Boardwalk Empire

now we know what skyler white feels like!!!!!

some behind the scenes thoughts on the last episode, while i hate the way van alden went out i can understand it. chalkys story though did suck all the way from beginning of the season to the end. i did like his ending, it fit his character well, but it was still a pretty nihilistic ending

Reading some theories online that

Heylel_sl said:

Reading some theories online that [spoile]the new kid working for Nucky is Tommy Darmody. Supposedly the letter Nucky received earlier in the season addressed to "Nellie Bly" was from Gillian, since that's the name she gave him in the flashback.[/spoiler]

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Ya, Nellie Bly is def Gillian. I also do agree the new kid is Tommy, although I am curious what the end game is. If he wanted to kill Nucky, he would have already had chances to do that (Nucky in the alley).

the woman is narcisses real/adopted/?? daughter, in season 4 there were some flashbacks with some fucked up shit (her mom was a hooker that narcisse pimped i think, and he killed her? then had some weird fetish shit going on with daughter). he sent her in to seduce chalky, but she fell in love and had a daughter and chalky is probably the dad. she went to narcisse because she can't get any jobs as a singer, she thinks narcisse told all black clubs not to hire her so she wants his forgiveness for betraying him and for him to lift his ban. she mentions this when she hands him her album and says no club will let her play.

chalky didn't know any of that shit, he just went to one of narcisses whorehouses to kill him. when he runs into her he changes his plans, and at the end decides he will make a deal with narcisse - he will die in exchange for narcisse "forgiving" daughter. he knows narcisse will kill him, he coulda killed him but he decides to sacrifice himself for the chick and kid. the whole bit at the end was just a show for daughter, since she is too stupid to understand that gangsters can't hire a man who pull a gun on them.

michael shannon was on fallon last night by the way, nothing much to say. he's in a new movie and he doesn't seem very optimistic it will do well

Holy shit that was intense. The standoff scene had my heart beating. It was odd to see Nucky just bow down and completey give in to Meyer and Lucky like that.

Cuban Bodyguard! Nooo!!

Well, they've almost killed off all the supporting characters now.

the oscar for most depressing tv series goes to boardwalk empire

RIP the true king of atlantic city, mickey "huehuehue" doyle

2 real bros went down this episode in like 1 second, real sad times.

I know it was said before, but they really hit it out of the park with the casting for young Nucky. And the teeth haha!

The last season was obviously rushed, though not as bad as Rome. I just wish we would have gotten to see more of a break between Luciano's gang and Nucky's allies. It feels like a lot happened in seven years that we missed.

Well that was a huge downer for me. Nucky taking it up the ass like that without a fight.

grumblethorn_sl said:

The way this has come to a conclusion has me conflicted on the whole run. Not Sons of Anarchy level, but bummed a little.

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oh god please don't even compare the two, Sons is pretty much monty python in a biker gang at this point with nothing really making any sense anymore. Boardwalk is a bit rushed and super sad but the stories at least are logical and "realistic". Thats probably what bums most of us, we want these guys to win but they keep getting the shit kicked out of them or dead. Nobody's really winning anymore.

Also i missed something someone pointed out elsewhere, the company that Nucky is shorting (Mayflower Grain) is the one that met with him to discuss Cuban Liquor imports. The one where he met Joe Kennedy who is a member of that company I think. Dunno where they are going with that storyline, money for Margaret? Way to force them to bring him aboard? It all backfires on him and he ends up penniless and dead? Joe Kennedy obviously succeeds in life so dunno.

The Lansky/Luciano shit was intense especially after this scene from season 2 or 3. Gandalf was wrong, you should always kill your enemies