During the event, Carmela
offends Charmaine by seeming to treat her like a servant. Afterward, Charmaine confides to Carmela that, prior to his marriage, she slept with Tony.

Hunter Scangarelo, exhausted from choir practice and studying for the SATs, decide to purchase speed from Christopher. Christopher initially refuses, fearing Tony's wrath if he finds out; his girlfriend, Adriana La Cerva
, convinces him to do it anyway, as the girls are likely to get adulterated and unsafe drugs from less trustworthy dealers. Christopher reluctantly agrees, stressing that Meadow must never speak of it. At the recital, Meadow and Hunter, showing subtle signs of amphetamine use, sing their brief solos successfully.

After Christopher and

Russian thugs who prepare to kill him. He thinks they have been sent by Tony because he sold speed to Meadow. Terrified, he pleads for his life, but it is only a mock execution
. Brendan is shot dead in his bathtub by Mikey; Junior glances at the body.

Starring

* = credit only

Guest starring

  • Jackie Aprile, Sr
  • Hesh Rabkin
  • Artie Bucco
  • Charmaine Bucco
  • Ned Eisenberg as Ariel
  • Shlomo

Also guest starring

Production

This is the first episode where

pilot
.

Title reference

Denial, anger, and acceptance are the first, second, and fifth

Kübler-Ross model
.

Reception

In a retrospective review, Emily St. James of The A.V. Club wrote that the "[ending] montage - intercut with Tony watching Meadow sing - is one of the first moments when The Sopranos takes music and rises above its prosaic, muddy universe to become something like sublime"; St. James commented that although the episode "is a 'Let's get the plot wheels turning!' kind of episode, and those sorts of episodes can be a little trying from time to time", there is nonetheless "lots of it that is just expertly executed".[1] Alan Sepinwall praised Gandolfini's performance as well as the story involving Carmela and Charmaine, writing that the show "has a really great eye and ear for insults – particularly ones not necessarily intended as such".[2]

References

  1. ^ St. James, Emily (June 9, 2010). "The Sopranos: "46 Long"/"Denial, Anger, Acceptance"". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on August 22, 2017. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
  2. ^ Sepinwall, Alan (June 17, 2015). "'The Sopranos' Rewind: Season 1, Episode 3: 'Denial, Anger, Acceptance'". Archived from the original on April 17, 2017. Retrieved April 16, 2017.

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