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Boardwalk Empire: Season 1

Product Description From Terence Winter (Emmy®-winning writer on HBO's The Sopranos) and Oscar®-winning director Martin Scorsese, Boardwalk Empire is set in Atlantic City in 1920 at the dawn of Prohibition. The series chronicles the life and times of...

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Plot

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Act

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Buscemi

(9 reviews)
Watch

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Reviews around write (5.00 of 5)

  • Very thoughtful and well-written, wonderful plot/setting, and with Scorsese directing it couldn't be better!
  • We found the story lines interesting, well written, and believable.
  • A very well written series as you come to expect from HBO
  • Great character development, fabulous costume creation, awsome set production, creative writing and superb direction
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Reviews around set (5.00 of 5)

  • Very thoughtful and well-written, wonderful plot/setting, and with Scorsese directing it couldn't be better!
  • history).But all that aside- great sets, costumes, and gore effects after the many shootings
  • Great character development, fabulous costume creation, awsome set production, creative writing and superb direction
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Reviews around period (5.00 of 5)

  • Finally got the time to binge-watch BE from the beginning - well done period piece
  • Awesome series, great period setting, and engaging story line
  • Steve Buscemi (or Nucky) wears some great period fashions, but don't get distracted by his neat look; he is a formidable gangster.
  • The characters are clearly defined and love the time period and costumes.
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Reviews around plot (5.00 of 5)

  • Intricate plot that Makes you want to continue watching.
  • Very thoughtful and well-written, wonderful plot/setting, and with Scorsese directing it couldn't be better!
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Reviews around act (4.65 of 5)

  • He schemes and plots as he comes up with ways to keep his empire growing.
  • A little to much nudity for my taste but is really good acting
  • Entertaining - great acting, characters you care about, of course they are the "bad" guys.
  • Every twist and turn thoughtfully executed with superb acting.
  • Epic story, great acting, good excitement, all around great series!
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Reviews around story (4.56 of 5)

  • Frequent F-bombs, moderate violence, moderate sex - good story lines.
  • Interesting story about the prohibition era in Atlantic City NJ.
  • Overall story is a bit slow and boring.
  • This is a pretty entertaining story, but it strains credulity in places.
  • This is a pretty entertaining story, but it strains credulity in places.
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Reviews around actor (4.56 of 5)

  • There's also plenty of good actors involved but the story lines between those two and individually is great as well
  • He schemes and plots as he comes up with ways to keep his empire growing.
  • He's been one of my favorite actors since that movie with the baseball diamond & the reanimated mother
  • (or at least, is convincing enough to me, which isn't saying all that much), and gives employment to many very fine actors
  • Steve Buscemi, while not one of my favorite actors really plays his part well.
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Reviews around buscemi (4.33 of 5)

  • If you enjoyed the Sopranos and Steve Buscemi, I think you'll like Boardwalk Empire
  • How can Steve Buscemi play a convincing mobster, with his whiny voice?
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Reviews around watch (4.16 of 5)

  • He schemes and plots as he comes up with ways to keep his empire growing.
  • It's been mesmerizing watching we love the interpretation of real characters in the story line.
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Reviews around cast (4.10 of 5)

  • He schemes and plots as he comes up with ways to keep his empire growing.
  • The casting is rather bad.
  • Great cast, fictional but still a history lesson of sorts.
  • The cast were amazing everyone played their parts amazingly
  • I didn't know what to expect, but I knew the cast would be worth watching
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Reviews around character (3.90 of 5)

  • He schemes and plots as he comes up with ways to keep his empire growing.
  • He pulls it off as a very conflicted, complex character.
  • He schemes and plots as he comes up with ways to keep his empire growing.
  • He is an executive producer on the show and directs the first episode and the whole series has his undeniable stamp on it: lush visual imagery, complex characters, and violence.
  • I'm enjoying the show even though the historical inaccuracies regarding certain characters.
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  • Product Description From Terence Winter (Emmy®-winning writer on HBO's The Sopranos) and Oscar®-winning director Martin Scorsese, Boardwalk Empire is set in Atlantic City in 1920 at the dawn of Prohibition
  • The series chronicles the life and times of Enoch Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi), the city treasurer whose double role as politician and bootlegger makes him the city's undisputed czar at a time when illegal alcohol has opened up highly lucrative opportunities for rumrunners and distributors
  • In a city defined by notorious backroom politics and vicious power struggles, Nucky must contend with ambitious underlings, relentless Feds, rival gangsters -- including Arnold Rothstein, Lucky Luciano and Al Capone -- and his own appetite for women, profits, and power. Amazon.com In fine (and bloody) style, HBO's Boardwalk Empire returns to 1920 when the ban on booze led to a syndicate of bootleggers and smugglers
  • Created by Sopranos scribe Terence Winter and coproduced by director Martin Scorsese, the story centers on Atlantic City treasurer Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (Steve Buscemi), who schemes in private while preaching temperance in public (Mark Wahlberg and Tim Van Patten also serve as producers)
  • Jimmy (Michael Pitt, Buscemi's Delirious costar), a war veteran, acts as his right-hand man, while zealous Agent Van Alden (Michael Shannon) and refined mobster Arnold Rothstein (A Serious Man's Michael Stuhlbarg) represent significant threats to his enterprise
  • Nucky's other associates include his sheriff brother Eli (Shea Whigham), sexpot girlfriend Lucy (Paz de la Huerta), and distributor Chalky (The Wire's Michael K
  • Williams)
  • If Nucky has little regard for law and order, his soft side emerges in his dealings with Irish immigrant Margaret (Kelly Macdonald, excellent), who segues from abused wife to kept woman
  • As Nucky puts it, "I try to be good
  • I really do." After he sends Jimmy away a spell, his sidekick joins forces with Al Capone (Stephen Graham, Public Enemies) and disfigured vet Richard Harrow (Jack Huston), abandoning his son, common-law wife Angela (Aleksa Palladino), and mother Gillian (Gretchen Mol), who has a fling with Lucky Luciano (Vincent Piazza)
  • Inspired by Nelson Johnson's book, Boardwalk Empire takes a Deadwood-like approach to history by combining characters both factual and fictional with blue language and ladies without brassieres
  • Winter, who won an Emmy for The Sopranos episode Pine Barrens, takes liberties with the historical record, but the series never claims to represent the truth and nothing but--which is only fitting when everyone's hiding secrets
  • If the entire ensemble deserves praise, Buscemi rules the show as thoroughly as Nucky rules the city
  • --Kathleen C
  • Fennessy