‘Boardwalk Empire’ season 4, episode 4 preview: First look at ‘All in’

There’s a little bit of irony when it comes to the title for the next all-new “Boardwalk Empire” season 4 episode in “All In.” What is that? Basically, this is the same title that we had for a recent episode of “New Girl,” and we are now using it in reference to what could be a particularly important episode of the Steve Buscemi series that starts to really push deep into what is coming to be the meat of the season.

Do you want to read even more about it? Well first of all, we would start off here by sharing the official synopsis of the hour straight from HBO:

“Nucky gets to know Arnold Rothstein over a card game, and sizes up an unexpected partner for his Tampa land deal. A newly promoted Eddie Kessler gets detoured after making a train-station delivery. When one of their collectors is incapacitated, Al and Frank Capone decide to finish his route, enlisting a reluctant Van Alden to tag along. Agent Knox fills Hoover in on the Thompson operation, vowing to exploit Nucky’s weakest link. Chalky is intrigued by Daughter Maitland’s presence. Dunn Purnsley goes to Harlem, and is courted by Valentin Narcisse. Willie and his college roommate, Clayton (Owen Campbell), carry a practical joke too far.”

So basically, this has one thing in common with every other “Boardwalk Empire” episode: There’s a lot going on. This show has occasionally fallen into a “True Blood”-like trap of having too many stories happening, but we like to think of the win tonight by Bobby Cannavale at the Emmys as evidence of the great work that is still being done on this show. It’s just not getting the sort of recognition that it deserves in the middle of everything else that is airing on TV (especially on Sunday nights.).

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