If you have StarZ, you've already seen big segments of the premiere and more, as they keep running the highlight reel. I admit, this could be some great Friday programming. Kelsey Grammer as a Chicago Mayor who discovers he has a terminal illness.
Screw that, Boss says. Politics as a triumphant idea might have been a great forum for Aaron Sorkin to write soliloquies about tough choices and moral righteousness, but Boss strips it down to the ugly truth. Nobody is happy unless they win at all costs, ethics and morality take a beating when you're trying to please constituents and stay elected, and people who seek power and then use it like a sword aren't halo-wearing types. Which, by the way, makes a great backbone for a series. Safinia has gone beyond the obvious (Chicago? That's like shooting fish in a barrel, right?) by sticking Grammer's Kane in a brilliant predicament right from the outset.
/t/315519/starz-boss-premiere-october-21#post_3865094Originally Posted by Greg_S_H
If that's the sexy librarian assistant, YES. I'm not sure what was going on with the daughter. She's a nun, works at a clinic, was she trying to score hard drugs? Might have been interesting if Kane had confided in her and she was risking it all to get his medicine. I'm not a big fan of the "seemingly good girl nun falling hard," but I don't even know if I understood it.
Originally Posted by JonZ
Very good episode highlighted by some really excellent scenes like the one mentioned above and when his wife confronted him.
Good stuff.
/t/315519/boss-on-starz-season-1-thread#post_3874300Originally Posted by Patrick Sun
Pretty horrifyingl scene at the end with alderman being buried alive.
So is Kitty preggers?