I kinda feel like it SHOULD have just been Luciano, Capone, AR, etc. A TV show based around Luciano’s rise to power, the formation of the Commission, all the gang politics involved.

@@fort809 Yea kinda like the movie Mobsters, but as a series.

The memory of season 5 still hurts. Such a disappointment... I mean, the ending itself I liked, but that 10 year jump after such a cliffhanger in season 4, and those painful flashbacks of young Nucky were terrible choices

I still recommend it to anyone for being such a masterpiece in seasons 1 to 5

Scorsese’s last American gangster epic Luciano and lanskys empire and fall Bugsy in Vegas and hit and Capone in and out of Alcatraz

Wait, I thought Remus was you??

Jimmy Darmity one of my favorite characters of all time! Toast "To the lost"! Never had to die like that. The ending tie in to Jimmy's story fell flat too.

Jimmy and Richard were the best characters of the show as well. After Jimmy died, fortunately there was Richard left, he made the show awesome, like Al Capone and in some ways Lucky Luciano, but it's because I'm keen on his voice lol. After the best characters died, the 5th season seems boring as shit, but I just watched the first episode, but I'm not that interested in watching the next episodes like I was for the 2nd and 3rd seasons.

i stopped watching after jimmy died..

Jimmy Darmody is dead long. live Jimmy Darmody

What's sad too is that Tommy Darmody falls into the same doomed life of his dad and "mee-maw" by killing Nucky and getting apprehended. After all of Richard's efforts to save him and care for him, he wound up doomed anyway.

In preparation for this video I was listening to BE on the way to work, at the gym, as I cooked dinner. When I finished the last episode I didn't know what to do with myself on the drive to work the next morning so I just immediately started it over again.

Watch Peaky Blinders

@@ThirteenAmp Amazing series. Downton Abbey on Meth.

It was very popular while it was on though. May e its not talked about now like the other great shows because they decided to end it too early. They wanted 2-3 more seasons but just had a huge time jump and finished it off kind of weak. The Rothstein storyline e ended badly

I just told someone tonite, the Sopranos was a comedy, compared to this show. they capture the period .remember when Nucky visited his father's house and found a toaster unused? "I paid 9 bucks for this thing!" correct me if I have the price wrong, but his relationship w/ his Dad was piss poor.

It's what really got my attention on him

Michael Shannon has always been too scenery-chewing for me.

They don't give guys that look like him and awards anymore. Get real

his "fuck-up-a-room" scene is defintely in the top 5 of those kind of scenes. Up there with Citizen Kane

@@LarryLonson No one else looks like him.

"Why the fuck Doyle is still alive" LOL

Pepperidge farm was

How do you feel about him finally getting it? I just rewatched recently and I kind of forgot that he actually died eventually. I thought it would be funny if he survived, because he really could've started new anywhere. But I guess his death was another example of Nucky losing EVERYTHING.

@@jeeither Hey, Mickey... can I ask you somethiing? How the fuck are you still alive?!

@@jeeither It would have been profoundly ironic if Nucky the meticulous stickler for safety and planning dies meanwhile Mickey the comic relief village idiot weasel manages to inexplicably survive without a hitch.

Literally? Your eyes fell out of your head?

I'm love ! Someone find me!

He was responsible for his own daughters death . He ran away cuz of shame.

The whole storyline of the main characters is the “blood in, blood out” thing. Imho that was the only way they could possibly end this. All of them (Darmody, White and Nucky, even Harrow) were some kind of an honorable people, but their choice was to become a criminal, and they deserved that.

chalky's coming yo

@E. Alanis Come at the King . .

They tended to do that for characters who were fictional, or weren't strongly based off of someone like Nucky. They tended to only want to focus on the stories of Al Capone, and Luciano forming the commission towards the end.

I haven’t seen Knives Out yet but I have to imagine he’ll be my favorite part of that, like he is with most everything he’s in. That sorority letter reading he did like a decade ago still cracks me up to this day.

She was also a stand in for his mother who he couldn’t save from being victimized as a child.

His character sucked. Did not like the way the series went after he was introduced. Chalky was such a badass only to get beat by him and that other douchebag that his friends tuned up in jail.

@@one7decimal2eight agreed, it’s a standard plot line to have the good guys against a enemy that beats them at every turn until the end. That way the victory at the end is supposed to be that much greater. Maybe I’m just old have seen it too much.

It’s a formula that works but started to be too easy to spot over time. The Walking Dead TV show is based purely on that formula.

The Fed’s have a 97% conviction rate

"My first time I threw up after." "I died in the trench" "Just breathe, Nuck..."

@@stevenstuart152 Awesome lines, Jimmy's death was one of my favorite scenes of the show.

Is that true?

@@johnwayne-3701 100%

@@honkeykong4049 Yeah, and I’m playing shortstop for the Mets.

@@chrisdawson1776 I wouldn't admit that in public.

that actor just died. keep forgetting his name. a shame. it is said he was shooting junk. he was an intimidating MFer as Chalky. rest his soul.

@Speaker of Thoughts, Free Speech Advocate thank you. I was shocked, myself. he was a young man.

Michael K Williams. IIRC it was a fentanyl OD.

Michael K Williams also has a great role as Omar Little in The Wire

Shea Whigham or however you spell his name, did an excellent job playing Eli in my opinion

Fun fact Buscemi won a golden globe for this show back in 2011 and beat Bryan Cranston in breaking bad, Michael C Hall in Dexter, John Hamm in mad men, and Hugh Lori in House. Well deserved and boy did he have serious competition.

​@@michaelnally2841damn man that is some serious competition. I can't believe he beat Brian Cranston. I'm about to watch this show now.

It literally took Decades for Steve not just too get a leading man roll, but Recognition from the academy for it. Long over due and well deserved he's quite the actor,

Kelly Macdonald as Margaret was pretty underrated too

Boardwalk had this issue with basically killing off every fictional character to justify them not being in our world. Very unnecessary.

Well...he only did it so that Nucky could give him information on Jimmy's body. Otherwise Gillian would have gotten tried to take Tommy away. It was his final act in an attempt to have a normal life.

Disagree, season 5 was garbage.

His character was too much. The show was good but it had a lot of moments of just bad writing. I am sure you will disagree because the surface sheen of the production values hides it.

@@joelwillis2043 The last season wasn't up to par, as most of series was. Especially in the last six episodes. However, despite all of this still one of the best series ever made on cable TV.

@@joelwillis2043 No, I don't necessarily disagree with that assessment- although I do take offense to your accusation that I'm incapable of being sufficiently critical of a series based on a shiny verneer and the enhanced production values from HBO pouring significant resources into select works they've prioritized as their prestige projects. Agreed. There were indeed instances of bad writing throughout the lifespan of this show, but I don't consider that particular character's arc one of them. Jack Huston's portrayal of Richard Harrow was stellar, and took a backseat only to Michael Shannon as Nelson Van Alden/George Meuller. I genuinely place Huston's performance alongside Stephen Graham's (Al Capone), Shea Whigham's (Eli Thompson), and Michael K. Williams's (Chalky White). I was never particularly impressed by Steve Buschemi's work as Nucky Thompson. It wasn't bad or anything. It was only ever just serviceable. I just felt that he didn't rise to the occasion and meet the challenge as the leading man in his series the way James Gandolfini did on The Sopranos. Buschemi's performance was never subpar by any means- it just never seemed to rise above being solid.

@@bluelotusnefertoum2144 The show started to lose me in season 4, & something about season 5 doesn't rub me the right way. Kinda disregards Richard's sacrifice & arc by the end, & skipping through too much time & plot. Its upsetting, this show was on the path to be on par with Sopranos with first 3 seasons

Canavale is awesome in Mr Robot season 3 also

It's well worth watching

Atlantic city, New Jersey is definitely worth a visit too

Nucky: "how many people have you killed?" Richard: "68"

chilling scene where they 'visit' that asshole in the wheelchair who whacked Jimmy w/ his cane. he'd been bragging about killing arrow armed Indians w/ Henry rifles. Jimmy calls it "slaughter''. they make a little statement when Jim visits the old man again. Richard scalps his ass. one of the many who underestimated the fresh faced Irish kid, Jimmy. that scene is just a killing orgy.

​@@tonym994 63. Boardwalk Empire always felt off to me and I never really liked a lot of the characters. But I could watch any scene with Richard. My God did they nail depression.

@@johnnyboy2537 was your ID handle inspired by 'MEAN STREETS'?

@@tonym994 Nah I just picked it at random since my name is John. Just added the old code I used to use for lunch so I could remember my username easier. No point in anyone stealing that now.

Me too.

@@michaelnally2841 lol to clarify: "Me too" meaning the third season is your favorite or... You say "always walking around like a dentist with the ether" alot like I do?? Haha

"Fuck off. Go sit in the corner short pants" is my favorite Gyp insult.

the last season was meh but I'm just glad it never did a Game of Thrones I guess

Season 4 and 5 were disappointing, but still fantastic

Season 1 and 2 are the best, the show steadily declined after Jimmy Darmody was killed and replaced by the typical Italian Tony Soprano like neanderthal in Gyp Rosetti. Season 4 showed some promise, but by then it was clear they already knew HBO was pulling the plug, which culminated in the aweful and cheap final season, which was an injustice to a show that had its flaws post season 2, but was still good and deserved a better send off. We missed out on AR's assasination, Margaret's plight, Chalky's doom, Gillian's predicament, Nucky's time in Cuba, and the Stock Market crash of 29 -- which surely would have affected everyone involved. It was a sad end to a show that promised so much in the begining. Boardwalk Empire deserved at least an 8 season run to make everything work, and its demise is what happens when a network gives up on it.

@@jerrysoh619 No, the 7 year jump in time for Season 5 was always planned. Terence Winter made sure HBO knew the story would end in 1931 when Lucky Luciano established the Commission. That was always the finish line.

@@Britton_ThompsonYeah, the 7 year time jump was clearly a rush to wrap it up, especially hearing and reading Winter's interviews shortly before the season 4 premiere, he spoke about further advancing each character arc, not wrapping them up, he was clearly operating under the premise that he had more time, considering the 1931 finishline which was well known.

I’m an important person. I have important friends. I have important garters holding up my VERY important SOCKS.

@@SlipMaker I'm going to sound like a psychopath but every time I watch that scene when the camera moves up and pans down I like to imagine the timing of Tonino being *just* out of frame and how long it would take him to stroll up and backstab Rosetti. Seriously, such great editing and cinematography to barely hide him walking forward to stab. Great video by the way - honestly this series made me realize that costumes and really ornate sets and location choices almost can basically make or break a show for me. That's how petty I am.

What does you drinking have to do with it? Honestly just curious mate, I might be missing something lmao...

@J the show is about bootlegging

I was also drinking heavily when I first watched it, so I'll always associate it (along with Sopranos, Ray Donovan, and Better Call Saul) with my horrific binge drinking 😐

Season 1 and 2 are the best, the show steadily declined after Jimmy Darmody was killed and replaced by the typical Italian Tony Soprano like neanderthal in Gyp Rosetti. Season 4 showed some promise, but by then it was clear they already knew HBO was pulling the plug, which culminated in the aweful and cheap final season, which was an injustice to a show that had its flaws post season 2, but was still good and deserved a better send off. We missed out on AR's assasination, Margaret's plight, Chalky's doom, Gillian's predicament, Nucky's time in Cuba, and the Stock Market crash of 29 -- which surely would have affected everyone involved. It was a sad end to a show that promised so much in the begining. Boardwalk Empire deserved at least an 8 season run to make everything work, and its demise is what happens when a network gives up on it.

@@jerrysoh619 no

@@jerrysoh619 historically HBO only does 5 seasons(at most) for every show.

@@johnv6806 Except if the show demonstrates steady and consistent growth season after season, like Entourage or GOT -- this was the problem. BWE had stable ratings, but no growth, the fact that it was an expensive show to produce, is probably why it didnt get 6 seasons like The Sopranos or Sex and the City. Why didnt it grow? I think killing off Jimmy Darmody after season 2 played a part, it wasnt the same show after that.

When the German butler (it's been awhile since I watched) got shot, I was hoping they'd reveal that Nucky, like Mr Burns, doesn't know how to drive.

Agreed.

Wow, thank you! He’s probably my favorite KZfaqr (excluding a couple BBQ cooking channels) so I’m incredibly flattered

Reminding the other rascals about vicious hierarchy, maybe.

I like how right before Luciano drew his gun and shot him he told him to shut up for once

@@angryanakin the only guy with the FUCKING BALLS to say that is the GOD of the criminal underworld.

@@angryanakin So that’s it? No leeway, no compromise, just stupid jokes.

“Those young fellas - no appreciation for the art of conversation!”

He didn't move to the Midwest. He stayed in Atlantic City and worked a few different jobs. He is buried only a few miles outside of the city, living to the nice old age of 85.