I just watched The Sopranos for the very first time, every episode. I became obsessed with the secondary characters...

Hesh Rabkin.

Tony B.

Rosalie Aprile

Patsy Parisi.

Dr. Kupferburg.

Annabella Sciorra was excellent as Gloria Trillo. I wish she had been in more episodes.

I never see Corky Caporale mentioned and he was hot. Apparently the actor wrote and starred in a Rudolph Valentino biopic, but I've never been able to find it.

Ginny Sac. The fucks wrong with you Datalounge? She was an icon!

Svetlana Kirilenko.

And Ginny was already named along with Johnny.

I've been hot for her [italic]forever[/italic], R6 -- but she doesn't look as good now.

We're all getting old, I guess.

Svetlana Kirilenko was bloody brilliant and such a well-written character.

She appears on the Talking Sopranos podcast and I believe she said that this was her very first audition ever! She has this insane authority which was fun to watch. Her refusal to return Livia's album collection after her death lead to one of the craziest non-fatal confrontations of the series!

Corky Caporale aka Edoardo Ballerini is one of the most sought after A-list audiobook narrators of the last fifteen years. He is in great demand and highly paid for his narration. His character is somewhat under-utilized so he was hard to get a handle on.

My favorite was Mabel the Duck. She was important in early episodes but left the show after creative differences with David Chase.

One of the hallmarks of a really good show is that the minor supporting characters are interesting people in their own right.

There was superb casting through the whole run of the series.

The best casting in a drama ever. Every single actor was seemingly born for their role. Some were so good that we still can’t imagine them as anything else.

Charmaine Bucco. One of the few people who kept from compromising themselves.

Charmaine Bucco was not wrong...about anything.

It didn't make her a lot of fun, but she was still not wrong.

Aida Turturro guest starred on Law & Order a number of times.

Her cousin John was great in Severance.

I envy you, OP, watching it for the first time!

Patsy Parisi. I believe he was behind killing Tony because he whacked his twin brother. When I watched the series again I kept my eye on Patsy. He was always around and listening. He knew everything and he fucking hated Tony. Him threatening Gina in the Mercedes is all-time greatness. Dan Grimaldi has a PhD in mathematics and is now teaching at a college in Brooklyn. Cool beans.

Carmela's therapist, who gave it to her straight.

Patsy Parisi hated Tony?

Hmmmm. I thought he was very into his son Patrick dating Meadow in season six and I thought he was really wanting to get close to Tony?

Still, it's a good character throughout. Dan Grimaldi did a great job throughout. I wish he had more to do.

Good one, R21! Don't forget about Meadow's therapist:

Furio

R22 Patsy went to Tony’s house drunk and was going to shoot Tony and Gigi for killing his twin brother. He couldn’t do it so he pissed in Tony’s pool instead. And go back to that uncomfortable dinner at Tony’s with Patsy and his wife. Watch Patsy’s expression when Tony hands him a drink.

Feech LaManna.

Feech LaManna!

One of the best character names ever on television!

Eugene Pontecorvo was a cool character, and his death was very troubling.

He was given a final episode where the character really has an arc and we see the desperation of some of the made men, trapped in this lifestyle.

R28 Eugene was forced to whack a guy in a diner while wearing his Members Only Jacket. Tony reneged on the agreement to let him move to Ft Myers so Eugene killed himself, which adds to the backstory of Tony’s murder. Eugene was part of Patsy’s crew at the Esplanade construction site.

[Quote] which adds to the backstory of Tony’s murder.

Tony wasn’t murdered.

^^^

This troll at r29 keeps mentioning “Tony’s murder” as if it’s a fact because he’s trying to provoke someone into disagreeing with him. So fine.

R30 R31 So disagree. It’s a fun part of the discussion of how the show ended.

Anyone but the Bevalaqua kid

On the Talking Sopranos podcast, Sciorra revealed that David Chase called her about coming back as Gloria in a recurring role, but she had taken another job and the scheduling wouldn’t work. They talked about how her character would kill herself.

Sciorra is absolutely amazing in the role and a big part of why season 3 of the show is so good.

OP I'm glad you watched the series. It's as good as it gets on tv, better than a lot of movies. Gandolfini was born to play that role. Fate, I tell you!

Ginny Sac was a soldier for her family. Poor Ginny, she had a lot of love to give.

I always loved Tim Daly as Christopher’s AA pal - the Hollywood write pal who was obsessed with Dick Wolf. His death is one of the creepiest on the show. …… And Polly Bergen as Fran Feldtein - Tony’s dad’s classy side piece. ….z Ah - I LOVE Tbe Sopranos. James Gandolfini is just Magic.

Our dear Adriana in distress: