Boardwalk Empire-The Show to Watch This Fall

[North East Goon]

I smell Emmy for the Van Alden character! The last episode was a little slow for my taste, but not bad by any means.

[mac_82]

Great ending to the first season last night. So glad I watched it instead of the 3rd period of the Flames-Hawks game last night.

[GGG]

I still don't know if I like this show or not. I am going to keep watching it and there are definitely parts of the show I like but it just seems to move at an archaic pace. Maybe its the cinematography which while looking good grinds the continuity to a halt or the period things like Hodini's brother or the gay review singer that seems to be filler.

[d_phaneuf]

The show reminds me of breaking bad in that it seems to get better every episode

I thought it was fantastic, it had a type of cliffhanger but not the kind that annoys you, just that I can't wait for it to come back

it's in my top 5 favorite current tv shows

[North East Goon]

I thought gay people werent invented until the 80's?

[Ducay]

Love the show; but I feel like the whole Jimmy/Eli/Old Dude plot thing at the end was a bit forced. Everyone goes from fine and happy with Nucky to "LETS PLOT AGAINST HIM" in a matter or minutes. I understand they needed that as a segway to draw you into next season, but come on, that was just poorly done.

[GreenTeaFrapp]

Originally Posted by Ducay

Love the show; but I feel like the whole Jimmy/Eli/Old Dude plot thing at the end was a bit forced. Everyone goes from fine and happy with Nucky to "LETS PLOT AGAINST HIM" in a matter or minutes. I understand they needed that as a segway to draw you into next season, but come on, that was just poorly done.

I don't think it was forced at all and they had been sowing the seeds of dissent against Nucky for quite some time now. Jimmy has had issues with Nucky since the first episode. Eli has felt like he's been in Nucky's shadow going back to when he did the speech that bombed. Jimmy's dad clearly has grown annoyed at Nucky's self-absorbed ways when he blurted out that he was dying while Nucky was rambling on about his own problems.

[DuffMan]

I just watched all of this during the last week, and saw the last episode last night. I'm not sure but my PVR stopped before the credits were running, so I just want to make sure I didn't miss anything.
When my pvr stopped, it was the guy on the bar singing.

Does anyone remember if that was it.

[malcolmk14]

There was about 3 1/2 minutes left but nothing substantial.

[Roof-Daddy]

No surprise that people are starting to turn on Nucky. The way he treats his subordinates is deplorable. Just look at the way Nucky treats his little servant. He still treated the guy like crap after he saved his life in that one episode.

[Oliwa]

Awesome episode! Van Alden is an awesome character.

[Mike F]

Wow, had no idea it was back! Very excited.

[Ducay]

Totally forgot this started, will have to catch it tomorrow!

[Winsor_Pilates]

Completely snuck up on me but so excited this is back.

[VANFLAMESFAN]

Strong premiere.

Loved the shot of Van Alden's wife getting turned on by the raid to the headboard banging on the hotel room wall, only to show Van Alden testing out the bed's springs. That and Nucky's speeches to the whites and blacks were awesome.

I hope this show lives up to its great potential. I felt Season One had great moments, but often lacked a certain intensity. I found the show to be more of a period piece than anything else in Season one. I thought the gangster storylines weren't explored as much as I would have liked, or at the very least, what I expected.

I hope we see more Rothstein, Capone, Luciano in Season Two.

[Coys1882]

Spoiler!

I really liked the scene where Jimmy finally opens the gift from Nucky. A pivotal moment in the season coming when he puts it in the closet instead of on display.

[BlAcKNoVa]

Jimmy's mom scares me.

I didn't get the scene with Jimmy and the guy who wears the mask to cover part of his face. Jimmy told him he doesn't have to feel embarassed to eat with them. He seemed to be piling up the potatoes or whatever they were, then Jimmy told him to take a couple biscuits with him.

Can anyone enlighten me? lol Did he not want to take the mask off or..didn't like the food *confused*

Was a pretty good episode though. Van Alden is awesome.

Spoiler!

For a second I thought the actor that plays Chalky was gonna die. That would've been the second sudden and surprising death scene he's had (the other being from The Wire series).

[Barnes]

Originally Posted by BlAcKNoVa

Jimmy's mom scares me.

I didn't get the scene with Jimmy and the guy who wears the mask to cover part of his face. Jimmy told him he doesn't have to feel embarassed to eat with them. He seemed to be piling up the potatoes or whatever they were, then Jimmy told him to take a couple biscuits with him.

Can anyone enlighten me? lol Did he not want to take the mask off or..didn't like the food *confused*

Was a pretty good episode though. Van Alden is awesome.

Spoiler!

For a second I thought the actor that plays Chalky was gonna die. That would've been the second sudden and surprising death scene he's had (the other being from The Wire series).

Re: spoiler

He is also playing the new bio teacher in community this year. Hopefully they do a paintball episode again...

The spoiler is The Wire related. Don't read it if you haven't watched the whole thing.

[BlackEleven]

Originally Posted by BlAcKNoVa

Jimmy's mom scares me.

I didn't get the scene with Jimmy and the guy who wears the mask to cover part of his face. Jimmy told him he doesn't have to feel embarassed to eat with them. He seemed to be piling up the potatoes or whatever they were, then Jimmy told him to take a couple biscuits with him.

Can anyone enlighten me? lol Did he not want to take the mask off or..didn't like the food *confused*

Was a pretty good episode though. Van Alden is awesome.

I thought it was because he probably can't eat properly with half a mouth. A lot of food probably falls out when he's eating it, or maybe he has to mash everything up into a paste to eat it. I just assumed it was something that others would consider to be distasteful. At least he doesn't have to do an insulin shot at the table though.

[Vena]

Tonight's episode was pretty solid. I love Owen Sleater. Bad ass character.