Boardwalk Empire - anyone been watching it?

[proud2BlibKansan]

It's about organized crime in Atlantic City in 1920.

Tonight's episode has the lead character - a crime boss in Atlantic City - going to the Republican Convention as a delegate. This guy is a bad ass so it fits that he's a republican. Anyhow, watching these scenes of republicans in 1920 reminds me that they haven't changed much. Still corrupt. Still shitting on the little guy, 90 years later.

[medeak]

1. oh you are torturing me!

we lost tv signal tonight to due weather...wah!

[madmax]

5. Do you get on Demand?

Time-Warner replays it again tonight and I think during the week again.

[Nancy Waterman]

10. It is HBO

They will repeat it all week.

[Initech]

2. I've been watching but I've missed the last couple episodes.

Great series - I really like where they're going with it.

[madmax]

3. Great show! Been watching since the first episode.

'Nucky' what a name :rofl: Of course my mind is in the gutter. :evilgrin:

This is one of my favorite shows. Dexter is the other.

[medeak]

4. Dexter too

is a fave. Miss Rubicon

[SoCalDem]

12. I could never "like" Rubicon.. I tried, but deleted it

none of the characters appealed to me, & I found myself having several unwatched episodes piled up... Like that "John for Cincinnati" show.. after Deadwood was canceled in its favor, I could never like it..I did try:)

Same with Fringe.. I love Eureka, Warehouse 13 & V...but Fringe left me cold..

[pinboy3niner]

13. 'Nucky' sounds funny, but it's a nickname for 'Enock'

Buscemi's character is named Enock Thompson.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

14. Inspired by real life Enoch "Nucky" Johnson

They have taken great liberties with the character, the real like "Nucky" was corrupt as fuck - but not much of a gangster.

[Skinner]

6. I'm totally hooked.

:thumbsup:

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. Loved the part about hiding Harding's girlfriend

And Nucky talking about how that stupid man will be the next president. LOL

[kentuck]

23. It's my favorite of this season...

Dexter has slipped a bit in its writing, I think?

[blm]

35. so am I

the historical references really have added to the storyline, making it some of the most compelling television I've seen in decades.

[Strelnikov_]

7. Jimmy heading back to AC, along with his 'war buddy'

game on.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

11. which one?

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. Jimmy's war buddy is the sniper guy

He's already killed at least one guy for Jimmy.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

24. I thought it could have been Al Capone too

I have the last one recorded, I just haven't watched it yet.

[CatWoman]

28. he's quite a sharpshooter

even with the use of only one eye

[Strelnikov_]

30. I think he is setting up as Jimmy's 'Luca Brasi'

Except there seem to be a lot of twists.

Maybe he's a cop, working his way in. The rules cops could play by back then seem to be, well, a bit loose . .

Catch where Jimmy's mom started telling him all about Lucky when he asked . . . lotta twists.

[4lbs]

8. The show is awesome, and quite accurate.

Scorcese is making this the 1920s version of "The Sopranos", but pretty much everything you see in the show really happened! Which makes it all the more compelling.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

9. Loving it,

Although the pilot with the girl going reverse-cowgirl on Steve Buscemi made me vomit in my mouth,

[ellisonz]

15. Nucky will eventually get his road money.

[racaulk]

17. Oh yes, I love this show!

:thumbsup:

[HipChick]

18. Been meaning to catch it..

it looked good

[Cosmocat]

19. I hate to tell you this ...

but the dems have more than their share of shiite in politics over time, too ...

See the Kennedies in particular over time ...

And, as far as this show is concerned, Nucky has absolutely NO comparison to today's republican party - a big part of his voting base was the negros in AC ... You think there is ANY R today who would have his brother the sheriff round up the head of the local KKK to have a negro cut his finger off trying to find out who killed one of his crew ... Or his soft spot for premature babies compared to the R party of today which takes the approach that once born you are on your own ???

Nucky is an old school boss, but he has more heart (in his series at least) than any of the deranged lunatics who got foisted into congress a week ago will EVER show during their time as congressmen/senators ...

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. The Dems don't shit on the little guy like the pukes do

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

22. Today, maybe.

In the era BOARDWALK EMPIRE covers the Democratic Party was busy filibustering anti-lynching legislation.

Depended in the color of the little guy.

[Cosmocat]

33. Today, sure ...

Back in the day, the Ds did this share of backhanded stuff, too ...

Either way, my point with Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, at least as portrayed in BE, is that while he was a boss, he has a VERY clear soft spot for the "little guy."

No comparison to him and today's pukes ...

[blm]

39. yep....not unlike Long in Lousiana

and the working folks LOVED Long

[Cosmocat]

43. Ah, Huey ...

I am 45, and in my adult life I can count on one friggen hand the number of Rs who were working for anyone other than themselves and big business ...

[blm]

38. That's close to how I see it...Nucky looked out for the little guy, too, unlike today's GOPs who

focus on USING the little guy to transfer wealth TO the financial elite.

[AzDar]

25. Love, love, LOVE it.

(I keep getting a Jimmy-is-Nucky's-secret-son vibe...) ;)

[CatWoman]

27. me too!!

he's got to be!!!

and isn't Steve Beschemi EXCELLENT as Nucky? :)

[AzDar]

29. He is. Never imagined him as a leading man-type, either...but he really pulls it off!

:thumbsup:

[pinboy3niner]

31. Who would've thought "Mr. Pink" could do it? But he does.

I'm a pushover for Buscemi in anything he does, so it's good to see others have the same opinion without my bias. :thumbsup:

[blm]

36. hahah...I pretty much think Buscemi has the writers in his back pocket....he finally gets

ALL the bedroom scenes an actor could want.

He'll be exhausted by the season's end. ; )

[wiggs]

26. Good show. The back to back to back shows of Boardwalk Empire, Bored to Death,

and Eastbound and Down cut into my Sunday night productivity.

[deaniac21]

32. Yes, that 1920 convention was in Chicago which was heavily

republican!

[Vinca]

34. I love Boardwalk Empire - haven't watched this episode yet.

[blm]

37. Yes...or as I call it...the full-employment act for actresses with REAL breasts.

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[NightHawk63]

40. Hands down my favorite HBO show...

that is until Dennis Miller's next special :sarcasm: :rofl:

[David Zephyr]

41. Yes. We do not watch television drama in our home, but this is an exception.

Our family has never watched an episode of any of the Law & Order, CSI genre or any of the television dramas. And we've also skipped most, not all, sitcoms for over thirty years. We're not snobs, we just don't invest our leisure time that way.

That said, we have been engaged with Boardwalk Empire, find it brilliant written, produced, directed and the sets, the period setting and the acting to all be too compelling to miss.

And we do also watch Mad Men, mostly for the walk down memory lane of the 1960's and the period sets, although the story line really sagged last year.

So, the fact that we are hardly a real television family and that we tune in for Boardwalk Empire must say something for the show.

[supernova]

42. Love it!

SO and I are glued to HBO on Sunday nights. :D