Boardwalk Empire Watch Party on MyFDL |
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| By: Jane Hamsher Sunday October 24, 2010 8:53 pm | |
Tonight is Episode 6 of Boardwalk Empire, “Family Limitation.”
We’ll hold the chat tonight on MyFDL, so stop by in the comments (now nested) and let us know how you’re liking it.
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I’m still waiting to like watching someone on the show in the way I liked watching the characters on The Sopransos.
I like watching the guy who plays Al Capone, but there’s not a lot of him.
5 people in my DC group: http://my.firedoglake.com/groups/dc/members/
Doesn’t have representation in Congress but good to know who’s here in DC anyway.
I’m so frustrated with the relationship between Nucky and Schroeder. It’s too deliberately messy.
Can’t watch preview.. don’t want to spoil anything, especially as on PDST… no spoilers pulease…
I promise! No spoilers.
C’mon, nahant, need a profile picture.
Pre-dic-ta-ble….
OK me dumb but flag?? Where are all the GUI tools for links, bold, quote and so forth. I have spent time looking but?? Are we back to coding??
Working on it!!
well Jane, I’m of a mind that you called it right the first watch party – certainly more watchable as the Series has progressed
We had some problems this morning with blockquotes so they may be tinkering with them right now. They’re trying to get things ready for tomorrow when traffic hits.
They’ll be back!
I like it, but they haven’t found a storyline that has any suspense/anticipation to it. And that doesn’t give the characters a lot to work with.
Gratzie.
Now when I click someone’s name and there’s no picture there, I get all disappointed.
Hope ya like it. It is one of many I was lucky enough to capture in our back yard. This is one of the fledglings Sure was an amazing 3 months watching these Coopers Hawks breed and raise their two fledglings..
my, my, my Mrs Schoeder
She’s a salty one, isn’t she?
They smoke in this show almost as much as they do in Mad Men.
I’m lost. I was talking to someone here. Saw there were 2 notifications, then when I came back, I can’t find where I was.
Could be distracted by the gorgeous snow leopards on the Discovery Channel. I’ll try harder tomorrow.
The Federal cop looks like the biggest hood of all.
This episode was written by Howard Korder, a very good playwright. But I am considering bailing on this series. Not loving it.
Hint: The title of this episode is the same as that of a Margaret Sanger pamphlet on birth control.
If you’re signed it, across the top of the page it should say:
MyFDL – Log Out – My Account – My Diary – notifications
Next to “notifications” there will be a number if you have one. Click the number.
was wondering about Sanger/pessaries when Margaret reached for the pamphlet
The only real suspense has surrounded Jimmy, who is so creepy I don’t really care.
Aha. Well, the 1920′s sexual hygiene is one of the most interesting parts of the series.
More Al Capone.
If Jimmy is going to go psycho, I sort of wish he would do it already.
I mean, I give him credit for keeping it together for a few episodes. Now just start spraying bullets wildly, it’s fine.
Why do you never see Steve Buscemi in the same room with David Bowie?
I found a California group: http://my.firedoglake.com/groups/ca/members/
Okay, I’m finding my way around.
Lysol? They still use that at the Itchy Kitty Club for panty cricket outbreaks.
Maybe he needs a shrink.
I’m signed in, and was able to get my notifications, thanks. I just got lost when I came back to the thread. As I said, I’ll figure it out in the morning, hopefully, when my head is a little straighter. I’m still trying to figure out why the panda bear, who is actually a marsupial, has such very human like movements. Thank you, Jane. Tomorrow is a new day, and, I’m sure it will become clear how to navigate. You ain’t seen the last of me. I love it here.
He’s not an Aladdin Sane fan?
I am now friends with Edve!
http://my.firedoglake.com/members/edve/profile/
Hope she doesn’t break a string.
“He’s Houdini’s brother. But he’s just as good.”
Capone’s son – wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Francis_Capone
what did it say about Margaret on the inspection sheet ?
i don’t have HBO and being a NJ guy (much of Soprano’s was filmed in my hometown) i try to keep up w/ this series here. So I hate to interrupt but….. um… how do you befriend people?
Van Alden – Opus Dei
yeah, I’m shocked a well :D
sorry BFL – that wasn’t for you
to friend folks, click on their names in the threads – or go to your page and click on “Find People”
I think the Fed misunderstood the concept of self abuse.
Click on your name, it should take you to your home page. From there, go into the right column and it’ll say “find people” in the toolbox.
Alternately, just click on somebody else’s name in the comments. It’ll take you to their page, and there will be an “add friend” button below their picture.
I just made a friend request to you. If you look on the very top of this page, on the toolbar, it’ll say “notifications” and have a number by that. Click on it and you can accept it, if you’re so inclined.
I live in AC and grew up with chatter about “Nucky”. Most of this series is BS.
Anyone ever seen the actor who plays Al Capone in anything else? Dude steals every scene.
If I’m so inclined? Hmmmm… Lemme think about it. You’ll get your answer soon enough, Ms. Hamsher.
thanks.
thank you
Stephen Graham – he played Babyface Nelson in Public Enemies, and the United team captain in The Damned United. Seems like he pretty much only plays thugs.
Just my $0.02: don’t care for threaded comments, just as I don’t like Gmail threaded messages.
I have no idea what Boardwalk is, but no matter…enjoy…it’s nearly 11 p.m. here in NW Indina and I’m headed for the waterbed.
Love the new FDL!!
That would be INDIANA. No edit yet…
Teddy Partridge is upstairs!
Sunday Late Night: WaPo’s Capehart Shocked Log Cabin Republicans Support (gasp!) a Republican
Are we on EDST? or what
I find much of this series to be a highly stylized and more often than not a distorted, inaccurate picture of the kind of people they are attempting to portray across the board. I find the injection of Scorsese’s seedy, unwholesome, “dirty” late 20th century sexual fantasies into the drama objectionable across the board not because I object to sex (quite the contrary) but the way it is presented here doesn’t add anything to the story and really drags the series down to a level I’m quite sure they don’t intend. It’s just not plausible, for example, the way Thompson’s floozie mistress flaunts her sexuality, particularly as a weapon to intimidate and humiliate Mrs. Schroeder. The sexual mores of the 1960′s and 70′s dressed in period costumes(which is what we’re being served in the main) are not at all what would have been found in the prohibition days among even gangsters and political bosses. I don’t find it believable or realistic. I keep watching hoping to find a sympathetic character other than Mrs. Schroeder and even she is now very, very compromised. All the other characters are just lower class, seedy, objectionable and often repulzive people who nobody can really care about or be all that interested in. I know these type of folks were not exactly admirable characters but the stereotypical and base qualities of the personalities found in this series is fundamentally unappealing. The story has great potential but doesn’t seem to really be headed anywhere. Still, I continue to watch in the hope that it will grab me at some point. So far, however, it’s somewhere between disappointing and mildly interesting.
Ultimately, I think he will kill Margaret. Her immigration card said she was bleeding, probably miscarrying.
Al will kill Jimmy
The storyline, seems to me, is about the history of gangsterism during prohibition. 1920, prohibitions starts. Wilson is President, WWI is recently over, it’s an election year. Warren G. Harding & Calvin Coolidge will win the presidency, and in less than ten years the Great Depression will begin. Shortly thereafter, in 1932, Al Capone will go to prison.
As a docudrama, it’s as good as it gets, I think.