>hits its stride in S2 before falling off a goddamn cliffIs there a bigger case of wasted potential than this show? It could’ve been an all-time great but every time I watch it I’m just reminded on what could’ve been
Season two when it almost becomes sopranos tierjimmy fags seething over their forgettable worthless young insert MC being capped is what actually ruined the show
>>220489126It’s more that nothing much of real interest happens to Nucky after he tussles with the Commodore and the show is taken over by a cast of 5000 side characters, none of whom ever get enough screentime to get you invested in them. S5 returns to more of a focus on Nucky and is somewhat decent but too rushed
>>220489064I agree, but I often see season 3 apologists here. Ive always found Gyp Rosetti to be too cartoony. The thing they shouldve done was shift the focus from Nucky to other gangsters, since Nuckys arch is concluded in S02, he stays in power in Atlantic City.
>>220489169Season 4 was so bad I didn't even watch season 5.
>>220489347you made the right choice 5 was significantly worse
>>220489064I love this show, I've seen the entire thing a half dozen times, watched it with my dad as it was airing (that cuck scene in season 4 was pretty awkward), got all the seasons on dvd as gifts etc. I was really in to it. I re-watched it last year, and I ended up skipping everything that wasn't directly related to bootlegging, gangsterism, or politics. It's actually amazing how much filler there is that has no direct bearing on the overall plot of nucky. like all the stuff with margaret and her family, lucy and nucky and lucy and van alden,, nuckys gf in season 3, his next gf in season 4 and 5, all the stuff with chalkys family, harrows sister, doctor narcisse. none of it matters.
>>220489064Westworld was a pretty big waste. I think Boredwalk Empire was even bigger though.
I don't remember it falling off. I liked all of it.>Actor is so insufferable they get written off the show
season 3 is great
>>220489689it is strange that westworld has been erased from hbo canon even though it had some weird licensing thing but boardwalk literally had a set in the middle of Brooklyn and was a hot item in the early 10s and has been completely forgotten
Jimmy was overrated, Buscemi was good in the role, the show just had too much bad writing. Just completely wasting your time with some plotlines, then of course they had to rush the ending.
>>220489064The only compelling part post season 2 is /ourguy/ Richard. He deserved better.
>>220489064jimmyfags still filtered by gypkino in 2026
>>220489625Yeah this was my experience with the show too. There's so much which isn't really memorable and doesn't serve any purpose in the big main storylines.
>>220489775BE was the show that was going to be HBO's flagship show until they fumbled it. Game of Thrones came though for them so it didn't end up mattering.
>>220489064You have to admit s3 is hilarious
>>220490003the gangster stuff is awesome tho
Perfect setting for a show. Political and social intrigue in a setting that is rarely explored and they somehow made it boring. Looked good though.
>>220489625I enjoyed it all the way through. And the sideplots that didn't go anywhere was a nice breath of fresh air from the gangster stuff. Only having constant goodfellas banter with tough guys getting easily offended every scene just gets old in long form tv. With that being said I really wish van alden and nuckys brother had gotten a more meaningful last arc.
>>220490168I didn't like how they made Van Aldens new wife hate him.
>>220490317as a nordcuck her attempt at a norwegian accent was incredibly bad and distracting, actor is german-danish apparently, might explain why, and yes it reeked of attempting to manufacture hardship and conflict for him in an artifical way
>>220490317Van alden's whole thing was his justice pathos, instead of having him struggle financially and all this they should have gone in the completely other direction. What if he did manage to get away, he's doing okay financially, family repaired...now what? And then his guilt would eat at him and he tries to right his wrongs by doing something drastic inspired by his faith like killing Nuckey.
>>220489064jimmy sucked
>>220489064Nucky won
I think it was underachieving but there was a fair amount of kino going onLuciano, Meyers, Rothstein all pretty goodRichard was kinoNucky's butler's swan song was greatTut tut tutJoe the Boss was fucking coolJimmy was good when he was hanging out with RichardNarcisse was good when he was doing gangster shit, the psychosexual stuff with Daughter was retardedGyp Rosetti was retarded and embarrassingThere were too many women plotlines that were specifically not them getting fucked while wearing flapper dresses
>>220489737that was paz de le huerta bro
>>220489064reminder Peter Gibbons was the best character on the show
>>220489064The actor that played Richard is playing Sandman in Spider-Noir.I hope he gets more work, he's kino.
>>220490372>>220490488I thought they would turn in to a Bonnie and Clyde type characters. Instead it was like "Van Alden is a loser so his wife cucks him with Eli, a bigger loser". Just didnt like it.
>>220491317I agree. It was just cynicism for the sake of cynicism
>>220489064>Gillian with the detective>Richard fighting with Gillian for custody of Tommy>anything to do with Narcisse>anything to do with Billie Kent>Van Alden being a henpecked cuck with that psycho Norwegian chickSo many meandering boring bullshit storylines that go nowhere. They even made Capone boring.
>>220491287That scene with him making the collages of men with wives and families is heartbreaking every time>how does it feel to have everything
>>220491287>I hope he gets more work, he's kino.his dad is a huston and his mom is a rothchild, he'll be fine
they should have just made arnold rothstein the main character. that dude was amazing.
>>220491723Smug kike midget
>>220489064This is the one where he gets fucked in the ass right?
I don't even think I made it to season 2. Steve Beushimi as gangsta? We saw him in Sopranos, whatever happened there
>>220491723it wouldn't be about atlantic city thenthe point of nucky is that he's not a big timer, he runs a backwater and interacts with the big timers>>220491770you wont watch it if I tell you no, so yes
>>220491775Me neither. The retarded shit where the agent becomes a fucking vacuum salesman or something. It was just all over the place and stupid and not interesting at all.
>>220491723Most underrated actor. Phenomenal in Your Honor.
Remember when Jimmy got jerked off by a tranny in a bathtub?
>>220489064boardwalk empire just feels like if you asked a robot to write a hbo seriesit hits all the notes you expect from a hbo series but it just lacks anything actually interesting
>>220489064Top ten series.
>>220491821That series went off track fast
>>220491868I think it might be the most blatant of all the Sopranos knockoffs out there.
That actor Michael K Williams (Chalky White aka Omar from The Wire) blew all his money from both series on drugsThey were about to fire him from Boardwalk Empire because he was blasting so much cocaine, but he would have lost his medical.He died penniless
>>220492185He had an iconic role on The Wire as well. What a waste.
>>220492185Like bill finger
>>220489126Still seething at Jimmyfags after all these years.
I remember richard being the first literally me.
