Poetic Television Review: Christopher (The Sopranos, S4X03, 2002)

Beneath the glow of prestige, a tale unfolds,
Where expectations twist and stories bold
Defy the norms, yet sometimes lose their way,
A dance of brilliance shadowed by dismay.

In Christopher, the threads of legacy entwine,
A mobster’s name, yet not his tale to shine.
Instead, Columbus stands, a figure fraught,
A symbol claimed, a history rethought.

Italian pride and Native pain collide,
In statues scarred and egos bruised with pride.
Silvio, unmoored, reacts with reckless fire,
While Tony schemes, a puppeteer of ire.

Through chaos, profit blooms—a mobster’s creed,
A tribal chief with motives born of greed.
Doug Smith, a mirror to the age’s plight,
Where identity becomes a currency of might.

The women, too, their lives a fractured song,
Rosalie’s grief, Janice’s strength grown strong.
Bobby’s sorrow, raw and unadorned,
A quiet ache where machismo’s mask is torn.

Yet lofty aims can falter in their flight,
Didactic tones replace the subtle light.
Ideas, like bullets, fired without grace,
Leave nuance lost in polemic’s heavy space.

A.J.’s Zinn, a spark of youthful thought,
Dims in the glare of battles overwrought.
Furio’s insights, whispers in the storm,
Are drowned by louder voices, less informed.

Still, glimmers pierce the murk—a satirical sting,
Doug Smith’s casino, a hollowed offering.
Bobby’s grief, a portrait etched in pain,
A human heart amidst the ruthless game.

Ambition soars, yet stumbles in its reach,
A lesson etched in art’s imperfect speech.
For even giants falter, lose their way,
Yet in their flaws, a deeper truth may stay.

The Sopranos’ world, so vast, so keenly drawn,
Reminds us how the mighty can be torn.
In Christopher, a misstep, yes, but still,
A mirror held to life’s enduring will.

(Note: The review in its original form can be read here.)

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