No One Goes Quietly
~ Concluding a powerful and groundbreaking five-season run, Boardwalk Empire, the Emmy winning HBO drama series from Academy Award nominee/Emmy Award winner Terence Winter and Academy Award winning director Martin Scorsese begins its final season 1931, a full six years after the end of Season 4. In stark contrast with the Roaring ’20s, the country is in the throes of the Great depression, and with the end of Prohibition in sight, Nucky is looking to legitimize himself by forging alliances with liquor producers. Season 5 also includes flashback scenes of Nucky, Eli, the Commodore, Gillian and others from 1884 – 1900 – childhood experiences that would shape their relationships and futures.
The Complete Fourth Season
~ Atlantic City, February 1924: Picking up 8 months after the events of Season 3, Nucky Thompson is laying low at the end of the Boardwalk after barely surviving an overthrow by gangster Gyp Rosetti. But the calm will be short-lived, as Nucky faces new challenges, including a clash with a violent Harlem power broker, a battle with his brother Eli over Eli’s college-age son, and the irresistible sure of lucrative – and perilous – opportunities in Florida.
The Complete Third Season
~ Atlantic City, 1922: The Roaring ’20s are about to begin in earnest and despite a booming economy, alcohol is scarce and gangster violence is heating up. Amidst this backdrop, Nucky Thompson, whose marriage to Margret has become a sham after she signed away his highway windfall to the church, faces the challenge of mending old relationships, Nucky also encounters new competition from a hair-trigger gangster who builds a strategic bulkhead between New York and Atlantic City in an effort to siphon off Nucky’s alcohol business. The conflict brings out the best and worst in Nucky as new and familiar faces undergo compelling metamorphoses within the third season of this Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning series.
The Complete Second Season
~ In the awake of prohibition, Enoch “Nucky” Thompson wields ultimate power in “the worlds playgorund.” After rigging the Atlantic City mayoral election, Nucky and young WWI veteran Jimmy Darmody appear to be in control of the city. However, their grip soon begins to unravel as Nucky is arrested for election fraud and members of both his inner circle and family begin to question their allegiances. All the while, mobsters like Arnold Rothstein, Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Al Capone wait in the wings, looking for the right opportunity to grab a bigger piece of Nucky’s pie.
The Complete First Season
~ It is the eve of Prohibition, and country treasurer, Enoch “Nucky” Thompson is looking to cash in. As the undisputed “Boss” of Atlantic City, Nucky leads a double life as a politician and bootlegger; prohibition may have outlawed alcohol, but in Nucky’s world it has opened up highly lucrative opportunities for gangsters and rumrunners looking to provide “liquid gold” for a thirsty nation. In a city defined by notorious backroom politics and vicious power struggles, Nucky must battle with a relentless federal agent, ambitious underlings, and opportunistic rivals – including Arnold Rothstein, Lucky Luciano, and Al Capone.
