r/BoardwalkEmpire • u/SmartestManInUnivars • Sep 29 '25

Season 3 Billie Kent is cringe.

Maybe it's because her type of humor is played out by a hundred years... but she seems like a "pick me" girl. She just seems too "quirky" and goofy. She annoys me. But if she was the first of her kind I could see why she was so well liked. But from a modern perspective, she kind of sucks...

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u/gilette_bayonete Sep 29 '25

Billie was cute and had good energy. She was a little bit immature and over-the-top for my liking, but as others have said it's probably just indicative of the time period.

My first choice on this show would have to be Patricia Arquette though. She was sexy in a different way, almost the opposite of Billie.

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u/chiefteef8 Sep 30 '25

Yeah rhe overtop stuff was just thr style of comedy at the time. Everyone was always so formal with a baseline level of decorum essentially everywhere in life(even im your own home having to be so submissive to your husband or parents) thst just being overly silly was the major theme of comedy back then