What do you think about season 2 of Boardwalk Empire?
 

The only show I really watch on tv.... So far just as good as season 1. See ya in an hour! :winkwink:

eh................


TBH i think its just too slow going.... even season 1 seemed to drag along.

I thought that way about season one. Started off great - but stayed the same. Fucking monotonous.

I was hoping Al Capone would take over and really shake things up.

it needs a spurt of the "Sopranos" shot into the show then I think it would rock...

Hopefully season 2 gets rockin n rollin....

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.

I haven't seen a single episode from either season :pimp

Have to catch up with the second season, great show!

Breaking Bad is wicked show better then empire

as slow and as dry as season 1 (ok maybe not as much) and that's just the way i like it

the sopranos comparisons aren't that valid to me. sopranos was to 'whacking' what boardwalk is to 'politicking' and i enjoy it for the political drama

I'm a huge fan, but honestly thought last night's episode was kind of lame and boring.
WTF?
No episodes last season were this uninteresting

"Atlantic City was run as a wide open town, with the local politicians ignoring existing blue laws. During prohibition liquor flowed freely and gambling regularly took place in the back rooms of nightclubs and restaurants.

Through the 1920's and up to about 1960, Atlantic City was one of the most popular tourist destinations in the United States. In its prime, the nation's most popular entertainers regularly performed there. During the 1950s Frank Sinatra regularly appeared at Atlantic City clubs. Atlantic City became one of the most famous resorts in the world."

Everything I've read on Atlantic City during prohibition says it was pretty crazy and gambling was going on there. It had 500,000 people a year coming in to party just on the rail system alone. I don't think of a half million people visiting a town as "sleepy" in 2011. Much less the 1920's.

The story is going to have to follow what happened to Thompson:
"Enoch Lewis "Nucky" Johnson (January 20, 1883 ? December 9, 1968) was an Atlantic City, New Jersey political boss and racketeer. From the 1910s until his imprisonment in 1941, he was the undisputed ?boss? of the Republican political machine that controlled Atlantic City and the Atlantic County government. Using his political position to his advantage, his rule encompassed the Roaring Twenties when Atlantic City was at the height of its popularity as a temporary refuge from Prohibition, his organization also being involved in bootlegging, gambling and prostitution."

Sounds like it WAS kicking ass in the 1920's. :)

It's called suspense. If everything happened right away there would be 2 episodes

I got this feeling that Mueller (the insane FBI religious nutcase) is gonna kill that whore when she has the baby and then tell his wife that he adopted the baby and raise it with her.

same here :1orglaugh the baby part is pretty obvious, and we all know he is down for killing the non-righteous

What I mean is that there wasn't the same type of drama/action material for the story line compared to The Sopranos. Sure, there was alcohol, prostitutes and gambling, but that was going on in every major city in the US at the time as well. Prohibition era Chicago and New York made Atlantic City look like Boise, Idaho.


Take the opening scene in the first episode of the new season for instance, where the KKK shoots up that black liquor warehouse with a gatling gun, that was just too far fetched and over the top for me. You notice most of the supporting characters aren't even in Atlantic City at all like Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky and Arnold Rothstein? It's like they're struggling to make a story out of the lead character Nucky and Atlantic City, becuase there's not much there- that they know about at least. I guess it just bothers me when they stray from historical accuracy.


It's still a good show though. I like that guy Richard, the WW1 vet with the Phantom of the Opera mask. I wish they would give him a bigger part.

its about to get good now