Boardwalk Empire - anyone been watching it?

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.

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

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

They will repeat it all week.

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

'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.

is a fave. Miss Rubicon

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..

Buscemi's character is named Enock Thompson.

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

:thumbsup:

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

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

the historical references really have added to the storyline, making it some of the most compelling television I've seen in decades.

game on.

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

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

even with the use of only one eye

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.

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.

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

:thumbsup:

it looked good

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 ...

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

Depended in the color of the little guy.

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 ...

and the working folks LOVED Long

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 ...

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

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

he's got to be!!!

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

:thumbsup:

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:

ALL the bedroom scenes an actor could want.

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

and Eastbound and Down cut into my Sunday night productivity.

republican!

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

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.

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