Season 3 starts out with a little more motion in the character development, both with new characters and with expansion of the standard cast. Two of the new characters are instant turn-offs for me: Gyp Rosetti and Billy. Kent. The Gaston Means character is much better, especially since the entertaining Stephen Root is cast.
The Gyp character is just too over-the-top, while the Billy character is just too silly to abide. She's a good companion, though, for the nauseous Eddie Cantor. Nucky is still the miscast character, with Steve Buscemi's quacking voice and skinny frame just lampooning the persona of a crime boss. It's like having Donald Duck play the Bluto character from Popeye cartoons.
The better characters, Nelson VanAlden ( aka George Mueller), Manny Horvitz, Richard Harrow, and Owen Slater are all played by excellent matches for their personas, especially William Forsythe as Manny. I was disappointed that this was Manny's final appearance, though his death at the hands of Richard Harrow was to be expected.
Sometimes the story goes off the rails a little, such as having the Doctor say that the woman lost her baby by drinking raw milk. In a later episode, it is claimed that raw milk is an abortifacient. Such nods to modern myths shouldn't have a place in such a well-written series.
Boardwalk Empire is one of the series that I enjoy revisiting every few years. With just a few exceptions, the cast is outstanding and the story is interesting. All of the more current series that I was watching before the covid interruption came back this past year as ridiculous woke spectacles that didn't even carry on where they left off.
This is the last consistently good series that HBO or any other venue made before it all went down the tubes, IMO. RIP, entertaining TV productions. They had a good run.
The Gyp character is just too over-the-top, while the Billy character is just too silly to abide. She's a good companion, though, for the nauseous Eddie Cantor. Nucky is still the miscast character, with Steve Buscemi's quacking voice and skinny frame just lampooning the persona of a crime boss. It's like having Donald Duck play the Bluto character from Popeye cartoons.
The better characters, Nelson VanAlden ( aka George Mueller), Manny Horvitz, Richard Harrow, and Owen Slater are all played by excellent matches for their personas, especially William Forsythe as Manny. I was disappointed that this was Manny's final appearance, though his death at the hands of Richard Harrow was to be expected.
Sometimes the story goes off the rails a little, such as having the Doctor say that the woman lost her baby by drinking raw milk. In a later episode, it is claimed that raw milk is an abortifacient. Such nods to modern myths shouldn't have a place in such a well-written series.
Boardwalk Empire is one of the series that I enjoy revisiting every few years. With just a few exceptions, the cast is outstanding and the story is interesting. All of the more current series that I was watching before the covid interruption came back this past year as ridiculous woke spectacles that didn't even carry on where they left off.
This is the last consistently good series that HBO or any other venue made before it all went down the tubes, IMO. RIP, entertaining TV productions. They had a good run.