Geek Overture

What kind of a year has it been, Boardwalk Empire? At the start of the year Nucky had just been charged with electoral fraud, Paz de la Huerta was still hanging out with her wang out, the Commodore was recovering from poisoning via trident-workouts, and Margaret was still wearing fur and visiting a French lingerie [...]

Time is running out on season two of Boardwalk Empire, and my goodness things are getting batpoop crazy all up in here. Perhaps more so than usual, it’s ALL SPOILERS, ALL THE TIME. So most of the episode is a flashback to Jimmy’s time at Princeton, where he was Leonardo DiCaprio. The episode jumps from the [...]

We’re heading round the curve into the home stretch of Boardwalk Empire and the threads that had been dragging somewhat in the past couple episodes have switched gear all of a sudden, so much so I find it impossible not to mix metaphors. By the way **ALL THE SPOILERS OH MY GOODNESS** So it’s an unfortunate [...]

Previously on Boardwalk Empire: Nucky plans to go to Belfast, Jimmy is the new boss, Chalky has plans for calling a strike. Considering the merry jaunt to the Emerald Isle, this was a pretty tight episode – largely because most of the we are selling booze exposition has taken a back seat to the much [...]

This week’s episode of Boardwalk Empire is all about obtuse metaphors, as we charge into West Wing-calibre instructional tales and illustrative analogies. The episode’s title comes from a story/joke that was old even in the nineteen-twenties, so you can stop telling me it now, dad. A man is floundering out at sea, and refusing the help [...]

After the absolute barnstormer of a character-piece last week things were bound to take a turn for the plot-heavy. If you are particularly big fans of Harrow, Rothstein, Chalky, Al Capone (remember him?) Gillian, Angela or Eli, this was not the episode for you. Fortunately, Boardwalk has the most amazingly gigantic cast ever assembled, and I [...]

For an episode of Boardwalk Empire, and in fact pretty much anything that rolls in off the good ship HBO, this was a swift, snappy episode. Highlights include Operation: Overthrow Nucky, Harrow Is And Will Always Be The Very Best, Jimmy’s Home Life Is Somewhat Unsettling, and Murder Is Basically The Easiest Thing To Get [...]

Previously on Boardwalk Empire: the pre-credits catch-up tells us we’ll be getting back to Chalky’s story, that Harrow and Sleater are still the baddest asses, Jimmy still has a difficult relationship with the Commodore and Nucky is still in legal trouble. First! Jimmy is inspecting his gigantic warehouse full of crates marked ‘RYE’. It’s like the [...]

This week’s Boardwalk Empire is brought to you by the dramatic doubling of identities, and by the letter ‘buh’? There was a heck of a lot of bartering and selling and manoeuvring with characters who have not played a central role until now and may not again in the future. Or mayn’t they?! Spoilers forever.

Reader, I have a confession: I am Irish. Feels good to say it. So this episode was just The Best. Lighter on the action and overt scheming and klansmen with gatlings, heavier on the let’s put several powerful and/or dangerous people in a room and see what happens. The thing that happens is drama