Besides, they’d totally have to reshoot the title sequence. But we don’t imagine this leeway includes killing him off in season one. Of course, the show purposefully altered the character’s name to avoid absolute adherence to history. The real-life Nucky Johnson ruled over Atlantic City until his imprisonment in 1941.
But who? To find out, we’ve parsed the evidence - narrative, technical, and intuitive - and calculated these absolutely scientific and irrefutable odds. And most often! So it seems reasonable to assume that, on this Sunday’s season finale of Boardwalk Empire, at least one major character will meet his or her maker. This should prove especially true on a gangster show like Boardwalk Empire, given that impulsively killing people is one of the things that gangsters do best. Thankfully, the show had the courage to be all that it could be, ratings be damned (and actually the weekly total of viewers on all platforms, which is what HBO cares about, haven't gone down much if at all.)Īll of which is to say, nothing personal, but in my view you couldn't be more wrong.Season finales often feature the shocking death of a major character. Sparing Jimmy would have been a betrayal of that theme, and ultimately of the show itself, as Winter himself has pointed out. One of the core overarching themes of the show is that actions have consequences. Season 2 was when this show proved it had the balls to be not just very good but great, and if it had chickened out of killing Jimmy to maintain the status quo it would be just a handsomely made gangster drama with a great cast rather than the ruthlessly honest gangster masterpiece that it has become. The fact that Nucky didn't whack Jimmy after the pilot was already just this side of unbelievable (as Eli pointed out to him.) If he'd given him another pass, the show and character would have lost all credibility. This may be a coincidence but Boardwalk was averaging 3 million viewers a week in the first two seasons and now they are at 2 million an episode. Jimmy was really the hook I could latch onto to get deep into this show but with him gone there has just been this void that I can't explain that leaves Boardwalk in the "good" category rather than the "great" category. Anyway, the show is still good but it's hard to root for anyone. Ok I'll stop with the Breaking Bad metaphors. Nucky flipping the lobster dinner in Season 2 was almost like a Walter White Heisenberg moment to me because you had that foil in Jimmy.
Without Jimmy, Nucky has no foil and I can't really see him as a great character anymore.
He was the underdog who stood as the foil for the big bad protagonist of the show. Some of you may disagree with me but I believe Boardwalk Empire needed his presence to be a top tier show like Breaking Bad or The Wire but after Season 2 they descended into Dexter quality television (The first four seasons). Killing Jimmy Darmody off the show was a dumb move.
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