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TV is the new cinema. From the cheesy and kinky True Blood to the angst of Mad Men TV is starting to become your favourite indie of the moment and big Hollywood Oscar bait all rolled into one. Yeah, there is still the existent of soap operas and Glee but TV is now becoming something you just don’t want to watch hangover.

If any show represents this the most it’s Boardwalk Empire. Its Martin Scorsese produced, its pilot costed $18 million and it gives Steve Buscemi his first starring role. It’s lush and almost perfect in showing Prohibition Era Atlantic City and even has a low rent version of Scorsese favourite Leo Dicaprio (The Dreamers Michael Pitt). There’s violence, drama, sex, politics, vintage showgirl glamour and everything else you can expect from a HBO-Scorsese hybrid. To put it in its simplest: it’s everything you expect from a movie fleshed out and not something you are embarrassed about watching.  Oh, it if it matters it has also won a bunch of awards.

Boardwalk Empire begins in March on Showcase and the trailer is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Ra8PdXa9k&feature=related

Photo: HBO.

15 Feb 2011, 4:26pm Blog Street by admin
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