Tell Me About Your Mother, Tony Soprano: Part 1 With Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall

Tell Me About Your Father is relocating to New Jersey for the next few episodes and immersing ourselves in the fathers, mothers, children, generational trauma and crystalline dysfunction of the Soprano family. We’ve also got two very special guests joining us across the entirety of these episodes: The Sopranos Sessions authors and critics Matt Zoller Seitz and Alan Sepinwall, the foremost experts on this show and all things that make David Chase tick. In this episode, we talk with Matt and Alan about their 20+ year relationship with the show, the genius performance of Nancy Marchand as Tony’s albatross of a bully mother, Livia, and the AWOL fathers of this series. Erin and Elizabeth also take a closer look at Tony’s separate dynamics with his kids, Meadow and A.J., his violent hippie sister, Janice, and his fatherless nephew, Christopher. We’ll be back next week to look at the show’s challenging third and fourth seasons, and, marrone, Tony and Carmella’s marriage. Get full access to Tell Me About Your Father at tellmeaboutyourfather.substack.com/subscribe