Boardwalk Empire Season 3

DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:

The five seasons of HBO’s Broadwalk Empire, can be divided into three chapters: seaons 1 and 2 introduce the characters, firmly set them in the history of Prohibition, and concludes with the Jimmy Darmody storyline, season 3 stands alone, with the tale of Nucky Thompson’s battle with Gyp Rosetti, and 4 and 5 are a long denouement, set against the closing years of Prohibition, the introduction and growth of the heroin trade, and the final rise of the historical Luciano-Lansky alliance. To my mind, Season Three, Nucky Thomson’s War with Gyp Rosetti, is the standout, the strongest and most dramatically satisfying of the three main ‘chapters.’ If you like well written, produced and acted period dramas, and esp. love gangster stories, season 3 is the season you can’t miss.-MettaHead

This season is by far the bloodiest as well as the fastest paced of the series. I have to say it is my favorite as the story tightens like a ratchet to a mesmerizing ending that left me wanting more.

Nucky has plenty of his own problems with the season starts and they only get worse as his world of corrupt gangsters and politicians turn on him as well as one another. The stand-out goon of this season is Gyp Rosetti who is one of the most menacing characters I have ever watched. You don’t want to offend this guy. Believe me. A deeply disturbed psychosis.

We also get plenty of Richard Harrow(one of my favorites), Nelson Van Alden(George Muller) and Nucky’s new girlfriend Billy turns out to be the most charming female character of the series.

Seasons one and two are great but looks like mere preludes to this bomb shell. You will not be disappointed.

– Anthony Mitchell

i could pick this season apart but i’ll spare the details and just mention that the show really changed directions at the very end of season 2 and continued with this new theme through season 3. it’s almost like you can feel the screen writers wondering how to wow the audience and grab ratings. lot of blood, lot of death, lot of brutal. sadly, there just isn’t a realistic feel to it anymore. not that it’s by any means a bad show, it’s just that characters like nucky thompson, who were loosely based on nucky johnson, now have completely entered the realm of 100% fictional TV.

– Kyle Vanderzanden

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Steve Buscemi, Kelly Macdonald, Michael Shannon, Shea Whigham, Michael Stuhlbarg
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, NTSC, Subtitled
Language: Spanish (Dolby Digital-Plus 2.0)
Subtitles: English, Thai, French, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 5
Studio: HBO Studios
DVD Release Date: August 20, 2013
Run Time: 673 minutes