The episode starts at a wedding where everyone learns the FBI is going to crack down on the mob. Spring cleaning immediately takes place (I mean immediately as in all husbands’ grab their wives and leave the wedding in that second). This is not your normal spring cleaning, in the mob world spring cleaning means that everyone hides their weapons, money and jewelry.
There’s a lot of discussion from Dr. Melfi’s family and the Soprano family about what it means to be Italian. The episode gets a little preachy and seems to be beating in the idea of what is the real Italian. Chris feels jealousy that his friend gets mentioned on TV while he doesn’t get any notice for being part of the mafia. Overall, there were interesting themes but a dull episode in the end. It just fell a little flat. It did try to show the conflict someone like Melfi might have dealing with Tony, which is a question I believe needed to be asked and looked at but could it have been done a bit differently? I like the idea of her talking with her family about her mob patient but eventually found the dialogue forced and unnatural.
The best scene in my mind is a tie but both have the grandmother in it. I find every scene she’s in to be downright fascinating. I absolutely loved Carmela trying to get the grandmother to go to lunch with her so that Tony can plant his hidden goodies in her retirement home. And the other, is the scene where Livia sits with Junior at a monstrously bad stand-up comedian act and plants the information that Tony is seeing a psychiatrist. She knows exactly what she’s doing and yet she plays it off as if a wrong has been done to her.
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