Boardwalk Empire -- Oedipus much?

Sophocles wrote about this in 430 BCE.

I don’t understand why Scorsese is so taken with young blonde guys … this guy can act … some … but why him?

I don’t get it.

“But you fuck ONE sheep…”

I always look forward to the Gretchen Mol sex scenes…

But that was just WRONG! I may or may not have had an erection during that particular scene. And it made me feel so icky. I mean if I’d had one. Which I didn’t.

What’s all this whispering about Michael Pitt leaving the show? Say it ain’t so!

Boundries. This is why we have them. Really this Happens! My parents know a family they grew up with and 2 of the daughters were pregnant and it was a well known whisper that daddy did it.

It’s good that finally something is horrific. We have become so desensitized to EVERYTHING.

The institution of marriage and societal norms get a bad rap, but what happens when boundries are pushed to the extreme? I think this made everyone feel icky and it is supposed to make everyone feel icky. These people aren’t the good people of the 1920’s that were nation builders, they were corrupt gangsters. Poor Jimmy literally got swallowed up by his own mother, and he’ll spiral down into becoming nothing more than a junkie. They are so far outside the norms of today, let alone the roaring 20’s that nothing good will come of it.

What a freaky great series. :slight_smile:

If my mother looked like Gretchen Mol, I’d be a lot more screwed up than I am.