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Post by partbrut on Dec 2, 2010 13:26:50 GMT
I've been a bit dissapointed tbh, it's good, but just lacks... something. Half-a-face-man's introduction and (the brilliant) Al Capone's gang cracking heads got me excited but since then it's gone back to feeling like an impeccably made costume drama with a filter over everything that stops me actually engaging with it. Rex Banner (I don't remember his actual name but you know who I mean) is the one character I do get excited to see him hitting the bottle and screwing Nucky's ex the other week was a real treat  . You think of shows like The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men and the way they slowly build up their worlds, strands and politics as they go on, but Boardwalk Empire is more like The Phantom Menace, it throws you straight into a massive world with loads of seemingly important players, there's a kind of sketchy undefined lead character who you (or I anyway) find it hard to give too much of a shit about, and all the politics! I'd like to know who I'm dealing with before I can start caring about how the wranglings are going to effect them (It's a billion times better than The Phantom Menace btw ). Think I'm going to see this season through then leave it there (then when everyone's bumming it senseless in 5 years I'll sheepishly pick up the DVDs and pretend I was into it from the start). I've been pretty harsh here tbf, but it's just that with the names involved my expectations were very high. It IS a very good watch, but with so much high quality US tv like Mad Men, The Shield, Breaking Bad, Deadwood, Six Feet Under still to finish/start I feel like I'm wasting my time a bit running with the middle of the pack |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2010 12:52:28 GMT
I've been a bit dissapointed tbh, it's good, but just lacks... something. Half-a-face-man's introduction and (the brilliant) Al Capone's gang cracking heads got me excited but since then it's gone back to feeling like an impeccably made costume drama with a filter over everything that stops me actually engaging with it. Rex Banner (I don't remember his actual name but you know who I mean) is the one character I do get excited to see him hitting the bottle and screwing Nucky's ex the other week was a real treat . You think of shows like The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men and the way they slowly build up their worlds, strands and politics as they go on, but Boardwalk Empire is more like The Phantom Menace, it throws you straight into a massive world with loads of seemingly important players, there's a kind of sketchy undefined lead character who you (or I anyway) find it hard to give too much of a shit about, and all the politics! I'd like to know who I'm dealing with before I can start caring about how the wranglings are going to effect them (It's a billion times better than The Phantom Menace btw ). Think I'm going to see this season through then leave it there (then when everyone's bumming it senseless in 5 years I'll sheepishly pick up the DVDs and pretend I was into it from the start). I've been pretty harsh here tbf, but it's just that with the names involved my expectations were very high. It IS a very good watch, but with so much high quality US tv like Mad Men, The Shield, Breaking Bad, Deadwood, Six Feet Under still to finish/start I feel like I'm wasting my time a bit running with the middle of the pack I reckon Season 2 will start revealing more. Last episode was really good, I thought. That copper who Rex Banner plays is a fucking nutjob btw. |
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Post by partbrut on Dec 3, 2010 15:03:47 GMT
Yeah, he's nuts Worst. Baptism. Ever. You could be right about season 2 and beyond - I'd definitely come back to it sometime if it gets good write-ups in the future, but I think for me it's a bit of a victim of it's own ambition at the moment, so many storylines so little time. |
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Post by teabag on Dec 3, 2010 15:07:03 GMT
I've been a bit dissapointed tbh, it's good, but just lacks... something. Half-a-face-man's introduction and (the brilliant) Al Capone's gang cracking heads got me excited but since then it's gone back to feeling like an impeccably made costume drama with a filter over everything that stops me actually engaging with it. Rex Banner (I don't remember his actual name but you know who I mean) is the one character I do get excited to see him hitting the bottle and screwing Nucky's ex the other week was a real treat . You think of shows like The Sopranos, The Wire, Mad Men and the way they slowly build up their worlds, strands and politics as they go on, but Boardwalk Empire is more like The Phantom Menace, it throws you straight into a massive world with loads of seemingly important players, there's a kind of sketchy undefined lead character who you (or I anyway) find it hard to give too much of a shit about, and all the politics! I'd like to know who I'm dealing with before I can start caring about how the wranglings are going to effect them (It's a billion times better than The Phantom Menace btw ). Think I'm going to see this season through then leave it there (then when everyone's bumming it senseless in 5 years I'll sheepishly pick up the DVDs and pretend I was into it from the start). I've been pretty harsh here tbf, but it's just that with the names involved my expectations were very high. It IS a very good watch, but with so much high quality US tv like Mad Men, The Shield, Breaking Bad, Deadwood, Six Feet Under still to finish/start I feel like I'm wasting my time a bit running with the middle of the pack Agree with this, haven't got much more to add but that's exactly what me and my mates call him too. |
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Post by macgruber on Dec 6, 2010 3:19:50 GMT
I think it's the best show on TV at the moment.
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Post by secondcoming on Dec 12, 2010 19:35:15 GMT
is on tv now here for the first time. first episode and since the opening tune is bjm i will give this the benefit of the doubt and have a look
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Post by jp on Feb 26, 2011 0:03:01 GMT
watched all of the first five episodes of this today after realising they were on sky on demand on my xbox. fucking brilliant stuff.
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