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

this season was kinda meh?

i liked the last couple of episodes but it felt like they had sooo many story threads and none of them really were that interesting, chalky at that house was like cmoooooooooooooooon why are we still heeeere jeez

maggie and rothstein should have gotten more play, I wanted way more scenes of them together

that being said, Eli was A+, that beatdown was crazy

he's a good actor in that role, like a wound up spring

Thought this was the best season if not the most obviously enjoyable.

this season was kinda meh?

Nah I really liked it. Dramatically I think it will prove to have been largely setting up next season, but the writing acting and direction have all been top notch.

So far I would rank them 3>>4>>>2>>>>>1

There's something really satisfying about this show even when it is being kind of boring

I like how Nucky is designed/played to be the ultimate sympathetic bad guy protagonist - he does horrible things, but you always feel like rooting for him because he is so matter-of-fact and rational about everything

1 and 2 were definitely great, this season and last season I'm kinda lukewarm on

but I still enjoy watching

how do we feel about Patricia Arquette as Sal? Her drawl kinda bugs me but I mostly like her

I thought she was really good actually, and usually I think she's a bit weak on the old acting.

And I feel exactly the opposite of you season wise!

Yah same here, I thought Season 1 was kinda dull tbh, persevered because I had so much free time so why the fuck not, but it wasn't till Jimmy had copped it that I was totally sold. Season 3 was pretty frenetic compared to this one but I think I probably enjoyed them about equally. I like that the show is unafraid of offing big characters, even when they're the ones I love (Richard!! :((( )

I hope we've seen the last of Tommy and Harrow's missus, not because I particularly dislike them but because I'd like the extra time to be used to focus on other characters. Now that Richard, Purnsley, Jim Knox aren't in it (Gillian too maybe) there ought to be a lot of scope for further exploring some of the other players. Rothstein and Lanksy in partic. I think are basically where Chalky was up until this season - we've not been allowed to forget them and they've been fleshed out a bit, but I think they're definitely ready to become major focuses next season. Rothstein / Margaret storyline could be great watching. As for having Eli / Nelson / Al Capone running in the same crew, I'm already fucking impatient.

1 and 2 were definitely great, this season and last season I'm kinda lukewarm on

this is OTM.

maybe it's just that i kept letting episodes pile up and then watching them in bunches that I lost the momentum somehow

i demand more rothstein next season

I cannot WAIT for Eli/Nelson/Capone

3+4 absolutely piss on 1+2.

I don't think this show really found itself until halfway through season 2, with Jimmy's slouching towards inevitability. S3 was a lot of fun, but this season it came into its own as something approaching the kind of "quality" television it clearly wants to be.

I think I just want Jimmy back

Something oddly magnetic about that drawl, for sure. And the limp! Must remember to cultivate a limp when I hit about 30, wouldn't half look menacing on a quiet street on a dark night

I have had a mild crush on that actor since he was in Dawson's Creek

Jimmy was a black hole that sucked in fun.

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Ok so I just started watching this show, from the beginning. Without spoiling too much, can someone please tell me whether there is going to be a good explanation for why Darmody talks the way he does in spite of having spent time at Princeton?

anyway, I thought the show's start was promising overall, in spite of being overexplainy and full of cliches. Just engaging enough to make me want to see more.

because it sound intersting xp

the show does get considerably better than the first season.

starts slow, but payoff is pretty great

I didn't even think it was slow, there was just stuff that irritated me, like the fact that the simultaneous liquor heist/raid gets explained in dialogue after it's already obvious what happened, or the fact that Nucky delivers a canned line about politicians lying after telling his obviously fake story. Also lots of warmed over scorsese-copying-scorsese type stuff, like the execution of Carlesimo in a fucking pasta restaurant with fucking caruso playing - really that whole end montage, although I did like the touch of having the abusive husband's body turn up in the fish catch.

If you were being charitable you might say that Darmody speaks that way because he's left the whole Princeton thing behind and wants to play at being laissez-faire give-a-shit gangster. But then again maybe not. I quite like him in this tbh

http://i.imgur.com/atzRUNT.jpg

next one will be the final season :(

Nooo! there is so much potential left for this series. Fucking idiots.

!!

so basically this is gonna end with Rothstein's death eh

I'm guessing the show is a lot of work for everyone involved and must be quite expensive (and doesn't command the ratings of something like Game of Thrones). Also Winter has had that 70s set music industry drama with Scorsese and Jagger percolating for a while, although I haven't heard anything about it recently. Shame though

whoa 70s project sounds cool

next one will be the final season :(

― Number None, Thursday, January 9, 2014 11:46 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nooo! there is so much potential left for this series. Fucking idiots.

― Damo Suzuki's Parrot,

Part of me agrees, part of me thinks quit while you're ahead. Five seasons is a good run, though there's certainly enough material here for six or seven at a push.

woah

While talking to Michael K. Williams during a press day for The Purge: Anarchy (which we will have a full interview for closer to that movie’s release), the subject of the final season of Boardwalk Empire inevitably came up, and Williams told me something very, very interesting— Boardwalk Empire Season 5 is going to have a seven-year time jump to 1931.

“The storyline has jumped seven years [into the future], which is why I have the beard now,” Williams said when asked about what we can expect from Season 5. “The Depression has set in. The days of the shiny shoes and fancy suits are long gone.”

haha waht

'31 = Capone goes on trial, Rothstein is dead, Luciano goes to war with Masseria

kinda bummed about the Rothstein angle was looking forward to odd couple hijinks with Kelly Macdonald

yeah, that's a major bummer

Not opposed to that in principle, but there seems to be rather too much unfinished business in 24 to do it right now.

The loss of Capone and Rothstein could be catastrophic. Meyer Lansky is going to rise though.

Yeah, I really liked the last couple of seasons, but I'm not too excited for this jump. Kinda surprised HBO would pass up on the chance to film the super bloody Valentine's Day Massacre, though they'll probably shoehorn it into some montage to get us up to speed.

Really was hoping for more of a slow-burn through the Chicago stuff.

have they officially said this is the last season?

yes

Also shit's only just really kicking off with Narcisse.

Yeah, are they going to write off that whole plot?

that whole thing seemed done with him being nailed by the FBI. where else is there to go with that?

it's been a minute since i saw the season finale, but i thought i remembered some subtle hints that it wasn't completely over with him.

I can't remember it exactly either but I do recall that Hoover screwed him (and called him out as a hypocrite)