Essentially tied with
Mad Men and
Breaking Bad for "best TV show currently in production".
Steve Buscemi is a great actor and it's good to see that he was cast against his standard Coen brothers / Michael Bay "movie character".
I also like how the 1920s are deliciously deconstructed as a deeply perverted and hypocritical society.
(Deep down he's also quite progressive for his time, considering that he's capable of treating blacks and women as equal to himself).
In a less corrupt society, Nucky Thompson could very well have become an idealistic and "clean" politician.
Chalky White is depicted as a highly intelligent and educated man who probably became a crime boss because for a black man it was one of the very few possibilites to actually ascend in society.
Margaret Schroeder is probably smarter than any other character on the how, but in that society she's restricted to the role of Nucky Thompson's mistress.
Nelson Van Alden is a sociopath and religious zealot who might have ended up as a cult leader or serial killer in our times. Instead, he's a federal agent during the 1920s.
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