I say if you have access to HBO Go, play catchup.  Go as far as episode four, which is just great.  If you're not interested by then, all you've lost is four hours of your time.

I don't think we've seen Harrow's hand to hand skills yet.  I love the Tin Man, but so far it looks like mano a mano, Slater's the likely champion.

What was your reason for writing off the first season?  Because I was in the "pro" camp on it, though I can understand some of the complaints against it.  I think your reason for not liking season one is a big factor in whether or not you're likely to come around to season two.

I suspect when this series is wrapped up—after however seasons that may be—season one will probably be looked on as a kind of extended prologue.

Slater and Harrow need to resume their confrontation from earlier this season.

I like the Brinkleys sitcom, am annoyed by the Ava sitcom, and need one of them to die off.  If it's the former, that'll be one less show to follow.  If it's the later…good.  Retool anyone?  They don't need to write Ava out, or even downgrade her to recurring status, just push her to the background as Reagan's boss…

The trouble (or is it "trouble"?) with pilots is that they're so often more like very condensed movies than they are like episodes of television.  This isn't an original statement I know, but people often say it's a recent phenomenon of film talent moving into television.  IMO it's pretty age old.  The MTM pilot…

When Margaret made her speech to Nucky about him being smarter than his enemies, it seemed to me that she was really saying "you have a mistress who is smarter than your enemies."  Especially since she then started giving him instructions (burn the ledger, commit future dealings to memory).  She then instructs him to…

I want it on Blu Ray, dammit, and HBO should want my money.

I've read on a forum elsewhere from someone claiming to work at Best Buy (I think) that they're delaying SSN 1 until late January in order to make their quarterly balance sheets look nicer then.  It's an accounting thing.

Their relationship was kinda nasty from the very first scene between the two of them in SSN 1.  My first assumption was that she was a mistress or old flame.

I really hope Chalky gets some kind of major catharsis this season.  It seems like at some point he should wake up to the fact that Nucky's just using him.  At the same time, he can't go over to the Commodore's camp because they've got the Klan (not that he knows that…yet).

Nice.

"The Kid" premiered in 1921 and was Chaplin's first feature (as opposed to short subject).  It's still a fairly obvious bit of symbolism, but it would be the correct Chaplin film for them to be seeing, historically speaking.