I assume you guys are talking about tonight's show??? It'll be on in about 10 minutes here. Was it good?




TIS

No real surprises tonight.
I thought the Van Alden scene at the end made sense for the character. Nice touch turning down the picture of his wife. The character obviously thinks that sex is evil and yet he's a man...

Margaret finding out what it means to be girlfriend number x was well acted.

The old "hat girl switch" trick was funny. I guess at some point things like that had to be new.

Was Capone's son, Albert (Sonny) deaf in real life? I never heard that before.

Yes, well somewhat, though not so early. He was born with congenital syphillis-presumably from Capone- and he had mastoid surgery at age seven or so which left him partially deaf.

Yes, Margaret has really come a long way hasn't she. Evidently her neighbor didn't like her or was jealous that she moved "up." I like that she told off that "tart" (LOL) at the dress shop.

I felt sorry for Al's son. At first I got the impression that Al & his wife didn't conclude or know yet, that he was deaf. Cause why would he be so mean to his own son?

TIS

I think they are playing Capone as someone who doesn't really know how to be nice to people unless he's also messing with them somehow. He yells at his wife and mother, manhandles his mother, cuffs his son around and fires a revolver next to Jimmy's ear and he LIKES all those people.

I don't think the tension between Al & Jimmy is resolved. You could see that both were pissed off when each took verbal shots dissing the other in front of a lot of people. Even though Al went to Jimmy and told him more or less he didn't appreciate being talked about that way in front of all those people, and seemed to make amends, I see trouble ahead. Don't you think?


TIS

Yes, something will happen. In real life there was a Welsh hoodlum who became sort of a buddy to Capone and later moved in the upper echelon of the Outfit for decades after Capone's fall and later demise. I wonder if they are planning to model Jimmy after that guy.

If not then yup I'd said sooner or later Jimmy will have some hard decisions to make...

I really like Margaret. Good-looking and smart, and knows how to take up for herself.

I noticed a small error: Luciano calls himself by his nickname "Lucky", yet he only got that nickname years later.

How he got the name Lucky is disputed. The story about him going for a ride seems aprocryphal. Others maintain that Lucky derives from his last name which was actually Lucania.

Highly disputed. More than one Luciano historians claim that he was known as "Charlie Lucky" at least two years before infamously getting "taken for a ride."

How about Van Alden's Godfather reference.

"I wish I would have known you were coming. I would have prepared something".

Beth,

I caught that too.



TIS

Ok, someone has *got* to tell me what the deal is with Dammarty's mom on that show. She looks like she's his age.

I think he's about 22. She might have been a teenager when she had him, making her in her late 30's.

Based on how and where they first greeted each other I didn't think that was his mother.

Yeah I know, that whole situation is just odd.

Glad to see Jimmy go full on gangster again.

Looks like next week Omar Chalky is back.

I laughed hysterically at Van Alden whipping himself.

It was like watching the character in Sling Blade getting off.

Capone's a funny guy! He's been played really well. Instead of just bloodthirsty gangster like most movies or shows do. That's an aspect of him, but it isn't the only thing about him.

Jimmy is my favorite character in the show. The actor does just awesome, and may be more capable as a leading man than Buschemi. Capone definitely respected Jimmy more for not taking the barbs laying down.

Can't wait to see Jimmy revenge Pearl...you know it's coming.

I like Jimmy. He's like the thug with a heart. His way with Pearl, and I found it cute when he was clicking his fingers at Al's son to see if he could hear, and his later talk with Al confirming he knew. It shows a sort of soft side. When he pulled the gun and killed all the rivals I cheered. WTG Jimmy. He showes his superiority to Al in that sense.

"I'm not gonna kill you." in the previews, so someone's getting a face slashing.

Thats what me and my friend said! When Luciano said "I'm with his wife" I think rothstein shoulda gone

"No you're not, but it's an easy mistake to make I know"

Loved the meeting Jimmy, Capone, and Torrio did this week. Great execution scene!

Everyone seems to be watching this show. I walked past 3 co-workers talking and they were talking about how they liked it because it shows Al Capone and others before they were big. Maybe it will be as big as The Sopranos.

The show is produced by a lot of different people, including (but not limited to??) Scorsese, Terence Winter and Mark Wahlberg.

How does that work? Who has final authority? I assume it would be Scorsese but what does it really mean when you have a bunch of different "executive producers".

Like the mob, as long as it makes everybody money, I think they are all happy.

I wonder if there's potential for it to turn into a long term anthology that would portray the underworld all the way up through today maybe.

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."

Highly doubt they'll go farther than prohibition, since that's pretty much what the show is about.

I do like this show, but still, for me anyway, so far, it no way compares to The Sopranos. With the Sopranos there was a Sunday night excitement (so to speak), with most of the time myself AND fans here on the BB anticipating the next show. I use to love how jam packed the comments thread was during that hour. We'd be posting as the show was running sometimes. That's entertainment!

Nothing against this show, I DO like it so far, but I don't feel that same enthusiasm. That's just me though.

TIS

I mean HBO. There's alot of underworld grist for the anthology mill.