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Boardwalk Empire
Tom:
--- Quote from: Inlander on 15 Nov 2010, 14:12 ---Basically Boardwalk Empire is HBO-by-numbers.
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fyp
Sure True Blod is my "thinking bad, Alex Skarsgard hot" TV show but since Deadwood's cancellation there hasn't been anything on HBO that I've seen as 'appointment tv'.
TheFuriousWombat:
Count me in the 'watched three episodes, got bored, gave it up, have too much other good stuff to watch to bother going back to it' camp. Mad Men, Breaking Bad, Walking Dead, It's Always Sunny..., Louie, and hopefully the other upcoming shows on AMC not to mention the often still funny 30 Rock and at times weirdly endearing Community on basic are all way more in my radar than this dull schlock could be. HBO is simply not a very good network anymore. Big Love, True Blood, Boardwalk Empire, Treme, and Hung (their 5 biggest shows right now) all fall somewhere between mediocre and bad. Only Bored to Death has a certain charm to it and even that is getting a bit old and ridiculous. If you ask me, cable is long overdo for a revolution of this sort.
David_Dovey:
I loved Treme. I think if it was made by anybody else it'd fare a lot better. Obviously people are going to want to compare it to The Wire and that's entirely valid, but anything is going to have a hard time living up to the literal best show ever.
Joseph:
I dunno, I prefer Treme to The Wire by a fair distance. It has a looser feeling and the way it works with the characters is brilliant. One could perhaps say it's unfocused, but I find that roving nature to be in large part what makes it excellent.
Boardwalk Empire is ok-to-boring. Some decent acting, but it cuts around to much, leaving all the characters feeling like caricatures. Even the human dimension they're trying to add to Nucky is pretty cliche father trouble stuff. A real pity after The Sopranos.
Inlander:
Months later I'm still astonished by that sudden and unannounced flashback in the final episode of Treme and the impact it had after weeks of getting to know the characters and hearing their stories and knowing what happened to them after the hurricane.
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