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And we already are getting a great twist in the beginning of the season. Looks like Pussy may actually be a rat as he talked to an FBI agent to make an agreement.

Besides this interesting event, this episode was mainly about Junior and Livia. Junior gets out of jail because of his health issues and has a house arrest. And Livia has now Janice going to her and trying to get Tony let them move into the house instead of selling it.

I think there will e more action about it soon as well. Livia is a great character, it seems she might have manipulated even Junior and her interaction with Janice as well as Carmela are pretty great.

Livia is so evil. She tells Janice she's got money stashed somewhere and knows Janice will spend hell and high water looking for it everywhere when she's gone. She torments her children even in death. Tony carrying Junior with Ella Ftzgerald playing in the BG, got to be one of my favorite moments in the series. She is dangling the "secret money" in front of Janis so she won't do something to her and then not resuscitate her. Livia is very cunning. The green grove home guy did disappear that was who the hair piece the cop found in the car belonged to. The construction company is under Junior's protection meaning they pay Junior. Tony was working with the union agitator to get the workers to strike. So the owner of the construction company calls Junior to get him to break the strike. Tony then has the union guy negotiate a new contract for the workers. Tony then gets a percentage of the negotiated settlement. Tony is undermining Junior and making money on the side. He's essentially playing both sides. The mob traditionally makes money through this kind of arrangement. That's why Tony keeps saying he's in waste management. Technically he is because he has similar arrangements garbage men and their unions.

The last episode of Season One featured the execution of Jimmy Altieri, justified by his being an FBI informant. With the rat out of the way, Tony thought he would find peace at last. Man, was he wrong.

First of all, the boss still has problems with his uncle, who has been released from prison due to deteriorating health. In addition, Livia's condition is getting worse too, and despite Junior's claim she had nothing to do with the hit on her son, Tony refuses to look after her, leaving it to Janice to check if the old lady bites the dust any time soon. But this is nothing compared to the shocking twist regarding Pussy: although he says he disappeared for months just to get his back fixed, it now turns out he is having an awful lot of conversations with federal agent Skip Lipari (Louis Lombardi), who will bring him in for some minor crime unless he gathers evidence that's strong enough to lock up Tony for good.

That such a big secret is revealed this soon contributes to increasing tension: whereas Jimmy Altieri was a minor character no one cared about, and his exposure and death took place in the last episodes of the first series, Pussy is a guy viewers have learned to root for over the course of fifteen shows, and this fact makes it even more unbearable to wait for the inevitably tragic comeuppance (one way or another, this deal won't end well). Do Not Resuscitate does also mark the first time the FBI has an active role in the show: with the exception of brief appearances in Episodes 8 and 13 of the inaugural season, the feds have always remained in the shadows thus far. From now on, the cat-and-mouse game gets more explicit, setting the atmosphere for coming seasons and injecting a new form of suspense into the story.

Pussy's definitely headed for the Big Fall: He is talking to an FBI guy, who has threatened to put him away otherwise for some thing or another. Junior gets sprung from jail due to ill health, and later in the episode, there is a very touching scene when Tony carries the old man like a child after Junior falls in the shower. Junior meanwhile is pleading with Tony to forgive Livia, who is getting sicker. Livia meanwhile is screwing with Janice's mind. Janice has come to see the old bat to tell her Tony will not be selling the house after all, so she can take Livia home and stay with her. Livia quickly sees through this charade and starts talking about money hidden in the house. Janice's face lights up like she's had a glimpse of heaven. Carmela briefly talks to Livia on the phone and points out that Janice has never had a work ethic, and is it any wonder. A really funny note: Janice blathers on to Livia about having spent several days in NYC talking to someone about her self-help video. While I have not seen all of the subsequent episodes involving Janice, I suspect Janice was probably out partying. You have to hear this bit of dialog to believe it. It is hysterical. Aida Turturro is brilliant as this self-deluded, covetous, venal, sorry excuse for a human being.

Pretty interesting .

We have some nice talks about the house of Tony's mother and the sister of Tony seemed to know something about the money that her mother hiding but we dont really know .

The legacy of the mother of Soprano go to the childrens .

The scene of Tony and Junior was interesting too because Tony dont want to deal with his mother and uncle Junior try to tell him that he was wrong : so who really is right ? And does Livia is different than what Tony think ? What abou Tony accident ? Is he gonna make it ?

Love how also we know that Tony was involve with the black protestant and he shares money too for that . So yeah business is business.

Look it's a fine enough episode but I can't get over just how bad the writing in this episode is. AJ spends the episode talking about his report for school on DNA for the sole payoff that later on he can visit his grandma and out of nowhere say "Whats DNR? I had to do this report on DNA, but I heard dad and aunt parvati talking about your DNR. So is that like similar?... 'Cause that's what's confusing, like, DNA, everybody's got that... But DNA doesn't prevent coma's, does it?" Nobody is that dumb and it's all so that Livia can then be shocked and say "she thinks I should have a DNR?!!!" It was just terrible writing and such a clunky way of moving the story along. You would roll your eyes at that scene in a novella let alone a show that is considered to be one of the greatest ever made. It's a shame because otherwise I enjoyed the episode but wow was that part bad.