This episode stands out as one of the best in the series. The themes in this episode are religion, good vs. evil, the afterlife, and hypocrisy. We see Carmela put her faith that a prayer will save Christopher, and later reveals she believes her prayer brought him back from death. Christopher, believing he was in Hell, tells Paulie about his experience and tells him that he was told he will go back one day. Paulie sees a psychic, and when he is taken aback by the accuracy of the psychics readings of Paulie's past hits, he freaks out, goes to his pastor, and lets him know he will no longer financially supporting the church. This is while the pastor is trying to assure him that the psychic is wrong and practicing a form of witchcraft. We see the pastor is happy reassuring Paulie he will be OK even though he is a murderer, just to keep the funds coming. Paulie also reveals he is positive that Christopher went to hell, because of science. Science! Tony, telling Dr. Melfi that he believes only cruel and wicked people, the worst of the worst, go to hell, later in the episode decides to replace Furio because he wants to be the one that takes revenge against Matthew Belevaqua, which is done in the most cruel way possible, and then enjoys a steak at an Irish Bar, where Cristopher said Hell is. Finally, the biggest hypocrisy of all, is when Tony comes home from what Carmela knows was a murder, and instead of being upset, she is turned on. This is the duality of man.
Review of From Where to Eternity
