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Nov. 20th, 2011 02:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaniCan you tell I don't feel like working this weekend?
I forgot to mention that I have begun to watch Boardwalk Empire. I'm late to the party as usual. For some reason I didn't want to watch it when the show premiered last year. Too much fuss about it at the time.
Well, I'm really enjoying it. It isn't a great tv show (lots of "borrowed" stufff from other works, lack of subtlety and dialogues that can be extremely uneven), there's nothing ground breaking there, but it is still quality television.
In a way, the show is exactly what you'd expect it to be (and it kinda reminds me of Mad Men); so far there's a lack of surprise and originality and, even though I think it's interesting to have a "damaged" WW1 veteran on the show, I have a problem with Michael Pitt's character (and the actor himself is just too baby faced, I find Buscemi more attractive actually!), BUT on the plus side I really dig Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thomson (your typical anti-hero and yet Buscemi's acting provides little moments of grace), and the Margaret Schroeder's storyline is quite compelling (Kelly McDonald has always been good in every thing I saw her anyway); Omar from The Wire and Sean Murphy from OZ(here playing James Neary, and man, he really put a lot fo weight on since the OZ days) are in it which makes me happy.
Of course every time I hear the name Shroeder I think of Hank and Marie from Breaking Bad! And I'm pretty sure that Boardwalk Empire also pays little tributes to Deadwood here and there (there are Bullock's vibes coming from the creepy FBI agent, the way Eli called Margaret "the widow Schroeder" called the "widow Garret" to my mind and, by the way, wasn't Molly Parker the woman on the portrait featuring Nucky's dead wife?).
Above all, I like the atmosphere of the boardwalk (the premiees incubators and all the weird shops or "freak shows"), I like the brother Thomsons dynamics and the last episode I watched, "Nights in Ballygran" (episode 5 of season 1) really won me over.
So I am not in love with the show or super impressed, it isn't gripping me but I definitely want to see more.
So is there anyone from my flist watching it too?
I forgot to mention that I have begun to watch Boardwalk Empire. I'm late to the party as usual. For some reason I didn't want to watch it when the show premiered last year. Too much fuss about it at the time.
Well, I'm really enjoying it. It isn't a great tv show (lots of "borrowed" stufff from other works, lack of subtlety and dialogues that can be extremely uneven), there's nothing ground breaking there, but it is still quality television.
In a way, the show is exactly what you'd expect it to be (and it kinda reminds me of Mad Men); so far there's a lack of surprise and originality and, even though I think it's interesting to have a "damaged" WW1 veteran on the show, I have a problem with Michael Pitt's character (and the actor himself is just too baby faced, I find Buscemi more attractive actually!), BUT on the plus side I really dig Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thomson (your typical anti-hero and yet Buscemi's acting provides little moments of grace), and the Margaret Schroeder's storyline is quite compelling (Kelly McDonald has always been good in every thing I saw her anyway); Omar from The Wire and Sean Murphy from OZ(here playing James Neary, and man, he really put a lot fo weight on since the OZ days) are in it which makes me happy.
Of course every time I hear the name Shroeder I think of Hank and Marie from Breaking Bad! And I'm pretty sure that Boardwalk Empire also pays little tributes to Deadwood here and there (there are Bullock's vibes coming from the creepy FBI agent, the way Eli called Margaret "the widow Schroeder" called the "widow Garret" to my mind and, by the way, wasn't Molly Parker the woman on the portrait featuring Nucky's dead wife?).
Above all, I like the atmosphere of the boardwalk (the premiees incubators and all the weird shops or "freak shows"), I like the brother Thomsons dynamics and the last episode I watched, "Nights in Ballygran" (episode 5 of season 1) really won me over.
So I am not in love with the show or super impressed, it isn't gripping me but I definitely want to see more.
So is there anyone from my flist watching it too?