Tom Biro of television webblog TV Squad was impressed with the episode because of " the way we 're beginning to close the door on the lives of some people and get an idea on who will be around at the end and who wo n't " and because " we 're treated to something thrilling not only in story , but visually as well . " Biro awarded " The Blue Comet " the site 's highest score of 7 . Geoffrey Dunn of '' Metro Silicon Valley '' stated that " Chase orchestrated the tension to a full crescendo . " Tim Goodman of the '' San Francisco Chronicle '' wrote " In this penultimate episode ( which David Chase co-wrote ) , you can see the veil of surprise , of artistic feints , red herrings , theory-bating and any other cool narrative device totally vanish . It 's as if things snuck up on us . Time is not just running out , it 's almost all gone . Action needed to step forth and be counted . And so , true to form historically , the second to last episode had more than it 's fair share of Big Moments . " Goodman also called Bobby 's death scene " priceless " and " Really well done . " Heather Havrilesky of Salon wrote " No sad music , no slow motion , no teary funeral , no time for condolences . When the blood-dimmed tide finally rolled in during last night 's penultimate '' Sopranos '' episode , an eerie quiet settled in . " Matt Roush of '' TV Guide '' gave the episode a favorable review , writing " TV 's landmark family crime drama went on a bloody rampage this week , just as we expected might happen in the next-to-last episode . ... It was a sensational way to get us primed for Sunday 's series finale . " Maureen Ryan of the '' Chicago Tribune '' wrote that " The second-to-last episode was certainly a classic " and praised it for its suspenseful storytelling . Lisa Schwarzbaum of '' Entertainment Weekly '' offered " The Blue Comet " a favorable estimation , writing " Every moment in this bloody , bullet-riddled penultimate episode is about regular , familiar old ways that have now gone terribly , irreversibly awry . ... In the last hours of this epic drama , every detail glitters with bitter meaning " . Matt Zoller Seitz of '' Slant Magazine '' described the episode as " the most atypically typical whack-fest the show has served up in quite some time " and " an orgy of Mafia mayhem " . Zoller Seitz also praised the final therapy scene between Tony Soprano and Jennifer Melfi for its depth . Alan Sepinwall of '' The Star Ledger '' called the penultimate episode " one of the best — and certainly one of the busiest — episodes in the history of '' The Sopranos '' , " further describing it as " a superb , scary , thrilling episode . " He also characterized Bobby 's death scene as " a little masterpiece of editing " . Brian Tallerico of UGO called the episode " mind-blowing " and " intense " , wrote that " he really did n't expect David Chase to take his show out with this much gunfire " and gave it an " A " , the site 's second-highest score . Brian Zoromski of IGN awarded the episode a score of 9.1 out of 10 , writing " Overall , ' Blue Comet ' was a very well done , sometimes shocking , build-up to next week 's series finale . " In 2007 , Lorraine Bracco was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for her performance in " The Blue Comet " but lost to '' Grey 's Anatomy 's '' Katherine Heigl at the 59th Primetime Emmy Awards . Bracco had previously been nominated three times in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for playing Dr. Melfi . In 2008 , sound mixers Mathew Price , Kevin Burns and Todd Orr were nominated for a Cinema Audio Society Award in the category of Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing – Television
59th Primetime Emmy Awards
59th Primetime Emmy Awards
The Blue Comet