20 items tagged with Boardwalk Empire
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The Juiciest TV Hookups of 2012 | LIST
Sometimes the waiting is the hardest part, as with the long-simmering attraction between The Vampire Diaries' Damon and Elena or Downton Abbey's Anna and Mr. Bates. And sometimes they don't wait at all, like Stannis...
December 10, 2012 2:55 PM ET -
'Breaking Bad' Leads Writers Guild TV Nominations | ARTICLE
AMC's Breaking Bad dominated the TV nominations at the Writers Guild Awards yesterday, picking up five nods, including Best Drama Series and four for individual episodes, Reuters reports. The show will duke it out with...
December 7, 2012 12:25 PM ET -
The 10 Most Shocking TV Deaths of 2012 | LIST
Your television screen is spattered with more blood than ever before, what with all the zombies and vampires, meth fiends and Prohibition gangsters who populate our favorite dramas. From the biker treachery of Sons of Anarchy to...
December 4, 2012 9:00 AM ET -
'Boardwalk Empire' Season Finale Recap: Pyrrhic Victory | ARTICLE
It's tough to beat plot developments that feature incest and killing off one of your top-tier characters. So it's for that reason alone the dramatic jolt of Boardwalk Empire's third-season finale, "Margate Sands," fell short. The only...
December 2, 2012 10:05 PM ET -
'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: You've Got a Friend | ARTICLE
One of the most common pitfalls of a serial drama like Boardwalk Empire is the glut of characters and their corresponding narratives. As the show progresses, it becomes harder to keep track of the overlapping...
November 25, 2012 10:05 PM ET -
'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Shvitz Happens | ARTICLE
The writing was on the wall when Charlie Cox showed up for his first U.S. talk-show interview last Monday night. He wasn't just promoting Boardwalk Empire – he was probably also looking to Jimmy Fallon...
November 18, 2012 10:05 PM ET -
'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Head Case | ARTICLE
Last season, I presciently titled one of my recaps "The Student Becomes the Teacher." The episode in question showed Jimmy dispensing the wisdom he had gleaned from Nucky's tutelage. Now, even in death, Jimmy's sagaciousness continues...
November 11, 2012 10:05 PM ET -
'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Bombshell | ARTICLE
Well, now we know what this was all about. When it comes to retaliation, Gyp has got style. His decision to blow up Babette's Supper Club, complete with a Michael Bay-caliber explosion, no longer places him...
November 4, 2012 10:05 PM ET -
'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Spring Awakening | ARTICLE
During one of the four Easter lunch scenes that took place in "Sunday Best," Eli's wife, June, talked about how spring is a time for growth. But by the holiday's end, it was still winter for Nucky...
October 28, 2012 10:05 PM ET -
'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Mr. Thompson Goes to Washington | ARTICLE
It's either too much or not enough when it comes to Boardwalk Empire this season. Last week's episode satiated our appetites for both narrative drama and character presence following the dearth of excitement in "Blue Bell...
October 21, 2012 10:05 PM ET -
'Boardwalk Empire' Q&A: Meg Chambers Steedle on Playing Nucky's Mistress | ARTICLE
She first made a splash as a Cleopatra-wigged New Year's guest, shimmying her way through a rendition of "Old King Tut" – and eventually out of her dress and into Nucky Thompson's (Steve Buscemi) bed in the...
October 16, 2012 8:00 AM ET -
'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Performance Anxiety | ARTICLE
I freely admit I've been waffling on the subject of whether or not Nucky is in love with Billie, but considering he poured more energy into saving his mistress' clunker of a show than keeping his suffering...
October 14, 2012 10:05 PM ET -
'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Who's Minding the Store? | ARTICLE
It's always difficult to criticize a series I have a deep affinity for, but "Blue Bell Boy" was a weak, if not altogether dull episode. Hell, even Sesame Street's four-minute parody "Birdwalk Empire" was more entertaining....
October 7, 2012 10:05 PM ET -
'Boardwalk Empire' Renewed for Fourth Season | ARTICLE
Boardwalk Empire will return to HBO for a fourth season, network president of programming Michael Lombardo announced today. Creator "Terry Winter, [executive producer] Martin Scorsese and the rest of their outstanding team continue to produce a stunning show...
October 2, 2012 2:05 PM ET -
'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Firestarter | ARTICLE
There's only so much you can cram into an hour of television, and given that Eli's and Chalky's reintroductions got bumped to the second episode, it's not entirely astonishing that Nucky's nightmares over Jimmy's death didn't spring...
September 30, 2012 10:05 PM ET -
2012 Emmy Awards Red Carpet | GALLERY
September 24, 2012 8:50 AM ET -
'Boardwalk Empire' Recap: Roadblock | ARTICLE
"Phone's ringin', Nuck." On the one hand, I can't blame Nucky for shutting out the world whenever he's with Billie Kent. She is so adorably enchanting that even Margaret's savvy banter may not be able to compete with...
September 23, 2012 10:05 PM ET -
Q&A: 'Boardwalk Empire's' Kelly Macdonald on Margaret's Independent Streak | ARTICLE
The rags-to-riches journey of Margaret Thompson (formerly Schroeder) is one of the more captivating plot lines of Boardwalk Empire. At the end of the HBO Probihition-era drama's second season, she had just married Atlantic City political boss...
September 18, 2012 8:00 AM ET -
'Boardwalk Empire' Premiere Recap: Gangster's Paradise | ARTICLE
Don't let the lavish, gold-tinted New Year's Eve party fool you. Things are going to be very dark this season on Boardwalk Empire. Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, from his first appearance in "Resolution," has fulfilled his fallen protégé...
September 16, 2012 10:05 PM ET -
The Worst Acts of Betrayal on 'Boardwalk Empire' | LIST
If there was a drinking game based on the number of times the gangsters, molls and even law-enforcement officials betray one another on Boardwalk Empire, all the players would be drunk within the first 10 minutes. But...
September 13, 2012 8:00 AM ET

