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Boardwalk Empire’s second season ended on a high note. The finale, featuring the shocking death of a major character (I won’t reveal more for the sake of procrastinating DVR viewers), averaged a season high 3 million viewers at 9 PM on Sunday. Another 834,000 viewers caught the 11 PM replay for a combined audience of 3.8 million. Sandwiched between the two airings of Boardwalk Empire was a preview of HBO’s new David Milch-Michael Mann series Luck, which premieres January 29. The pilot episode of the horse-racing drama starring Dustin Hoffman averaged 1.1 million viewers, holding onto a third of the Boardwalk Empire finale audience.
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Luck fell far short of expectations. Might give it another shot…but, the first episode did not kindle much interest.
has to be one of the best television shows to emerge in recent years. I only hope it does not lose its punch as it goes on
Firing Pitt is not shocking to anyone who has ever had the misfortune of working with him.
He was fired by his agents recently. That takes some doing.
Watching the series, I do not believe the plan was for this character to go away. This is an actor getting his character killed off.
What about getting rid of production designer Robert Shaw who is responsible for the look of the entire show after season one? That was ugly and as big a shock as killing Jimmy at the end of season two.
Luck was pretty good for a pilot. I remember people complaining about the Deadwood pilot too being confusing.
Dear HBO:
I wanted to love “Luck.” Very little Dustin Hoffman. You punked me with the promos. Didn’t care if those guys won the ticket or not. Wasn’t sure what was going on. Had to rewind to hear some of the dialogue because of the thick accents. Not sure I’m giving this one another look.
xo,
HBO subscriber
Amen!
Nucky Thompson POWER!
I won’t be watching another episode of Luck. Thanks HBO for the sneak peek at this failure of a pilot.
Why has everyone become to cynical? I havn’t heard a positive, let alone good review of a pilot in the comments section of this website or other for a long time now. People on this very website were pegging “Revenge” as the worst pilot of the season and looked what happened…
Have expectations gotten to high or are people just not giving anything a chance anymore if its not amazing from the first scene?
IMO Boardwalk is the best show on TV.
after Game of Thrones
after Mad Men
after Breaking Bad
This season of Boardwalk was one of my favorite seasons of TV, ever. Just masterful. Jimmy was easily my favorite main character, and I wonder if the show will ever be as good as it was this year. That said, regardless of whether or not Michael Pitt was “killed off” the show Jimmy’s death was a fitting and appropiate conclusion to the arc that they established for the character over the course of this season.
Thought the pilot of Luck was written intelligently and directed with finesse by Michael Mann. Great characters and the world is very interesting…I thought it was cool and saw it with a top screenwriter in the biz and he agreed. Some smart fare for a nice change…looking forward to more.
Josh must be a writer on Boardwalk. Pathetic ending to a so so show. A total cop out.
I wish dude, I wish!
How self hating are the writers of BE that they would kill the only good actor or storyline they’ve got?
They’ve RUINED the character of Margaret. Michael Pitt is by far the best actor on the show. The lovely Kelly McDonald is second. Both characters are over.
The writing of this show is so lazy and taken from other gangster shows and movies. Glad HBO could spin the finale into some event. That’s what HBO has to do now that it doesn’t have compelling story lines on it’s network. This and Luck are written by middle aged, rich, fat white men.
Documentaries are the only pace HBO reaches higher.
I was confused by the direction they went with Margaret but it makes me want to see what happens next. There is no question that Michael Pitt was fantastic in the roll despite his antics. But you also have to look at the writing, the directing, the editing he WAS part of a great show. All the elements that came together to make a great performance possible he abused. The story is large enough to survive loosing Jimmy. Game of Thrones lost Ned and everyone was left breathless BECAUSE it felt risky. Ned getting killed was in the books so the writers followed the story. Killing Jimmy was brave and opens up so much for the next season.
@CB — Only good actor or storyline? You must be kidding. What do you call Michael Shannon? Margaret’s entire relationship with Nucky? Gretchen Mol? Michael Stuhlbarg? The Klan storyline? Margaret’s character is not over and the writing is anything but lazy. Lazy and bad is Mad Men post season One, as well as those tangent episodes of the Sopranos like the gay gangster arc, which were at the expense of series regulars. Terence Winter and these writers are the real deal — the season finale was one of the best episodes of television I’ve ever seen. Not on the show, just love watching it.
This episode was a big F.U. to the audience by Winter.
Maybe this will be a lesson to actors that they can’t hold productions hostage. Everyone who is not on camera can be replaced and a production can continue. Prop master gets the flue, focus puller doesn’t make his flight home show continues. “Talent” throws a fit and how many inserts can we find to shoot before it’s a wrap? They think there face is what’s selling a show SO they feel like there bullet-proof. I’ve suffered on a set where what feels a 5 year old egomaniac is calling all the shots because she felt like the actor was the reason “the” show was a hit. Untold sums of money and time get blown because a single narcissist. It only makes me respect HBO more for, quite literally, shooting this one in the face and maybe, just maybe one less set will be crippled by some vain asshole.
If, indeed, Michael Pitt was the cause of his character being killed off, he has also negatively impacted the career of Gretchen Mol. It’s hard to imagine she could have any role whatsoever in next season with Pitt and Dabney Coleman both gone. Too bad because this was the best role of her career, and she rose to its challenge. But, hey, maybe that was really the creators’ plan. The Sopranos didn’t think twice about offing major characters after a season or two; that unpredictability kept it from becoming stale. Kelly McDonald’s Margaret isn’t finished by a long shot, but what about Michael Shannon? Not at all clear from the finale whether he’ll be back next season, or if he is, what his role could be.