Empire offers a Jersey-style look at Prohibition


There’s no doubt that the Garden State has been dominating the cable airwaves recently — just look at Bravo’s The Real Housewives of New Jersey, MTV’s Jersey Shore, the Style Network’s Jerseylicious and Oxygen’s Jersey Couture.

Sure, these programs have been, for the most part, successful and done wonderful things for the pockets of their creators, producers and talent (I use the term loosely). But these shows have done little for New Jersey’s reputation as a state of any legitimacy.

That is until HBO’s Boardwalk Empire came along. The new gangster crime drama is set in Atlantic City, New Jersey during the 1920s and features Steve Buscemi playing Enoch “Nucky” Thompson, based on real-life mobster Enoch L. Johnson.

Never has the term “premium cable” seemed so fitting with Sopranos writer Terence Winter and Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese on board.

On Sept. 21, after Sunday’s pilot episode aired to an averaged 4.8 million viewers, HBO announced that they will be picking up the Prohibition-era drama for a second season.

I’ll drink to that — but better make it a virgin daiquiri.

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