SummaryAtlantic City in the 1920s is the setting for the series based on the book by Nelson Johnson about how the city turned into the infamous gambling locale.
SummaryAtlantic City in the 1920s is the setting for the series based on the book by Nelson Johnson about how the city turned into the infamous gambling locale.
Boardwalk Empire has everything you'd expect in an HBO drama--sharply drawn characters, large-scale stories intercut with intimate moments and a sense that you couldn't find something like it anywhere else on the guide. It's maybe the best new show HBO has launched in several years.
Boardwalk Empire has been the glittering light at the end of HBO's tunnel for so long now that you might wonder if it--or any other show--could possibly live up to the hype. Amazingly, it does.
I AM NUCKY!
Zakazane Imperium sezon pierwszy to mistrzostwo w wykonaniu i prowadzeniu historii. Dramat przeplata się z komedią, a sceny akcji są po prostu świetne. Genialna jest także muzyka oraz scenografia. Ani przez moment nie miałem uczucia, że coś mogło być sztuczne. Polecam każdemu kto szuka serialu na poziomie Breaking Bad.
"Boardwalk Empire" is just simply amazing television. The music, cinematography, acting, directing and writing all deserve to be singled out as fantastic.
As with the best of these broad canvas series, the players and their allegiances become clear within an episode or two. And from that point on, Boardwalk Empire becomes everything that HBO (and I) had hoped for it.
Writer Terence Winter (The Sopranos) delivers the most exciting new series in recent history with Boardwalk Empire, a sweeping Prohibition gangster saga that redefines the boundaries of television storytelling.
The first six episodes (which I've watched, dutifully at times) draw you in but sometimes feel overstuffed, overproduced and weirdly gauzy where the series means to be an exercise in crisp, razor-sharp filmmaking.
Buscemi is the only big-name actor associated with this cast, and though he seems to be having a great time strutting onscreen, most of the others aren't up to sharing the screen with him.
It's a big production-the first episode alone cost nearly twenty million dollars-and it looks authentic in a way that, paradoxically, seems lifeless. You're constantly aware that you're watching a period piece, albeit one with some vivid scenes and interesting details.
This is just television at its best. Steve Buscemi gives the performance of a lifetime. Terrefic performances by the colorful cast, smooth directing, gorgeous writing. A must-see for fans of the mafia genre!
Coming from HBO Boardwalk Empire focuses on Atlantic City in the 1920s. Prohibition has just come into effect and the city's corrupt treasurer Nucky Thompson, seeing a business opportunity, begins working to tighten his already firm grip on the city. Unfortunately for Nucky he will have to deal with equally violent rivals and determined FBI prohibition agents if he is to succeed.
Being created by Terence Winter Boardwalk Empire is always going to be compared to masterpiece that was The Sopranos. In this regard the first season is certainly lacking in the emotional complexity and tight script that made The Sopranos the show it was with some of the violence and sexual scenes not always feeling essential to the plot. Despite this Boardwalk Empire does have enough going for it to forge its own identity and by the series end it was safe to say it that it had earned its early season 2 renewal. Being a character based drama it obviously relied heavily on its cast and it was here that this opening season excelled. Lead by the always excellent Steve Buscemi the supporting cast were equally as successful at bringing the interesting characters and plots to life and ensuring audiences stayed tuned in. While Boardwalk Empire hasn’t exactly reinvented the gangster genre it is has certainly shown enough potential to bring me back for another watch next year.
The acting is great and the writing is great.
I hated the first episode but it has grown on be to a great extent and I will be tuning in for the future episodes on Sky Atlantic!
Corection to my earlier post, I think the show has been a big disappointment and Kelly McDonald is one of the woest actresses in recent time, I cringe everytime she opens her mouth.
Steve Buscemi est étonnant, il a pris pleinement la mesure du rôle du dandy apprenti-mafieux très distingué… On ne peut en dire autant des autres qui sonnent faux, si faux que c’en est dérangeant. Cela dit la reconstitution de l’époque est soignée et HBO oblige, on tombe sur une violence certaine et du cul ici et là, ce qui n’est pas désagréable.
Il reste deux gros problèmes cependant. D’abord la prohibition : pour les Américains c’est sans doute très intéressant mais nous… on s’en fout comme de l’an 40. Ensuite il ne se passe pour ainsi dire rien là-dedans : c’est en effet du blabla à n’en plus finir, le quotidien de combinards péteux et si au début on apprécie le coup de pression du FBI qui vient renifler de temps en temps, il s’en trouve totalement dilué par la suite.
Il n’y a que 12 épisodes (dans la saison 1) de plus de 50 mn chacun au bas mot : quand est-ce que ça décolle, ce truc ? quand est-ce que ça se réveille ? on voit Scorsese au générique mais pas la patte des Affranchis, ni son génie. Surtout de l’ennui en somme !