Our Saturday Nights with Carmela and Tony

Now that are home so often, we watch The Sopranos (better late than never, no?). At the center of it is the power stuggle between Carmela and Tony. The struggle has the name of marriage. An institution in crisis. Still, it does not interrogate the power of the mother. Here is Carmela, standing in the kitchen with her sponge, as if at the helm of a battleship, wiping the decks down, getting ready to hoist the flags. No, true, not a financial power, a kind of moral power. The power of disapproval.