JM M
One of the best TV shows that I have seen. Oustanding from the 1st to the last season!
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
04/20/24
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Plasmo D
I'm so tired of these lazy productions. They run 4 seasons of great story telling, great character development, amazing twists and turns... and then BLOW the final season. It's always the same problem - rushed, disorganized, empty. They just run out of money or something. It's horrible. This is just another Game of Thrones final season letdown.
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Rated 2 out of 5 stars
01/11/24
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Hemant S
A primary production by Martin Scorcese and Mark Wahlberg and with the pilot directed by the former – this old school 5-season series that spanned between 2010 and 2014 always promised to engross and captivate. With excellent production values that re-created the 1920s almost flawlessly, interluding story arcs of a multitude of characters that each had depth and a significant intersection between history and fiction, "Boardwalk Empire" is a detailed, intricate piece of writing and teleplay.
Steve Buscemi leads the cast as Nucky Thompson, a shrewd, sharp politician in Atlantic city, who moonlights as a bootlegging boss. Nucky's character has been loosely based on a real life politician from that era, Enoch Lewis "Nucky" Johnson. Surrounded by an ensemble of characters, mostly on the grey areas between the lawful and the lawless and played by brilliant actors including Michael Pitt, Michael Kenneth Williams, Michael Shannon, Michael Stuhlbarg (yes, that is a hell lot of Michaels), Kelly Macdonald, Gretchen Mol, Stephen Graham, Shea Wigham, Jack Huston, Charlie Cox, Vincent Piazza, Patricia Arquette, Bobby Canavale, Paul Sparks and so many more.
Buscemi clearly excels over his "Mr. Pink" in "Reservoir Dogs" (1992) and "Carl Showalter" in "Fargo" (1996) – both epics and cult classics. His eyes and tone of speech bring out the boss in the character – subtle in his moments of scheming and vicious when things get sticky. Akin to "The Sopranos" (1999 – 2007), in which Buscemi had a interesting role as another "Tony", "Boardwalk Empire" is a saga which makes each character like-able, hate-worthy and the end someone that you are attached to (and care about) in some way or the other – and it has an equally pragmatic and brilliant finale worth waiting for.
Some characters really stood out for me in terms of their backstory and the way they were played out in their constant conundrum between being the good and the bad guy – Michael Pitt as James "Jimmy" Darmody (who for me, was THE gangster even before Thomas Shelby existed), Michael Shannon as "Nelson Van Alden", Michael Kenneth Williams as "Chalky White", Shea Wigham as "Eli Thompson", Jack Huston as "Richard Harrow" (Yes, he existed before John Wick) and Charlie Cox as "Owen Sleater" (As good as Matt Murdock).
A good, vintage binge if you haven't watched it yet.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
07/03/23
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Ibu P
Kind of a let down compared to the previous seasons, although not as bad as the final season of Game of Thrones
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
05/25/23
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Corey W
One of the most criminally underrated HBO dramas, Boardwalk Empire is packed with tremendous acting prowess, dazzling period piece sets, and exceptional writing which all culminates in one of the greatest series finales of our time. Steve Buscemi is at the heart of the series, playing Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, a corrupted politician from prohibition era Atlantic City who decides to conspire with the criminal underbelly for the sake of his own success. Buscemi is joined by Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon, Shea Whigham, and the late, great Michael Kenneth Williams along with plenty of others to help flesh out this exceptional story. Deceit, selfishness, sex, power, and crime combine to form an edge-of-your seat thriller with the competent backbone of a surehanded story and accompanied by A-list actors giving it their all. An absolute must-see.
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
03/22/23
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connor m
The final episode is probably my favorite series finale. Poetic, and well executed, Steve Buscemi delivers a brilliant performance for his final turn as Nucky. It is a slight shame the didn't have one more season to cover more historical events, but what we get does great justice to the characters, and leaves one of the most consistently great television shows I've seen.
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Rated 4 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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