Geek Overture

As a keen poker player I’ve got a bit of an interest in the murky depths of the gambling world. So when I heard that there was to be a new HBO show called Luck and centred around horse racing in California I got quite excited. I’m a big fan of HBO and have been quite [...]

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 [...]

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

We’re back! The year is 1921, Atlantic City is still under the dapper thumb of Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, and my goodness Boardwalk Empire it has been a good two minutes’ worth of Season-One-round-up montage and there has been no gratuitous nudity! Why, one should – never mind the dancers are back all up in Steve Buscemi’s [...]

A new TV series based on the classic Tales from the Crypt is in the works, but get this, it’s not returning in its traditional anthology format. Instead, in a first for anything Crypt, this new project is going to introduce actual storylines and recurring characters.