When he said "I died in the trenches years ago" that's when the full weight of what I'd been watching all of seasons one and two hit me. The toll human beings take on one another. Very sad.
I never understood why so many people stopped watching the show after Jimmy died. It's not like he was the main character. It was always about Nucky. Jimmy was just an important piece in the plot that made Nucky's character evolve. Jimmy told Nucky that he can't be half a gangster anymore. After killing him Nucky finally became a gangster. Besides what did you people expect? Jimmy was a character that HBO made up. Nucky was a real life gangster who ran Atlantic City for years.
Me neither, and since the real Jimmy this character was supposedly inspired by was a lot more successful and had a more productive life than the Darmody character it's too bad the writers couldn't do more with their own creation. He was doomed from the start but I would have written him differently and cast someone else who exudes ambition and restlessness more poignantly than Pitt did in this series.
You cant be half a gangstar anymore, I think Jimmy said that to Nucky in the series premiere and at the end of season 2, Nucky is killing Jimmy and asking for no forgiveness, looks like he took Jimmy's advice. Jimmy was my favorite character, I hated how he got manipulated by the Commodore but I wished he would have come out on top, it's always good to see the young guys get ahead and that's what we saw at the end with Luciano and Lansky
Don't blame the writers. Blame Michael Pitt for acting like a complete prick on set. He'd show up late or not at all and had serious drug problems. The staff just couldn't take it anymore.
idk bout all that..all that i heard was he was difficult to work with cause he could never remember his lines...the scene were theres other people in the room where jimmy decides if hes gonna kill nucky he has like a few lines but all the camera shots of him are show only his face cause they had him alone ..i guess he kept screwing up the lines and it isn't even a long scene...but some people that worked on set pointed out that scene as an example of how bad he was but also pointed out how bad nuckys first girlfriend was (forget her name) she kept showing up late and had a drug problem...not sayin your wrong but jus mentioning that when all that stuff got leaked it was bout both of them and all they said bout jimmy was he was hard to work with cause he couldn't remember his lines...all the shit about the girl was way worse if u look it up its kinda funny she was fuckin crazy
I've never read that, but as a viewer of some other roles he's played he comes across to me as a one note actor. He'd fit right in to a TV series on the CW. He's like a poor man's Ryan Philippe
I found this as the reason they killed off Jimmy. At the end of season 2 of Boardwalk Empire, Michael Pitt’s character Jimmy Darmody is unceremoniously shot in the face and killed. Although this may have helped the plot move forward, it was also a way to get Pitt out of the show. He was known to have a casual work ethic, an unenthusiastic attitude, and was always forgetting his lines.He was also known to go off-script, all of which cost production money and led to him being released from the show. Even his own agent told Deadline that UTA fired Pitt as a client because he’s really difficult on set.
This is the first time we got to see who Knucky really was behind all the polished front. Jimmy and the audience got to see who really was for the first time in two seasons. A sociopath with a brilliant mind for corruption and crime. We only got to see it when Knuck wants us to. Brilliant writing.
One of the biggest mistakes every made in a series. After his death the show seriously dipped in quality. Jimmy was such a better character then nucky. He had so much more depth
+Louise Stephenson unfortunately i think thats one of the reasons they wrote him off...if u look it up it sounds pretty bad...i loved Jimmy but the show went on fine with out him especially gyp rossetti..al Capone..Richard horrow..and many others made the show fun to watch
Before watching season 1 I thought I would like Nucky and dislike Jimmy. Jimmy loved his son and his wife, yes he made mistakes. And Richard was always nice to Jimmy and the children and they were my favorite characters too R.I.P
"When you run out of bozze, when you run out of company, and the only person left to judge you is yourself" Wow, watching the last episodes of season 5, these words are really foreshadowing.
i died in the trenches years back i thught you knew that all you gotta worry is when you run out of booze and run out of company and the only person left to judge you is you so much emotional moment :)
Alternative senario. James charges Nucky with his back bent forward. Shot gun man panics and fires, the blast is spread enough to hit both James and Nucky. Best of a bad situation.
Just watched the episode for the first time and frankly for such a great character this end felt really underwhelming. I mean, I knew it was probably coming, but still, didn't feel as poignant as it could have been
Miles Curtis Watson the day this episode premiered on the tv over here in the uk the moment nucky shot him in the face the first time i literally stood up from my seat and shouted "HOLY SHIT HE SHOT HIM"
Don't waste a breath mourning Jimmy Darmody, every kitten grows up to be a cat. They seem so harmless at first. Small, quiet, lapping up their saucer of milk. But once their claws get long enough, they draw blood. Sometimes from the hand that feeds them. For those of us climbing to the top of the food chain, there can be no mercy. There is but one rule: Hunt or be hunted.
You must not of seen, reservoir dogs, Or Fargo. Or Even The Sopranos. Steve has some parts in that show. Hes an incredible actor and I think he deserves more respect for this part. Steve Bushemi was meant for this role. This is his role. No one could of done a better job
This is a sad scene, its sad that Jimmy was manipulated into double crossing Nucky. But he should have known better. And after he went along with having Nucky killed. I didn't blame Nucky for killing him.
But Nucky forgives Eli who was motivated solely by jealousy. Jimmy's situation was way more understandable. Does he choose his rich pedophile father or the guy that pimped out his mother and took care of him out of guilt. I still like the show but the writing was all over the place.
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i think they showed that james was always kinda a good guy when he talks about how hard it was for him to kill the 1st time and nucky is heartless and killed so easy and never thought twice about it jimmy was the best and idk how the show will go on r.i.p james
I agree with that. I liked Jimmy's character to but, I also liked the way they ended that season he knew he was going to die that night. The thing that got me was Jimmy was the only one OUT OF ALL OF THEM who truely cared about nucky.
Jimmy was a tortured soul from the beginning just trying to make his way but was misled, corrupted and used by those who he thought loved him. Truly saddening indeed. There's really so many references, symbols, allusions, quotes it's overwhelming. Margret reading The Ivory Tower, Gillian role playing Diana in front of the Commodore, medicinal alcohol and the parallel of medicinal marijuana (the loophole) . It's culture junkie heaven.
Don't forget the scene leading up to this one. where he tells Richard "it's time to come home...promise me you'll try" and then knows he has to go alone to this meeting.
This is epic when I watched the last episode it took my breath away I don't believe I have ever witnessed a better tv series and I can't wait for series 3
I watched the very first episode and they kind of had some foreshadowing about this. Nucky tells Jimmy "you'd very foolish to underestimate me, James. I could have you killed." James replies "yeah, but you won't." Nucky gives him a questioning look after...
He should've just listened to him instead of looking at him for who he used to be and remaining to have all these expectations for him based off who was prior to the war. The whole show he was informing Nucky that he wasn't who he was and won't ever be. Because he was a man, not the boy Nucky knew him to be. But people like Nucky aren't ever going to see that, because they're so used to telling, never listening.
Jimmy had to die. There was no other way to end it, that's what made it such an epic scene...Jimmy in the end was being totally honest and only wanted to help Nucky....Nucky sided with his blood, Eli, over Jimmy....In time we'll see it come back to haunt him...Such a great fucking series..
It was necessary, though. Jimmy's purpose as a character was to push Nucky over the edge. ("You can't be half a gangster, Nuck. Not anymore.") Jimmy had to be Nucky's first kill, because after Nucky kills, there's not more point to Jimmy. Plus, after all the shit he went through, it was relieving.
People moaning about him killing Jimmy jesus christ this show has amazing characters including Nucky himself, lets not forget one of the most notorious gangsters ever Al Capone, not to mention countless others, people say they have lost viewers cause of Jimmy's death when Season 3 is probably gonna be the best season out of all 3
Jimmy was neither a leader nor follower - he didnt have a father figure who could guide him in the right direction without feeling manipulated and betrayed, his biological father didnt care for him and Nucky cared for James but not as a father, What people seem to overlook is that James could have a had a crimeless future had he stayed at prinston and not had a such an evil mother, I dont think he chose this life of violence, he was pushed into it.
pacinos character in real life was arrested before they had a chance to kill him, and since the movie doesnt actually show him getting killed, im gonna assume that pacinos character thought he was about to die, but didnt die
I don't get how people think without jimmy wah wah the shows over. They forget Capone. This paves the way for Al Capone taking over. I hope harrow goes on random solo hits. After next season they'll be saying who's jimmy?
I'm now gonna watch that scene from Sopranos where Steve Buschemi gets killed. God damn this fucking scene got me so upset. RIP Jimmy, the best character Boardwalk had.
@bigfilmhat Nucky lives to 74 years old... Jimmy wasn't real. The show is now going to start to focus on historical issues. Notice that the IRS guy goes to Cicero. Cicero becomes the headquarters of Al Capone in 1922.
Killing the second season in 5 secs. Thxxx for not thinlking in the people who havnt seen the season yet.. Do as some other said, change the name plzzzz
I cannot fucking believe this happened!!! In a cyclical perspective though, it had to. Nuchy was never going to take the betrayal of anyone lightly, especially from someone as close as Jimmy was.
in my opinion, you can say Jimmy had it coming or he deserved it but to do so would defeat the message the writers are trying to portray. I believe BE brings to light the issues of the 20's and how things are practically still the same today regarding human nature: incest, greed, violence, sex, drugs/alcohol etc. Nucky introduced a 13 yr old to a 54 yr old for sexual purposes. The Commodore was barely, if at all, around during Jimmy's childhood so Nucky played the father figure.
So many of these comments are so wrong. Lansky told Jimmy to pay Manny, and I do believe Richard is going to set the truth straight with Nucki about the whole season...what will happen I have no clue. One of my other predictions is the kids are going to be affected by Margarets choice with the land. Whether Nucki or the county gets custody who knows. But Margaret has the worse coming to her.
I think what people don't understand is that Jimmy WANTED to die. He always has. Hence the "I died in the trench, years back" line. He knew (& hoped) he'd be killed for his purposeful reckless actions. To not die would have ment failure in his eyes & he probably would've just ended up killing himself at some point. He had to die because it's what HE wanted. This is a tragically sad scene, though.
Whether we like the decision to kill Jimmy or not, this scene was beautifully shot and well written. To me, it's one of the best gangster/mob scenes of all time.
Legendary. I would have made an entirely different story line and plot for season 2 and saved what happened in this season for season 3 because I do believe it came all too soon but having said that, this season was one of the best I've ever seen on any show. Jimmy was amazing, and yes I'll miss him, but I doubt the writers wanted their show to depend on a character, now with Jimmy's death they have plenty of opportunity for creative writing on the other characters of the show. Fuck nucky btw.
lol i notice shit like that too...like when i first saw this and he started saying that im thinkin of course they had to make it melodramatic...i like the flash back of jimmy in ww1 tho...i was hoping it would be on this vid
Damn Nucky is heartless Jimmy was like a son to him could have gave him a pass and banished him or something, bet he would have killed his brother also if his nephew didn't walk in at the last minute.
Jesus Christ! How can no one see that Jimmy had to die? He betrayed Nucky not once but twice. He might not have wanted to kill Nucky but he went with it anyway. In the real gangster world Jimmy would definitely end up dead. Keeping him alive after all that is not plausible. Nucky couldn't afford to have Jimmy betray him a third time. Plus he has to send a message to those who might perceive him to be weak.
This reminds me so much of the way Steve Buscemi died in the Sopranos. There wasn't quite this much build up, but it was still a painful choice made by a loved one.
Sad as this scene is, it's almost like a blessing for Jimmy to die. He had always been a tragic soul...his dad raped his teenage mum (whom he then slept with), his mind got all messed up by the Great War, his wife tried to run away, he screwed things up with Nucky, unsuccessfully ran Atlantic City through a domineering mother, and finally his wife got killed. It was sweet relief that he finally got his peace. To the lost. To the lost.
"Jimmy was a soldier. He fought, he lost."
"When you run out of booze, you run out of company, and the only person left to judge you is you." That kinda reflects the final season a bit.
Nicholas Julian disagree! One if the few series to end right
When he said "I died in the trenches years ago" that's when the full weight of what I'd been watching all of seasons one and two hit me. The toll human beings take on one another. Very sad.
How poetic was the finale!!
*I died in the trench years back.....thought you knew that...* - Jimmy Darmody
Jimmy never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
Small hands that was his problem
Yeah, it's sad when they go young like that.
he knew he lost everything the moment he lost Angella and he didnt give a shit about living.....he died a legend
abdullahi sadauki Pretty pathetic legend, the man had a son, didn’t even seem to care what happened to him.
I never understood why so many people stopped watching the show after Jimmy died. It's not like he was the main character. It was always about Nucky. Jimmy was just an important piece in the plot that made Nucky's character evolve. Jimmy told Nucky that he can't be half a gangster anymore. After killing him Nucky finally became a gangster. Besides what did you people expect? Jimmy was a character that HBO made up. Nucky was a real life gangster who ran Atlantic City for years.
+crashboy0 Jimmy Darmody was not a character made up by HBO, He was a real man, and he actually was killed by his friend Al Capone.
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The Jimmy from the show has all most nothing to do with the real Jimmy.
Me neither, and since the real Jimmy this character was supposedly inspired by was a lot more successful and had a more productive life than the Darmody character it's too bad the writers couldn't do more with their own creation. He was doomed from the start but I would have written him differently and cast someone else who exudes ambition and restlessness more poignantly than Pitt did in this series.
I think they made a slight error in focusing on Jimmy so much. It was hard to tell who the main character was. Probably threw people off
+JourneyML1 Nucky sucks? Why the fuck would you even start watching the show then.
And the only person left to judge him is... I'm sure the last season will finish that sentence for jimmy.
you predicted this pretty well
Probably not a good idea by Eli to be standing right behind someone about to be shot.
You cant be half a gangstar anymore, I think Jimmy said that to Nucky in the series premiere and at the end of season 2, Nucky is killing Jimmy and asking for no forgiveness, looks like he took Jimmy's advice. Jimmy was my favorite character, I hated how he got manipulated by the Commodore but I wished he would have come out on top, it's always good to see the young guys get ahead and that's what we saw at the end with Luciano and Lansky
"I thought you were going to let him go."
"Now why would you think that?"
There goes jimmy, and apparently his acting career too.......
Is that what that was???
I know it was you Fredo.
Same bullet location as the finale...poetic
I still haven't forgiven Nucky.
JourneyML1 bish you sound like you need a fucking kleenex. Why did you ever watch the show if you don’t fuck with the main character??
"The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword" Eddard Stark
Don't blame the writers. Blame Michael Pitt for acting like a complete prick on set. He'd show up late or not at all and had serious drug problems. The staff just couldn't take it anymore.
idk bout all that..all that i heard was he was difficult to work with cause he could never remember his lines...the scene were theres other people in the room where jimmy decides if hes gonna kill nucky he has like a few lines but all the camera shots of him are show only his face cause they had him alone ..i guess he kept screwing up the lines and it isn't even a long scene...but some people that worked on set pointed out that scene as an example of how bad he was but also pointed out how bad nuckys first girlfriend was (forget her name) she kept showing up late and had a drug problem...not sayin your wrong but jus mentioning that when all that stuff got leaked it was bout both of them and all they said bout jimmy was he was hard to work with cause he couldn't remember his lines...all the shit about the girl was way worse if u look it up its kinda funny she was fuckin crazy
+Ibn al Hassan According to who? Regardless, Pitt's performance was the best thing on the show. Deal with it.
I've never read that, but as a viewer of some other roles he's played he comes across to me as a one note actor. He'd fit right in to a TV series on the CW. He's like a poor man's Ryan Philippe
Nah. Harrow was better.
The real end of Boardwalk Empire, if ya think about it
The Anti-Illuminatus na
This is the only way it could’ve ended... isn’t it???...
I found this as the reason they killed off Jimmy. At the end of season 2 of Boardwalk Empire, Michael Pitt’s character Jimmy Darmody is unceremoniously shot in the face and killed. Although this may have helped the plot move forward, it was also a way to get Pitt out of the show. He was known to have a casual work ethic, an unenthusiastic attitude, and was always forgetting his lines.He was also known to go off-script, all of which cost production money and led to him being released from the show. Even his own agent told Deadline that UTA fired Pitt as a client because he’s really difficult on set.
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This is the first time we got to see who Knucky really was behind all the polished front. Jimmy and the audience got to see who really was for the first time in two seasons. A sociopath with a brilliant mind for corruption and crime. We only got to see it when Knuck wants us to. Brilliant writing.
Well said
And in the end it was Tommy ;)
One of the biggest mistakes every made in a series. After his death the show seriously dipped in quality. Jimmy was such a better character then nucky. He had so much more depth
+matthew w He was to easy manipulated.
+matthew apparently michael pitt, jimmy's actor was too hard to work with.
+Louise Stephenson rumored
+Louise Stephenson unfortunately i think thats one of the reasons they wrote him off...if u look it up it sounds pretty bad...i loved Jimmy but the show went on fine with out him especially gyp rossetti..al Capone..Richard horrow..and many others made the show fun to watch
Are you joking me? Season 3 was amazing!
Before watching season 1 I thought I would like Nucky and dislike Jimmy. Jimmy loved his son and his wife, yes he made mistakes. And Richard was always nice to Jimmy and the children and they were my favorite characters too R.I.P
Just started watching this show not too long ago.. This scene just pissed me the fuck off.
Up until nucky shhots him, i was expecting richard to intervene and save jimmy
It was Eli who deserved to die, he was the one pushing to kill Nucky along with the others, Jimmy always preferred the 'political coup' instead.
The answer to the show's finale was in Jimmy's last words.....and gunshot.
Amazing show
To the lost
Too the lost 🍸 🍷
"When you run out of bozze, when you run out of company, and the only person left to judge you is yourself"
Wow, watching the last episodes of season 5, these words are really foreshadowing.
i died in the trenches years back i thught you knew that
all you gotta worry is when you run out of booze and run out of company and the only person left to judge you is you
so much emotional moment :)
Alternative senario.
James charges Nucky with his back bent forward. Shot gun man panics and fires, the blast is spread enough to hit both James and Nucky. Best of a bad situation.
Naw, Jimmy knew he was going there to die.
still woulda been interesting
Eli would shoot them both.or let jimmy shoot nucky first. then shoot jimmy. and take over as boss
Just watched the episode for the first time and frankly for such a great character this end felt really underwhelming. I mean, I knew it was probably coming, but still, didn't feel as poignant as it could have been
Miles Curtis Watson the day this episode premiered on the tv over here in the uk the moment nucky shot him in the face the first time i literally stood up from my seat and shouted "HOLY SHIT HE SHOT HIM"
Its a shame that he died, I always liked Jimmy the most :(
Don't waste a breath mourning Jimmy Darmody, every kitten grows up to be a cat. They seem so harmless at first. Small, quiet, lapping up their saucer of milk. But once their claws get long enough, they draw blood. Sometimes from the hand that feeds them. For those of us climbing to the top of the food chain, there can be no mercy. There is but one rule: Hunt or be hunted.
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Welcome back
+MrFireDragon 😂😂😂
Tryhard
To be fair to you that speech is relevant to this scene
You must not of seen, reservoir dogs, Or Fargo. Or Even The Sopranos. Steve has some parts in that show. Hes an incredible actor and I think he deserves more respect for this part. Steve Bushemi was meant for this role. This is his role. No one could of done a better job
This is a sad scene, its sad that Jimmy was manipulated into double crossing Nucky. But he should have known better. And after he went along with having Nucky killed. I didn't blame Nucky for killing him.
But Nucky forgives Eli who was motivated solely by jealousy.
Jimmy's situation was way more understandable.
Does he choose his rich pedophile father or the guy that pimped out his mother and took care of him out of guilt.
I still like the show but the writing was all over the place.
Darmody went out like a MAN.
And I am glad that his son killed Nucky. He had it coming.
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yeahm yyoure right, i got blinded by the fact that I just wanted to know people's thoughts on it
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zamironis dude this episode is 5 years old now almost cmon
*****
it ties in to the story quite nicely actually, so it's not like it just happens for shock value
i think they showed that james was always kinda a good guy when he talks about how hard it was for him to kill the 1st time and nucky is heartless and killed so easy and never thought twice about it jimmy was the best and idk how the show will go on r.i.p james
This series is a piece of art.. best part is.. there's goin to be a season 3
I agree with that. I liked Jimmy's character to but, I also liked the way they ended that season he knew he was going to die that night. The thing that got me was Jimmy was the only one OUT OF ALL OF THEM who truely cared about nucky.
Yes you are, Nucky. You always have been. Every second of every day, you have desperately been seeking forgiveness.
NUCKY... IS... NOT... SEEKING... FORGIVENESS!!!...
Jimmy was a tortured soul from the beginning just trying to make his way but was misled, corrupted and used by those who he thought loved him. Truly saddening indeed.
There's really so many references, symbols, allusions, quotes it's overwhelming. Margret reading The Ivory Tower, Gillian role playing Diana in front of the Commodore, medicinal alcohol and the parallel of medicinal marijuana (the loophole) . It's culture junkie heaven.
You had that coming, boychick! He deserved it and i'm glad that my favourite character, Munya, is still alive. I'm looking forward to next season.
That didn't end well uh?😂
Notice how Jimmy is the only one in this scene that looks like a bad ass even when he knows that he is gonna die. RIP Jimmy Darmody
He wasn’t armed
Don't forget the scene leading up to this one. where he tells Richard "it's time to come home...promise me you'll try" and then knows he has to go alone to this meeting.
This is epic when I watched the last episode it took my breath away I don't believe I have ever witnessed a better tv series and I can't wait for series 3
I haven't even missed Jimmy in Season 3, it's awesome so far.
Best scene of the series so far! Michael Pitt is awesome in here!!
I watched the very first episode and they kind of had some foreshadowing about this. Nucky tells Jimmy "you'd very foolish to underestimate me, James. I could have you killed." James replies "yeah, but you won't." Nucky gives him a questioning look after...
That fucking animal Blundetto have struck again
He should've just listened to him instead of looking at him for who he used to be and remaining to have all these expectations for him based off who was prior to the war. The whole show he was informing Nucky that he wasn't who he was and won't ever be. Because he was a man, not the boy Nucky knew him to be. But people like Nucky aren't ever going to see that, because they're so used to telling, never listening.
Jimmy had to die. There was no other way to end it, that's what made it such an epic scene...Jimmy in the end was being totally honest and only wanted to help Nucky....Nucky sided with his blood, Eli, over Jimmy....In time we'll see it come back to haunt him...Such a great fucking series..
When Eli racks the shotgun and I could think of was Uncle Junior on The Sopranos said “He couldn’t sell it”.
when nucky finds out that eli lied about trying to kill him...hell to pay
This show just went way down on my lists of favorite shows, fuck this. Jimmy and Nuck make Boardwalk Empire
It was necessary, though. Jimmy's purpose as a character was to push Nucky over the edge. ("You can't be half a gangster, Nuck. Not anymore.") Jimmy had to be Nucky's first kill, because after Nucky kills, there's not more point to Jimmy. Plus, after all the shit he went through, it was relieving.
@chouston80 I think he's referring to Jimmy. That Jimmy constantly sought forgiveness after his days in the war, and that he's not like him.
People moaning about him killing Jimmy jesus christ this show has amazing characters including Nucky himself, lets not forget one of the most notorious gangsters ever Al Capone, not to mention countless others, people say they have lost viewers cause of Jimmy's death when Season 3 is probably gonna be the best season out of all 3
"I am not seeking forgiveness... by which I mean the only thing I truly want in this world is to undo that time I pimped a child to a pedophile."
After watching this season, i realized that nucky has absolutely ZERO tolerance for betrayal. And thats something that i can understand
That's the brilliance, he suppose to look and act like the everyday type of guy, he is not a Joe Pesci or Robert De Niro type of thug.
Jimmy was neither a leader nor follower - he didnt have a father figure who could guide him in the right direction without feeling manipulated and betrayed, his biological father didnt care for him and Nucky cared for James but not as a father, What people seem to overlook is that James could have a had a crimeless future had he stayed at prinston and not had a such an evil mother, I dont think he chose this life of violence, he was pushed into it.
pacinos character in real life was arrested before they had a chance to kill him, and since the movie doesnt actually show him getting killed, im gonna assume that pacinos character thought he was about to die, but didnt die
I don't get how people think without jimmy wah wah the shows over. They forget Capone. This paves the way for Al Capone taking over. I hope harrow goes on random solo hits. After next season they'll be saying who's jimmy?
In reality, Jimmy died in Princeton the night before he enlisted.
this is the only show where i wont be dissapointed if this was just a dream sequence
I'm now gonna watch that scene from Sopranos where Steve Buschemi gets killed. God damn this fucking scene got me so upset. RIP Jimmy, the best character Boardwalk had.
@bigfilmhat Nucky lives to 74 years old... Jimmy wasn't real. The show is now going to start to focus on historical issues. Notice that the IRS guy goes to Cicero. Cicero becomes the headquarters of Al Capone in 1922.
First time I heard Jimmy died, I hated the very idea. Now that I have seen the scene, i think that it's epic!
Killing the second season in 5 secs. Thxxx for not thinlking in the people who havnt seen the season yet.. Do as some other said, change the name plzzzz
dont be stupid, boardwalk empire is one of th best shows iwe seen
I cannot fucking believe this happened!!! In a cyclical perspective though, it had to. Nuchy was never going to take the betrayal of anyone lightly, especially from someone as close as Jimmy was.
According to the show's creator they were planning on it in Season 2. So I believe him over you.
in my opinion, you can say Jimmy had it coming or he deserved it but to do so would defeat the message the writers are trying to portray. I believe BE brings to light the issues of the 20's and how things are practically still the same today regarding human nature: incest, greed, violence, sex, drugs/alcohol etc.
Nucky introduced a 13 yr old to a 54 yr old for sexual purposes. The Commodore was barely, if at all, around during Jimmy's childhood so Nucky played the father figure.
Jimmy Darmody. He never had the makings of a Varsity Gangster.
Oops, wrong series.
Richard Harrow is the Only reason I watched Boardwalk Empire seriously!
Nucky didn't "seek forgiveness. " Neither did Tommy Dormady.
So many of these comments are so wrong. Lansky told Jimmy to pay Manny, and I do believe Richard is going to set the truth straight with Nucki about the whole season...what will happen I have no clue. One of my other predictions is the kids are going to be affected by Margarets choice with the land. Whether Nucki or the county gets custody who knows. But Margaret has the worse coming to her.
symbolic of the ww1 soldier looking over them
I think this might haunt Nucky in Season 3. Of coarse, I could be wrong and Nucky could be a stone cold sociopath.
"I. Am Not. Seeking. Forgiveness." Really weak delivery.
I think what people don't understand is that Jimmy WANTED to die. He always has. Hence the "I died in the trench, years back" line. He knew (& hoped) he'd be killed for his purposeful reckless actions. To not die would have ment failure in his eyes & he probably would've just ended up killing himself at some point. He had to die because it's what HE wanted. This is a tragically sad scene, though.
Is that what this is???
This felt like the “I won” scene in Breaking Bad. Like the moment you realized that Nucky really was the bad guy in this story
He should have shot Nucky himself at the press conference not let Capone's mughead screw it all up.
Was i the only one who thought richard would starting firing off sniper shots and save jimmy??
Whether I like the outcome or not, have to admit that it was one of the best shot scenes I've ever watched in any mobster movie or show.
damn you are right jimmy was a poor soul
I would presume he missed most of the lessons from kindergarten English class.
Whether we like the decision to kill Jimmy or not, this scene was beautifully shot and well written. To me, it's one of the best gangster/mob scenes of all time.
Legendary. I would have made an entirely different story line and plot for season 2 and saved what happened in this season for season 3 because I do believe it came all too soon but having said that, this season was one of the best I've ever seen on any show. Jimmy was amazing, and yes I'll miss him, but I doubt the writers wanted their show to depend on a character, now with Jimmy's death they have plenty of opportunity for creative writing on the other characters of the show. Fuck nucky btw.
the way nucky says I am not seeking forgiveness all slow is stupid lol I never got why they make him say it so slow
+5280PolotheKid Would've been even more stupid if he did say it fast.
+Strident Rider if he woulda said it normal and hit jimmy off with one of those cold nucky stares.... genius
lol i notice shit like that too...like when i first saw this and he started saying that im thinkin of course they had to make it melodramatic...i like the flash back of jimmy in ww1 tho...i was hoping it would be on this vid
I think that when you get shot point blank in the head your ability to process speech diminishes greatly.
+Reckful whats that gotta do with the dialogue the writers made nucky recite
Damn Nucky is heartless Jimmy was like a son to him could have gave him a pass and banished him or something, bet he would have killed his brother also if his nephew didn't walk in at the last minute.
He knows that giving passes makes him look weak and it creates a sort of domino effect.
GyroLamb True, and Nucky had already given passes to Jimmy in the past
Shit how many sliding boards must one give. He gave him one is season 1 already.
And then there’s the rain, lightning, and the thunder???...
Jesus Christ! How can no one see that Jimmy had to die? He betrayed Nucky not once but twice. He might not have wanted to kill Nucky but he went with it anyway. In the real gangster world Jimmy would definitely end up dead. Keeping him alive after all that is not plausible. Nucky couldn't afford to have Jimmy betray him a third time. Plus he has to send a message to those who might perceive him to be weak.
This reminds me so much of the way Steve Buscemi died in the Sopranos. There wasn't quite this much build up, but it was still a painful choice made by a loved one.
all jimmy had to do was pay manny, not send one of waxy's men to kill him.
Sad as this scene is, it's almost like a blessing for Jimmy to die. He had always been a tragic soul...his dad raped his teenage mum (whom he then slept with), his mind got all messed up by the Great War, his wife tried to run away, he screwed things up with Nucky, unsuccessfully ran Atlantic City through a domineering mother, and finally his wife got killed.
It was sweet relief that he finally got his peace. To the lost. To the lost.
wait til nucky finds out margaret gave the land to the church!
maybe van alden, ricard, and chalky could team up and form a hit team to kill everyone except mickey and owen
I really thought they were setting Jimmy up to kill himself, Oedipus style...
but then i remembered Oedipus didn't kill himself...