After watching last nights episode of Boardwalk Empire I was left with the feeling that the show would finally become a one protagonist series as opposed to the two protagonists, who have been fighting for supremacy over one another for as long as this show has been on the air.  Nucky’s reign has come to an end.  The legal pressure he is under as well as the threat on his life from last weeks episode seem to have gotten the better of him.  He has decided that he has had enough. He is stepping down from his position as treasurer and in turn relinquishing his thrown to Jimmy.  Nucky has decided that all he wants out of life is to help Margaret Schroeder raise her two children and the last place he wants to do that, is Atlantic City.  He still has something up his sleeve though, and he plans to use his connections in Ireland to accomplish whatever goal he has in mind.  Something involving the surplus guns he discovered perhaps, I guess we’ll have to wait and see. [Read more...]