- 8.0/104 votes
#1 - Pretend It's a City
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/8/2021
Meet Fran Lebowitz and join her on her rambles as she muses about deadly distractions, Times Square terror, subway stoppers and total building fails.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/102 votes
#2 - Feel Like Going Home
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/2003
Director Martin Scorsese pays homage to the Delta blues. Musician Corey Harris travels through Mississippi and on to West Africa, exploring the roots of the music. The film celebrates the early Delta bluesmen through original performances (including Willie King, Taj Mahal, Otha Turner, and Ali Farka Toure) and rare archival footage (featuring Son House, Muddy Waters, and John Lee Hooker).
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Peter Guralnick
- 7.9/1022 votes
#3 - Boardwalk Empire
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/2010
January 1920. On the eve of Prohibition, Atlantic City's Treasurer, Nucky Thompson, condemns alcohol at a Women's Temperance League meeting, where he is noticed by Margaret Schroeder, a pretty, pregnant housewife who comes to him for help in getting her abusive husband Hans a job. Later that evening, the duplicitous Nucky privately tells his ward bosses about the opportunity to make huge profits selling bootleg liquor. At a countdown-to-midnight blast at Babette's Supper Club, he assures Jimmy Darmody, a recently returned WWI vet, that his appointment as "Man Friday" to the new Chief Clerk of the Fourth Ward, Paddy Ryan, will lead to bigger things. Jimmy, meanwhile, has higher aspirations and ends up making an alliance that could have dire consequences for both him and Nucky.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Terence Winter
- 7.0/1011 votes
#4 - Mirror, Mirror
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 3/9/1986
A popular horror novelist is terrorized by a strange figure in his bathroom mirror.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Joseph Minion
- 7.0/1021 votes
#5 - Pilot
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/14/2016
New York City, 1973. Together with his partners, Richie Finestra, president of American Century Records, is on the verge of selling his struggling company to German Polygram, in a deal that includes an impending distribution agreement with Led Zeppelin. But after a disastrous meeting, it's clear that the sale is in jeopardy.
Director: Martin Scorsese
Writer: Rich Cohen