Season 2 definitely needs more Richard Harrow and Al Capone.

12/7/2010 12:12:02 PM

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"overall it feels too heavy on the soap opera stuff and too light on the action. it feels like 95% of the show is simply dialog between two people"

lol "soap opera stuff"...START BLOWIN' SHIT UP, WHEN DO AUTOMATIC WEAPONS GET INVENTED?!



Anyway, who do you guys think Lucky was taking money from in that montage at the end? That wasn't one of the DiLessio (sp) Brothers or whatever, was it? Couldn't quite figure that out.

[Edited on December 7, 2010 at 1:05 PM. Reason : .]

12/7/2010 1:04:41 PM

Oh yeah. He took the money and shot the dude right away, right?

12/7/2010 1:42:54 PM

^Yes. And I thought all the D'Alessio Brothers were dead already at that point. But maybe not.

12/7/2010 2:10:23 PM

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"Anyway, who do you guys think Lucky was taking money from in that montage at the end? "

Wasn't that the million bucks for keeping Rothstein from getting indicted?

12/7/2010 2:20:55 PM

^That's what I thought at first, too. I thought Lucky was stealing Nucky's money (either for Rothstein or on his own), but then it showed Nucky's butler counting the money on his desk. So Nucky got the money.

12/7/2010 2:56:53 PM

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-alan-watching/posts/interview-boardwalk-empire-creator-terence-winter-post-mortems-season-one

good read if you have the time

12/7/2010 3:22:44 PM

Richard Harrow is my favorite character.

12/7/2010 4:01:38 PM

One other minor detail I was a little confused about: towards the end of last week's episode, they seemed to insinuate that Gillian poisoned The Commodore when Jimmy confronted her with the empty canister. She kind of shrugged and looked like she was admitting guilt. But then The Commodore's maid admitted she did it at the beginning of the finale. Was I the only one who thought Gillian poisoned him?

12/7/2010 6:14:06 PM

Read the link armorfrsleep posted

[Edited on December 7, 2010 at 6:18 PM. Reason : .]

12/7/2010 6:17:19 PM

Hadn't gotten to it yet...bout to read it now. Thanks.

12/7/2010 6:41:46 PM

did anyone else notice the possible foreshadowing of Jimmy taking Nucky's place in the end montage? They show him on the beach standing on the edge of the water in almost the exact same position Nucky is in the opening credits of the show

12/7/2010 11:16:43 PM

I thought the same thing.

12/7/2010 11:35:14 PM

Did anyone notice Jimmy plotting and scheming to take over Nucky's place?

12/7/2010 11:45:42 PM

^^^ possible?

12/8/2010 12:38:24 AM

^^but the shot of Jimmy by the water was more subtle if you didn't think about it

12/8/2010 12:49:49 AM

I say possible because we don't really know if that is what will transpire. I can't imagine Nucky being outright replaced so early in the series as he is essentially the main character. Of course it was intentional by the writers to the show that shot of Jimmy as that's what they want us to consider

12/8/2010 8:10:04 AM

Uh well didn't the commodore outright tell Jimmy in the second to last episode that "Nucky wasn't the right man to run this city" ?

12/8/2010 9:14:40 AM

The Commodore and Eli are working with Jimmy to help him take over as the boss of the city. I think that guy's point about "possible" is that we don't know yet whether Jimmy is ready to totally betray Nucky. We know that he's pretty upset with him ATM, but we do have to remember that Nucky has been a "father figure" to Jimmy for a long time (albeit not a very good one, and not an unconditional one). It remains to be seen if Jimmy will try to take over next year. That's what he was thinking about when he was walking down the beach. Terrence Winter said as much in that interview.

But, in case it's unclear to anybody (don't know how it could be), from what we know, the Commodore and Eli definitely want Jimmy to take over as boss of the city. Unless Eli has something sheisty up his sleeve, which could well be the case. He strikes me as kind of slimy; good character, though.

12/8/2010 9:34:54 AM

Well if they stick to the major historical story then Jimmy will not be taking over for Nucky. But something is going to happen and I can't wait to see what Eli, the commodore and Jimmy try.

12/8/2010 11:54:52 AM

What was up with that book the maid gave Nucky? Do you think she tipped him off on the Commodore's hatred towards him? He had a look to him when he opened it up to the bookmarked page.

12/8/2010 1:22:08 PM

Totally forgot about that part.

12/8/2010 1:23:49 PM

^No feedback or thoughts?

12/8/2010 1:24:37 PM

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"Well if they stick to the major historical story then Jimmy will not be taking over for Nucky"

Terrence Winter said that this isn't the case with Nucky, and they intentionally changed him name from Nucky Johnson to Nucky Thompson to delineate the character from the historical figure...I wouldn't assume anything about his trajectory based on the history of Nucky Johnson like you could with Rothstein, Capone, Torrio, etc.

12/8/2010 1:31:14 PM

^Well, I think they could capitalize on the fact that the history books may not exactly know what went on behind the scene. Nucky could become sort of a figurehead with Jimmy operating more as a behind-the-scenes boss. A stretch, I realize...Just saying that we can't quite rule out Jimmy taking over.

Or maybe I'm just trying to convince myself that the whole script for the show isn't a few Wikipedia pages away

12/8/2010 8:31:53 PM

I forgot about the life insurance policies that Rothstein had on the delessio brothers. He got the $1 million back when they died.

12/15/2010 11:18:03 PM

^ damn i forgot about that hahahah

12/15/2010 11:41:00 PM

http://www.deadline.com/2010/12/jack-huston-upped-to-regular-on-hbos-boardwalk-empire/

12/17/2010 1:08:59 PM

had to be a no-brainer

12/17/2010 1:10:24 PM

^ X8

I think it was her copy of the Bible. Which I guess further symbolizes Nucky trying to straddle the line between moral and immoral. Even though he did what he did for somewhat immoral reasons it made him look like a good man....he know's different.

12/17/2010 1:52:01 PM

bump

4/16/2011 11:42:31 PM

THANK YOU! i'm very behind, clearly.

FINALLY finished the season

haven't read any of this thread yet, haha. i'm so behindddd.

but what i came to post - my immediate reaction upon finishing - is that i thought the second to last episode (and really every episode BUT the finale) was wayyyy better than the finale episode. i mean i know the finale was setting the stage for next season. but i wasn't really left with an "omg i am never going to be able to wait to see what happens" feeling. little disappointed by that.

4/16/2011 11:45:56 PM

You watch The Wire? Every penultimate episode of every season was better than the finale. Just the way some shows operate.

4/16/2011 11:48:17 PM

Season 2 trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-B8RjzOwG8

looks pretty sick.

6/27/2011 8:05:58 PM

awesome

6/27/2011 9:04:42 PM

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"Every penultimate episode of every season was better than the finale. Just the way some shows operate."

agreed. A lot of shows that HBO has are like that. Just the types of shows they do really.

6/27/2011 10:38:03 PM

can't. fucking. wait.

6/27/2011 10:38:27 PM

when does it start

6/27/2011 11:49:22 PM

likely in September

6/28/2011 12:10:30 AM

I'd guess the week after True Blood

6/28/2011 7:34:55 AM

^^saw an HBO preview type thing, it says September

6/28/2011 12:25:28 PM

not really worth making a separate thread over but this movie poster amused me:

7/14/2011 3:06:54 PM

she really needs to work on that face

7/14/2011 3:14:57 PM

I do not find her attractive.

7/14/2011 3:15:23 PM

^ ditto

7/14/2011 3:53:36 PM

She is like the epitome of a butterface.

7/15/2011 12:56:11 AM

Dominic Chianese (Uncle Junior from The Sopranos) is going to appear in 6 episodes of season 2.

8/16/2011 3:41:09 PM

Paz de la Huerta is the new girl for Agent Provacateur lingerie.
http://www.agentprovocateur.com/

9/2/2011 9:21:26 PM

too bad they don't make lingerie to cover that face

eesh

9/2/2011 9:27:07 PM

Anyone watch the Back to the Boardwalk special? I've got it saved but wanted to know if it was worth watching.

9/8/2011 10:57:30 PM