Michael Kenneth reverend in the ordinal flavour execute of "Boardwalk Empire."

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(CBS) Anyone hunting for a bounteous flavour person for HBO's "Boardwalk Empire" sure got one: Chalky White, played by archangel K. Williams, is nearly gunned downbound in an move by Klansman. Chalky escapes alteration but shoots and kills digit of the Klansman. And because it's the 1920s, Chalky is in pain for ending a albescent man.

The move prompts a meet to Chalky's bag by Nucky, Steve Buscemi's duplicitous ocean City treasurer and designed evildoing boss. By the modify of the episode, Nucky has presented speeches at black and albescent churches informing each gathering that he's feat to protect them.

(And of course, some another things happened, too.)

The critics mostly concord that "Boardwalk Empire" is a must-watch show, modify as a pair say the program doesn't hit a center. Writing in Salon, Matt Zoller Seitz says, "Almost every instance an program of 'Boardwalk Empire' ends, I wager slightly frustrated - not because the distance wasn't entertaining, but because it unsuccessful to hit the richness, depth and desire of the enthusiastic program that apparently influenced it, mainly 'The Sopranos' and 'Deadwood.'"

Darren Franich writes in Entertainment Weekly, "[T]he problem, I think, is that the exhibit doesn't rattling hit a center. I same Steve Buscemi, and it's nifty to wager Nucky's two-facedness...but Nucky himself ease feels same a half-formed character."

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