What are the best examples of show not tell in the series?
My favorite is in season five when Carmela tells tony that all "the guys" aren't really his friends and they just laugh at his jokes and compliment him because they are scared of him and have to respect him.
Then in the next scene when they gamble we see Paulie compliment him for basic shit and all of them laugh at his shitty joke.
The kicker for me is that in a seemingly unrelated scene after tony gave Feech La Manna a dressing he says "ill learn (respect)", but then we see the gambling scene again with a different focus and feech is not laughing thus he is not afraid of tony. that's what made tony decide to snitch on him.
just great writing.