Too Old for Sexual Objectification: Jennifer Melfi as Psychopathic Analyst Audiobook (Free)

Writer Jazz Vazquez examines the situation of the aging professional who has the role of the washed-up psychoanalyst. Is Jennifer Melfi, the psychoanalyst for mafia manager Tony Soprano, only a bitter, sour previous beauty, or does she herself turn into a psychopath? Lorraine Bracco’s acting is at its worst as she plays the area of the sex-starved analyst who doesn’t offer any remnant of real or productive evaluation for her customer.

Vazquez takes a look at the rape experienced by Melfi on The Sopranos. How does the portrayal of the middle-aged woman’s rape mirror society’s contempt for former beauties who age group into empty husks no longer worthy of intimate objectification?