Ed Helms

Yeah, he is. I would imagine, you know, your collaboration as a showrunner with the wardrobe department and the production design department and the props department was so fun on a project like this and so cool. And then, of course, your music career. team, both the score and your needle drops throughout the episodes.

Yeah, he is. I would imagine, you know, your collaboration as a showrunner with the wardrobe department and the production design department and the props department was so fun on a project like this and so cool. And then, of course, your music career. team, both the score and your needle drops throughout the episodes.

What are some things that stood out to you in that research process that were either surprising or especially exciting or fun to think about and write about? And were there things that came up in that process that inspired moments in the show?

What are some things that stood out to you in that research process that were either surprising or especially exciting or fun to think about and write about? And were there things that came up in that process that inspired moments in the show?

I love that. And it just informs all the the actors on the set. It gives them all these these kind of anchors and reference points to latch on to. So most prohibition crime stories center around the male bootleggers, but Boardwalk features a lot of extremely unique and morally gray and enterprising female characters. Margaret Thompson, Gillian Darmody being a couple of standouts.

I love that. And it just informs all the the actors on the set. It gives them all these these kind of anchors and reference points to latch on to. So most prohibition crime stories center around the male bootleggers, but Boardwalk features a lot of extremely unique and morally gray and enterprising female characters. Margaret Thompson, Gillian Darmody being a couple of standouts.

What was the inspiration for those incredible characters?

What was the inspiration for those incredible characters?

There's another formidable female character in Boardwalk Empire, Assistant Attorney General Esther Randolph, who attempts to prosecute Nucky. Now, she's presumably based on the real world Mabel Walker Willibrant.

There's another formidable female character in Boardwalk Empire, Assistant Attorney General Esther Randolph, who attempts to prosecute Nucky. Now, she's presumably based on the real world Mabel Walker Willibrant.

Yeah. So we talk a lot about her in Snafu. I'm just curious kind of what your research brought to light. What excited you about her as a character? She's such a mess of contradictions. Yeah.

Yeah. So we talk a lot about her in Snafu. I'm just curious kind of what your research brought to light. What excited you about her as a character? She's such a mess of contradictions. Yeah.

And George Cassidy is a character that is a real life bootlegger who actually had an office in the Capitol building where he was distributing liquors to Congress people. Right. That's very similar to your character, Gaston Means in Boardwalk Empire, who is kind of a supplier to high level folks. Right.

And George Cassidy is a character that is a real life bootlegger who actually had an office in the Capitol building where he was distributing liquors to Congress people. Right. That's very similar to your character, Gaston Means in Boardwalk Empire, who is kind of a supplier to high level folks. Right.

It's so cool to hear you touch on these things that we also dig into in Snafu and some of these strange and more obscure connections.

It's so cool to hear you touch on these things that we also dig into in Snafu and some of these strange and more obscure connections.

And Willebrand prosecuted him. And he's part of what led to the federal government taxing illegal liquor. Right, right, right. Which is just another insane layer to all of this.

And Willebrand prosecuted him. And he's part of what led to the federal government taxing illegal liquor. Right, right, right. Which is just another insane layer to all of this.

I just was going to kind of bring it back to this overarching theme throughout that era of hypocrisy. Sometimes it's kind of buried and sometimes it's just outrageous and flagrant, like we discussed George Cassidy and these bootleggers supplying the lawmakers who are passing the laws of prohibition with alcohol. I'm curious if you hit on, in your research, are you familiar with Formula 6?

I just was going to kind of bring it back to this overarching theme throughout that era of hypocrisy. Sometimes it's kind of buried and sometimes it's just outrageous and flagrant, like we discussed George Cassidy and these bootleggers supplying the lawmakers who are passing the laws of prohibition with alcohol. I'm curious if you hit on, in your research, are you familiar with Formula 6?