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Boardwalk Empire – Season 5, Episode 5 King of Norway

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Boardwalk Empire – Season 5, Episode 5

King of Norway

Aired Oct 5, 2014

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Chalky returns to Atlantic City; Nucky arranges a meeting with Maranzano; Eli's reunion with June takes an unexpected turn; Capone considers relocating his operation; Margaret completes a deal with Carolyn Rothstein; Nucky gets bad news from Cuba.

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With the end of Boardwalk Empire in sight, "King of Norway" takes great strides in setting up crucial confrontations for its key players with propulsive storytelling and some calculated character beats.

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Steve Buscemi

Enoch "Nucky" Thompson

Kelly Macdonald

Margaret Schroeder

Michael Shannon

Nelson Van Alden

Shea Whigham

Elias Thompson

Stephen Graham

Al Capone

Vincent Piazza

Lucky Luciano

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David Hinckley

New York Daily News

01/02/2015

Eli and Mueller finally get some screen time and they wind up at the worst dinner party ever.

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Craig D. Lindsey

New York Magazine/Vulture

01/02/2015

3/5

Well, we have three episodes left in the Boardwalk Empire saga and, as "King of Norway" shows, things are beginning to unravel at a breakneck pace.

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Genevieve Valentine

AV Club

01/02/2015

A-

Though this show enjoys its careful balance of meditations on a theme, pitch-black comedy, and gleeful bloodbaths, [it's] best when Boardwalk Empire cuts to the bone: This is a show about family, and that can be as poisonous as it gets.

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Matt Fowler

IGN Movies

01/02/2015

8.3/10

We've essentially gotten five episodes of build so far, though Chalky finding Daughter right there at the end felt like one of the the first signs of true story-shock... It's a good build, but the enjoyment of "setting the table" can wear thin.

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Kevin Yeoman

Screen Rant

01/02/2015

As far as endgame construction goes, pushing the characters toward some kind of accountability is not exactly a new idea, but it does offer a welcome sense of structure for the remaining three episodes to play off of.

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Anthony Venutolo

Newark Star-Ledger

01/02/2015

I don't know where they found Marc Pickering but let's thank the bootlegin' gods that they did. Wow. Did this young actor capture the very essence of Buscemi and Nucky Thompson.

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Synopsis

Chalky returns to Atlantic City; Nucky arranges a meeting with Maranzano; Eli's reunion with June takes an unexpected turn; Capone considers relocating his operation; Margaret completes a deal with Carolyn Rothstein; Nucky gets bad news from Cuba.

Executive Producer: Terence Winter, Martin Scorsese, Timothy Van Patten, Stephen Levinson, Mark Wahlberg
Network: HBO
Rating: TV-MA
Genre: Crime, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date: Oct 5, 2014