Tonight is Episode 6 of Boardwalk Empire, “Family Limitation.”

We’ll hold the chat tonight on MyFDL, so stop by in the comments (now nested) and let us know how you’re liking it.

Move over, Nucky. The prohibition shakedown game has refined considerably since the 1920′s, but lucky for them the “beautiful, ignorant bastards” falling for they same cheap hustle haven’t.

Broadway Empire was the #1 trending topic on Twitter last week during the broadcast. While the economics of prohibition is fascinating, I think more people are just into the boobs.

Last week’s episode of Boardwalk Empire was “The Ivory Tower“: Unlike Margaret Schroeder, we’ve never read Henry James’s The Ivory Tower, but here are the first few lines of the Wikipedia entry: “The novel … centers on the riches earned by a pair of dying millionaires and ex-partners … and their possibly corrupting effect on [...]

Comparisons to the Sopranos are inevitable, but it’s not really fair to measure a series that had eight years to develop its style to the new kind on the block. I’m liking it so far (especially the Magritte-inspired opening credits), but it has some growing to do.

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