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

this was great.

and, yeah, I do like Jimmy, and his wife, and all that. margaret is the only wet fish to me.

find margaret's terrible "fiddle de dee i'm just a pooor oirish gurl" voice quite hard to handle.

this ep was great tho, nelson's craziness is really being teased out well. is this ep gonna mean he gets canned and the heat eases on nucky a bit? loved the argument between nucky and eli...

loved the argument between nucky and eli...

^yah this

it was v well written in that when eli starts sounding right and sensible you know nucky has actually been letting things slip...

Totally agree, best episode of the season.

This episode was fantastic. A lot of the boring stuff from earlier in the season is paying off now, like all the seemingly pointless scenes of Rothstein rehashing the Black Sox scandal.

Definitely the best episode yet, but I can't really agree with all the "oh now the boringness was worth the wait" stuff, since I've found this absolutely enjoyable from episode 1.

nelson is so the best character now! agree they have bungled margaret, which is a shame. thought nucky burned her pretty good in their argument though.

and xp - i like jimmy's hair too, garda. it's kinda hott when it gets messed up and there are some stray bits flopping out of place. go for it!

ugh i am surprised by y'all. Nelson is so hamfisted and BORING. i mean, cute character acting but just this silly caricature that never surprises me. nucky's got more unguessed layers than everyone else combined.

find margaret endlessly watchable.

Yeah Nucky's burn on her was great. Nelson is sorta hamfisted, but so completely the opposite of boring. I love every scene he is in.

Van Alden's not the best character, but he's a lot of fun. I think a lot of that is Michael Shannon. Maybe you can tell us about some of Nucky's "unguessed layers"...

i just mean that i'm never sure which way he's going to turn in a scene - he's a hero, an antihero, a goof, a steely dude. i really thought he might hit margaret in that scene. he's not unpredictable because "he's so wound-tight and unpredictable!" - but just that he has this internal life that's complex enough not to be able to accurately predict.

his firing of his bro was so abrupt!

Yeah, that was the first genuine "HOLY SHIT" moment of the series. My one main criticism was that the first "HOLY SHIT" moment SHOULD have been the attempted hit on Nucky, but I feel like they bungled that.

"They" being the show's writers, not just the guys than bungled the actual hit.

Nelson is so hamfisted and BORING. i mean, cute character acting but just this silly caricature that never surprises me.

you really guessed he was going to drown sebso? he's ott but shannon works it so hard he steals every scene imo.

i agree with you on nucky's unpredictability though. it's become much more believable since the earlier incidents like when he overturned the table for the banquet.

As soon as the camera cut back to the river, the drowning was obvious and then so belaboured. :(

I mean, it was so obvious that he was going to drown him while he was forcing his head under water for a long time.

Come the hell on, I think he meant not obvious based on the previous episodes. Of course THE ACTUAL SCENE ITSELF wasn't exactly subtle.

So you enjoyed sitting through the five minutes of obvious "oh hello pastor!" nonsense? i was snorin

I really liked the crazy intensity of that whole scene. And I didn't think he'd go so far as to drown the guy, I thought he was trying to humiliate him/force a confession out of him.

chap otm, exactly what I was expecting - humiliation. I mean, it has been made clear that dude was crazy, but with his skewed sense of morality I just didn't expect him to murder another law enforcement agent - even one he suspected of helping his enemies.

otm x2 - i really didn't know what was going to happen in that scene, and i don't think nelson did either!

x3

interesting to see what happens with Harold next week. Suggesting massacring the Philly Mobs mother and brother wasn't exactly out of character but still slightly shocking.

It was the way he mentioned so casually that made it more shocking, really (massacring the family that is).

sort of agree with jon, i wouldn't say i instantly liked it, i didn't watch episode two for about 5 weeks, but as soon as i came back to it and could watch 2/3/4 in quick succession i got hooked. i really think this is the best thing currently airing...tho am open to any suggestions in this mad men/breaking bad drought. very much enjoying boardwalk though, wtf is going to happen nelson now? how does he get out of this?

also how many eps left?

The Ponzi thing in this episode made me scream.

Why is the blocking of the extras on this show SO TERRIBLE.

Next week is the last episode.

very subdued finale imo

It was disappointing as a standalone episode, but I think it sets things up nicely for next season, which I suppose was the intent.

Harrow is ice cold

wrapped up a lot of things nicely from this season I thought, though it did seem both rushed and understated. Margaret and Nucky are my favourite thing. Besides Harrow.

i think they used to do that w/ the sopranos, where the penultimate ep was the one where a lot happened, and then the last episode was more subdued

Looks like s2 will be the one where things really kick off, this one seems to've been about getting everyone into place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mhpw7gb1fE

this one seems to've been about getting everyone into place.

far too generous imo.

this show was a massive let down full of dreadful writing. i'm out.

Why is the blocking of the extras on this show SO TERRIBLE.

ha, otm.

this ep was a lot worse than the show has been recently, stupid shit about the brack etc. also the margaret storyline was a bit thick, just sort of pointlessly wavering then "oh fuck it let's get back together."

i do like this show a lot though, it had been on a really good streak until this finale.

ugh yeah, this was not good. "i want to find out who the real enoch thompson is" or whatever... just awful. and even as one of the few fans of both paz and nelson i groaned at the pregnancy news.

very disappointed in the last episode. Didn't buy Margaret's damascene conversion to machine politics. Did lol when mayor bader reinstated Eli.

Sure it set up the next series but it leaves me feeling very dissatisfied about this one

and even as one of the few fans of both paz and nelson i groaned at the pregnancy news.

that was so weird. feel like they're keeping nelson around purely for the lols now. the scene with his wife was also hilarious: "they make my fillings hurt!"

Looks like s2 will be the one where things really kick off

not exactly regretting stopping after ep. 4.

I figure I'm willing to keep watching this show just for the pure volume of getting to look at Steve Buscemi that that would entail.

I just finished episode 6 and it's kinda getting slow (mostly the Kelly Macdonald, Michael Pitt, and Gretchen Mol parts). Enjoying all the Buscemi though. Is it worth it to stick with it until the end of the season?

The whole thing's pretty slow moving - at the end of the season it only just feels like everything's in place for some big shit to go down. The only character who really goes through some eye-popping changes during S1 is Nelson. Having said that, if you're enjoying the scenery I'd keep going. And I don't think you've met the most fascinating character yet.

The whole season feels like setup for a much better season 2/3.

That's what I'm hoping!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-B8RjzOwG8&feature=player_embedded

never thought I'd say this but I'm kinda psyched for season 2

I'm v v excited.