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My favorite time period. Some great casting. Amazing costuming and sets. Buscemi puts on a great performance, such amazing subtlety and some good writing.

We were pretty worried given the intro music being some sixties rock piece, but the actual show was great. No idea who's bright idea the completely inappropriate intro music was, but it should really be dropped asap.

Tommy from Snatch as Capone was awesome. Although I kept wanting Jimmy to say "You took the fucking jam outta my doughnut, Tommy. You did."

Thought it was mostly great, only bit I didn't like was the little girl crying, she seemed too young to understand acting, bit disturbing.

Yeah, I remember thinking she was a genius actor for the pause in crying when the father sat down...then thinking she's way to young to be consciously acting that good.

I like this show. Hope it stays strong.

Never been the biggest Buscemi fan, but I think he's good in this role.

Best part of the first EP:

OMAR!   :drill:

This could be very good.  If nothing else, the setting is incredibly interesting.

This show managed to teach me something.  That I never, ever, want to see Steve Buscemi naked and having sex, ever again.  Liked it a fair amount otherwise though.

Buscemi was naked? I never noticed. I guess.....BOOBIES!!!!

Were you saying something?

I was out of town and missed the second episode, bleh.

Fantastic.

Curiousity: Is Nucky's deceased wife "played" by Molly Parker (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0662504/)? There was a photo of her shown in the second episode and I could have sworn it was her.

Edit: The Interwebs appear to agree with my observation.

Haven't seen last night's ep yet, but the first three were very good. Definitely enjoying it. And wow, does Nucky's moll make me glad this is on HBO.  :drill:

Yeah, this show is pretty cool. Lots of good looking women, and well casted.

Really enjoying this show.

Apparently the character Steve Buscemi plays, Nucky, was completely different physically than Buscemi IRL.  The real Nucky was well over 6' tall and around 225-230.  I can understand, though, why they went they way they did with the role.  If they got some big dude to play the part, people would be comparing him to Tony Soprano.  Besides, it makes for a better story to have a weasley guy like Buscemi be the boss instead of someone who's just physically imposing.

Plus Buscemi fucking rules.

Indeed. The casting is, as so often with HBO, impeccable.

Also, I want to see more of the IRS agent, Nelson. He's fucken awesome.

"The roast tastes good."

I still like this show. It's not awesome, but I DVR and enjoy it.

I'm starting to think he is a very damaged person.

I love that he's on here too. Plus, Michael Pitt has never been hotter.  :drillf:

Eddie is the best butler in the history of manservants.   :heart:

Nucky really needs to let him finish up his business at the bordello next time- Eddie has definitely earned it.

Agreed. Liked the last episode a lot, a few things coming to a head ....

I should like this show more than I do.

I'm on episode 8, and none of the characters or conflicts have quite 'stuck' for me.  It's still better than most TV, but that isn't saying a whole lot, I guess.  Hoping that I become less tepid within the next few episodes.

I have liked it along along, but the end of the season rush is amazing. I love Harrow as a character. And wow. Van Alden snapped a lot sooner than I thought he would.

You're making the assumption he actually snapped and that he wasn't completely crazy all along.  The flogging and stalking earlier kinda lends itself to that.  Jimmy becoming a mess, however, I didn't see coming this early, and even Nucky is falling apart some.  It'll be interesting to see how the last episode goes down, and I hope this doesn't follow the trend of HBO prematurely killing a series mid-stride.

They renewed it after its second episode.

Doesn't mean they'll get a third though, and they might have to pull a Rome and vastly accelerate the timeline to finish the story.

I finally caught up with all the shows except last night's finale. I really wasn't too sure I was going to stick with it after the first 2 or 3 episodes, but it really picked up about mid-season. I was a bit disappointed that they portrayed Van Alden as so bugfuck nuts but the actor pulled it off so well, I got over it. I love the line in the Chinese restaurant - "The thought of what foul ingredients have gone into this filth repulses me."

Gonna be an interesting start to season 2. Great thing about HBO is that there are good shows staggered through the year so there is almost always something to watch.

I'm gonna go ahead and girl up the thread once more and say  :heart: Gawsh, I hope Nucky and Margaret get married and have babies!!  :heart: I actually thought he was going to propose to her already as a strategic move, but I somehow think he cares for her too much to use her so literally. And I think he knows she's too smart to fall for it.

Season finale was kind of flat. No big revelation moments, even the return of Eli as the sheriff. The whole betrayal cabal thing I'm not quite convinced on. Still a good show, and one I look forward to seeing another season from.

Just a reminder, this starts back up Sunday (9/25) at 9pm EST.

Looking forward to Nucky pwning the triumvirate of dumbshits all season long.

Ummm, holy shit. Just caught the last episode and...

Yeah, the last two episodes have been full of  :ye_gods: moments. Show is SO good right now.

I don't get why Jimmy was such a complete dick to the guy who ended up killing his wife.  I hate what they are doing with Margaret, other than that the show has been great.

Jimmy is in WAY over his head, and let the Manny thing go too long. Then he got some suspect advice and was too weak willed/dumb to go against it. I am looking forward to Richard Harrow paying ol Manya a visit. That should be good times.

All I could get was that maybe he didn't like the guy from the get-go and once he had people starting to call him the King of Atlantic City (thanks to Nucky's abdication), he got the big head and didn't think he needed Manny. Nothing else makes any sense because otherwise, why the fuck would you make an enemy like that? Or maybe he didn't like him because he was Jewish and kept calling him "Boychik" to dick him down.

That was definitely part of it....he hates being talked down to or patronized.

Had to share this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Iwio2YH1I&feature=channel_video_title). Good times.

Poor Agent Sebso.  Getting his revenge from beyond the grave.

That was awesome!  :awesome_for_real:

That was hilarious!

Well that was pretty ballsy.

That would have been a good series ending.

Yeah. I'm bummed, I thought Jimmy was the most interesting character on the show ... but it made sense and was a real gut-punch moment, great TV. This whole second season really impressed me.

It's definitely gonna be hard to keep rooting for Nucky anymore.

Not sure you were ever really supposed to be.

Jimmy could at least have killed his mother and saved his son from her. Since he already knew he was a dead man walking.

Nucky is a vindictive bastard, that much is clear for some time now.

I was pretty shocked, but going back through the episode it was foreshadowed pretty heavily. Jimmy was exhibiting a lot of signs of suicide victims- saying 'goodbye' to this son (and giving him the dog tags), extra money for Chalky's people, not wanting Richard to come...he knew what was coming and accepted it.

I'm torn on this one....Is she worse than being completely orphaned? Angie was already murdered....

If she gets him drunk and fucks him, then yeah, probably worse than being orphaned.

Yeah, I kept thinking there was no way they'd off Jimmy... and then... BAM. Nucky's final comment was fucking awesome. It explained the whole goddamn season in one sentence.

At least she's more than thirteen years older than the kid.  :ye_gods:

You guys do get what I am saying though, right?

Hey she's pretty hot, I'd be glad to fuck grandma.

No you wouldn't. See how it screwed up Jimmy.

I still hold the opinion that if Gretchen Mol had gotten naked a couple of times in Rounders, it would have been the perfect movie. Also would have made her character a lot more tolerable. Especially if she would have hooked up with Famke Janssen...

So this ended a few weeks ago. I finally got around to binge watching the last 8 episodes. That was a really, really good ending and if you missed it, you should go watch it. The show definitely dragged a bit in S4, with the whole Chalky White storyline but it all ended very well. I must admit that each successive character death (whether I expected it or not) really made me sadder than I would have expected. This was one of those shows that got its hooks in me very subtly. I didn't think I'd miss it or care about the characters as much as I did.

The people they brought in for the last season to play the younger versions of established characters were eerily excellent. Hearing what might as well have been Dabney Coleman's voice out of a younger man was surreal.

I feel like this show got no love. I really enjoyed it.

I liked the first two seasons but when they killed off Jimmy I feel like it lost it's way. I can't remember where exactly I stopped watching; I remember Nucky getting nearly blown up. I guess I could wiki the interim and watch the last season.

I thought that the last season of Boardwalk Empire was ok but I enjoyed the second season of Peaky Blinders (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2442560/) alot more when it came to gangster epics this fall.  :drill:

How did I never heard about a gangster show starring Tom Hardy in 1919 Birmingham, England? That sounds right up my alley.

Just flew through all 5 seasons in the last few weeks. Best show I've seen since Sopranos, ending was perfect. All the younger versions were impressively cast and acted out.