1. Bhudda79

   10

   This is mafia at its best! Great level of detail in decors and really engaging storyline. Buscemi is a very convincing crook and I like the detail on Al Capones rise. Great to see a story without giants explosions, car chase and gunfights every three minutes! I love the way you get to look back in American history, before the internet and the car society...… Expand

   • Helpful? 1 of 1 users said Yes.
2. Radiant

   8

   I watched the first episode last evening. I am not sure that the time period is conveyed in a believable way. I am just not feeling it's quite right somehow. Maybe it is the acting or script? Anyway, I did still enjoy it and am hoping it will build from here.… Expand

   • Helpful? 2 of 3 users said Yes.
3. dsg11

   7

   Boardwalk Empire started painfully slow. The show took its sweet time in character development, and that, at first, was frustrating. However, as soon as Chalky White was introduced, the show began to take off. Very good season that required a bit of patience on the part of the viewer. It's well worth it, though.… Expand

   • Helpful? 1 of 2 users said Yes.
4. Frumplestein

   1

   Colossal disappointment. Reeks of artificiality and purposelessness from its Greenpoint Disneyland set construction to its dry cleaned, unlived-in costumes, the actors look as if they are desperately unclear on not only the period but their lines. Buscemi is far more miscast than anything Giamatti was accused of in John Adams. Bizarre opening titles with music that seems to be the last survivor of a thousand meetings. And finally, Scorcese's direction looked more like something a film student fan would present to that director (as a clumsy hommage) than the work of the master himself. Those preposterous and pointless angles and abortive tracking shots! Really, I was shocked and I'm not someone who lives to write nasty appraisals in venues like this. But I was driven to make an exception for this, I and every one of my friends (6 people) who watched it with me thought exactly the same thing.
   We are MYSTIFIED at the professional critical score reflected here at Metacritic.… Expand

   • Helpful? 9 of 40 users said Yes.

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