Boardwalk Empire

[Ed Hocken]

They've been advertising it pretty heavily around here.

Now where's the season 1 dvd set, HBO?!

[Timothy225]

Watched a bit of it this morning (thanks, DVR!), and am about halfway through. Van Alden's like a ticking time bomb, especially after last season, and his wife seems like a lot of laughs (hooooo boy).

[Chris Miller]

Don't fuck with Chalky I guess. It was nice to see his influence, but I kind of wanted to watch him take care of business himself....

[Timothy225]

He's at that point, or getting there, where beating anyone up himself is beneath him. Loved that scene.

[PHEDG]

"Come up to bed," Mrs. Macdonald? Yes Mam!

[IggytheBorg]

I dunno. . . I'm likin' it so far. For all the reasons heretofore stated. Ya gotta figure they're building toward some epic showdown, but Nucky has hardly anyone on his side at this point. They appear to have completely departed company from history, BTW. I guess that makes rerb happy, as he fucks history in the face.

[Timothy225]

Watched Sunday's episode last night (God bless DVR!), and... wow.

Gretchen Mol and Dabney Coleman had a terrific scene together, followed by one hell of a finale scene 'twixt the two. All I gotta say is Mol looks magnificent and what she inadvertently did to Coleman would be no surprise to any hetero male.

[PHEDG]

The stills should be streaming in soon but until then that was Heather Lind who plays the maid, Katie.

[Captain Russ]

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/c...g_.single.html

The trouble with Boardwalk Empire is that the stakes feel so low—all they’re doing is fighting over bootlegged liquor in a corrupt seaside town. When critics call those other shows Shakespearean, they’re thinking of Hamlet, King Lear, or Macbeth. If Boardwalk Empire were the work of the Bard, it would be a minor history play—a Richard II or Henry VIII.

More than anything else I’m currently watching, Boardwalk Empire reminds me of what William Goldman once dubbed “the snob hit.” In his Broadway chronicle The Season, he defined the snob hit as a play whose audience is “convinced that the ‘average’ theatergoer wouldn’t understand … or like it.” In other words, it must be good, even if nobody is particularly bowled over.

Please do kindly fuck off forever.

[BillyG]

Haven't watched the last few episodes, not really compelled to return to it. Maybe if I am bored Saturday afternoon.

[Captain Russ]

It's slow but good.

Get your shit together, Tyrone.

[Captain Russ]

The latest episode is the best of the season.

[PHEDG]

A lot has happened in just 2 episodes.

[Captain Russ]

"MUY CHEEELDREN."

"She's out to market with THEEE CHEEELDREN."

Take a drink errytime it happens, you will fucking wake up dead bro. DEAD AS FUCK.

[Captain Russ]

Also, Bill Forsythe is my new favorite guest star.