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Old 09-18-10, 11:19 PM
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Boardwalk Empire --> "Boardwalk Empire" --> 09/19/10


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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Time:
Pre-show: 8:45pm EST

Show: 9:00 – 10:15pm EST (multiple airings throughout night and week)

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Created By:
Terence Winter

Directed By:
Martin Scorsese

Starring:
Anna Katarina, Steve Buscemi, Michael Pitt, Shea Whigham, Michael Shannon, Kelly Macdonald, Vincent Piazza, Stephen Graham, Michael Stuhlbarg, Todd Fredericks, William Hill, Jack Huston, Nicholas Alexander Martino, Pierre O'Farrell, Dabney Coleman, Gretchen Mol.

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January 1920. On the eve of Prohibition, Atlantic City's Treasurer, Nucky Thompson, condemns alcohol at a Women's Temperance League meeting, where he is noticed by Margaret Schroeder, a pretty, pregnant housewife who comes to him for help in getting her abusive husband Hans a job. Later that evening, the duplicitous Nucky privately tells his ward bosses about the opportunity to make huge profits selling bootleg liquor. At a countdown-to-midnight blast at Babette's Supper Club, he assures Jimmy Darmody, a recently returned WWI vet, that his appointment as "Man Friday" to the new Chief Clerk of the Fourth Ward, Paddy Ryan, will lead to bigger things. Jimmy, meanwhile, has higher aspirations and ends up making an alliance that could have dire consequences for both him and Nucky.

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Can't wait, has gotten rave reviews all around
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Hey, Weddin' Singer..... Aaaaaa-Ooooooo!
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Definitely will be checking this out. Looks very promising from the list of talent attached to it.
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Got another 3 free months of HBO from U-Verse, so why not.
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Shows like this make me want to sign-up for HBO.
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Been looking forward to this for months.
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I'm trying to keep my expectations in check...it's difficult though.
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Can't wait for this one. Buscemi finally getting to be the leading man. Thrilled that Marty is directing the first ep.

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that...was...fantastic!
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that...was...fantastic!
yep def. Also def. felt like a mini Martin Scorsesse movie too
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Definitely had the Scorsese style. Good opening, but still has room for development. I like how they're taking the approach of this being kind of a prequel to suit all gangster movies. I can only imagine how much money was spent on sets, which were quite impressive.
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I wonder if all episodes are going to have that style, as usually the pilot sets the tone for the rest of the series.
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Wow this show was great. I'd been looking forward to it like many others since I heard about it and it didn't let me down. I think after a long period of just so-so series HBO finally has something that's really worth watching again.
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I've never been a Michael Pitt fan and he really seemed miscast to me in this.

Otherwise it was very well done.
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I really liked it. Only things unclear to be were

a) How come Nucky was so okay with Jimmy after the heist? I mean didn't he essentially rip him off AND get the Feds sniffing around?

b) Why did they kill the fat and jolly Italian man?
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I really liked it. Only things unclear to be were

a) How come Nucky was so okay with Jimmy after the heist? I mean didn't he essentially rip him off AND get the Feds sniffing around?

b) Why did they kill the fat and jolly Italian man?
He didn't rip Nucky off, it was Rothstein's booze.

Colosimo, the guy who got wacked at the end, didn't want any part of bootlegging. That part was based off of true events.
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Loved every bit of it except the wildly inappropriate music they used for the opening credits.
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As good a first episode as I've seen. I loved every bit of it, even Michael Pitt who I always considered very bland.

Was that Omar Little in Nucky's waiting room?
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Was that Omar Little in Nucky's waiting room?
Indeed it was!
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Was that Omar Little in Nucky's waiting room?
Yep.
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Pitt seemed to be Scorsese's age appropriate replacement for DiCaprio. It's all I could see the entire time.

Outside of the bad CGI in the shoreline shots I thought it was pretty damn near perfect.
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Colosimo, the guy who got wacked at the end, didn't want any part of bootlegging. That part was based off of true events.
Who ordered Colisimo killed?
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Enjoyed the pilot. How long before HBO decides the series is too expensive to produce?
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Enjoyed the pilot. How long before HBO decides the series is too expensive to produce?
That's my worry. Loved it, but can't see it pulling in huge ratings. We'll see.

As much as I love Buschemi, he's not the leading man Gandolfini was.
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