Great finale.
Not just Harrow out the blue blasting Gyp's men away but his ending where he really can't face Julia, walks away, and her father is the one understanding of the situation. Only thing I wanted was for Nucky to know it was him and see him leaving with Tommy in his arms with all the guns on his back.
I tend to wonder if the conflict and then resolution between Chalky and Al was set up for a reason or was just there to be noted since it wouldn't make sense if they all cooperated.
Liked Nuck's reflection on things, thinking of the future, and all of chess moves he made. I almost thought he was gonna let AR off the hook. Seems to me after getting jammed up, Nuck will get the distillery back
What appears to be bonding with his brother I guess will hold more importance, and his want to be this no name unrecognizable don is what's good. Make him a ghost and just another guy on the boardwalk is a drastic yet smart move given what the conflict with Gyp has shown him.
Only thing missing from this finale was a touch of Van Alden.
You know...I've been watching this show from season 1 to now - and there are so many of you that are so high on the show - praising it every step of the way and I don't get it. Especially this season.
What has been so special? I felt like most of this season has been a bore. Character development hasn't made things interesting.
The last two episode prior to the finale were done well ,especially the last one. This finale was rather bland aside from the Harrow slaughter house.
The way they killed off Gyp was stupid, anti climatic and without any sort of vengeance which is a major undertone of this show.
I feel like the show has run it's course but season 4 is on the way so there's that. I just refuse to be okay with mediocre television and that's what I feel Boardwalk was for 90% of this season.
Venom, don't even work you're brain over it, just stop watching it.
Pick up a new show more to your tastes, and let us, Kool-Aid drinkers bask in the glory of our show.
I watch plenty of shows. I've invested my time in Boardwalk and it has had its moments but, like I said, this year they have been few and far between in my eyes.
And when I ask the question of what everyone has seen this year to praise it, I'm genuinely curious because I've been watching the show.
Harrow has been the best character on the show and has had longevity. Gyp was okay and probably shouldn't have died - if a season 4 was already planned - which it was - why not keep him alive and fuel the battle with Nucky more. Now you have to introduce a new bad guy.
For me me it's been about the character the development and following these character's journeys. Figuring out how they think and their motivations and getting great pay offs when they're put in certain situations.
I liked that we didn't get a whole lot of the exciting slightly more compelling characters and that we were teased with them throughout this season unlike like the past 2. It seems much more rewarding when Al, Chalky, AR, Lucky, Van Alden, Harrow, etc. do show up. I love that they focus on Nucky and they play the slow game with certain plots just to reveal these clever yet reasonable conclusions to them. The show for me is like a hardy meal, it's why I watch it last after The Walking Dead, Dexter, and Homeland (in that order).
What's special to me is what this show is about, who it focuses on, and how it's executes in telling these stories. It would've been easy as hell to make this an Al Capone or Lucky Luciano centric series and go hard on this being more of a mobster themed show. Instead it goes with the crooked business man that turns to that gangster lifestyle as he goes on his journey struggling to expand and survive. Then we got the made up characters like Jimmy, Harrow, and Van Alden who are all excellent. Plus it seems like Chalky will get his turn and his story will be told next season. The women of the show are great imo. Marge may be boring to yall or may have gotten boring it had a purpose which I felt complimented the story very well while never completely taking over the show.
It would've been lame if Gyp was stretched in to next season as the villain. In that world that's just not how it's going to work especially someone as volatile as him. Even in the end he showed he didn't give a **** really. I see no problem with the writer's having to create a new one not that they need to when they could easily choose one that actually existed.
Van Alden is done or something? His last appearance was getting arrested by the alco cops in the bar he was selling the home made drink right?
So Torrio is officially done since Al said to Nucky "your deal is with me."
They weren't prohibition officers. Didn't you watch the rest of the ep? They were Torio's men cuz Van Alden was selling liquor on his territory. He was brought to Al and questioned, roughed a bit, and it ended with Al saying I wonder what I'm going to do with you. I figure he'll be Al's secret guy on O'Bannon's side as Al rises to power in the Chi.
