Boardwalk Empire leaves the Roaring Twenties behind as Nucky gets ready to go legit.
ThisBoardwalk Empirereview contains spoilers.
The wharf rat story was just something Nucky made up for The League of Women Voters.
Boardwalk Empireended last season with Nucky on his way to Cuba on his way out of rackets.
The show opens its final season with reminiscence.
Nucky doesnt usually seem the jot down to dawdle over the past.
He had to be on that dance floor when a lazy senator showed up four days late.
Otherwise, he might have looked anxious.
Buscemi lets Nucky take a step back before moving forward.
Its been 11 years since the unenforceable Volstead Act law went into effect, rendering America legally dry.
The papers say Roosevelt is on his way to the presidency and prohibition is on the chopping block.
Yeah, he was arrested and convicted.
Its haunted him for years.
Meyer Lansky (Anatol Yusef) hasnt seen Nucky since Arnold Rothsteins funeral.
Since then Lansky has gotten married.
Hes looking to the future.
Lanskys only in Cuba for a vacation, or so he says.
Lucky Luciano (Vincent Piazza) is finally showing those droopy eyes that he was known for.
Joe Masseria was killed after dinner and cards with Lucky Luciano at Nuova Villa Tammaro in Coney Island.
Benny Siegel, Vito Genovese, Albert Anastasia and Joe Adonis were reputedly the shooters.
The papers at the time said that Luciano was washing his hands when the shooting occurred.
Though what he was actually doing is anyones guess.
He could have been brushing off some dried mud from his slacks.
Ivo Nandi brings a real Sicilian dialect and pronunciation to his Joe Masseria.
The sing-songie way he says a mia nudu mi futi is flawlessly flawed Italian, like all dialects.
Boardwalk Empireputs as much care into regional accents asThe Sopranosput into micing up the pouring of wine.
There is a full-bodied resonance to the mealy mouthed patter.
That meeting in the Bronx happened.
There is larceny in the droopy eyes of Charles Lucania.
Piazza seems to age before our eyes as he shares his blood with his new family.
It isnt explained why Chalky White (Michael Kenneth Williams) is clearing trees in prison stripes.
Chalkys no help, all he offers is that he got caught.
The last we saw him he was sitting in a rocking chair on the porch of his old mentor.
White doesnt say much, with words anyway.
But the blues hes feeling are so deep theyre coming out of his shoes.
The only thing that snaps him out of his stupor is the blues-singing stripey hes spiritually chained to.
I think we saw the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
A lot of action tonight.
His bodyguard may not have a lot to say, but you really should see his severed ear collection.
I get the feeling Lansky was behind the machete mayhem.
His rent-a-bride is no blushing virgin.
How else could you build aBoardwalk Empireon the sand.
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Rating:
4 out of 5
