it's a pilot, and pilots often kinda suck, what with having to fit in every character and get everything going
yeah, exactly
im blatantly going to keep watching, there's a hell of a lot of promise, but im not sure what the point of using scorsese was, when it was mostly bam-bam-bam check out these amazing sets, meet all these characters
there were some real nice scenes, like pitt's meeting with the feds, but some bits which over-reached. there was no meaningful parallel between the two murders at the end, so why draw one? felt kinda random and there hadn't been enough time to explain the dynamics between the two chicago guys.
buscemi was fine, but physically not quite right for the part.
― l'avventura: pet detective (history mayne), Sunday, 26 September 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago) link
ending up liking the first one a lot, but man ep 02 was snoooooooze
― sean gramophone, Monday, 27 September 2010 05:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Really liked the second ep. Putting pieces in place and developing character. Still don't think it has the potential to rank among the greats, but am enjoying it thus far.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Monday, 27 September 2010 06:27 (fourteen years ago) link
also lol at the midget's annoyed look after the joke.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Monday, 27 September 2010 06:29 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, and where the hell did Paz De La Huerta come from and why is she in things?
also, where is omar little?
― johnny crunch, Monday, 27 September 2010 11:22 (fourteen years ago) link
looks prominent in the next ep based on the preview
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Monday, 27 September 2010 14:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Also would anyone from Ireland like to comment on her accent? Sounded weird off to me, but maybe that's what Irish immigrants sounded like at the time. She's generally pretty good at accents.
NumberNone otm above, it's as bad as it was in Intermission, seems she can't do Irish without adding simpering into the mix.
Enjoyed first ep...bit tedious in parts tho, not sure I am that into this period as a thing. It's a bit stuffy.
― I see what this is (Local Garda), Monday, 27 September 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
http://nymag.com/movies/profiles/66284/index3.htmlShe's a bit of a "character"
― Number None, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
― sean gramophone, Monday, September 27, 2010 1:19 AM (20 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
troo, feel like the series is gonna be amazing overall tho
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 28 September 2010 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Buscemi is an odd choice for a series lead.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Monday, 20 September 2010 14:47 (1 week ago)
― l'avventura: pet detective (history mayne), Sunday, 26 September 2010 19:02 (3 days ago)
sfunny cuz the wiki page for the real new jersey crook enoch johnson says '6 foot one inch 250 pound', so u can imagine who turned them down first
thought the first two ep's were fine without suggesting it's going to set the world on fire, tho it'll surely be worth watching
― The Managing Director of Being (nakhchivan), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 00:02 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm perfectly happy with it being entertaining, quite funny and gorgeous-looking for the time being.
― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 00:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Stuhlbarg is easily the highlight of the series. Too bad the rest (barring Shannon maybe) doesn't live up to him.
― avant-sarsgaard (litel), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 07:22 (thirteen years ago) link
i saw gretchen mol in the end credits - who was she?
― just sayin, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 09:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Jimmy's mother, no?
― Number None, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
yes
― chrisv2010, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
o
it was weird when she was jumping all over him
― just sayin, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
agreed, at first i thought he was having an affair.
― chrisv2010, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
and please tell me i never have to see another Buscemi cum face again
― chrisv2010, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
ha wait that was his mother, totally fast forwarded through that scene
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
yep moms
― chrisv2010, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
no way gretchen mol looks old enough to be his mum i mean
― just sayin, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 14:00 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i found that a little odd.
― chrisv2010, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
didnt help that she was naked
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
agreed
― chrisv2010, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
ha i wouldve totally gone on thinking that was his girlfriend, this makes much more sense now, thx ilx
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
michael pitt annoys the shit out of me too....i don't know about this show. Loved ep 1, ep 2...not so much.
― chrisv2010, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
ive liked not loved both episodes, still finding it weird that steve buscemi's playing the big boss around town
― just sayin, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
buscemi makes sense to me in that hes 'half a gangster', hes a ruthless bureaucrat set to contend w/new realities
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 14:13 (thirteen years ago) link
can't say this has me glued to my screen
also missed gretchen mol completely
will keep watching
must read that profile of paz de la huerta, find out if there is more to her than 'getting them out in everything'
― l'avventura: pet detective (history mayne), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
enjoying this if only because it's nicely shot and has even more skin than the last season of True Blood
― Hatch, Wednesday, 29 September 2010 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
wait hang on the dancer was gretchen mol?!!?!
'so that's how it is in their family'
― l'avventura: pet detective (history mayne), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
this show is making me wonder if my once-favorite genre is just played out. Or maybe just played out for me.
― get off my lawn (rockapads), Saturday, 2 October 2010 06:53 (thirteen years ago) link
It struck me last night that there's something a little off in the execution. I'm not sure it's balancing the plot development and the character development very well. There's a desire to slow things down after the pilot, which it does in certain small, character scenes, but then before you know it, Jimmy's on a train to Chicago and presumably the whole dynamic of how this show started three episodes ago is changing.
I do like the fact that Jimmy is less a man on the make and more of a bumbling novice. Nucky, Margaret and the Michael Shannon character are pretty great, but Paz De La Huerta is absolutely ruining every scene she's in.
Also weird to hear Omar swear.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Monday, 4 October 2010 17:56 (thirteen years ago) link
G-Man guy totally born to play G-Men.
Gukbe's analysis is fairly valid, though I'm still finding plenty to enjoy. I was on the edge of my my seat during the attempted smothering, for example. But yeah there is a slight sense of a show spreading itself too thinly too soon, particularly with detours to NYC and Chicago. Having said that it's certainly not boring, and I will continue watching.
― Rob Liefeld pose (chap), Monday, 4 October 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Oh yeah, was it supposed to be unclear who hung Omar's underling? I guess it was something to do with that creepy Doyle guy, but it wasn't obvious to me. I haven't quite got all the factions straight in my head yet.
― Rob Liefeld pose (chap), Monday, 4 October 2010 19:44 (thirteen years ago) link
g-man guy looks like he wasn't so much born and grew up as drawn into existence as a middle-aged man by chester gould.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Monday, 4 October 2010 19:45 (thirteen years ago) link
enjoying this well enough three episodes in, but at the same time, the dvr cut off the last ten minutes of last night's episode and found myself not really caring.
― strongohulkingtonsghost, Monday, 4 October 2010 19:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I think it was Doyle and/or his 'investors' xxpost.
Should add that I'm really enjoying it, but it's not thrilling me just yet.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Monday, 4 October 2010 20:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, it's definitely good, I've yet to decide if it's great. But, y'know I thought that about Mad Men and Breaking Bad three episodes in.
― Rob Liefeld pose (chap), Monday, 4 October 2010 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought that about Breaking Bad after the 1st season. You can never tell with these things.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Monday, 4 October 2010 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
some of this just seems so shity, weirdly inert and leaden, a minute long scene of mpitt emoting w/ photos of his wife...
i thought the problems with the first episode were just difficulties w/ providing backstories/exposition for all the characters but the third episode is even worse
― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Monday, 4 October 2010 21:20 (thirteen years ago) link
some of it is ok. i like the federal agent bro.
Paz De La Huerta is absolutely ruining every scene she's in
i can't rly believe how soft-porn this show is tbh
― laughing out loud lol (history mayne), Monday, 4 October 2010 21:24 (thirteen years ago) link
she isn't so much 'ruining' the scene where she spills ice cream on her tits and licks it off her finger... that's kind of the whole point of the scene
― laughing out loud lol (history mayne), Monday, 4 October 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
haha
i wonder what paz is like w/ casting directors
― journey to the end of nyt (nakhchivan), Monday, 4 October 2010 21:35 (thirteen years ago) link
haha G-Man guy was the young groom Bill Murray bought Wrestlemania tix for in Groundhog Day.
― Kerm, Monday, 4 October 2010 21:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Surely it wouldn't be that hard to work out the meaning of "motherfucker" even if you hadn't heard it before?
― Number None, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 01:41 (thirteen years ago) link
this series is a Worthy Successor to the acclaimed films that martin scorcese has directed
― 50.bison (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 7 October 2010 22:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I totally love Paz De La Huerta in this. But also I have no idea who she is.
― funky house skeptic (polyphonic), Thursday, 7 October 2010 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Yes, she plays an annoying pouty twit with breasts extremely well.
― Rob Liefeld pose (chap), Thursday, 7 October 2010 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link