US: Boardwalk Empire S05

MacMiniBoy · 28 Oct 2014 at 00:00

I doubt there will be any spins offs it costs too much and the ratings were too poor, the reason they kept it around 5 seasons is because it got so many awards

MacMiniBoy · 28 Oct 2014 at 00:00

I doubt there will be any spins offs it costs too much and the ratings were too poor, the reason they kept it around 5 seasons is because it got so many awards

_Jimlad_ · 28 Oct 2014 at 07:09

Was a good show. Gotta admit I lost a little interest in the final season. Missed Richard to much !

~>Dg<~ · 28 Oct 2014 at 12:47

well shame to see if finish but the end was pretty poor tbh. i expected more.

_Jimlad_ · 28 Oct 2014 at 15:40

hard to see it going any other way... they should have had a fictional bad guy that could have been killed off.

Was always going to end that way... as the remaining bosses were real people and we knew they survived.

Oh well... still very good but rushed ending tbh

Tax Evader · 28 Oct 2014 at 20:31

Sad to see it finish but enjoyed it all, even if S5 seaming rather rushed. Gotta say though the stand-out performance of S5 was Marc Pickering as young Nucky. Scarily good!

~>Dg<~ · 28 Oct 2014 at 22:22

man i hated him and his zombie teeth

Nogimmix · 29 Oct 2014 at 09:05

Season 5 was too rushed, tried to cram to much in.

MacMiniBoy · 29 Oct 2014 at 17:26

Nogimmix said:
Season 5 was too rushed, tried to cram to much in.

it would have been perfect if they did a Breaking Bad/ Mad Men and did 8 upto christmas covering 1925-30 then the final 8 episodes covering the mob war and the ending, imho it ended the right way but was a little cheesy

Tombstone · 30 Oct 2014 at 10:42

I was rather miffed that season 5 jumped ahead so much, Arnold Rothstein was one of my favourite characters, played absolutely brilliantly by the actor imo. Wish they could have done a bit on the intervening years between season 4 and 5 so that we could see his demise

_Jimlad_ · 30 Oct 2014 at 11:31

Tombstone said:
I was rather miffed that season 5 jumped ahead so much, Arnold Rothstein was one of my favourite characters, played absolutely brilliantly by the actor imo. Wish they could have done a bit on the intervening years between season 4 and 5 so that we could see his demise

yep they could have does a one of episode on him...

Harrow should have been in S5 as well

Azza · 30 Oct 2014 at 19:32

Feel a lot has been missed with the jump in time but what a brilliant TV series!

Tax Evader said:
Sad to see it finish but enjoyed it all, even if S5 seaming rather rushed. Gotta say though the stand-out performance of S5 was Marc Pickering as young Nucky. Scarily good!

Randomly watching Sleepy Hollow ... who'd have thought it!

physichull · 2 Nov 2014 at 12:33

Just seen the final ep and I too feel a little bit disappointed by it. But at the same time, it was trying to mimic history therefore certain events can't be made up. It did seem to go out on a whimper, but it really has been a brilliant ride.

Yaayuh! · 2 Nov 2014 at 20:13

Tombstone said:
I was rather miffed that season 5 jumped ahead so much, Arnold Rothstein was one of my favourite characters, played absolutely brilliantly by the actor imo. Wish they could have done a bit on the intervening years between season 4 and 5 so that we could see his demise

Didn't he die in season 4? After really screwing up in betting game?

Season 5 was rushed in my opinion but was pretty good regardless. 2 more episodes would've been good.

_Jimlad_ · 2 Nov 2014 at 20:41

Pretty sure his death was not shown

Cosimo · 3 Nov 2014 at 08:07

Watched the last two episodes end to end. Nice twist at the end but as a whole rather disappointing as it just started to fizzle out. It felt as thought they were trying to rush too many endings and it was a little disjointed. It's just a minor criticism as it must have been extremely difficult to put something like this to bed.

It has been a superb series, riveting from episode to episode. The acting, script, costumes, settings and filming have all been impeccable. I can't think of a series that has ticked all those boxes. This is one series I will be a happy to watch all over again.

_Jimlad_ · 3 Nov 2014 at 08:43

yeah it was grand over all. As i said before the main issue was that the remaining bad guys all lived longer in real life so the ending was kind of half spoiled. They needed more fictional bad guys for some final episode drama

KIA · 7 Nov 2014 at 12:37

Bye bye Boardwalk.

iamtheoneneo · 5 Dec 2014 at 22:34

Just watched the last two EPs. Really enjoyed this season despite it being a little hard to follow some plots (like the stock market thing?) The look back at their pasts was really well done and kinda wished they used that a bit earlier. I thought the guy looked like jimmy but the twist was excellent IMO! Will be missed , very enjoyable show once it really got into the plots.
oh and Margaret won me over this season , they finally gave her a decent plot and lines! shame it happened so late...

Morfik · 6 Dec 2014 at 08:59

Also thought it went out well. Perhaps not up there with Breaking Bad's finale but certainly better than most. Apart from Rothstein everyone's story had some closure.

The twist with Jimmy's kid I felt was a bit of a stretch as he'd barely been in it before but I did like the way it was full circle with the decision Nucky made early in life to send Gillian to the Commodore.