So, like many people who enjoy good story telling. Good TV (of which there is little), good movies, (of which there are more) music, (where the stories are more open ended and typically less literal, and there is tons of it out there) and books (I don't need to explain books as a story right?)
Tonight debuted what HBO billed as another great story. One that they believe in the writer who wrote the story so much that he was one of the top billed players in the series as well as director Martin Scorsese. Yes, Steve Buscemi is a lead, someone you know doubt of seen before even if you don't watch a ton of movies, (but may be unfamiliar with the name.) Otherwise the cast takes a few cues similar to Mad Men, casting mostly relatively unknowns. It's not the only similarity to Mad Men, which isn't a bad thing.
The story takes us to the 20's, where prohibition is in the process of being passed. And while the central stories will no doubt be taking place within the context of the set up of the dealings of crime and morality, the obvious length to which Terence Winter and Martin Scorsese went to create a living breathing can not be lost. In face time and time again they show how culture and the world in general was different. In social moray's, in legality, in social statuses, in language. The authentication of an age thought visually extinct, save for old photographs. This is very much of what Mad Men does as well, which is a brain child of another 'Soprano' writer, Matthew Weiner (Who should get all due credit for making a fabulous show, pitched it to HBO, and they sadly said no.)
I don't think Boardwalk will try to mimic the Mad Men formula too much, and just try to pass over with a bigger budget and cursing. I think the writing and story ideas will be able to come a from a still original and fun place. ( A few interesting ones develop in the middle and in the end that completely took me by surprise).
It promises to be an interesting venture, and certainly one worth keeping up with.
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