The Sopranos lives! Or, at least, Meadow and AJ Soprano still do, in a Super Bowl commercial helmed by none other than Sopranos creator David Chase, in which Jamie-Lynn Sigler and Robert Iler reprise their roles as Tony Soprano’s children, Meadow and AJ.
The involvement of Chase (and, for that matter, original Sopranos director of photography Phil Abraham) may not exactly place the Chevy Silverado commercial into official Sopranos canon, but it’s as close to a sequel to the iconic HBO gangster drama as we may ever get. (Well, it’s this or the cemetery scene at the beginning of The Many Saints of Newark.) And since I’ve spent most of my professional life obsessively analyzing all things Sopranos, how could I resist giving this ad the full Zapruder film treatment?
Here are the crucial takeaways from 60 seconds of bonus…
