Sopranos-filter: Father Phil and Rosalie April

March 22, 2025 8:40 AM

”I told you I was not a big Renee Zellweger fan” remains in rotation in the Lemkin household. But what is Carmela referring to when she guilt trips Father Phil about Rosalie Aprile?
posted by Lemkin to Media & Arts (6 answers total)

Are you asking about the Renee Zellweger line or the guilt trip in general? I think both are meant as pretty earnest and straightforward interpretations of the lines/scene.
posted by so fucking future at 8:56 AM on March 22

Response by poster: The wiki I consulted said Rosalie Aprile was Father Phil’s next “conquest” after Carmela destroys him here. But this scene makes it sound like Carmela learned that he was already working on Rosalie.
posted by Lemkin at 9:01 AM on March 22

Iirc, earlier in that episode Carmela saw Phil chatting up Carmela at church, maybe mentioning both food and seeing a movie. She got jealous, realized what they had wasn't special, etc
posted by entropone at 9:37 AM on March 22 [2 favorites]

Best answer: Carmela sees him chatting up Rosalie earlier in the episode and then I believe later in the episode sees that Rosalie has given him Jackie's watch.

She's both jealous of the attention Rosalie is getting in a straightforward sense, and also is disgusted a bit seeing that the Father is a bit of player and not actually as earnestly dedicated to her as she might have thought.
posted by so fucking future at 11:20 AM on March 22 [2 favorites]

If memory serves, Roslie Aprile is another of his "spiritually thirsty women." (I always kind of remember this scene, though I forgot he weirdly slips in not one but two Yiddish words--what's that about?)
posted by less-of-course at 12:22 PM on March 22 [1 favorite]

If memory serves, Roslie Aprile is another of his "spiritually thirsty women." (I always kind of remember this scene, though I forgot he weirdly slips in not one but two Yiddish words--what's that about?)

I interpreted that as him being a bit of a chameleon, trying on different cultures as ways to ingratiate himself in spaces he was not really a member of. He also used a bunch of Italian(-American) dialect throughout the series, heavy on the pronunciation - referring to "Sichiliahns and Nabolitahns", for example.
posted by entropone at 5:59 AM on March 23 [2 favorites]