Gory scenes of death and injury, morbidly obese and sick people, and even the more “normal” ones still look like someone’s face has been worked over with a two-by-four. The only caveat: Her subjects are disgusting. Her technique is flawless, every brush stroke is spontaneous yet precise, her style is hyperrealist and yet totally unique, her colors are perfectly chosen and her compositions are perfectly arranged. The direction the series is taking reminds me of a British painter called Jenny Saville (don’t look her up if you’re squeamish). Now, he was turning out to be just another evil a-hole after all the series’ only character we could actually cheer for was killed in the worst possible situation and almost every other character left is completely disgusting, loathsome and way beyond redemption. That action didn’t so much tip the moral scale of the series as it plopped a big-ass anvil on it from a ten-story building, because Nucky was also up to that point being revealed as somewhat sympathetic and remorseful despite his usual coldness and ruthlessness. Then Nucky shoots him in the head while the murderer of his wife watches with an infuriating grin on his face. He then goes on to make amends with Nucky by killing one of his main enemies. The final episode started looking good when Jimmy decides to start settling his scores by killing some klansmen who shot up a local black gangster’s still. I was expecting him to clean up the whole goddamn town in order to catch the murderer and kick his wrinkly fat ass all the way to the hereafter. In the penultimate episode of season two, his wife and her lesbian lover get shot by a dirty scumbag who may be the most hateful character in the whole series.Īfter being so emotionally invested in that character, I was hoping Jimmy would strike down like the hammer of God on absolutely everyone. He was, we come to understand, in his heart of hearts, a good man caught up in an evil situation derailing out of control. But he also had a troubled mind and internal conflicts, especially in relation to his wife, who feared him and often ran away for some lesbian sex to blow off steam, and his young son, with whom he shared a close bond. He was pretty evil, yes, and manipulative too, even though he was mostly coached into that by his major bitch of a mother. The writers spent a good deal of time building Jimmy before that happened, turning him into perhaps the most relatable character of the show. At the end of that episode, Nucky shoots Jimmy in the head. One of the betrayers was his surrogate son of sorts, Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt), whom Nucky had raised since birth, perhaps out of a sense of guilt since he was the one who pimped Jimmy’s mother when she was just thirteen out to Commodore Louis Kastner, and she got knocked up as a consequence. In last season’s finale, Enoch “Nucky” Thompson (Steve Buscemi) -Treasurer of Atlantic County, bootlegger, and protagonist - after being betrayed by most of his closest associates for the control of the town’s booze trade, is able to find a way to turn things in his favor and take back the reins of the criminal underworld. I’m getting tired of smelling like clove cigarettes all the time.Ī little context: Boardwalk Empire is a historical drama about the liquor trade in Atlantic City during Prohibition. Yeah, that statement is not likely to get me invited to the cool kids’ parties, but you know what? Screw the cool kids. There’s really no problem with it, but the problem with it (I told you I’d contradict myself) is something that seems to afflict much of fiction theses days: sacrificing entertainment value for artistic integrity. The third season premiere of Boardwalk Empire was a good episode (not great, just good), but I didn’t enjoy it one bit. I’m going to massively contradict myself here in the next paragraph, but bear with me, I'll clear things up.
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