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0 / 5 watchedOne linear list in airdate order, which matches story order. The season 5 time jump is intentional.
- 1 Boardwalk Empire Season 1 12 episodes. Premiere aired September 19, 2010.
- 2 Boardwalk Empire Season 2
- 3 Boardwalk Empire Season 3
- 4 Boardwalk Empire Season 4
- 5 Boardwalk Empire Season 5 Final season, 8 episodes. Set in 1931. Finale aired October 26, 2014. Latest released entry.
About Boardwalk Empire
Terence Winter's HBO crime drama stars Steve Buscemi as Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson, a political boss turned bootlegger in Prohibition-era Atlantic City. Five seasons and 56 episodes aired from September 2010 to October 2014, opening with a Martin Scorsese-directed pilot.
The final season jumps seven years to 1931 and runs eight episodes, closing Nucky's story. Airdate order is story order throughout, so one linear list covers it.
Good to know
Season 5 frames its 1931 present with flashbacks to Nucky's youth (1884, 1897). HBO renewed the show in 2013 and confirmed in January 2014 that season 5 would end it. No continuation had been announced as of 2026-09-17.
