This The Sopranos Scene Is Still the Most Terrifying Thing Ever Shown on TV
The show about mobsters is supposed to scare you, but this moment is just next-level.
The Sopranos is undoubtedly a fundamental TV show that became an iconic example of the genre. The show has won the hearts of many with its unpredictability and the seriousness of the issue it tackles.
The showrunners created such complicated characters that there’s probably no one in the show you can wholeheartedly love or hate. You have a mixture of feelings towards every character who appears, and it doesn’t even matter if he is a mobster or not.
The Sopranos is a show that has a lot of dark stuff going on: there are on-screen murders, multiple brutal fights, sexual assaults, and a lot of other abusive behavior. There are also sinister things going on, and we wouldn't be lying if we told you that they're a lot scarier than anything any horror movie has to offer.
However, there was one particular scene that gave fans literal chills the first time they saw it, and it didn't get any easier on future rewatches. In The Sopranos' season 6 episode 9, The Ride, Paulie sees the Virgin Mary hanging from the ceiling of the Bada Bing strip joint. But it is unclear if the vision is real or if it is just his imagination trying to tell him something...
At this point in the series, there are many reasons for Paulie to have such a vision. For example, he has previously made a greedy decision to cut the church's funding. And even before that, he has found out that his biological mother is someone else, so he’s started acting badly toward the woman who’s raised him.
So seeing Madonna could have been just a hallucination caused by his subconscious guilt. But that wasn't the case because it was the audience that first saw her as a reflection in the mirror. This means that there was indeed something supernatural going on.
“When I watch that scene, it makes me feel damned, and that's what I think Paulie feels, like he's already in hell, even though that's where he's going, cause in hell nothing is sacred even the virgin mary on a stripper pole,” Redditor livefastdiefast3r said.
The scene is so dark and mysterious that you unwillingly start sinking lower into your chair just to unsee it.