Boardwalk Empire’s Creator Saw It As The ‘Flip Side’ Of The Sopranos

Upon the end of HBO drama “The Sopranos,” with the falsetto notes of Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” still hanging in the air, executive producer and writer Terence Winter was searching for his next project.

The massively popular mafia-centric show had concluded at the top of the TV heap, even called “the greatest pop-culture masterpiece of its day” by Peter Biskind.

Its complicated leading man Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) was more than the head of an organized criminal clan; he was a husband and a father living in the suburbs, complexities “The Sopranos” explored thoroughly over its six seasons.Already an Emmy Award-winner for his work on “The Sopranos,” Winter was quickly hired by HBO to develop a new series that would fit right in among the network’s showy big-budget genre pieces like “Game of Thrones.” Upon reading Nelson Johnson’s 2002 book “Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City,

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