Tony Soprano Named Lovable Loser TV Dad
HBO Mob Boss of The Sopranos a Cold Hearted Sociopath
Jun 21, 2009
Tony Soprano of the hit HBO series The Sopranos, was recognized by TiVo on their list of the top ten lovable loser TV dads. Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) was the star of the popular television series about the head of the New Jersey mob and his family life.
Tony Soprano Lovable Loser
Lovable loser and Tony Soprano are not two phrases that fit together in a sentence comfortably. It is true that there were lot of losers in The Sopranos, but Tony was not one of them. Tony was the victimizer, not the victim.
One could make the argument that Tony really was a loser, but not the lovable type of loser. Tony Soprano provided well for his family materially, but the material possessions came with a price paid in blood.
At one point, Tony’s wife Carmela (Edie Falco) tried to escape the marriage when Tony’s infidelities got to be too much to bear. Tony out maneuvered her and lured her back in to the marriage by buying her land for a spec house.
The Soprano Children
Tony had two children with Carmela; Meadow (Jamie Lynn Sigler) and A.J. (Robert Eiler). He also had a type of father/son relationship with wise guy Christopher (Michael Imperoli).
Tony had the normal problems that parents do in guiding children. Meadow was a spoiled brat who blossomed into an excellent student. Meadow vacillated between becoming a doctor or lawyer. At the end of the series she was about to marry the son of one of Tony’s crew and was being offered a great career as a lawyer. Meadow seemed to fare pretty well, but may have ended up in a position that gets utilized by the mob.
A.J. was Tony’s son, a slacker juvenile that was very unlikeable and drove Tony and some viewers crazy. Tony could not figure out how to instill any drive into his son. A.J. finally started to straighten out when he fell in love with Bianca, but when she left him he attempted suicide in the family swimming pool. Dad happened on the scene just in time to save his son from drowning. Later A.J.wanted to enlist in the military, but Tony got him a job with an “associate” working in production in the soft porn movie business.
Christopher Moltisanti (Michael Imperioli) seemed to be the son that Tony wished he had. Christopher was a blood thirsty mafia soldier and slated for a high position in Tony’s crew, but drug addiction got the better of him and his life was snuffed out in an awful scene when Tony held his nose to suffocate him after a car accident.
Tony Sorprano’s family life was dysfunctional but lovable loser dad is not a tag that most people would put on the mafia don.
The Sopranos Airs on Cable TV
The final episode of The Sopranos aired in 2007, but the series continues to air regularly on On Demand Cable. A&E airs a cleaned up version of The Sopranos, with some of the offensive language removed.
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