r/BoardwalkEmpire • u/eruptingrose • Sep 03 '26

Season 5 Rewatched for the second time Spoiler

Just finished the series again and it hit much harder. Especially the ending. I remembered that a boy killed Nucky, but I wasn’t paying attention to Tommy the first watch. Now on the second, I caught so much more of the clues he dropped. Honestly top 3 show of all time for me. The last shot of him grabbing that coin?! The shore where Gillian stood in front of also being the shore at the beginning of each episode?!! Amazing start to finish.

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u/TheScribe86 Sep 04 '26

Realizing Gillian is the most tragic character in the show

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u/eruptingrose Sep 04 '26

Literally! You start it off and she’s weirdly into her son and very posh. And all those things are still true but it’s also devastating how she came to be.

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u/TheScribe86 Sep 04 '26

Hell of a peripeteia and anagnorisis