Lorraine Bracco, like many other Sopranos fans, couldn’t understand how the show ended.
During a recent appearance on SiriusXM’s The Spotlight with Jessica Shaw, the actress — who played Dr. Jennifer Melfi on the hit show — admitted that she wasn’t happy with how the show ended things between her character and James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano.
On The Sopranos, Dr. Melfi served as Tony’s therapist. Despite teasing out the will-they-won’t-they storyline throughout the show’s relationship, the two never pursued a romantic relationship. Fearing that she might be aiding his criminal activities through therapy, she informed him that she could no longer treat him without telling him the real reason behind her decision.
Related: The Sopranos’ Steven Van Zandt Says James Gandolfini Considered Leaving the Show ‘Every Day’: ‘He Just Felt It’ While she can’t actually say whether the two characters will ever see each other again, Braccos said, “I think they’ve run into each other in restaurants and things like that. I think part of me wants to believe that she took a break from him and they got back together [and] went back to therapy.”
The Goodfellas alum, 69, recalled feeling “heartbroken” by the end of the show. She added that she also felt unresolved by the series’ conclusion.
“I wasn’t too happy with the way [creator David Chase] ended it either,” she explained. “I thought it was terrible and wrong. I was angry. I said to him, ‘How can you invest five years in someone’s life and just walk away?’ I said that was not okay.”
Related: The Sopranos’ Drea de Matteo Didn’t Know Her Character Was Dying Until the Episode Aired Bracco wasn’t the only cast member to have similar feelings about the show’s ending.
In HBO’s new documentary, Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos, Bracco shares Gandolfini’s take on the final scene of the network’s drama, in which Tony (Gandolfini), Carmela (Edie Falco), Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler), and A.J. (Robert Iler) all meet for dinner at Holsten’s diner. A hitman wearing a Members Only jacket sits nearby and goes to the bathroom; as Meadow runs from her parked car to the restaurant, the scene cuts to black.
“I was with Jim. Jim says, ‘That’s it? That’s it?'” she recalls. “He couldn’t believe it. … I think he was just as shocked as everyone else.”
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Wise Guy: David Chase and The Sopranos are available to stream on Max. Seasons 1 through 6 of The Sopranos are also available on the streaming platform.
