Actually there's not too much to spoil because not too much really happened.

OK, Carmela throwing Tony out is a big deal - but couldn't we really get something else to happen in a extra-length episode?

A marriage broken up by a man's infidelity is not really all that entertaining as a plotline. And at the rate things have been moving recently, we could spend the entire next season slogging through will-Carmela-let-him-back-etc.

The craft of this show is still very high - but I think David Chase has become too much in love with his craft, and the skills of his performers.

The thing that makes this show work is that amid the day-to-day stuff in the life of a family in the Jersey suburbs, violence is always around the corner.

Tony's killing of Ralphie was violence for sure, but it has not really led anywhere since then.

And what about the Russians? Chris is out of rehab, now what? Is the FBI really getting anywhere? What will Paulie do?

It is fine to build up things like that over a season - but eventually you need to resolve some threads.

And we don't really have an interesting cliffhanger.

I do however badly want that house in Sea Bright.