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Originally Posted by Juicy D. Links
it needs a spurt of the "Sopranos" shot into the show then I think it would rock...
Hopefully season 2 gets rockin n rollin....
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The problem with Boardwalk Empire is that there wasn't much of a story there to begin with. Traditionally, Atlantic City was a sleepy resort town where mobsters got away for a weekend on the beach, not this wild capital of rum running and prohibition era lawlessness that they portray on the series. It was one of the leading ports for importing bootleg liquor, but that just passed through to Philadelphia and New York without consequence. The majority of the story is fabricated. Nucky Thompson was a crooked politician in a time when that wasn't even remarkable really. As far as the mob goes Atlantic City didn't really come to life until they legalized gambling in 78' and the casinos started being built as that caused a mob war in Philly throughout the 80's.
The Sopranos had a whole century of real life mob headlines to rip their story line from whenever the writers came up short on ideas. Truth makes for a much better story than fiction, and the meat to The Sopranos writing was all based on actual events. When the first season aired they actually caught a bunch of guys on wiretaps and bugs discussing the show and talking about the characters and their real life counterparts.