Boardwalk Empire – Concrete Playground

Starring Steve Buscemi, this weighty drama steps back to America’s prohibition era.

Everyone deserves a hefty dose of Steve Buscemi in their lives and, across five seasons and 56 episodes, Boardwalk Empire delivers just that. The beloved actor plays Enoch ‘Nucky’ Thompson, a corrupt politician who is also a gangster kingpin in Atlantic City during America’s prohibition era. The character is fictional, but it’s based on non-fiction book Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times and Corruption of Atlantic City, which focuses on comparable real-life figure Enoch L. Johnson.

Created by The Sopranos alum and The Wolf of Wall Street screenwriter Terrence Winter — and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, with the iconic filmmaker also…