Hello folks, welcome to the season finale "Boardwalk Empire;" HBO's Scorsese-endorsed attempt at succeeding "The Sopranos." About eighteen million things have happened so far, and more still went down in Sunday's finale. boardwalk empire dvd
…Here's what you missed so far:
Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi) is the wheeling, dealing ruler of Prohibition-era Atlantic City. His official title is county treasurer, but he's leveraged that into a far-reaching bootlegging enterprise where he controls pretty much everything going on in the town. For instance, he's appointed his grumpy brother Eli (Shea Whigham) as county sheriff. Like any great cinematic ruler, he also has a comically foreign butler named Eddie and a sex kitten girlfriend named Lucy (Paz de la Huerta), who he later dumps for a comely Irishwoman named Margaret (Kelly Macdonald) whose abusive husband Nucky had Eli execute, Fredo Corleone-style, on a boat after he beat Margaret so bad she lost her unborn baby. Margaret recently left Nucky after she kinda-sorta found out about all this.
Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt) is Nucky's driver/protégé, but left Nucky's side to serve in WWII. He also looks so much like Leonardo DiCaprio I can't freaking believe it. Anyway, he's back in AC and kind of bitter/shell-shocked, and misguidedly teamed up back in the premiere with a babyface Al Capone (Stephen Graham) for a carjacking that turned into a massacre. The fallout led Jimmy to flee to Chicago, where he and Capone worked as enforcers for the mob boss Johnny Torrio (Greg Antonacci). Jimmy also recruited another war vet to the killin' crew: a sniper named Richard Harrow (Jack Huston) who wears a creepy, "Phantom of the Opera" mask to hide the missing left side of his face (side note: he's also my favorite character on the show).
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