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Originally Posted by Nako XL
son, i lived in the west village in a big ##% subsidized studio apartment for $1750 on a student's salary and i was BROKEthese people are not living broke.
rachel is a writer. an unemployed writer at that. she's not affording that big ##% apartment. same with domingo. weed dealer or not.
now if their parents are helping them thats another story, because i know people like that, but then why wouldn't the writers at least flesh this TINY point out. give us any bit of detail about the characters' pasts.
the only ones we kind of know about are ben and cam -- ben went to fashion school for at least one semester, but what happened there? they never reapproached or fleshed that out. luis guzman's character should only have existed to further explain cam's past brush ins with the law etc. why was he getting the most air time of everyone???
i just found it hard to accept that we're supposed to believe they're going through the same struggle i am. i have friends who "know people" who work at every bar too and i get that the field and career theyre in requires a lot of going out and mingling and that's ok. but show dudes struggling too... it's not all popped bottles and naked hipster chicks.
for a show that was about the grind of breaking out and making it from nothing, everything seems to just kinda work out despite the lack of effort of the stars. there are no repercussions for any of their decisions.
don't even get me started on joe pantagliano's cameo or how they snatched up the italian tailor.
Ok. I was like how the hell do they afford all this stuff?
at their manager guy working for Luciano and Lansky on Boardwalk Empire
