Boardwalk Empire needs to be inverted, so Buscemi's Nucky is a footnote in a series about Stuhlbarg's Rothstein and the 'young turks' Lansky and Luciano.

Maybe Purnsley can read Chalky some 'Tom Sawyer'.

If season two had ended with Nucky getting Sleater to kill Manny, and then kissing and making up with Jimmy, before both of them go marching of arm-in-arm down the yellow brick road, I would have felt cheated.  Jimmy was way out of line, and needed to be purged.  Boardwalk Empire shows the criminal world that gave us…

Also, he gave his dogtags to his son, which he always wore when doing battle with other gangsters, and he went to the meeting unarmed, and seemed kind of relieved his life was about to end.  It was a nice touch how he taunted Nucky about who was going to kill him, as it followed on from Jimmy's previous jibes at…

Something along the lines of 'I Love Lucy', but with a whole lot of Michael Shannon craziness.

Richard could be television's new Omar Little, if he was his own man, and did not do everyone else's bidding.

and when it looks like Eli might squeal, he gets the D'Angelo Barksdale treatment.

Ever since the pilot when he held up the liquor shipment bound for Rothstein, I have been under the impression that Jimmy has been on borrowed time, that 'playing gangster' would eventually catch up with him, and the way he violently inflicted his emptiness/existential angst/whatever on those around him was never…

Good call.  Made me think of Jon Polito in Miller's Crossing.

How about if him and Eli go on the lam together, and move to Ohio, where he starts to be plagued by Apocalypic visions.

Yeah, social anxiety guy told Angela his father owned a factory or something, to show he was monied, giving him an advantage over 'Pip' Darmody.

So, by that rationale, if the writers had stuck to the historical facts, the Commodore would have become the Ron Swanson of BE and more than likely seen the series out.

Agreed, like Eli said to Nucky about Margaret 'She's a liability….THAT YOU CREATED!'  Nucky needs to send her to her death to save himself, in her delirious state of religious guilt, Margaret is capable of anything.

Yeah!  I could totally image her giving that mopey, abivalent look she gives while staring up from an iron lung.

It was O'Holleran who helped him dispose of the Alderman's body, who Eli referred to as 'Mary Pickford', so if O'Holleran outs him on that and the body is recovered, thats another strike against Eli.

"She should be shot like a dog". Touché!  The writers of the show have tried to make Margaret ambiguous and complex, but she comes off looking morally schizophrenic and ridiculous.  Perhaps Katie the maid could push her down the stairs out jealousy of Owen's affection for her.

Back in Season One when Doyle was partnered with the D'Allesio brothers, they conspired with Rothstein, Luciano and Lansky to take out Nucky and take over AC.  Rothstein had life insurance policies taken out on Doyle and each of the D'Allesios as collateral should they cross him.  Rothstein collected on the D'Allesios…

My favourite Margaret is the put Lucy in her place and slap her when she acts hysterical one.

See also Bertolucci's The Dreamers, where Michael Pitt hooks up with incestuous French brother and sister twins.

A bitch as she is, Gillian is still Jimmy's mother, so Richard would not kill Gillian because of his loyalty to Jimmy, just like he was appalled by the way Eli did not even flinch about having his own brother whacked.