Terence Winter Interview Before joining the writing staff of "The Sopranos," Terence Winter had worked on such illustrious classics as "The New Adventures of Flipper," "Sister, Sister" and "The Cosby Mysteries." As soon as Winter joined "The Sopranos" in its second season, however, he proved to be one of the best writers other than creator David Chase at capturing the malaise-ridden mob world of that series. He's responsible for some of the series' best scripts, including "Pine Barrens," "The Second Coming" and "Long Term Parking," for which he won the Emmy Award for best writing in a drama series. (He later won another writing Emmy for the Season 6 episode "Members Only.")
Now, Winter is returning to the world of the mob, albeit not a mob that's at the end of the line, like in "The Sopranos." In "Boardwalk Empire," the best new show of the fall, Winter, who's executive producer and show runner on the series, examines the rise of organized crime in Atlantic City, N.J., in the Prohibition era. The series boasts a pilot directed by Martin Scorsese, a veritable all-star cast of acclaimed character actors and lots and lots of promotion for its first episode (airing at 9 p.m. Sunday on HBO). Winter talked with Show Tracker about working with Scorsese, casting Steve Buscemi as a mob boss and what lessons from "The Sopranos" helped him in writing "Boardwalk Empire."
"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives."
Winter is Coming
Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die.
As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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