Michael "Omar" Kenneth "Little" Williams, Steve Buscemi, and ehhhhh Michael Pitt in Martin Scorsese's BOARDWALK EMPIRE

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.

also lol at the midget's annoyed look after the joke.

oh, and where the hell did Paz De La Huerta come from and why is she in things?

also, where is omar little?

looks prominent in the next ep based on the preview

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.

oh, and where the hell did Paz De La Huerta come from and why is she in things?

http://nymag.com/movies/profiles/66284/index3.html
She's a bit of a "character"

ending up liking the first one a lot, but man ep 02 was snoooooooze

― 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

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)

buscemi was fine, but physically not quite right for the part.

― 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

I'm perfectly happy with it being entertaining, quite funny and gorgeous-looking for the time being.

Stuhlbarg is easily the highlight of the series. Too bad the rest (barring Shannon maybe) doesn't live up to him.

i saw gretchen mol in the end credits - who was she?

Jimmy's mother, no?

yes

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it was weird when she was jumping all over him

agreed, at first i thought he was having an affair.

and please tell me i never have to see another Buscemi cum face again

ha wait that was his mother, totally fast forwarded through that scene

yep moms

no way gretchen mol looks old enough to be his mum i mean

yeah i found that a little odd.

didnt help that she was naked

agreed

ha i wouldve totally gone on thinking that was his girlfriend, this makes much more sense now, thx ilx

michael pitt annoys the shit out of me too....i don't know about this show. Loved ep 1, ep 2...not so much.

ive liked not loved both episodes, still finding it weird that steve buscemi's playing the big boss around town

buscemi makes sense to me in that hes 'half a gangster', hes a ruthless bureaucrat set to contend w/new realities

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'

enjoying this if only because it's nicely shot and has even more skin than the last season of True Blood

wait hang on the dancer was gretchen mol?!!?!

'so that's how it is in their family'

this show is making me wonder if my once-favorite genre is just played out. Or maybe just played out for me.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I thought that about Breaking Bad after the 1st season. You can never tell with these things.

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

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

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

haha

i wonder what paz is like w/ casting directors

haha G-Man guy was the young groom Bill Murray bought Wrestlemania tix for in Groundhog Day.

Surely it wouldn't be that hard to work out the meaning of "motherfucker" even if you hadn't heard it before?

this series is a Worthy Successor to the acclaimed films that martin scorcese has directed

I totally love Paz De La Huerta in this. But also I have no idea who she is.

Yes, she plays an annoying pouty twit with breasts extremely well.

she was great in the dressing room scene

no she wasnt