Letters to the Editor
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Killing Chrissy
Chrissy's relapse with Julianna started a period where the impending sense of one inevitable King of All Last Straws colored everything Chrissy did and said, paralleling Tony's all around losing streak. Chrissy going on the nod at the wheel while driving the boss of the family, nearly killing both of them, was that last straw. The shocker to me was that even his dying words were less a cry for help than yet another conveyance of his stubborn and childish sense of entitlement ('I don't want to lose my license!'). Simply put, The Life gave Tony no choice but to put Chrissy down ('he was suffocated by his own blood' as Paulie poetically put it); even if pulled safely from the wreckage, there was no scenario supporting Chris' survival.
Tony has taken so many half-steps toward walking in Chrissy's shoes, and vice versa. I loved the scene at the grill this week, with Chrissy complaining and Tony telling him not to burn the meat - a neat reversal of a similar scene from Season 3. Julianna, Adriana, soft drugs, hard drugs, Vegas, and now taking a potentially unwholesome interest in Kelli. So, Is Tony's losing streak really over, or is he just starting a new one? Or put a different way, has he finally figured a way out?
Oh, and did you hear the ducks when they dumped the asbestos at the end? Another bad sign.