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Authors: Ben K. <benk@tilde.team>
Date: 2020-12-26
We finally are reaching the end of watching The Sopranos, which I think we started a couple months ago? I'm not sure. It's so long that we're glad that we can finally finish it, and we thought we were going to do so yesterday but ended up only watching one of the last three episodes remaining. That leaves two for today.
After watching the first, my wife wanted to take a break to prepare dinner, which I was not particularly in favor of because I told her we could eat out. She stresses when there isn't food ready, and she kept asking me what she should make. My suggestion that we eat out seems not to have been the answer to that question!
She likes to make her own recipes, usually playing it by ear. The result tends to be good, so I'm fine with this cooking methodology, but rather than doing what I do, which is prepare specific dishes from a repertoire, she changes them so often that she forgets about all the stuff we enjoyed most over the years. Letting go of old favorites is the price for discovering new things, it would seem.
Tonight's dish looks like it's going to be spaghetti with tuna. The tuna is pretty good here for some reason. I generally haven't had a noteworthy seafood experience in Iran; it's not really their thing in terms of cuisine, so if you like seafood you'd best look elsewhere, but the stuff you can buy at the store is decent. Shrimp, tilapia, whatever... it's all fine, but plain old canned tuna is one of the more practical options.
As for the ending of The Sopranos, I can't really guess what is going to happen, which is a good thing I guess. I also can't spoil it for anyone reading this who hasn't seen it. I'll just be glad to wrap up what has been a fairly good and memorable show. It delights, but it also disappoints sometimes, but often the disappointment comes from having to let go of characters you came to love throughout the show's six seasons. The end of the show means you have to say goodbye to all of them regardless.
I'm eager to move on because there's a bunch of good serials we have queued, and we have seldom watched anything else since starting The Sopranos except for the occasional thing I've insisted on like Wolfwakers. My wife was also fully onboard with watching The Mandalorian's second season. Now that we are free we can get to watching things like Barbarian's and Queen's Gambit. (We actually started Barbarians already (the first couple episodes), and it's looking really good so far.)