Diskussioner om The Sopranos

After the opening credits, Chase introduces himself as "the creator and executive producer of the show where nothing happens". He then talks about the Stones' Moonlight Mile being perfect for the opening scene and goes on: "There's a guy kicking someone's head down a sewer; an example of nothing happening."

When Phil Leotardo and his mistress are walking up to his wire room in Sheep's Head Bay and an explosion blows them off their feet, Chase is casual. "A store gets blown up. Another example of nothing happening".

Later, as Julianna Skiff is flashing back to when she first met Christopher, Chase comments "It's interesting how people watch TV. There are people who don't, just don't see this at all. Where they are or when this takes place. Fortunately, they're in the minority, but you have to be very careful. They're confused, break the time flow. I think maybe they talk a lot or the phone's ringing in their house."

When Carmella brings up the idea of hiring a private investigator to find Adrianna to Tony, Chase says "Some people have questioned whether Carmella knows exactly what she's doing here. That she know's that Tony had something to hide and so she's pushing this in order to get her spec house back. This is what I mean, I don't know how people watch things, like, how would she possibly know that? It would be one thing to suspect Christopher had something to do with it because, in fact, there was physical abuse in that relationship. But she would never think that her husband had anything to do with that death. Put yourself in a position of a wife. Why would you ever think that? People are used to watching all these Byzantine plots on TV, so they bring that with them."

There are some other examples of Chase answering his critics, but I think he does a good job of shutting everybody up when he says "From my point of view, this episode comes very close to being a perfect Sopranos episode. It's very interesting to me and very well made. I like all the stories and the way they inter-weave with each other."