"College" is a very different episode to what the series has proposed to us, but that does not make it a bad episode.
This is a very important episode and at the same time very different. It may seem pointless for the plot and just be a filler episode, but it is not. It is important because it brings us closer to Tony, and lets us see his fatherly side by taking Meadow to see some schools. It is an important episode not for Tony's relationship with business and the mob, but with his relationship with his daughter and how he has to deal with the question of "Are you in the mob?"
It clearly lets us see that Tony can't have a nice, quiet student trip with his daughter without mob problems intervening, when he discovers a snitch from several years ago whom he is forced to murder.
And that does, in the end Tony brutally hangs the man in a rather crude scene, which is a reflection that his criminal life will always be stained with blood and will be violent, and that he will always be present even in his family moments.
In conclusion, "College" is a great episode that really unfolds Tony's criminal and family conflict.
10/10.
This is a very important episode and at the same time very different. It may seem pointless for the plot and just be a filler episode, but it is not. It is important because it brings us closer to Tony, and lets us see his fatherly side by taking Meadow to see some schools. It is an important episode not for Tony's relationship with business and the mob, but with his relationship with his daughter and how he has to deal with the question of "Are you in the mob?"
It clearly lets us see that Tony can't have a nice, quiet student trip with his daughter without mob problems intervening, when he discovers a snitch from several years ago whom he is forced to murder.
And that does, in the end Tony brutally hangs the man in a rather crude scene, which is a reflection that his criminal life will always be stained with blood and will be violent, and that he will always be present even in his family moments.
In conclusion, "College" is a great episode that really unfolds Tony's criminal and family conflict.
10/10.