In retrospect, they were foreshadowing the hell out of it.

Finally watched the last five episodes. Holy shit! Jimmy was maybe the most compelling, fully-realized character on the show. His death made sense, but now I wonder what I'm gonna give a shit about now. Hopefully it becomes the Arnold Rothstein show or something.

God I need to see this show. Between this, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, and Eastbound & Down...I have a whole lot of shows to watch.

The last episode was a masterpiece. Van Patten should be given an Emmy and an Oscar and a Peabody

Dude, put spoiler tags around that. Got to respect the ****s that haven't watched the entire series so far.

The social etiquettee of the media center says any episode that has aired is fair game to talk about in the thread. No future episodes or leaked future details without the spoiler tags.

Yep. Especially when that season ended months ago. By now, if you don't want to read a spoiler, you shouldn't open the thread.

Yeah, haven't seen an episode, but knew the 'spoiler' from about 5 news outlets the day after the season finale.

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That. Sucks.

Same here. Got a friend who quit watching the show because of it. Luckily not many people seemed to do that when that similar thing happened on GoT.

Boardwalk Empire is different than GoT in that there's such a smaller cast of characters, comparatively speaking. There's still plenty of people to focus on but so much of the last season (and the whole series thus far) was focused on Jimmy specifically, that I'm not sure how they're going to fill that void.

All of the episodes are on HBO on Demand and I watched the first 7 or 8 so far. I'm broke and just plan on staying inside my AC'd house and doing a marathon all weekend. I really like it so far and I've heard season 2 is even better.

Season 3 premiere tonight

The show needs Jimmy.