Boardwalk Empire Season 5: Trailer #1 (HBO)

[Drikus]

What an exiting third episode
Had trouble staying awake, Boringtalk Empire would have been a better name for this season...

 

[still-one]

As a whole this season has been very disappointing. Maybe 10 minutes to interest you in each of the first three episodes. Some long drawn out scenes that go nowhere. They need to get moving soon. Unlike the first four seasons where there were 12 episodes each year this final season we are only getting 8.

 

[Steve williams]

Im still watching and still enjoy it albeit not as much as the first few seasons

I like how Nucky brought Joseph Kennedy in to be involved in bootlegging

 

[Drikus]

I thought episode 3 was boring but then they showed 4

 

[Drikus]

Finally, an episode worth watching! Hope that Nucky keeps his promise and goes after his assailants with the help of Chalky so we get more of this.

 

[BobM]

Every season does this to some extent. Some background gets shown. Nucky gets in trouble. The other guys seem to gain a real edge. Nucky backed into a corner. Nucky has something up his sleeve that nobody expected. Next season, year + later.

 

[Steve williams]

I must admit however that despite its shortcomings in the last season and an abbreviated final season I still like the series and will follow it through til its end

You guys must want to see how Nucky meets his final ending

 

[Steve williams]

I've been quiet on this series for a few weeks now but having seen the last two episodes I love it. The way they are telling the prequel to this whole story is so well done as it fades from present to past.

The kid who they got to play Nucky when he was an assistant sheriff is such a dead ringer for Steve Buscemi that I had to keep looking to be certain it wasn't him with a lot of makeup

Finally I have been liking the way all of the interspersed stories are now falling into place for that one final battle between Nucky and Luciano. And if you are counting 5 of the regulars are either dead or were granted a reprieve (Eli)

All in all I have really enjoyed this seies

 

[BobM]

They are starting to kill off the secondary actors now. I wonder who, if anyone, will be left standing at the end from Nucky-land.

 

[Steve williams]

They are starting to kill off the secondary actors now. I wonder who, if anyone, will be left standing at the end from Nucky-land.

well we know that they are going to get Capone and IIRC this is not how Luciano met his death in real life

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Luciano

 

[still-one]

SPOILER ALERT!!!!

There was a post that might have been deleted but here is the answer.

Some asked who was that kid? That was Tommy Darmody, Jimmy Darmody's son. Also Grandson of the Commodore and Gillian Darmody.

I liked how they tied up the show. The actors who played young Nucky and Gillian did a great job of mimicking their speech patterns. Not many loose ends left on this one.

 

[Drikus]

That post was from me, deleted it because I read the Tommy story somewhere else almost straight after I posted here...
Was not even up for a minute or so

 

[still-one]

That post was from me, deleted it because I read the Tommy story somewhere else almost straight after I posted here...
Was not even up for a minute or so

I wondered what happened to the post . I received a e-mail that a response was posted to this thread but couldn't find it when I looked. That is why I posted spoiler alert at the top just in case that is why it was gone.

 

[BobM]

I was really hoping Nucky just moved to NY and settled there with his wife and became one of the initial investors in TV technology. But I guess this show is/was all about what comes around ...

I guess you can only get lucky so many times.

 

[Steve williams]

I thought the ending was superb. Weeks ago when that kid starting showing up in every episode for no real reason I felt he was the one who was going to kill Nucky but who he was was was simply brilliant screen writing. Let's face it guys it's called Retribution.

I thought the intermingling of the past with the present this final season was likewise brilliant writing. It really tied the entire story together and the ending was expected. It was just a matter of when and by whom.

 

[Drikus]

I really wanted to like it but with only the three last episodes worth watching I wouldn't call it brilliant. I like slow paced series but the first episodes were going nowhere and if you think about it, the whole story with his father, Jimmy, Gillian and the commodore was already told in the previous seasons.

 

[BobM]

This whole shore season was all about "wrapping it up".

- Nucky's backstory recap, in more detail than previous seasons portrayed
- Handing it all over to the new cartel and finally getting out of it
- reconciling with his wife
- Capone's demise
- killing off some of the other characters who deserved to get theirs
- reconciling with his brother
- justifying the true ending in such a way that the audience didn't need to remember back 2 seasons and ask "who was that" and "why"

 

[Steve williams]

This whole shore season was all about "wrapping it up".

- Nucky's backstory recap, in more detail than previous seasons portrayed
- Handing it all over to the new cartel and finally getting out of it
- reconciling with his wife
- Capone's demise
- killing off some of the other characters who deserved to get theirs
- reconciling with his brother
- justifying the true ending in such a way that the audience didn't need to remember back 2 seasons and ask "who was that" and "why"

I agree. It was slower moving than the other 4 seasons but for my mind the flashbacks to young Enoch and Gillian and all the others for me brought the series to a conclusion that for me, yes, I thought who the kid was that killed Nucky was brilliant writing.