Sunday Night TV and Open Thread

By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 06:31:58 PM EST
Tags: Boardwalk Empire, HBO (all tags)

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Trailer - Sunday 9pm

HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" premieres tonight. I sure hope it lives up to its billing. My earlier description of the show is here. The episode description for tonight:

January 1920. On the eve of Prohibition, Atlantic City’s Treasurer, Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi), condemns alcohol at a Women’s Temperance League meeting, where he is noticed by Margaret Schroeder (Kelly Macdonald), a pretty, pregnant housewife who comes to him for help in getting her abusive husband Hans (Joe Sikora) a job. Later that evening, the duplicitous Nucky privately tells his ward bosses about the opportunity to make huge profits selling bootleg liquor.

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At a countdown-tomidnight blast at Babette’s Supper Club, he assures Jimmy Darmody (Michael Pitt), a recently returned WWI vet, that his appointment as “Man Friday” to the new Chief Clerk of the Fourth Ward, Paddy Ryan (Samuel Taylor), will lead to bigger things. Jimmy, meanwhile, has higher aspirations and ends up making an alliance that could have dire consequences for both him and Nucky.

Let us know what you think of it. I hope it's better than Outlaw, which despite Jimmy Smits' best effort, was a huge disappointment.

If you're not watching but have other things to discuss, this is an open thread, all topics welcome.

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Gaaaah! (5.00 / 1) (#1)
by MileHi Hawkeye on Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 07:02:12 PM EST

Still a long way to go until the election it seems that every commercial is a political attack ad.

Almost 2 more months of this? Shoot me now...

I don't live anywhere important (none / 0) (#3)
by Militarytracy on Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 07:36:52 PM EST

I live in Duh land. Treasure your attack and debate. I have the guy saddling up his horse with a shotgun in hand in one of the oldest not riding horses anymore states in the union.....what a fricken fool.


When they're finally over... (5.00 / 1) (#7)
by MileHi Hawkeye on Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 08:03:27 PM EST

...I have to deal with the trauma of being a half-century old.

Pretty scary for someone who wasn't supposed to see his teens...


Keep on rockin kid (5.00 / 1) (#8)
by Militarytracy on Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 08:27:59 PM EST

Today is what we have and where we really are. I care about others. I want better things for others and I want better things for my nation, and in the meantime I will enjoy the life I have to its fullest. Joshua has taught me this. When the doctor told us that we should amputate his feet and I cried all the way home, my son told me that today - everything is good and today is what we have. So let's have our today, and in a few hours tomorrow, and not get overly concerned about doctors and projections of our much later futures.


Don't really know any other way... (5.00 / 1) (#9)
by MileHi Hawkeye on Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 08:44:47 PM EST

...to go about it. But, I am finding it harder to do as the years go by. Not only the mental aspect from having to deal for so very long, but the physical one of the body finding new and oh so exciting ways to betray me.

Oh well, what's life without a little adversity and challenge?


: Sending thoughts of healing and (5.00 / 1) (#10)
by Militarytracy on Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 09:07:52 PM EST

gentle balance your direction. The soul of mankind is a shattered mirror, each piece reflecting a true angle of enlightenment and the image who we all are.

But he goes to church every Sunday (none / 0) (#4)
by Militarytracy on Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 07:37:53 PM EST

Therefore he is a contender....shoot ME now.


Political ads... (none / 0) (#12)
by desertswine on Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 10:46:52 PM EST

is why they invented the "mute" button. I can't stand them and they just drive me nuts.


I have salivated over Boardwalk Empire (5.00 / 1) (#5)
by Militarytracy on Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 07:45:18 PM EST

Buscemi and Pitt are not pretty boys in the strongest sense of the Hollywood word. They must carry real water and chop real wood. I think this series has been well cast. I know that Jeralyn says she thought Buscemi's character in the Sopranos became tiresome, but I loved him and becoming tiresome was part of getting to where your cousin was offing you at the family "ranch" :)

: For a fleeting second I thought (5.00 / 1) (#6)
by oculus on Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 07:55:20 PM EST

maybe Brad Pitt is in this series. But--no. Do like Buscemi. But no HBO. Plus--Sunday night opera on KUSC FM. A gal has her priorities.

If it's Sunday, it must be (5.00 / 2) (#11)
by andgarden on Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 10:45:08 PM EST

Democrats in disarray.

This is funny (5.00 / 3) (#13)
by MO Blue on Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 11:39:15 PM EST

Compliments of digby

Carrying signs reading, "O'Donnell: Hands Off Our Masturbation," the angry masturbators clogged downtown Wilmington, stopping traffic for blocks.
Harley Farger, a leading Delaware masturbator and planner of the Million Masturbators March, said it was difficult to organize masturbators "because they're used to acting alone."
...
He said that Ms. O'Donnell's anti-whacking position was "ill-timed," adding, "In this economy, masturbation is one of the few simple pleasures people still can afford."

: If they make it illegal who will dust for prints? (none / 0) (#16)
by Ellie on Mon Sep 20, 2010 at 06:36:47 AM EST

I've said it before, dammit, and I'll say it again, just a little more slowwwwwly and then over and over again ReallyReallyFast and then ... stop.

great story (5.00 / 1) (