9/23/11
Under the Boardwalk
Why does HBO’s mob period drama often feel like a beautifully tailored empty suit?
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Boardwalk Empire Recap: Losing Their Religions
Oh, hello, payoff episode. Glad you made it!
Boardwalk Empire Recap: Take the Bath Yourself
Manny the Butcher shows the Darmody-Capone axis how killing-on-purpose is done.
Boardwalk Empire Recap: Let the Real Battle Begin
“I’m your boss, Clifford."
Boardwalk Empire Recap: Thank You for Talking
Heading into the homestretch.
Boardwalk Empire Recap: Just Bookkeeping
Would you believe that Nucky is not successfully murdered?
Boardwalk Empire Recap: I’m Confessin’
The Highly Effective Confessional Habits of the Guilt-Ridden.
Boardwalk Empire Recap: Get in Line
Or, how to scalp a man.
Boardwalk Empire Recap: Outsider Artists
Jimmy's finding new buyers, Nucky's finding a way out, and Chalky just stews.
Boardwalk Empire Recap: Hired Help
Discipline and punishment and lobster.
Boardwalk Empire Recap: Standing Still
"A year ago you were a brigand in the woods. Who are you?"
Boardwalk Empire Recap: Dirty Laundry
Welcome to season two!
Boardwalk Empire Recap: The Sins We Can Live With
Heart attack, people! Nothing to see here!
Boardwalk Empire Recap: Dental Insurance
"The wrong man is running this town."
Boardwalk Empire Recap: Suffrage
Yes! Lucy! Naked! Again!
Boardwalk Empire Recap: A Power You Do Not Suspect
Last week, we saw Margaret's eyes finally opened to Nucky's world; this week, she's on her way to becoming Nucky or, at least, a very capable Nuckyette.
Boardwalk Empire Recap: God’s Plan
This week the series takes a moment to pause, reset, and reload.
Boardwalk Empire Recap: Mr. Hyde
If there was a rough consensus that last week's episode was the best one of the season, let's raise the ante right now.
Boardwalk Empire Recap: Enter the Whipping Boy
Everybody is talking about the final scene, thanks to Michael Shannon.
Boardwalk Empire Recap: Forbidden Fruit
"Everyone wants what they're not allowed to have."
Boardwalk Empire: The Interrogation
"I ain't going to build no bookshelf."
Boardwalk Empire Recap: The Dumber They Come
Omar returns!
Boardwalk Empire Recap: Housekeeping
"The world turns."
Boardwalk Empire Recap: Final Countdown
"I seen things. I done things."
Hint: It's still in the twenties.
"As long as you're not dead on the show, you can always come back."
Happy trails, Lucy.
So Boardwalk Empire wasn't filmed in the roaring twenties?
But Modern Family is the only one he watches with his children.
As well as 'Luck,' Bag of Bones,' and 'Enlightened.'
Is he just another bad guy now?
"Everybody is probably wondering: Where the hell has Van Alden run off to and what did he take with him?"
Why does HBO’s mob period drama often feel like a beautifully tailored empty suit?
Reviewing where we left Nucky, Chalky, Lucky, and the Commodore at the end of season one.
Martin Scorsese and Terence Winter bring vintage thugs to lavish, painstaking life in HBO's Boardwalk Empire.