Adriana La Cerva Part 1

Where to begin about Adriana La Cerva, the greatest character in the world of all time ever? From Adriana's first major appearance on Season 1 Episode 3 Denial, Anger, Acceptance, I fell in love with her as soon as she got out of the shower to answer the door for Meadow and her friend Hunter. When she came out of the shower, I knew immediately that she is the most gorgeous girl on The Sopranos. As she answers the door for Meadow and Hunter, she invites them to sit and serves them both water. Then, Meadow and Hunter reveal the real reason they have paid a visit: They paid a visit specifically for Christopher because of wanting him to give them speed to study for their SATs. With their SATs and choir recital on the same day, they do not have enough time to study especially because they are exhausted. Initially, Christopher refuses to give them speed even when the girls tell him that they will just go to the street dealers on Jefferson Avenue to get them speed if Christopher doesn't give it to them. But then, Adriana La Cerva reminds Christopher about how dangerous the street dealers on Jefferson Ave are. Adriana is worried about what will happen to the girls if they go to the street dealers on Jefferson Ave. Reluctantly, Christopher decides to give Hunter and Meadow the speed himself to protect them ensuring that the girls aren't in danger. As soon as Adriana La Cerva got herself involved to protect Meadow and Hunter, I immediately felt Adriana La Cerva's extraordinary caring nature. Throughout this part of the Adriana La Cerva blog and Part 2 of the Adriana La Cerva blog, I will be talking about Adriana La Cerva's extraordinary caring nature and why I feel she is the most caring character on The Sopranos.

Towards the end of this episode, something happens that serves as a foreshadowing moment on the show. Feeling extremely angry at both Christopher and his friend Brendan Filone for disrespecting him, Uncle Junior decides to teach them a lesson. Because of how much Livia loves Christopher, he has Russian goons do a mock execution on Christopher. The mock execution leaves Christopher with a neck brace. However, because Livia doesn't care about Brendan, he is not spared. At the end of the episode, Junior's executioner Mikey Palmice and Uncle Junior pay a visit to Brendan's house. Brendan is in his bathtub with his door open smoking a cigarette. With Uncle Junior behind the scenes standing nearby, Mikey goes into the bathtub and shoots Brendan dead. Though Christopher was spared this time because of Livia's love for him, the mock execution and the end of this episode foreshadows his death at the hands of Tony Soprano in Season 6 Episode 18 Kennedy And Heidi. When Tony fatally asphyxiates Christopher by smothering his nose, Christopher died. 

This once again foreshadows Christopher's death in Season 1 Episode 4 Meadowlands. On the episode Meadowlands, Christopher is still injured with a neck brace from his mock execution. Worried about his friend Brendan wanting to make sure he is OK, Adriana La Cerva goes along with him to visit Brendan's house. But it is too late: Christopher and Adriana La Cerva find Brendan dead in the bathtub, causing Adriana La Cerva to scream suffering a massive anxiety attack and Christopher to suffer immense anger over the death of his buddy Brendan, wanting to avenge him. Even the moment when Christopher and Adriana La Cerva find Brendan dead in the bathtub foreshadows Season 6 Episode 18 Kennedy and Heidi when Christopher is dead. Shortly afterwards, Christopher and Adriana La Cerva go to Meadow's high school to pick her up. Adriana walks up to Meadow, telling her that they are here to pick her up because Christopher wants to have a talk with her. As soon as Meadow gets in the car, Christopher feels nothing but extreme anger at Meadow thinking that she told Tony about the speed that she received from him. At this point, Christopher doesn't know that it was Uncle Junior who ordered his mock execution for his own reasons. He thinks that Tony ordered his mock execution and murdered his friend Brendan for revenge. Feeling the extreme anger, Christopher shakes Meadow physically and screams at her. Needing to mediate the situation, Adriana La Cerva tells Christopher to calm down. Feeling bad realizing that Meadow did not tell Tony about the speed and that Tony had nothing to do with the mock execution, Christopher and Adriana La Cerva decide to make up for Christopher's moment by taking her to McDonald's and getting her a Happy Meal.

Then, in Season 2 Adriana La Cerva becomes one of the main characters on The Sopranos. Starting in Season 2, we see how much Adriana La Cerva cares about Christopher. In Episode 5, knowing about Christopher's dreams of being an actor/screenwriter, she enrolls him in an "Acting for Playwrights" course. During the acting class, Christopher is applauded for his acting in an emotional scene in which he plays a son with his father. When a student asks Christopher how he managed to cry he walks out, feeling embarrassed. In the next class, Christopher plays another scene with the student who played his father. Feeling triggered by the murder of his father Dickie Moltisanti when Christopher was young, he punches the student and kicks him as he lies on the floor. Despite the fact that Christopher got himself kicked out of acting class even knowing how violent Christopher was in the acting class, Adriana La Cerva shows nothing but compassion for Christopher and suggests that the reason he did this was because of his anger at his father for dying when he was young. 

The relationship between Christopher and Adriana comes to a halt in Season 2 Episode 7 D-Girl. In this episode, Adriana La Cerva feels ignored by her boyfriend Christopher because of Christopher refusing to bring his girlfriend Adriana La Cerva to the filming set and then Christopher not calling her when he gives Jon Favreau a tour of the state. The fact that Christopher didn't bring Adriana La Cerva to the filming set shows he didn't care about Adriana La Cerva whatsoever as a person and viewed her as his possession. Later on at A.J. Soprano's confirmation party, Adriana anxiously wonders where Christopher is. When Christopher shows up late, she walks away feeling rejected by him once again.

Feeling embarrassed by the way Christopher treated her at a restaurant in front of Carmela and Tony, Adriana cries and storms off accidentally telling Tony while in a meltdown about Christopher's screenplay. Shortly afterwards, Christopher decides to pay a visit to Adriana's mother's house where Adriana La Cerva is staying in as her safe place. During this very vital scene, Christopher shows his abusive side which will later get revealed more strongly in later seasons. Disrespecting Adriana's mother's house, as Adriana's mother tells Christopher that he is not welcome he physically shoves her aside as she has her phone ready to call the police. As Adriana's mother is giving Adriana La Cerva wise advice, Christopher shows her the ring that he purchased for her. Immediately because of how much she loves the ring, Adriana La Cerva says yes against her mother's wishes. Despite the fact that her mother was right, unfortunately Adriana La Cerva decides to accept his proposal. Because what Christopher was doing was exactly what domestic abusers do: They domestically abuse their partner, then apologize when they don't have access to their partner and then the behavior repeats and worsens as we see in the later seasons of The Sopranos with Adriana La Cerva being the receiving victim of domestic abuse.

Towards the end of this episode, Christopher gets shot 3 times and left unconscious. At the end of the episode, Christopher lies on a hospital bed in a coma with his loved ones by his side. Tony says "How could this happen?" Adriana La Cerva is one of the loved ones in the room, visibly crying as she is immensely worried about Christopher's mortality which will ultimately have a tragic end.

This transitions perfectly to the next episode From Where To Eternity with Christopher still lying on the hospital bed in a coma with now only Adriana La Cerva by his side. When Christopher gets taken into surgery, Adriana La Cerva has to go into the waiting room with everybody else. When it gets announced over the speakers that Christopher is dead for a minute, Adriana La Cerva goes to the room where the surgery is happening and knocks hard on the windows screaming that Christopher isn't supposed to be dead. Adriana La Cerva is forced to be physically restrained by Salvatore Bonpensiero and Paulie Walnuts. This scene is very vital because not only does it prove to me that Adriana La Cerva is the best girl on The Sopranos, but it shows who cares about Christopher the most. Adriana La Cerva is literally desperate for Christopher to survive and the fact of the matter that he was even clinically dead for a minute hurt her very deeply. Because while Adriana is materialistic in the beginning, starting in Season 2 she evolves. These two beginning scenes of the episode also shows how Adriana La Cerva cares about Christopher way more than any other girl cares about their man in The Sopranos in my opinion, showing me that Adriana La Cerva is the best girl on The Sopranos. I would even go as far as to say that Adriana La Cerva is the most caring character on The Sopranos, which shows when she protects Meadow and Hunter in Season 1, her nonjudgmental nature when Christopher gets kicked out of the acting class that she enrolled him in as a gift and during this episode with her facial expressions and the way she behaves when it comes to Christopher's mortality which will ultimately end tragically.