Boardwalk Empire (TV Series) Resolution (2012) User Reviews

Boardwalk Empire Resolution

[dalydj-918-255175 · 16 September 2012]

1 year after the events of last year's finale and it's new year's eye of 1922. We are introduced to Bobby Canavale playing the very violent gangster Gyp Rosetti who when you make him angry he will take it well maybe even killing you. Nucky has no people in his way (Jimmy), everyone is scared of him because they know what he did. Having to shot someone is what Nucky must have done and ten minutes into the episode we get are first bullet fired. Business is a booming while most characters are getting back into the swing of things like Jimmy's mother's Girls, Liquor and trading of everything for the money. Margaret being Nucky's wife must be taking care of the affairs he cannot, like going to the hospital they paid for, but this has no have something bad happen which does. Detective Van Alden in now living in Chicago, he is not a police officer but a door to door salesman, but he seems to be lonely in this job which is why I feel his storyline may bore me all the season. Margaret is head of the medical board and she needs to know that or the doctor'swill have a problem with that. Party time for the Thompson's and at a party usually like this we get to see Nucky meet Gyp and in a second we see that there may be something that will happen between the two at the end of the season. More scenes with Richard taking care of little Tommy and it seems that with both of his parents gone he has a new set of parents with Richard as the father Gillian Darmody as his mother who really wants to be the on to look after the child. Gyp does not find his conversation with Nucky to go in his way so he walks out, with the camera using a close up we see the angry this man posses's that might be his undoing. Margaret's cause at the hospital for women with Miscarriage's upsets Nucky and they have another classic fight, since she has been with him so long she knows how get around his words and come up with come backs that could challenge his authority. Nelson in Chicago is not a a happy sight as he cares for his child while changing his identity because he is on the run from the cops. Not much happens in this episode plot wise as I feel it was meant to as a set up for things to come this season. Nucky seemed to be off his game this time while trying to be strong, I think Margaret once again showed why the two belong together. Other characters made no impact on me as I felt their storyline's were boring and a waste of space in the episode. I thought the episode was solid but boring at the same time. My favourite moment cam from the song and dance number as it was so fun but completely unrelated to the episode.

EPISODE GRADE: B (MVP: Steve Buscemi)

A good season opener

[silverton-37959 · 5/10 · 17 September 2022]

Season 3 starts out with a little more motion in the character development, both with new characters and with expansion of the standard cast. Two of the new characters are instant turn-offs for me: Gyp Rosetti and Billy. Kent. The Gaston Means character is much better, especially since the entertaining Stephen Root is cast.

The Gyp character is just too over-the-top, while the Billy character is just too silly to abide. She's a good companion, though, for the nauseous Eddie Cantor. Nucky is still the miscast character, with Steve Buscemi's quacking voice and skinny frame just lampooning the persona of a crime boss. It's like having Donald Duck play the Bluto character from Popeye cartoons.

The better characters, Nelson VanAlden ( aka George Mueller), Manny Horvitz, Richard Harrow, and Owen Slater are all played by excellent matches for their personas, especially William Forsythe as Manny. I was disappointed that this was Manny's final appearance, though his death at the hands of Richard Harrow was to be expected.

Sometimes the story goes off the rails a little, such as having the Doctor say that the woman lost her baby by drinking raw milk. In a later episode, it is claimed that raw milk is an abortifacient. Such nods to modern myths shouldn't have a place in such a well-written series.

Boardwalk Empire is one of the series that I enjoy revisiting every few years. With just a few exceptions, the cast is outstanding and the story is interesting. All of the more current series that I was watching before the covid interruption came back this past year as ridiculous woke spectacles that didn't even carry on where they left off.

This is the last consistently good series that HBO or any other venue made before it all went down the tubes, IMO. RIP, entertaining TV productions. They had a good run.