"BOARDWALK EMPIRE" Season Five (2014) Episode Ranking
Due to Season Five of "BOARDWALK EMPIRE" being limited to only eight episodes, I decided to rank those episodes from favorite to least favorite. Created by Terence Winter, the series starred Steve Buscemi:
"BOARDWALK EMPIRE" SEASON FIVE (2014) Episode Ranking
1. (5.03) "What Jesus Said" - Escaped convict Albert "Chalky" White and his unstable companion Milton hold a mother and daughter hostage, while seeking refuge from the law in this tense episode. Margaret Thompson is forced to deal with Arnold Rothstein's widow over funds from a past deal.
2. (5.01) "Golden Days for Boys and Girls" - This colorful season premiere finds Enoch "Nucky" Thompson in 1931 Havana, Cuba with occasional girlfriend Sally Wheat, making a deal with the Bacardi Rum Company and dodging a gangland hit. Meanwhile, Charlie "Lucky" Luciano begins his attempts to take control of the New York mob.
3. (5.05) "King of Norway" - Eli Thompson and Nelson Van Alden, now working as collectors for Al Capone in Chicago, hit a snag in their business relationship when Eli's affair with Van Alden's wife is exposed during June Thompson's trip to the city. Chalky arrives in Atlantic City to seek help from Nucky regarding the location of mobster Dr. Valentin Narcisse.
4. (5.04) "Cuanto" - Sally Wheat has a troubling encounter with a Cuban federal patrol. Nucky helps Margaret deal with Mrs. Rothstein's threats of blackmail and Van Alden is exposed as a former Federal agent, when Lucky Luciano visits Chicago.
5. (5.06) "The Devil You Know" - Chalky and Narcisse have their final showdown over Daughter Maitland and her child in Harlem. Van Alden finally faces Capone over the exposure of his past as a Treasury agent.
6. (5.07) "Friendless Child" - Flashbacks reveal what led the younger Nucky to introduce the adolescent Gillian Darmody to Commodore Louis Kaestner in the 1890s. And the much older Nucky has a disastrous showdown with Luciano and Meyer Lansky.
7. (5.02) "The Good Listener" - This episode reveals the strained state of Van Alden's marriage to Ingrid. Gillian hopes to find a way to escape from the women's sanitarium, to while she has been confined. And Nucky discusses the attempt on his life in Cuba, with Johnny Torrio.
8. (5.08) "Eldorado" - Luciano seals his position as boss of the Mob Commission. Capone faces trial for tax evasion, thanks to the Treasury. And a surprise for Nucky and a tragedy is revealed in the episode's last minutes in this somewhat unsatisfying series finale.