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

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

any recognizable names writing/directing these episodes?

they got some noob in for the pilot, the others they staffed out to veterans of 'house' and 'ncis'

xp was to! i'm generally enjoying the more ott characters in this so far though.

British dude playing Capone is good.

he's a good actor, but he's not exactly showing chops here yet (or getting a chance to) and he really can't do the accent (same problem with him in gangs of new york iirc)

the chalky/klansman scene was awz

I thought Capone's Chicago accent sounded pretty great!

opening credit sequence is soooooo generic HBO though, can't they craft these things to mesh with the shows rather than other credit sequences?

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If the Wire was still around I wonder if there's would be McNulty floating slowly over Baltimore set to the Dream Syndicate

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this is so otm, opening credits suck so bad

All coming together now. Very good episode.

Still very enjoyable, still not feeling much in terms of depth. But it may well come.

Really digging Nucky and Margaret now. Also happy to see Jimmy and Al about to get swallowed up in a turf war. And it's worth repeating how awesome the Chalky scene was.

I want to get invited to one of Nucky's parties.

eh. this is fairly entertaining thus far, but it's not exactly great.

i like Buscemi, but he feels miscast here. not believably charismatic enough to be a successful politician, not tough or intimidating enough to be a gangster. the scene in the last episode when he notices a spot on a glass and flips the table in a rage sent home the latter point. Michael Pitt is very pretty, but he's a damn boring actor. each episode seems to have a certain T&A (thanks Paz) and violence quota. often feels gratuitous. the show's too conservative, no real interesting plotlines, just standard gangster shit we've seen 100x before in a fancy new setting. it all feels a bit shallow.

also thought that Chalky scene in last episode was a little hammy, tbh. *ducks*

i'll stick it out, it's rarely boring and it COULD be something great, i'm just not exactly all that impressed with it at this point.

each episode seems to have a certain T&A (thanks Paz)

Was feeling the T&A on Jimmy's ill-fated Chicago squeeze, she reminded me of a younger sexier Jennifer Jason Leigh.

I pretty much agree entirely with circa. Moreover, I don't feel like I'm on anyone's side yet. Yer Don Drapers, Walter Whites, Dexter Morgans and Tony Sopranos are all pretty repulsive in their own ways, but their respective shows had you rooting for them pretty much from the off. I'm guessing Margaret is supposed to be filling that role, and she's growing into it but hasn't reached that point for me yet. Her exchange with the anti-Suffrage guys was her best moment yet, showing her as more than a sobbing victim.

margarets got some nice gams