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

God yeah those first 5 or so episodes of S1 were pretty light on the intrigue

Shouldn't we be getting some more of this soon?

Ah yes we are, on the 16th.

No interest in this, felt the two season arc as 'jimmy's story' should have been left tbh.

this was pretty bad

it just seemed like a soap opera with occasional violence where a lot of actors who had been good in other things went to be awful. and the plotting of the seasonal arcs was a total mess, e.g. five minutes of the lucy'n'nelson show every week totally failing to have any impact on the plot at all, i guess they went 'well, they're contracted'

Idk, I hate it when everything ties into plot too neatly too, extraneous detail done well adds depth where slavish devotion to plot often diminishes

my impression was that as of the end of the first series the plan was to have nelson go full vigilante, completely off-the-rails, and then they switched priorities and couldn't really do much with him

oh, why did jimmy suddenly start acting suicidally dense halfway through the season, that's the bit i didn't understand

i guess it was supposed to be for ~PSYCHOLOGICAL~ reasons. frankly anyone who ever wrote for tv should have every bone in both hands crushed w/ repeated blows using an early-90s IBM word processor

'your father' 'WHICH ONE' shits

Nice set of interviews with Terence Winter at the AV Club

(Warning:contains spoilers obv)

http://www.avclub.com/articles/boardwalk-empire-creator-terence-winter-on-raising,84239/

http://www.avclub.com/features/the-walkthrough/

Finished S2 on Saturday. Was kinda bummed about the Darmody ending, I knew it would happen but it's still a bummer. Was realllllly hoping he'd at least off his Mom...ugh at that whole family arrangement. I've had a crush on Michael Pitt since Dawson's Creek, I thought he did a great job as Darmody.

What will become of Harrow?

Rothstein definitely one of my favorite characters, he was so mesmerizing! I quite like the Meyer Lansky character as well. He lived til he was 83 irl --- if the fictional version of him is anythign to go by, you can kind of tell how. He always seems to figure out a way to be on the right side of things.

Also whoa at that last scene with Margaret and the deed. That girl's got some balls on her. <3

i guess it was supposed to be for ~PSYCHOLOGICAL~ reasons. frankly anyone who ever wrote for tv should have every bone in both hands crushed w/ repeated blows using an early-90s IBM word processor

― thomp, Saturday, September 1, 2012 6:42 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark

nice.

just caught up on season 2 of this after being pretty indifferent about the first season. still feel like this could be great with a few tweaks

apparently the third season's totally booting paz de la huerta, which can only really be a step in the right direction

what did people think of s03e01 then? i really enjoyed it. didn't have the painfully slow start of the last two seasons. i'd forgotten that it actually got very good at the end of the last season. very well-paced opening episode.

this was the best opening by leaps and bounds. continuation of how good the end of last season was for sure, although i'm pretty bummed william forsythe won't be joining the main cast

Yeah, as much as I liked the end of last season, I was still expecting to watch this episode and shrug, but I really enjoyed it.

I read a suggestion that Harrow killed that guy on Darmody's mom's orders, but I figured he did it for himself.

yeah that was really good! Margaret's dress for the party was STUNNING.

Is it bad that I kinda wish Harrow would just cut to the chase and kill crepey Ma Darmody? The stuff with him and Jimmy's kid just makes me so sad. And what's the timespan between last episode and this one?...seems like a pretty short timeframe to turn the Darmody house into whatever fancy whorehouse she's got going now.

Van Alden was kinda great, I'm glad they're giving Shannon such a long arc with this character. Hope he gets tied up with those Chicago types soon.

I doubt Harrow did it on Ma Darmody's orders. That's surely something they would have shown if so.

This was a great season opener, I really hope they can keep this momentum up all season. Also, insta-crush on Nucky's new mistress, she's gorgeous.

Season 2 started at the beginning of 1921. This starts at the end of 1922, so there's at least a year and a bit between the end of last season and this one.

And what's the timespan between last episode and this one?...seems like a pretty short timeframe to turn the Darmody house into whatever fancy whorehouse she's got going now.

it's been like a year and a half

xpost

oh right - duh, I should've remembered that.

but still

can we kill off Ma Darmody? She's a nasty piece of work

I'm afraid if they kill her off, Harrow will have no place to go. I was really caught up in how much he misses Angela.

van alden's baby sure didn't look older than 6-8 months to me.

I gotta say, Doyle has really grown on me. I was actually happy to see him this time around.

Like movie and TV show babies can ever be counted on for authenticity. Watched the first episode of The Mindy Project on demand the other night and some lady gave birth to an 8-month old!

I was actually happy to see him this time around.

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl)

I was surprised at how happy I was to see a lot of the characters! On the evidence of this episode I'd say Boardwalk might've finally hit its stride, there was an instant swagger here lacking from previous seasons. Pretty much impeccably directed and acted, and everything seemed to have a lot more breathing room than before.

Also Nucky works a lot better as a character for me now that they've fully established quite what a cold bastard he is.

otm

van alden's baby sure didn't look older than 6-8 months to me.

― Clay, Monday, September 17, 2012 5:48 PM (2 days ago)

that was his second child his wife was holding the daughter he had with paz was out of the shot.

great episode btw

Wasn't harrow getting revenge on Angela's murderer?

also: Shooter McGavin!

oh wait, was he already in it? I didn't recognise Uncle Junior for ages either.

"... how the fuck are you still alive?"

Stephen Root's character pretty delightful this episode

Not nearly as good as the first, there were some slightly dull sequences I thought. But it built up to a great climax. The new antagonist is pretty chilling.

I don't really care about Margaret any more.

^^^ so uninteresting now, which is a shame, because i think she's a solid actress

this episode was slow, but fit into formula, they usually tone things down after an explosive episode like the first one, feel like the next one with have some serious kills

also still super crushing on Billie Kent, that smile!

I was only half paying attention, I have to rewatch it again tonight...

This was my favorite ep in a long time, loved the slow pacing and how every scene was built around solid acting perfs

Trying to recall where I'd seen Mr Fishbowl before - his voice is especially familiar

Its Stephen Root! The "red stapler" guy from Office Space (among many others). I was so glad to see him show up.

Whoa really? He's amazing

He's in a bunch of coen bros stuff, always incredible. (Also the judge on Justified).

yeah, he's always a great character addition whenever he shows up

and his King of the Hill stuff is all-time, of course

Will watch first season tonight for the first time

Good luck, first season's a mixed bag.