In its final season, Boardwalk Empire seems determined to follow up on the show’s early tag line, “You can’t be half a gangster.”
In the realm of the show, a man’s worth isn’t determined by how much money he has, but how skilled he is at acquiring more of it.
Following its usual method of diagrammatically charting characters’ rises and falls, the third season opens with nearly everyone in flux.
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