Don’t blow your nose in a monogrammed handkerchief.
Back in AugustI handicappedBoardwalk Episodeseason four based on gangster history.
I made some predictions, I gave some guarantees.
ThatsBoardwalk Empire, it got inside my head.
I started watching, fully intending to love it,Boardwalk Empirefrom the very first Martin Scorsese-directed episode.
I wait between episodes watching it three or four times.
With the exception of Breaking Bad and The Simpsons, the rest of TV can wait.
I should recuse myself from reviewingBoardwalk Empirebecause Im only judging it against itself.
William Wilson begins with Leopold and Loeb in the headlines and Al Capone on the attack.
Al Capone did in fact personally shoot at least one of the cops who mowed down his brother Frank.
And I mean Harry Reamed.
Torrio gets served more than warm beer.
Stephen Graham breaks out without breaking down.
Lucky Luciano (Vincent Piazza) is going back to Tampa.
I wonder if heroin would have stayed illegal if it didnt pull in so much scratch on the street.
Theres something Draco Malfoy about this Hoover.
Nothing gets by Eli Thompson (Shea Whigham), except when it comes to his son.
Nucky (Steve Buscemi) has something up his nose that he cant blow into a monogrammed handkerchief.
He woke up this morning with the vague notion that something is not quite right.
Stephen Root is a joy and a distraction.
After two lines of dialogue I spend the rest of the night doing his voice.
His Department of Justice turncoat is so nuanced that his betrayal knocked me on my ass in shock.
Shock I tells ya.
The other gasp came from the soul.
Chalkys inner smile is radiating so hard now its distracting the faithful.
But, Chalky says, it sounds congenial enough.
Below that bottom is Gillian (Gretchen Mol) who is climbing back up cold turkey.
At least shes not shooting hypodermics right in the gutter.
William Wilson was written by David Matthews and Terence Winter and directed by Jeremy Podeswa.
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Rating:
4 out of 5
