Boardwalk Empire
Boardwalk Empire
TV Flash files “Boardwalk Empire” as a desk essential hour — Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014) on HBO, season 1, episode 1, aired 2010-09-19, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E01: listed hour 1 of 56 in the Boardwalk Empire guide, first listed hour of season 1. It aired 2010-09-19 (60 min). No earlier hour is listed in this guide. Next is “The Ivory Tower” (S01E02).
Essential hour: “Boardwalk Empire”. Boardwalk Empire is Scorsese sheen on Prohibition Atlantic City: Buscemi's Nucky, politics as racket, sequins and mud.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
January, 1920. On the eve of Prohibition, Atlantic City's duplicitous Treasurer, Nucky Thompson, plots to make huge profits selling bootleg liquor. Later, he flirts with Margaret Schroeder, a pretty, pregnant wife with an abusive husband, and assures WWI vet Jimmy Darmody that his new job will lead to bigger things.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Boardwalk Empire sit in the Boardwalk Empire guide?
S01E01 is listed hour 1 of 56 — first listed hour of season 1, season 1 episode 1.
When did Boardwalk Empire S01E01 air?
Boardwalk Empire aired 2010-09-19 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I need The Sopranos first?
Winter comes out of that world; this is Prohibition Atlantic City, not Jersey therapy. Gangster prestige with Scorsese sheen, standalone.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Terence Winter's Prohibition Atlantic City with Scorsese sheen: Steve Buscemi's Nucky running politics as just another racket, Chalky White, Rothstein, and production design that eats the frame. Early-HBO gangster prestige — sequins, mud, and the body count of a treasurer who thought the Boardwalk was forever.
The flash is sequins in mud. September **2010**, HBO, Martin Scorsese on the pilot, Steve Buscemi as Enoch "Nucky" Thompson — a corrupt treasurer running Atlantic City through Prohibition's opportunities and body count, politics as just another racket. Terence Winter's tentpole between *Sopranos* afterglow and later peaks. Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon, Michael Stuhlbarg's Rothstein, Michael Kenneth Williams's Chalky White, Shea Whigham. Production design eats the frame. The museum guard can catalog the period…
Filed against
- Steve Buscemi as Enoch “Nucky” Thompson
Steve Buscemi ran Boardwalk Empire as Enoch “Nucky” Thompson — Prohibition Atlantic City with Scorsese sheen, politics as just another racket, sequins, mud, a treasurer's body count. Terence Winter's early-HBO gangster prestige. TV Flash…
- Kelly Macdonald as Margaret Schroeder
Kelly Macdonald's Margaret Schroeder gave Boardwalk Empire a human ledger under the sequins — Terence Winter's Prohibition Atlantic City, Scorsese sheen, politics as just another racket. Mud and treasurer math. TV Flash files her as 2010s…
- Michael Shannon as Nelson Van Alden
Michael Shannon’s Nelson Van Alden turned Boardwalk Empire’s Prohibition piety into a sweating moral problem — Scorsese sheen, sequins and mud — then bearded up for Death by Lightning’s assassination-as-standom tragedy. Early-HBO gangster…
- Shea Whigham as Eli Thompson
Shea Whigham's Eli Thompson ran Boardwalk Empire as brother-and-treasurer mud — Terence Winter's Prohibition Atlantic City with Scorsese sheen, Steve Buscemi's Nucky treating politics as another racket, sequins, a body count. Early-HBO…
- Michael Stuhlbarg as Arnold Rothstein
Michael Stuhlbarg’s Arnold Rothstein counted Boardwalk Empire’s Atlantic City like a treasurer who thought the sequins were his — Terence Winter, Scorsese sheen, Nucky, Chalky, mud, 2010s early-HBO gangster prestige. TV Flash files him as…
- Michael Kenneth Williams as Chalky White
Michael Kenneth Williams’s Chalky White walked Boardwalk Empire like Prohibition Atlantic City needed a rival weather system — Terence Winter, Scorsese sheen, Steve Buscemi’s Nucky, sequins, mud, a treasurer’s body count. TV Flash files…