***OFFICIAL*** Boardwalk Empire thread (1 Viewer)

[Moe.]

Does that trailer say anything about the children? I hope you all haven't forgotten about the children.

 

[Billy Bats]

This is about speculation on the new season, about a secondary character, but I'll put it in a spoiler tag just so I don't piss anyone off, although it's pretty obvious IMO.

Spoiler

Watching commercials for new shows, I seen William Forsythe(Manny) in previews for the new show The Mob Doctor. Is it safe to assume that Manny Horwitz doesn't last too long into season 3?

 

[Good Posting Judge]

This is about speculation on the new season, about a secondary character, but I'll put it in a spoiler tag just so I don't piss anyone off, although it's pretty obvious IMO.

Spoiler

Watching commercials for new shows, I seen William Forsythe(Manny) in previews for the new show The Mob Doctor. Is it safe to assume that Manny Horwitz doesn't last too long into season 3?

Spoiler

Not necessarily. Given his fairly minor role on BE, it's possible he's going to pull double-duty, a la Alison Brie.

 

[Good Posting Judge]

This is about speculation on the new season, about a secondary character, but I'll put it in a spoiler tag just so I don't piss anyone off, although it's pretty obvious IMO.

Spoiler

Watching commercials for new shows, I seen William Forsythe(Manny) in previews for the new show The Mob Doctor. Is it safe to assume that Manny Horwitz doesn't last too long into season 3?

Spoiler

Not necessarily. Given his fairly minor role on BE, it's possible he's going to pull double-duty, a la Alison Brie.

Also:

Spoiler

I chubbed up a little using "Alison Brie" and "double duty" in the same sentence.

 

[Apple Jack]

Does that trailer say anything about the children? I hope you all haven't forgotten about the children.

 

[Thunderlips]

Don't know if it's new....but saw it for the first time on the Game of Thrones marathon last night....

This looks great.

 

[Michael Brown]

Don't know if it's new....but saw it for the first time on the Game of Thrones marathon last night.... This looks great.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnGyxDskKb4

Awesome. Saw a couple clips of Harrow in there too, should be a great season!

 

[jdelsas]

Bump for Season 3 premier on Sunday, September 16th.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Bump for Season 3 premier on Sunday, September 16th.

 

[jdoggydogg]

This show is going to have a tough time filling the void that Jimmy left behind. He was my favorite character.

 

[Billy Bats]

E'RYBODY GOT GUNS!!!!!

 

[Billy Bats]

This show is going to have a tough time filling the void that Jimmy left behind. He was my favorite character.

Agreed, but see my quote above. The new bad guy sounds like he's gonna be a good one.

 

[corpcow]

This show is going to have a tough time filling the void that Jimmy left behind. He was my favorite character.

Agreed, but see my quote above. The new bad guy sounds like he's gonna be a good one.

My wife said she can't take him seriously after Nurse Jackie... and without seeing the season yet I'm going it with some hesitation. Dr. Cruz!

 

[jdoggydogg]

This show is going to have a tough time filling the void that Jimmy left behind. He was my favorite character.

Agreed, but see my quote above. The new bad guy sounds like he's gonna be a good one.

 

[gump]

This show is going to have a tough time filling the void that Jimmy left behind. He was my favorite character.

Agreed, but see my quote above. The new bad guy sounds like he's gonna be a good one.

So is Gyp Rosetti a character based on a real gangster, I wonder?

 

[Balco]

NFL Football and Boardwalk Empire Season 3 premiere. What a great Sunday.

 

[BigTex]

I'm soooooo Giddy!!!!!

 

[Premier]

"Not a confession

......a suicide note"

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

How much time has passed, 3 years?

 

[Billy Bats]

How much time has passed, 3 years?

I read that it's 13 months since Jimmy was shot.

 

[Otis]

Such a good show.

 

[Samuel L Bronkowitz]

How much time has passed, 3 years?

I read that it's 13 months since Jimmy was shot.

Didn't Nucky say to the politician (Christopher McDonald) that it had been a year and a half since his troubles?

 

[TLEF316]

I hate Margaret more and more every episode.

 

[Major]

Such a good show.

It's decent Breaking Bad has pretty much ruined most television programming for me by setting the bar so high.

 

[Billy Bats]

This is about speculation on the new season, about a secondary character, but I'll put it in a spoiler tag just so I don't piss anyone off, although it's pretty obvious IMO.

Spoiler

Watching commercials for new shows, I seen William Forsythe(Manny) in previews for the new show The Mob Doctor. Is it safe to assume that Manny Horwitz doesn't last too long into season 3?

Spoiler

Not necessarily. Given his fairly minor role on BE, it's possible he's going to pull double-duty, a la Alison Brie.

Well, that didn't take long! Good to see Harrow get some payback, even if it was for Angela.This Gyp guy is a piece of work. He's gonna be good.

 

[Premier]

They sure do a bang up job of killing off really interesting characters.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

This is about speculation on the new season, about a secondary character, but I'll put it in a spoiler tag just so I don't piss anyone off, although it's pretty obvious IMO.

Spoiler

Watching commercials for new shows, I seen William Forsythe(Manny) in previews for the new show The Mob Doctor. Is it safe to assume that Manny Horwitz doesn't last too long into season 3?

Spoiler

Not necessarily. Given his fairly minor role on BE, it's possible he's going to pull double-duty, a la Alison Brie.

Well, that didn't take long! Good to see Harrow get some payback, even if it was for Angela.This Gyp guy is a piece of work. He's gonna be good.I feel like Rossetti is kind of cheesy right now. Is he a real person?

 

[Billy Bats]

This is about speculation on the new season, about a secondary character, but I'll put it in a spoiler tag just so I don't piss anyone off, although it's pretty obvious IMO.

Spoiler

Watching commercials for new shows, I seen William Forsythe(Manny) in previews for the new show The Mob Doctor. Is it safe to assume that Manny Horwitz doesn't last too long into season 3?

Spoiler

Not necessarily. Given his fairly minor role on BE, it's possible he's going to pull double-duty, a la Alison Brie.

Well, that didn't take long! Good to see Harrow get some payback, even if it was for Angela.This Gyp guy is a piece of work. He's gonna be good.I feel like Rossetti is kind of cheesy right now. Is he a real person?Cheesy? Nah he's a maniac, you say hello the wrong way and he might shoot ya. Nothing I've read so far has said he's based on anyone in real life. The O'Banion crew is real though and had battles with Capone.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

This is about speculation on the new season, about a secondary character, but I'll put it in a spoiler tag just so I don't piss anyone off, although it's pretty obvious IMO.

Spoiler

Watching commercials for new shows, I seen William Forsythe(Manny) in previews for the new show The Mob Doctor. Is it safe to assume that Manny Horwitz doesn't last too long into season 3?

Spoiler

Not necessarily. Given his fairly minor role on BE, it's possible he's going to pull double-duty, a la Alison Brie.

Well, that didn't take long! Good to see Harrow get some payback, even if it was for Angela.This Gyp guy is a piece of work. He's gonna be good.I feel like Rossetti is kind of cheesy right now. Is he a real person?Cheesy? Nah he's a maniac, you say hello the wrong way and he might shoot ya. Nothing I've read so far has said he's based on anyone in real life. The O'Banion crew is real though and had battles with Capone.Just seemed heavy handed to me.

 

[Billy Bats]

Look at ya, ya breadstick in a bow tie, you pasty faced ##########.

 

[Raider Nation]

This is about speculation on the new season, about a secondary character, but I'll put it in a spoiler tag just so I don't piss anyone off, although it's pretty obvious IMO.

Spoiler

Watching commercials for new shows, I seen William Forsythe(Manny) in previews for the new show The Mob Doctor. Is it safe to assume that Manny Horwitz doesn't last too long into season 3?

Spoiler

Not necessarily. Given his fairly minor role on BE, it's possible he's going to pull double-duty, a la Alison Brie.

Well, that didn't take long! Good to see Harrow get some payback, even if it was for Angela.

This Gyp guy is a piece of work. He's gonna be good.

I feel like Rossetti is kind of cheesy right now. Is he a real person?Cheesy? Nah he's a maniac, you say hello the wrong way and he might shoot ya. Nothing I've read so far has said he's based on anyone in real life. The O'Banion crew is real though and had battles with Capone.Bobby Cannavale has come a long way since Third Watch.

 

[Raider Nation]

"Oh, but before you do, put a bullet in his ####ing head." -Nucky

Like the very first episode of "Boardwalk Empire," "Resolution" takes place on New Year's Eve. It's a time on the calendar that, as the title suggestions, people make promises to themselves and others about what the new year will hold. More often than not, we are lying, to ourselves as much as others. We are not going to stick to that diet, not going to devote more time to charitable causes, not going to improve the six things about our lives that make us miserable. But it feels nice for a day or two to be able to pretend that we can.

In the case of the "Boardwalk Empire" ensemble at the start of season 3, the deception and self-deception are both so ingrained that the holiday is almost unnecessary. These are characters who are already putting on one front or another, just trying to get by.

We learn by the end of the episode that Nucky and Margaret's marriage is at the moment something for the public only, and that in private, Nucky still hates Margaret for giving away the land parcel (which the church used on the hospital), while she resents being married to this hoodlum. (At episode's end, she runs out to the beach to watch a woman fly away in a manner that she can't.) Nucky even has to pretend that he doesn't know showgirl Billie Kent (played by Meg Chambers Steedle), when she's been his mistress for a while and gets to put on a show for all of Nucky's rich friends on New Year's Eve.

Elsewhere in Atlantic City, Gillian is publicly (and knowing her, perhaps privately) in denial about Jimmy's death, while she's simultaneously convincing Tommy that she's his mother. (Richard is too afraid of being cast out into the world — and away from his best friend's son — to stop her from brainwashing the kid, but he at least takes some comfort from killing Manny, the man who murdered Angela.) In Chicago, Agent Van Alden is now using the George Muller alias full-time, selling irons (loved the slow-dissolve montage of Van Alden futilely going from house to house), and if he and Sigrid aren't legally married, they've had a child together to go with the one that Lucy abandoned. And when Van Alden inadvertently walks into the middle of Al Capone's attempt to kill rival Dean O'Bannion, O'Bannion cleverly pretends that the hulking ex-fed is muscle there to protect him from Capone.

Even Gyp Rosetti, our new antagonist, is pretending. He wears fancy suits and tries to move in Nucky's fancy circles, but he's really just a shaved ape who is painfully aware of how little he knows and quick to anger at any innocent comment that reveals the depths of his ignorance. Hence the murder of the poor good Samaritan who was just going to get some oil.

That murder, followed quickly by the scene where Nucky orders the death of one of the men who robbed the warehouse, suggests a more explicit move into gangster territory for both Nucky and the show, but the rest of "Resolutions" dips in and out of that. Nucky meets with Harry Daughtery and continues to deny that he's fully embraced the criminal lifestyle. (He's even wearing a shoulder holster now.) We spend a good deal of time with Margaret at the hospital, where she comes face to face with a poor, undereducated pregnant woman — who could have been Margaret herself a few years ago — as she bleeds in the lobby. And before Nucky goes downstairs to take care of business with Rothstein, Gyp, and the other wiseguys, we first have to bask in the obscene wealth of Nucky and all his friends, who wind up clawing over more gold when Eddie rolls out the treasure chest. The distance between the haves and have-nots is very, very clear.

"Resolutions" is a very assured premiere. Though I have some issues with how the show deploys the huge supporting cast in later episodes, this one makes good use of nearly the whole ensemble (other than the absent Eli and Chalky, who get their turn next week), establishes what the conflicts are, etc.

 

[Marvin]

This is about speculation on the new season, about a secondary character, but I'll put it in a spoiler tag just so I don't piss anyone off, although it's pretty obvious IMO.

Spoiler

Watching commercials for new shows, I seen William Forsythe(Manny) in previews for the new show The Mob Doctor. Is it safe to assume that Manny Horwitz doesn't last too long into season 3?

Spoiler

Not necessarily. Given his fairly minor role on BE, it's possible he's going to pull double-duty, a la Alison Brie.

Spoiler

Well, that didn't take long! Good to see Harrow get some payback, even if it was for Angela.

This Gyp guy is a piece of work. He's gonna be good.

I feel like Rossetti is kind of cheesy right now. Is he a real person?Cheesy? Nah he's a maniac, you say hello the wrong way and he might shoot ya. Nothing I've read so far has said he's based on anyone in real life. The O'Banion crew is real though and had battles with Capone.Bobby Cannavale has come a long way since Third Watch.Didn't he play a gay cop on "Will and Grace" or something?I know I just saw him in "Win-Win"...which is an outstanding movie, BTW.

 

[BigTex]

I loved Manny, was looking forward to seeing him more.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Didn't Richard get to manny's too fast? Wasn't he with Gillian near midnight? Then he's in Philly seemingly 5 min later. AC and Philly are an hour or more tiday using a highway system and faster cars. No way Richard gets there in time.

 

[Premier]

I loved Manny, was looking forward to seeing him more.

Same here. Weird show. I don't really get the killing great characters shtick. I was way more interested in Manny and Jimmy than I am Nucky.

 

[jamny]

Great season premiere, imo. Got me all caught up on the storylines and set up the new season nicely.

Why do you think Gyp gave Margaret the dog?

 

[gump]

Meg Chambers Steedle looks familiar...But nothing on imbd I recognize.

 

[TLEF316]

Remus and his 3rd person schtick are cracking me up

 

[belljr]

NEED TO WATCH - FIGHTING URGE TO READ THREAD

 

[Gr00vus]

That episode didn't really do much for me. It did make me realize that Nucky and Margaret are the least interesting characters in the show for me. I'd watch shows devoted solely to Van Alden, Harrow, and Capone. As someone mentioned earlier there were many heavy handed moments in this one - the new bad guy pretty much every time he's on screen along with Margaret and her fascination with the female pilot were particularly cringe worthy.

 

[=Smackdown=]

Why do you think Gyp gave Margaret the dog?

Setting up Nucky for the murder of the good samaritan? Just a wild guess

 

[jamny]

Why do you think Gyp gave Margaret the dog?

Setting up Nucky for the murder of the good samaritan? Just a wild guess

Ah yes...good guess. Didn't even think that.

 

[Billy Bats]

Didn't Richard get to manny's too fast? Wasn't he with Gillian near midnight? Then he's in Philly seemingly 5 min later. AC and Philly are an hour or more tiday using a highway system and faster cars. No way Richard gets there in time.

I can't remember where Richard was at midnight but I can get to A.C. from South Philly in 45 minutes doing 65/70. And the Model T could max out around 40-45mph, so Richard could get there in about two hours I'm guessing.

 

[jamny]

Didn't Richard get to manny's too fast? Wasn't he with Gillian near midnight? Then he's in Philly seemingly 5 min later. AC and Philly are an hour or more tiday using a highway system and faster cars. No way Richard gets there in time.

I can't remember where Richard was at midnight but I can get to A.C. from South Philly in 45 minutes doing 65/70. And the Model T could max out around 40-45mph, so Richard could get there in about two hours I'm guessing.

Was there a clear indication how long it was between the scenes with Manny and his wife? It could have been 2 or 3am.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Didn't Richard get to manny's too fast? Wasn't he with Gillian near midnight? Then he's in Philly seemingly 5 min later. AC and Philly are an hour or more tiday using a highway system and faster cars. No way Richard gets there in time.

I can't remember where Richard was at midnight but I can get to A.C. from South Philly in 45 minutes doing 65/70. And the Model T could max out around 40-45mph, so Richard could get there in about two hours I'm guessing.

On the AC expressway

 

[Samuel L Bronkowitz]

Didn't Richard get to manny's too fast? Wasn't he with Gillian near midnight? Then he's in Philly seemingly 5 min later. AC and Philly are an hour or more tiday using a highway system and faster cars. No way Richard gets there in time.

I can't remember where Richard was at midnight but I can get to A.C. from South Philly in 45 minutes doing 65/70. And the Model T could max out around 40-45mph, so Richard could get there in about two hours I'm guessing.

Was there a clear indication how long it was between the scenes with Manny and his wife? It could have been 2 or 3am.

I think it's plausible. I'll have to rewatch but wasn't the scene with Gillian and Harrow right after Van Alden goes to his company party...so about 10pm? Also, I think the scene when Manny is shot comes after all the guests leave Nucky's party...so 1-4am?

 

[Marvin]

Great season premiere, imo. Got me all caught up on the storylines and set up the new season nicely.

Why do you think Gyp gave Margaret the dog?

It's actually an old Sicilian tradition. When invited to another family's home for a celebration it is customary for the guest to give the hostess/lady of the house a gift. The most impressive gift would be that of livestock. If/when the hostess accepted the gift from the guest it was a unspoken invitation that the guest was welcome back any time. I wonder if this will come into play later.I just made all that up but it sounds good

 

[Billy Bats]

Didn't Richard get to manny's too fast? Wasn't he with Gillian near midnight? Then he's in Philly seemingly 5 min later. AC and Philly are an hour or more tiday using a highway system and faster cars. No way Richard gets there in time.

I can't remember where Richard was at midnight but I can get to A.C. from South Philly in 45 minutes doing 65/70. And the Model T could max out around 40-45mph, so Richard could get there in about two hours I'm guessing.

Was there a clear indication how long it was between the scenes with Manny and his wife? It could have been 2 or 3am.

I think it's plausible. I'll have to rewatch but wasn't the scene with Gillian and Harrow right after Van Alden goes to his company party...so about 10pm? Also, I think the scene when Manny is shot comes after all the guests leave Nucky's party...so 1-4am?

Thats exactly what I was thinking.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Decent episode, but I'm not convinced this show will survive the loss of Jimmy.