Boardwalk Empire: Season 3 (2012-2012)
Average Rating: 8.6/10
Reviews Counted: 24
Fresh: 20 | Rotten: 4
As hot-headed mobster Gyp Rosetti, Bobby Cannavale brings a sense of danger and energy to this season of Boardwalk Empire, which remains lavish, twisty, and violent.
Average Rating: 9.5/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 2
As hot-headed mobster Gyp Rosetti, Bobby Cannavale brings a sense of danger and energy to this season of Boardwalk Empire, which remains lavish, twisty, and violent.
Season Info
With the '20s really starting to roar, Nucky Thompson deals with his sham of a marriage while facing a new competitor, Gyp Rosetti, whose operations threaten to siphon off Nucky's booze business in Season 3 of the hit HBO series.
Genre: Drama
Network: HBO
Cast
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Steve Buscemi
Enoch 'Nucky' Thomps... -
Kelly Macdonald
Margaret Schroeder -
Michael Shannon
Nelson Van Alden -
Shea Whigham
Elias Thompson -
Michael Stuhlbarg
Arnold Rothstein -
Stephen Graham
Al Capone -
Vincent Piazza
Lucky Luciano -
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Michael K. Williams
Chalky White -
Anthony Laciura
Eddie Kessler -
Paul Sparks
Mickey Doyle -
Jack Huston
Richard Harrow -
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Bobby Cannavale
Gyp Rosetti -
Gretchen Mol
Gillian -
Julianne Nicholson
Esther Randolph -
Mark Borkowski
Paul Sagorsky -
William Forsythe
Manny Horvitz -
Stephen Root
Gaston Means -
Dominic Chianese
Leander Whitlock -
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Wrenn Schmidt
Julia, Julia Sagorsk... -
Christopher McDonald
Harry Daugherty -
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Anatol Yusef
Meyer Lansky -
Ivo Nandi
Joe Masseria -
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Nick Robinson
Rowland Smith -
Greg Antonacci
Johnny Torrio -
James Cromwell
Andrew Mellon -
Billy Magnussen
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Stephen DeRosa
Eddie Cantor -
Kevin O'Rourke
Edward Bader -
Victor Verhaeghe
Damien Fleming -
Arron Shiver
Dean O'Banion -
Michael Cumpsty
Father Brennan -
Glenn Fleshler
George Remus -
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Josie Gallina
Emily Schroeder -
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Lucy Gallina
Emily Schroeder -
Declan McTigue
Teddy Schroeder -
Rory McTigue
Teddy Schroeder -
Brady Noon
Tommy Darmody -
Connor Noon
Tommy Darmody -
Christiane Seidel
Sigrid -
Ed Jewett
Jess Smith -
Edward McGinty
Boyd -
Jacqueline Pennewill
Lillian -
Patrick Kennedy
Dr. Douglas Mason -
Joe Caniano
Jake Guzik -
Kerry O'Malley
Edwina Shearer -
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Episodes
Resolution
Season 3 premiere. Nucky makes a New Year's resolution; Margaret eyes a hospital expansion; Gillian builds a new business; Van Alden calls a gangster's bluff.
Spaghetti & Coffee
Nucky mixes business with pleasure in NYC; Gyp makes a power play in Tabor Heights; Chalky and his daughter fail to agree on her future with Samuel; Eli gets a new boss and faces new realities at home; a major liquor shipment takes an unexpected detour.
Bone for Tuna
Nucky reluctantly joins Margaret to receive a high honor from the Church. Gyp makes a deal with Nucky. Van Alden regrets trying to socialize with his co-workers; Margaret takes her pitch to a higher authority; Richard sets the record straight.
Blue Bell Boy
After tracking down a liquor thief, Nucky and Owen end up spending a long night hiding out from the Feds with the precocious perp. Mickey makes a routing call that will have far-reaching consequences. Capone's feud with O'Banion heats up.
You'd Be Surprised
After venting with Nucky about his liquor travails, Rothstein sends Gyp a message. Van Alden and Sigrid receive an unexpected visitor; Gillian worries about keeping her business afloat; Margaret has awkward moments at the hospital and at Madam Jeunet's.
Ging Gang Goolie
After being detained by Daugherty's men, Nucky approaches his onetime nemesis, Esther Randolph, and later entertains an intriguing proposition from Gaston Means. Margaret and Owen investigate a fire; Richard connects with a damaged vet and his daughter.
Sunday Best
On Easter Sunday, Eli looks to get back in Nucky's good graces. While Richard and Tommy spend the day as guests of the Sagorskys, Gillian stays at home and makes a sacrifice to improve her future. In New York, Gyp heads downtown in search of a blessing.
The Pony
Gillian makes her peace with Jimmy's death, though not with Nucky, as Gyp arrives to play ally. Working off his debt to O'Banion, Van Alden attends a meeting with Capone and Torrio; Nucky pays a visit to Andrew Mellon; Billie eyes a future in film.
The Milkmaid's Lot
Reeling from Gyp's most recent attack, Nucky vows to eliminate his nemesis through a coalition of familiar partners. In Washington, the arrest of a bootlegger puts Daugherty and Jess Smith on the hot seat. Emily gets a scaled-down birthday party.
A Man, A Plan..
Nucky reaches out to Gaston Means to keep Jess Smith quiet in Washington, and enlists Owen to neutralize Gyp's alliance with Joe Masseria in New York. Margaret considers an alternate future; Van Alden's side business backfires.
Two Impostors
Gyp makes his move in Atlantic City, forcing Nucky and Eddie to seek refuge with Chalky. Gillian contemplates a business future that includes an unwelcome partner. Luciano makes a deal he'll come to regret; Harrow loses his house privileges.
Margate Sands
Season Three Finale. Desperate to weaken Gyp's alliance with Masseria and reclaim Atlantic City, Nucky cedes control of one of his prized assets to Rothstein. Harrow returns to Gillian's brothel for some unfinished business.
Critic Reviews for Boardwalk Empire: Season 3
Boardwalk Empire is worthy of your best bubbly.
(Cannavale's) talents are being used to portray a gangster would have Joe Pesci's Goodfellas hot-headed character Tommy DeVito rolling his eyes in dismay.
Hanging in there is very easy on a show with such dazzling production values, which turn the 1920s into a darkly lit dream, and such knockout performances.
One of the best things about Boardwalk Empire is how littered it is with characters that pull your eye and want you to invest more time with them.
This is still the role of Buscemi's lifetime, the likes of which this otherwise lifelong supporting actor may never see again.
The show feels more dangerous and more dramatically sound than ever.
The program finds its groove, with new rivals, shifting relationships and strained allegiances.
It remains the most ambitious show on TV with nothing to say at all.
The episode marks an engaging return for a show that escalated into a frenzy of outrageous shocks and plot twists last season.
With all due respect to the zombies, there's been no better show on Sunday nights this fall than Boardwalk Empire.
Boardwalk's blueprint of a slow-burn mini-mob movie each week might not grab viewers the way shows like Breaking Bad and Game of Thrones do, but last season rounded itself out with some of the best and gripping TV of that year.
Boardwalk Empire is, in its third season, growing steadily stronger, shedding more of the flaws that hampered its freshman season.
There's still plenty to see on the "Boardwalk," thanks to the show's secondary characters.
If you feared the tension of "Boardwalk Empire" would fizzle after the shocking finale of Season 2, take heart. Season 3 is off to a roaring good start.
Nucky -- and Buscemi -- are finally getting more harrowing.
Nearly every plot element came neatly together by the end.
You've got to give Winter and his team credit for not playing it safe.
The HBO drama remains lavish, violent and twisty.
Chicago and some of its notorious sons play a bigger role than ever in HBO's superb Prohibition-era drama.
I feel we are in for a great ride this season.
Happy New Year, Boardwalk. We missed you.
It's a delicious development.
The show needed Gyp Rosetti.
A puffed-up show that drowns its myriad shortcomings in an ocean of booze and blood. It's the televised equivalent of an empty suit.
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