Complete and utter shock, is the only way I can even come close to describing what I felt when I watched last nights season finally of Boardwalk Empire.  I had a feeling that this show would eventually have only one protagonist, and it was really hard to see them getting rid of Nucky Thompson’s character, but they had me fooled that he was going to prison for sure.  There seemed to be no way out of it, but Jimmy found a way.  A violently awesome way, but effective none the less.  Richard warned Jimmy that Nucky would never forgive him for the assassination attempt but Jimmy still tried.  I have to admit, even though he killed Angela, I still really like Manny Horowitz so I was kind of happy that when Nucky made his decision, it was Jimmy and not Manny.  I’m still not sure how I feel about Eli though.  He is such an idiot, but he is Nucky’s little brother after all so I guess he’ll stick around a little bit longer. [Read more...]