Here, he referenced a scene that takes place much earlier in the show – in season three, episode two, which is called “Proshai, Livushka”. In the scene, Tony’s daughter Meadow (Jamie-Lynn Sigler) helps her brother AJ (Robert Iler) with his homework, which is an analysis of the Robert Frost poem, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Poem”.

The relationship between Tony and Livia, portrayed by Nancy Marchand, remained one of the most critical elements of the TV series, even though it was originally meant to be the driving force of a 2-hour movie instead of a sprawling, six-season narrative. Marchand's passing in 2000, however, forced a shift in The Sopranos ' storyline.

The showrunner gets self-analytical, revealing the personal experiences and demons that helped shape his creation

For years, everybody told me that I had to write something about my mother,” David Chase says, but chances are they never imagined he would find a way to do that in a television show about … the New Jersey mob?