Boardwalk Empire - Season 1 - Eps 1: Boardwalk Empire
January 1920. On the eve of Prohibition, Atlantic City's Treasurer, Nucky Thompson, condemns alcohol at a Women's Temperance League meeting, where he is noticed by Margaret Schroeder, a pretty, pregnant housewife who comes to him for help in getting her abusive husband Hans a job. Later that evening, the duplicitous Nucky privately tells his ward bosses about the opportunity to make huge profits selling bootleg liquor. At a countdown-to-midnight blast at Babette's Supper Club, he assures Jimmy Darmody, a recently returned WWI vet, that his appointment as "Man Friday" to the new Chief Clerk of the Fourth Ward, Paddy Ryan, will lead to bigger things. Jimmy, meanwhile, has higher aspirations and ends up making an alliance that could have dire consequences for both him and Nucky.
About Boardwalk Empire
Title: Boardwalk Empire
First Air Date: 2010-09-19
Last Air Date: 2014-10-26
Status: Ended
Rating: 8.01/10 (from 1186 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 6
Total Episodes: 56
Network: HBO
Genres: Crime, Drama
Production Companies: Closest to the Hole Productions, Sikelia Productions, Leverage Entertainment, Cold Front Productions
Synopsis
Atlantic City at the dawn of Prohibition is a place where the rules don't apply. And the man who runs things -- legally and otherwise -- is the town's treasurer, Enoch "Nucky" Thompson, who is equal parts politician and gangster.
Cast
Steve Buscemi
Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson
Kelly Macdonald
Margaret Schroeder / Margaret Thompson
Michael Shannon
Nelson Van Alden
Shea Whigham
Elias 'Eli' Thompson
Stephen Graham
Al Capone
Vincent Piazza
Charles 'Lucky' Luciano
Michael Kenneth Williams
Albert 'Chalky' White
Paul Sparks
Mieczysław 'Mickey' Doyle
Gretchen Mol
Gillian Darmody
Jeffrey Wright
Valentin Narcisse
