RELATED: Dune’s HBO Max Premiere Beats the Snyder Cut, Falls Shy of Wonder Woman 1984 In true Paulie fashion, he calls the spirits a slur and storms out of the room, but the truth was that the information the medium presented truly did include details they could not have known outside of supernatural intervention. Even before either ghost appears, Paulie has a run-in during 'From Where to Eternity' with a medium who channels the spirits of those Paulie killed in his criminal career. There is a similar moment with Paulie Gualtieri toward the end of the series, in the sixth season's 'The Ride.' There, Paulie sees a vision of the Virgin Mary that looms over his Catholic guilt, and again the audience sees the image before Paulie does.īoth instances show that these are not just hallucinatory images representing the character's psyches, but actual supernatural occurrences. While later appearances of Bonpensiero would occur in Tony's dreams, what is notable about the mirror reflection is that Tony himself does not see the image. Tony earlier in the series killed Bonpensiero for ratting on their crew to the FBI, and the image shows how his death haunts Tony. RELATED: Many Saints of Newark Doesn’t Tell the One Early Tony Story We Need to See There's one problem: Pussy Bonpensiero is dead. Tony opens a door with a mirror on the back of it, and when the reflection faces the camera, the image of Pussy Bonpensiero stares out. There is a blink-and-you-miss-it moment at her wake when Tony and Furio are talking. One of the most haunting moments occurs in the second episode of the third season, 'Proshai, Livushka.' The episode deals with the death of Olivia Soprano, Tony's mother who provided a manipulative and antagonistic force through much of the series to that point. That is why it can be so startling to come across the moments in The Sopranos where the supernatural definitively exists. From the seemingly chaotic nature of its plotlines to its endlessly intriguing psychologies, there was much in The Sopranos that made TV more real than ever.

The realism of The Sopranos was a defining feature of the series, distinguishing it from many of the mob dramas that came before it by grounding its characters and its world in a tangible setting viewers could inhabit.

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