Meadow Soprano soccer team and singing in the chorus and school pageants), attended Columbia University, performing well in her classes after a poor first-year performance, and volunteered regularly at the South Bronx Law Center. Since her graduation, Meadow studied for medical school as she was interested in being a pediatrician, but she had second thoughts and considered a career in the legal profession. Meadow was often resentful of her lineage, stemming from a string of failed relationships first with Noah Tannenbaum, a fellow student who was African American and Jewish, who met with Tony's disapproval, who broke up with Meadow after his
Soprano Home Movies song." Kim Reed of Television Without Pity gave the midseason premiere an A−, writing "...while, on the surface, not much happened, I think there were a ton of callbacks to previous episodes and that familiar Soprano tension was used to good effect." Maureen Ryan of the "Chicago Tribune" wrote "this is loose, contemplative "Sopranos" storytelling at its best." Lisa Schwarzbaum of "Entertainment Weekly" was impressed with the midseason premiere and wrote that, despite not being a very eventful episode on the surface, "everything happened". Alan Sepinwall of "The Star Ledger" gave "Soprano Home Movies" a positive review and praised it