TV shows we love: Boardwalk Empire

Boardwalk Empire was not only one of the most visually assured series of the past two decades, but in its range and sheer quality, perhaps one of the most ambitious.

We are thrust into an Art Deco metropolis before its inevitable decline; Atlantic City at its height, a lost realm of gleaming hotels, lacquered geometric interiors and prohibition speakeasies.

The whole place hums with the confidence of a country that was young and had God on its side, and the all too familiar...