#Sonny Steelgrave

[wardenmop]

so many wise men........................ watch Wiseguy

#Wiseguy #Vinnie Terranova #Frank McPike #Sonny Steelgrave #Roger Lococco #Daniel Burroughs #Amber Twine #Pete Terranova #im not typing out all the actors are u crazy #wardenmop-art

[neonjstr]

(SPOILERS) so i recently finished watching S1 of wiseguy and. WHAT. ROGER??? MY MAN 😭😭😭 him and vinnie couldve TOTALLY been bros whatthe hell 😭 the courtroom scene w vinnie like 😭😭😭 AND THE FUCKING ENDING HUHHH. WHY. 😭

AND. SONNYS LAST WORDS BEING "I loved you, man" WHAT. NAWWW 😭😭😭

like no shit vinnies all depressed now (s2)

#wiseguy #vinnie terranova #roger lococco #sonny steelgrave

[soupy-sez]

#thinking about the first 10 episodes of this show (all I will ever watch) again #wiseguy #vinnie terranova #sonny steelgrave #v #video #tv shows #soupy's #ray sharkey #ken wahl #the marriage of heaven and hell #wiseguy (1987 - 1990) #ik the punchline takes so long to get there but I just need this part for my sentimental self.

[mitochondriaandbunnies]

2022 Pride Prompt #2 - Peonies: Wiseguy, Vinnie Terranova & Sonny Steelgrave

Peonies stand for “romance, prosperity, good fortune, a happy marriage, riches, honor, and compassion”

#wiseguy #sonny steelgrave #vinnie terranova #sonny/vinnie #peonies #pride prompts #wiseguy 1987 #yes this is 100 percent supposed to be right before sonny's wedding i'm an ass like that #sonny kissing vinnie with the certainty that after this no one will suspect them and his legacy will be secured #vinnie kissing sonny with the desperation of a man who knows this is the last time it'll ever happen #my art #mitochondriart

[mcpiketerranovas]

WISEGUY 1.03 "New Blood"

#wiseguy #wiseguyedit #tvedit #vinnie terranova #sonny steelgrave #ken wahl #ray sharkey #sonny not noticing he's being set up for an assassination plot cus he's too busy smiling and waving at vinnie is one of the funniest scenes #*

[yodeleyewho]

White Noise…. oh my gosh

#wiseguy #I’m just gonna… I’m just gonna.. yep #the dancing scene was…. hooooo #damn #vinnie terranova #sonny steelgrave

[neonether]

*screaming into the void* JUST A FRIENDLY REMINDER BUT SONNY STEELGRAVE WAS ONE OF THE BEST TV MOBSTERS EVER.

That's all.

*blows kisses to Ray Sharkey and Ray Sharkey only* You magnificent bastard.

#the rankings go #1 my boyfriend #2 ray sharkey (sonny steelgrave) #you're welcome

[katalina27ua]

#Wiseguy #Sonny Steelgrave #Vinnie Terranova #14 ноября 2020

[satoru-chan]

idk, i saw an opportunity and i ran with it

#wiseguy #sonny steelgrave #ray sharkey #fanart #my art #doodle #i hope the colors are OK coz I drew on my crappy surface tablet 🙃

[msbeautifulsorta]

Day Nine - Song From A TV Show The Moody Blues - Nights In White Satin I grew up with this song on the radio but the jukebox demise of Sonny Steelgrave in Wiseguy made this song iconic for me.

#30 day song challenge #the moody blues #sonny steelgrave #wise guy

[coyotesqrl]

I started a rewatch of the brilliant Wiseguy last night. I know soon I'm going to have to suck it up and deal with the Mel Profitt arc and the difficult feelings that will induce...but I'm still safely ensconced in Ray Sharkey's Sonny Steelgrave arc...and just now...a baby Annette Benning showed up!

[wardenmop]

WISEGUY

#Sonny Steelgrave #Vinnie Terranova #Wiseguy #Ken Wahl #Ray Sharkey #wardenmop-art

[vallygirl285]

One of the All Time Best Use of a Song in a TV Show

I wish Wiseguy got the attention it deserved.  It really was a ground breaking show when it first aired.  

Ray Sharkey deserved and Emmy for his performance as Sonny Steelgrave.  Him and Ken Wahl were so great together.  They had such amazing chemistry.

It may seem dated but if you want to give the show a whirl check out Wiseguy here.   

But this scene here needs to be watched on Youtube since they couldn’t get the rights to the song on any DVDs or streaming services.  The use of Nights in White Satin by The Moody Blues was perfect and it’s so sad that they couldn’t keep it when the re-released the show. 

#Wiseguy #ray sharkey #ken wahl #knights in white satin #the moody blues

[soupy-sez]

WISEGUY: S01E01, Pilot

#wiseguy #wiseguy (1987 - 1990) #sonny steelgrave #vinnie terranova #ken wahl #ray sharkey #tv shows #tv series #tvgifs #tvandfilm #tvfilmsource #crime drama #my gifs #gifs #gifset #soupy's

[abriefingwithmichael]

A superb episode. Just superb!

Great performances from Ray Sharkey, Annette Bening, Jonathan Banks and Ken Wahl. They bring so much tension, drama, and suspense to an already-excellent script. The show was really on fire at this stage. There’s no padding, no wasted minutes. Every word of dialogue is significant and drives the story forward. It’s a nail-biter.

The ending is as dark and bleak as you could anything you would ever see on network television. Fifteen years later and this show would have been on HBO/

10/10

#Wiseguy

[olderthannetfic]

Wiseguy is one of my favorite tiny, old fandoms. It was quite popular in the early days of escapade.

The show is about a deep cover federal agent, Vinnie Terranova, a greaser-looking stud with a truly magnificent unibrow. (Shut up, it’s flawless!)

In the first arc, Vinnie engineers a meet cute with a charismatic mobster, Sonny Steelgrave, and becomes his right hand man. Tragedy ensues. The second arc concerns incestuous arms dealers and their shady lieutenant, Roger, who is Vinnie’s rival and then his ally.

Back in the zine days, the best fic paired Vinnie with his boss, Frank McPike, a deadpan snarker later seen as Mike the Cleaner on Breaking Bad. That’s the ship the Escapade panels mostly reference in their descriptions. More recent internet fandom has often been about the first arc or occasionally the second.

My favorite Wiseguy vid is, alas, not online. It’s Judith Chien’s Nobody’s Side, which uses the song from Chess to explore Roger’s divided loyalties. I adore Roger: he’s my favorite kind of wily character. After failing to save criminal-but-nice Sonny in the first arc, Vinnie feels like he’s gotten his second chance with Roger. This time, he won’t fail! And then he totally does. He arrives at the dock just in time to see Roger’s sabotaged boat explode. Le angst!

...except that unlike Sonny, Roger is a total snake and set Vinnie up so he’d have a witness. He’s nice enough to turn up and let him know it was a fakeout later, but still, what an asshole!

My favorite arc of the series is a very late one where Vinnie has a nervous breakdown and calls Roger to complete his assignment in a Twin Peaks-ish town. This is when Frank discovers that Roger is not dead, Vinnie was in contact with him the whole time, and now Frank himself has to help Roger with a loony plan. Frank unwillingly cosplaying is a highlight of the series. (Look, Roger said he’d help. He never said he’d do it like a federal agent.)

More recent fandom mostly got in through astolat’s fic, and I am no exception. The first arc really does play like a tragic slash fic from the engineered meet-cute to the operatic tragedy at the end. When Sonny finally realizes he has been betrayed, he has a fist fight with Vinnie, then puts some music on the jukebox and sits there staring at Vinnie while Nights in White Satin plays. You know: I love you, I love you, Ohhhhh how I love you.

Holy shit, 80s television, what did you think you were saying here?

Because there is no justice in the world, they didn’t bother to get the song rights for the DVD. Not only does the scene not work without this music, but Sonny selects it within the scene itself. It’s not just non-diagetic soundtrack! If ever there were a time to pay up and get the damn rights!

But luckily for you, you can watch it on Youtube in all its glory.

Here’s my vid about Sonny and Vinnie:

Dropbox with the arc that was never released on DVD plus the Nights in White Satin scene with its correct music.

Wiseguy on Fanlore

Wiseguy on AO3

That one Roger fic on AFF

Wiseguy on WWOMB

#fandom history #escapade con #escapade 2020 #wiseguy