I still can't believe the wasted potential that was Boardwalk Empire

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The show had no sense of urgency. Scenes with little to no conflict. Episodes that didn't move the seasons/series plot forward.

Good TV builds to a crescendo in each and every episode. All contributing to the season's crescendo. Boardwalk didn't do that until the end of each season. A lot of nothing happened.
 
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They had so much material to draw from but they wasted way too much screen time with made up characters. Seasons 1 & 2 were good but it fell off after that. Gyp was a pointless character, his novelty wore off quickly, then he ends up getting killed by his own man at the end of season 3. They wasted a whole season with that shyt. And no Vito Genovese too
 

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They had so much material to draw from but they wasted way too much screen time with made up characters. Seasons 1 & 2 were good but it fell off after that. Gyp was a pointless character, his novelty wore off quickly, then he ends up getting killed by his own man at the end of season 3. They wasted a whole season with that shyt. And no Vito Genovese too
remeber the margaret women's heath segment in season 3 too :scusthov: that was absolute dog shyt
 

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HBO got me heated and pissed off that they fukked up with the jump time and rushed Season 5 to ended so they can make a new show "Vinyl" but ended up with one season and got cancelled it. I bet they regrets that forever on "We fukked up"
 

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I feel like people are remembering season 3 with a serious set of rose tinted glasses.

The Margaret sub-plot was awful and they wasted a gang of time on Nucky falling in love with a character nobody gave a fukk about.

I never liked Gyp, always thought he was a wack character. As far as Jimmy, that probably wasn't on them....Michael Pitt is notoriously difficult to work with and randomly bounces from shows....he did the same thing on "Hannibal".

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big studios are pretty dumb but HBO needs to realise that post GoT they can't afford any flops.
 
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I just started a rewatch of this yesterday since I've only seen it once, and that was 15 years ago. 3 episodes in and this shyt is still 🔥
Absolutely. I think I've re-watched the series 5 or 6 times. Excellent show. Still holds up. I wish they would have extended it at least one more season.
 
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