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Boardwalk Empire - Season Three

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thegimp03 said:
I agree as well. Just wondering if the writers have given her a bigger role because they want to get more female viewership.
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She literally does not contribute a THING to the plot at this point; in past seasons I liked her because she was contributing. Now it's a waste of screen time.
 
Wow, no love for this show this year.

It's starting to get more interesting - that Gyp character is crazy :biggrin:
 
Yes, the wife character is really going nowhere and they should just drop the whole hospital education arc.

The show is set in the 1920's and it really was a mans world and there are not very many roles for women in this scenario. You have the occasional woman like Gillian who has crossed over, but as for the rest, its hard to integrate them into what is essentially a gangster movie.

I like what is going on this season. The season arc seems to be who exactly is Nucky. He was just a small town corrupt politcian who mad a nice living off vice, shakedowns, etc but when prohibition came he is suddenly a big time player.

Is Nucky capable of being the cold hearted gangster who can hold his own against psycho's like Gyp Rosetti?
 
Was that Harvey Keitel at the VFW when the war vets were discussing not getting any help from the gov't?

I think they called him "Sigorsky"
 
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Well, Rosetti's out of the picture (for now) so it's good that Nucky has a new "enemy"...and as much as I love the violence of the show, I think that it lives and dies on the scheming and backstabbing.

Oh, and YACG (yet another creepy Gillian) scene...I'm not sure where that one's going. I can't see how she could groom the kid to "be Jimmy", so maybe she's finally accepted his death and is just being her creepy self?
 
Wow, great episodes these last couple of weeks.

Seems like nobody here appreciates good writing and directing.
 
The pacing has seemed really poor this season. Spoilers ahead:

Like a few weeks back, the episode ends with Gyp Rosetti nearly getting assassinated, a bunch of his bodyguards killed, and some gratuitous dongage. You expect, hey, next week shit's really going to hit the fan, right? And then, BOOM, they don't even MENTION Gyp Rosetti in the next episode. What the fuck? They did the same thing with Eli; he seems to be getting a legitimate story arc, he's making a comeback, BOOM, let's ignore him for an entire episode. I'm liking the political intrigue and Nucky's ongoing dealings with Milton/the Attorney General/Mellon, but they keep skipping a storyline for a week to focus on something they haven't mentioned in a few weeks, then ignoring that to skip back to the original story in the next episode; it's just disjointed.

It probably doesn't help that the show encourages the consumption of whiskey while watching it. My memory gets a little fuzzy on what exactly has happened and when.
 
Atomic Playboy said:
The pacing has seemed really poor this season.

It probably doesn't help that the show encourages the consumption of whiskey while watching it. My memory gets a little fuzzy on what exactly has happened and when.
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If you have such a short attention span, maybe you should wait until after watching the show to start imbibing. 😀
 
Nelson's continuing descent is entertaining.

But James' "stand-in" struck me as unbelievable on account of disparate physical sizes... who would believe they were the same and would not medical records be checked? It was not really presented like an open conspiracy involving more than the mother and perhaps her geezer lawyer.
 
Auric said:
Nelson's continuing descent is entertaining.

But James' "stand-in" struck me as unbelievable on account of disparate physical sizes... who would believe they were the same and would not medical records be checked? It was not really presented like an open conspiracy involving more than the mother and perhaps her geezer lawyer.
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Nelson and his new wife are definitely entertaining 🙂.

As far as the James story-line goes, we're talking the 1920's here so not sure what medical records they would have. Also it's been two years since James' disappearance, and they do look kind of similar 🙂
 
I don't know why people are hating so much on the side plots.

It's a period drama. Tying in things like Polio, women's suffrage, etc, are important to the era.
 
This trend of TV series establishing a villain in the first episode of a season and killing them off in the last episode has become really really tiresome for me :/ - But, Boardwalk is a quality show. Though I do skip over some of the boring parts 🙂
 
I like drama television/movies. I like character studies. I like letting a storyline (or eight of them) develop. I also rarely like to curse on the site...unless my post really needs it.

All that said, the last two episodes have been BORING AS FUCK. I'm glad I DVR it so I can skip through most of it.

Atomic Playboy said:
Like a few weeks back, the episode ends with Gyp Rosetti nearly getting assassinated, a bunch of his bodyguards killed, and some gratuitous dongage. You expect, hey, next week shit's really going to hit the fan, right? And then, BOOM, they don't even MENTION Gyp Rosetti in the next episode. What the fuck? They did the same thing with Eli; he seems to be getting a legitimate story arc, he's making a comeback, BOOM, let's ignore him for an entire episode. I'm liking the political intrigue and Nucky's ongoing dealings with Milton/the Attorney General/Mellon, but they keep skipping a storyline for a week to focus on something they haven't mentioned in a few weeks, then ignoring that to skip back to the original story in the next episode; it's just disjointed.
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Agreed, completely. Every week you think "Oh next week...that's when the action really starts!" and it's Nucky falling over because he has a concussion and being generally confused...way too much time spent on that crap. I got it the first 7 times they showed it and over-showed it and then showed it again.
 
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