We do so love being a little ahead of the curve, style-wise. Although we suppose you could make the argument that once it’s featured in GQ, a trend has passed into the mainstream. Okay, fine. We’re not ahead of the curve. We’re talking about tweed, kittens. You see, the...

As per usual with the theme-heavy scripts of Boardwalk Empire, stray bits of dialogue reveal the larger story. As Eli says to Nucky when it becomes clear that the noose is tightening and he’s holding the other end, “Nobody takes power. Somebody else has to give it to them. Look...

We read Mo Ryan’s take on the first six episodes of the coming season and it makes us kind of sad. Mo, lead critic for AOL TV and someone whose opinions on most shows line up perfectly with our own (because she’s an unrepentant nerdy girl), thinks that this season is, if anything,...

We expected the finale to be, in typical cable drama fashion, an explosive converging of various plotlines. And it was; just not in the way we thought it was going to be. We should have known better. The sometimes glacial plotting of this series is a feature, not a bug; a deliberate choice to...

As much as we enjoyed the performances and were intrigued by the directions the plot is going (sort of), we didn’t like this episode as a whole and it took a second viewing to figure out why. The writing struck us as both a little lazy and a little impressed with itself. Rewatching the...

Because we’re heading into the end of the first season, the pace has picked up considerably with this episode. Not that we’ve reached the boiling point yet, the show is still too low-key (some would say slow) to get us there to quickly. Instead, many of the characters are coming...

We’re not exactly being original when we point out that Boardwalk Empire, like most organized crime stories, is essentially an examination of power; what people will do to get it, what they do to hold on to it, what happens when it fades and how the powerless figure into the story....

It seems fitting that Nucky would finally make the shift from politician to organized crime boss while basking in his political power and throwing his weight around, becoming a kingmaker in the process. At the height of his political game, he realized it’s not enough because he’s...

We can’t in good conscience pat the writers on the back too much this week because they took the subtext of this episode and made it the actual title of the episode. Tsk. Here endeth the criticism of the writing for this episode. The subject this week couldn’t be simpler but it...

We’re big gays who do gay things and see the world through gay eyes, so you’ll have to forgive us if we sometimes go light on the details with this show, except in those instances when something really imprints itself on our brains. So Lucky sticks his gigantic swinging penis in...

We’re nothing if not master procrastinators. We said we’d have a piece up about HBO’s Boardwalk Empire before the next episode aired and we have; getting it in under the wire with mere hours to spare. Originally we figured we’d do a The Story So Far… type of...