I've never seen so much wasted screen time. Chalky staring at the singer could've counted for half an episode. I skipped every scene involving her that wasn't pertinent to the story, it was just so dull. IMO they really gave his character a huge disservice, like so much for his 15 minutes of jelly speech right? guess he's just a massive hypocrite who doesn't actually love his family at all. They made him into a nieve child. Not saying he isn't a murderous criminal, but he was framed as having principles and doing whats best for his family in the previous 3 seasons. They included one slight conflict with his wife in season 4 and we're supposed to believe this is why he's drifted away completely. Kind of ridiculous.

Williams sub-plot, although tantamount to the overall story, also got way too much screen time. The plot itself was moronic to say the least in its execution, "Hey lets just mix a bunch of chemicals lol", but they could have at least trimmed down his screen time. I found his acting pretty poor, probably the worst on the show.

Aside from all that, the ending of the season is probably the hardest hitting of any show I've ever watched. Maybelles death, coupled with Richard's vision right before his death, was truly Harrowing. The poor guy finally loved and normal again and it ended up being the cause of his downfall. No longer could he kill like a well oiled machine, his nerves got to him now that he finally cared about something again. The dream/death sequence of him in the aftermath having a normal face, meeting the family that loved him for who he was, was just so sad.

Damn shame the show went the way it did, but waddaya gonna do. Still rank it in my top 5 for sure, and looking forward to getting a refresh on season 5.

This is my first time watching the show, so I'm avoiding this sub, but I just finished S2 E10 and, holy shit, watching Jimmy's wife get shot was tough. I’m still not sure how I feel about Jimmy overall, but this scene really made me feel terrible for him.

So when Luciano was in bed with Gillian, Rothstein called him to see if he made contact with Jimmy.

Rothstein already called him out on not wearing pants and then when Luciano tried to claim he was in bed with Angela, Rothstein called him out again and said “no you’re not Charlie, you’re in bed with his mother.”

Was it ever explained why Rothstein knew exactly where Luciano was and what he was doing?

Major spoilers

What on earth was their "plan" so to speak? Nelson and Eli went to Capone's thinking he wasn't there or going to show up, they come to his place knowing he had a "skeleton crew," and they just essentially walk right into "the lion's den" anyway?

Like it was the dumbest thing. They also apparently had no guns on them where they could have at least gone down taking some of them with them. And also what if Capone didn't come back before the henchmen took them out? What would they have done exactly? I just find that whole scene very bizarre, there's so many other ways it could have gone.

So when Nelson needed someone to take care of his baby daughter when the mistress left town, we see him hire the Irish woman and tells her "This is a full-time 7 day a week job" and for awhile we assume he's paying her to take care of the daughter. Somewhere along the way they just become a couple, even though that wasn't originally intended and they never got married.

How exactly did this happen? I can't remember if I'm forgetting something around Season 2 and 3, because they're just "together" at some point rather than her being paid to take care of the daughter. Then of course later they do fall in love but it's just weird how it happened.

He is a professional and does what he is told, without questions. But damn, it just breaks my heart seeing him venture out into the woods and the events that transpire.

In Season 2, Jimmy and Richard are sitting down waiting for Waxy Gordon I think and Richard says something along the lines of you are my friend? So why did you make fun of me then?

To which Jimmy said of course im your friend, and I didn't make fun of you.

Is this just Richard's insecurity, or did I miss something?

Jimmy is always business and maybe sometimes he isn't super polite to Richard and could perhaps be a bit more jovial but I don't recall him ever making fun of him.

Whats really going on here?

Thanks!

Like sure it has 5 seasons but the 5th season is very short. I just feel this could've been a major show had they continued to work on it and not rush, there was still a lot more character development that could've been done for nucky and some other characters such as Nelson and Capone.

This isn't as big of a show despite it's amazing cast, every actor in this show does an amazing job but not a lot of people seem to know about it. It's a shame, it's really a beautiful show but theres so much untapped potential in it that they never used and now it's just underrated when it could've had a huge fanbase.

They were pretty the same kind of guys at heart, Gyp Rosetti and Al Capone would probably be good friends or kill.each other if New York sent Gyp Rosetti to Chicago to buy run from Capone and his crew and the lazy eyed Boss of Capone would get smacked or shot and thrown through a window.

Just a missed opportunity.

They never showed either group meet directly but Chalky White and his guys were nervous around Gyp Rosetti but main because everyone was armed, Capone seemed to be treated with more respect despite his stature.

How would Gyp Rosetti fare if he encountered Al Capone acting as an ally for Nucky Thompson and his crew?

Who would have won 🥇 n this conflict

Nucky, Jimmy dormandy, Richard harrow and chalky white

Vs

Arnold rothstein, Luciano , Meyer and Benny with dr narcisse

Just finished the show, and holy fuck that was a good ending! I loved this show, absolutely a 10/10. Gonna wait a week or two then start again!

I KNOW that it's all "historical context" but I just feel like this strong feminist outrage.....will I get any satisfaction??

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Just finished for the first time. So did they just abandon the Narcisse-Hoover plot?

So I’m a sopranos nut.. like, can recite the whole show line for line, watched it more times than I can count. I have no idea why I never watched boardwalk empire. I think I just wasn’t into it when I was younger idk. But wow! I was blown away, I thought it was absolutely awesome!!! I didn’t like how they don’t show ARs death.. I hated how chalky went out. But like other than that , first watch I thought it was damn near a masterpiece.. I’m going to watch it again to connect more dots.. I liked the last season flashbacks that show nuckys upbringing. I just truly loved the show and it exceeded my expectations by far.

I'll start: The gang war between AC and NY in S5 was very underwhelming to me

(some might contain spoilers hence the spoiler tag)

The intertwining of the timelines in the series finale is perfect. It hits really hard and is incredibly well executed to give you the feels and make you think about long term relationships. This is underrated in the discussion of the great series finales, it’s an all timer.

The sting involves a policeman, pretending to be a businessman who is interested in her romantically. He obviously sleeps with her. Was this type of police operation allowed in those days?

I’m only at season 3 but I’ve been able to tell she’s had something wrong with her since I started. Is she psychotic or something?

I’ve been watching boardwalk empire for a couple weeks now and I just got to the part where they killed off my boy😭 Jimmy and Richard had to be my two most favorite characters. But anyways though, why did they kill him? I was expecting Nucky would’ve spared him after he said he had no part in the murder plot.

I can't stand her storylines, does almost nothing to advance to overall plot and her character completely changes from who she is in season 1, without reason

I'm asking about the first song. Not Is There Still Room for Me Neath the Old Apple Tree.

I've searched all of the available soundtracks and can't find it.

https://youtu.be/e79TSlCjLK4?si=L5QI8mhmfGrkEyFk

I wish they went on to make a continuation of the story follows Lucky and Meyer. See how they developed the marfia and introduce a lot more colourful characters.