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On a lighter note, HBO's Boardwalk Empire is an excellent period piece as well
by Magodo 7y ago
On a lighter note, HBO's Boardwalk Empire is an excellent period piece as well
- phjesusthatguy3 7y agoBased on the non-fiction book[0] by Nelson Johnson. The show is very entertaining, while taking a number of liberties with the source material. I liked it a lot, and I'm in the process of re-watching it. It is also very graphic in it's depiction of violence. [0]http://www.boardwalkempire.com/ http://www.boardwalkempire.com/
- simplicio 7y agoI really liked the first season, which gave a wide view of the intersection between political machines, the wealthy, mobsters, ethnic communities, WWI veterans, reform groups, etc that made up the prohibition era in a much more interesting way than a lot of treatments of the time, which tend to focus on the mobsters to the exclusion of all else. Sadly after the first season, it pretty quickly degenerated into "all mobsters, all the time" show. Even the FBI guy joined the mob.
- MrZongle2 7y agoThat was my take as well. I really liked it as a period piece, but after S1 it seemed like the showrunners kept some characters merely because they liked the actors. Michael Shannon was wasted in later seasons, IMO.