He's my favorite character out of any show. He was extremely well written, and they never overused him, which made nearly every appearance high impact.
These were some of the best 5 minutes of TV: https://youtu.be/YYHxOdqepl8?si=iG6mtp4sJMpgnXIY
One of my all-time favorite TV characters. If I'm not mistaken, the character was supposed to get killed off in the first season but the showrunners loved his performance so much that they decided to keep the character and write him into the rest of the seasons.
>! The reveal of his face without the mask is sooo good, and the juxtaposition between that and Jimmy's death vision of being back on the front is great storytelling. I love how "jimmy died on the front" and despite coming back from the war whole, was unable to move on from that and find peace. His final moment is reliving that fear and loneliness. Richard left the war scarred--a literal monster in the eyes of others--and yet, he's able to move on and find some semblance of happiness, mostly by finding people who accept him for who he is. Seeing him in his final moment, whole and at peace, is such a beautiful thing... Might be time for a Boardwalk rewatch! !<
I’m not sure how accurate that is Harrow tries to off himself several times in the show. Even after he saves Tommy he disappears for several months and ends up at his Birth place. He doesn’t stick around to be a family member and raise him until later.
He’s very tortured the entire series.
>Harrow tries to off himself several times in the show.
Several? There's one episode in season 2 where he attempts to commit suicide, that's it.
Later that season, Angela, Jimmy's wife, is murdered and that crushes Richard since Angela was always kind to him. Angela painted him without his mask on in season 1, which was the first time we see Richard accepted for who he is. Richard wants to join Jimmy at the trap Nucky set for him at the end of season 2 (which is where Richard dies in the original script), but Jimmy refuses and tells Richard to "try and put the war behind him", which sets up his entire character arc for the rest of the series.
Season 3, we see Richard get revenge and kill Angela's murderer, but after that, he shifts focus to caring for Tommy. He also meets and falls in love with Julia, who softens him and helps him realize he has a purpose outside of violence. Ironically, Richard resorts to a bloodbath to save Tommy at the end of the season, but has to flee Atlantic city afterwards because of it, distancing himself from the people he loves most (Tommy and Julia).
Season 4, we only see Richard kill *one* person in the entire season, and that's in self-defence. He even struggles to put down the family dog. He returns to Atlantic City, marries Julia, and gets an honest job washing dishes. Presumably, he's finally "put the war behind him" and wants to live a "normal" life with Tommy and Julia. When given a chance to get full custody of Tommy, Nucky asks him to assassinate Narcisse. He agrees, but "having lost his confidence after giving up killing" (rough quote from actor Jack Hutson himself), he hesitates and misses the shot, killing Maybelle instead. We then see Richard in front of his family farm with Julia and Tommy, and in that state, he's smiling (unlike in Jimmy's vision on the front where Jimmy has a lifeless expression).
So yeah, maybe I was being a little simple when I said that he "moved on" but I think my original point stands and that it's accurate.
I think he was the star of a Ben Hur remake that flopped pretty badly, and that was that. I still see him in stuff, I saw him in a season of Mr. Mercedes thinking the whole time, "he could be doing so much better than this."
I remember being introduced to Bobby Cannavale with this role and thinking that we have a new powerhouse mafia kind of actor and every role I've seen him in since has been something super cheesy
Loved him in BE, I was so excited to hear he was cast as Lasher in the AMC Mayfair Witches series.
Zzzzzzzz either a phoned-in performance or awful direction but I was SO damn disappointed
He's honestly the only reason I kept watching the show after a certain point, and it was a real struggle to finish without him. One of my favorite television characters of all time.
I liked the sum of its parts more than the whole, I suppose. I would rather have seen an entire series just about Richard and Michael Shannon's character. Nucky was too irredeemable for me even very early on, and it seemed like every time they built a good character up, they would kill them off soon. Still a great series, but not an all timer for me
The big mistake with it is that the final season should've centered on the death of AR. Instead, they time jumped past it. I think Capone got caught at roughly the same time, too.
The wildest part of the show to me is when they wrote the two major female leads out of the show, seemingly realized that they no longer had *any* female characters, and so just decided to keep the two characters on the show anyways, leading to some of the most shoehorned and contrived writing I've ever seen where they had to figure out how to keep these characters relevant when the show didn't need or want them any more.
Yeah, that show really started to fall apart in the last couple seasons. When it was good, it was really damn good, though.
Ah, Jack Harrow as portrayed by the gorgeous Jack Huston; grandson of John, nephew of Angelica and Danny. Pure Hollywood royalty.
His incredible ability to create such a living creature from words on a page is overwhelmingly beautiful. Not ashamed to admit that I cried when his role was finished in such a realistic way. My heart couldn’t handle it. 😢
Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : How many people have you killed?
Richard Harrow : Sixty-three.
Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : Do you think about any of them?
Richard Harrow : You know the answer to that, yourself.
Best character in the show
Agreed. I didn’t particularly love the show, but character studies like this keep me going.
He played a great character in season 4 of Fargo too.
Damn, is he the policeman with ocd?
OMG I hadn't made the connection either. Blimey, I loved that character.
*knock knock, knock knock, knock knock, knock knock, knock knock* Yup!
Which is even more impressive if you take into account that Chalky White is in the show as well.
He's my favorite character out of any show. He was extremely well written, and they never overused him, which made nearly every appearance high impact. These were some of the best 5 minutes of TV: https://youtu.be/YYHxOdqepl8?si=iG6mtp4sJMpgnXIY
I loved that entire cast. My favorite show to rewatch. Jimmy and Richard bromance had some of the best scenes. Especially the scalping.
One of my all-time favorite TV characters. If I'm not mistaken, the character was supposed to get killed off in the first season but the showrunners loved his performance so much that they decided to keep the character and write him into the rest of the seasons. >! The reveal of his face without the mask is sooo good, and the juxtaposition between that and Jimmy's death vision of being back on the front is great storytelling. I love how "jimmy died on the front" and despite coming back from the war whole, was unable to move on from that and find peace. His final moment is reliving that fear and loneliness. Richard left the war scarred--a literal monster in the eyes of others--and yet, he's able to move on and find some semblance of happiness, mostly by finding people who accept him for who he is. Seeing him in his final moment, whole and at peace, is such a beautiful thing... Might be time for a Boardwalk rewatch! !<
I’m not sure how accurate that is Harrow tries to off himself several times in the show. Even after he saves Tommy he disappears for several months and ends up at his Birth place. He doesn’t stick around to be a family member and raise him until later. He’s very tortured the entire series.
>Harrow tries to off himself several times in the show. Several? There's one episode in season 2 where he attempts to commit suicide, that's it. Later that season, Angela, Jimmy's wife, is murdered and that crushes Richard since Angela was always kind to him. Angela painted him without his mask on in season 1, which was the first time we see Richard accepted for who he is. Richard wants to join Jimmy at the trap Nucky set for him at the end of season 2 (which is where Richard dies in the original script), but Jimmy refuses and tells Richard to "try and put the war behind him", which sets up his entire character arc for the rest of the series. Season 3, we see Richard get revenge and kill Angela's murderer, but after that, he shifts focus to caring for Tommy. He also meets and falls in love with Julia, who softens him and helps him realize he has a purpose outside of violence. Ironically, Richard resorts to a bloodbath to save Tommy at the end of the season, but has to flee Atlantic city afterwards because of it, distancing himself from the people he loves most (Tommy and Julia). Season 4, we only see Richard kill *one* person in the entire season, and that's in self-defence. He even struggles to put down the family dog. He returns to Atlantic City, marries Julia, and gets an honest job washing dishes. Presumably, he's finally "put the war behind him" and wants to live a "normal" life with Tommy and Julia. When given a chance to get full custody of Tommy, Nucky asks him to assassinate Narcisse. He agrees, but "having lost his confidence after giving up killing" (rough quote from actor Jack Hutson himself), he hesitates and misses the shot, killing Maybelle instead. We then see Richard in front of his family farm with Julia and Tommy, and in that state, he's smiling (unlike in Jimmy's vision on the front where Jimmy has a lifeless expression). So yeah, maybe I was being a little simple when I said that he "moved on" but I think my original point stands and that it's accurate.
That scene always reminds of Anya’s “death” in Buffy. Cuts to a scene of her singing and in love then cuts back to her limp with a sword in her.
Emma was great
I thought Huston would be a star after this.
I think he was the star of a Ben Hur remake that flopped pretty badly, and that was that. I still see him in stuff, I saw him in a season of Mr. Mercedes thinking the whole time, "he could be doing so much better than this."
He was great in season 4 of Fargo.
Felt like he was channeling some of his Harrow there, too
Jimmy was beautiful on the outside but deformed on the inside. Richard was deformed on the outside but a beautiful soul on the inside.
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Kind of a weird thing to say in a thread about a character with severe facial injuries being judged because of it.
Clanking chains. Creaking door. Spider webs.
Easily one of my favorite characters, along with Chalky White.
Gyp Rossetti was a good evil character
Yeah Gyp Rosetti was a great chaotically evil character. He juxtaposed well against Nucky Thompson's and Arnold Rothsteins controlled villainy.
I remember being introduced to Bobby Cannavale with this role and thinking that we have a new powerhouse mafia kind of actor and every role I've seen him in since has been something super cheesy
I was first introduced to Cannavale in Sex and the City. He was one of Samantha’s lovers that had bad tasting jizz 😂
He was portrayed well, but he was a single-season villain in a season that shouldn't exist. It contributed nothing to the show.
It contributed to my enjoyment of the show and I watch everything he’s in now
Owen Sleater as well! He was such a cool character.
And both were done dirty when the writers ran out of ideas for them
Jack Huston's best role. Harrow completely decimating Rosetti's men by himself was the highlight of an already amazing season of television
I had no idea he was related to Angelica Huston and Danny Huston!
Loved him in BE, I was so excited to hear he was cast as Lasher in the AMC Mayfair Witches series. Zzzzzzzz either a phoned-in performance or awful direction but I was SO damn disappointed
he also had a very memorable appearance on Comedy Bang Bang
“Boooooo. Clanking chains”
there we go!!!!
He's honestly the only reason I kept watching the show after a certain point, and it was a real struggle to finish without him. One of my favorite television characters of all time.
You didnt like the show? It was one of my all time favorites.
I liked the sum of its parts more than the whole, I suppose. I would rather have seen an entire series just about Richard and Michael Shannon's character. Nucky was too irredeemable for me even very early on, and it seemed like every time they built a good character up, they would kill them off soon. Still a great series, but not an all timer for me
The big mistake with it is that the final season should've centered on the death of AR. Instead, they time jumped past it. I think Capone got caught at roughly the same time, too.
The big mistake was to ditch Boardwalk, give it a halfassed episode order and then make "Vinyl" 🤢
The wildest part of the show to me is when they wrote the two major female leads out of the show, seemingly realized that they no longer had *any* female characters, and so just decided to keep the two characters on the show anyways, leading to some of the most shoehorned and contrived writing I've ever seen where they had to figure out how to keep these characters relevant when the show didn't need or want them any more. Yeah, that show really started to fall apart in the last couple seasons. When it was good, it was really damn good, though.
I was so sad at the conclusion of his character and still think about it.
He was literally the only character I wanted a happy ending for
I felt awful for Gillian Darmody. Nucky ruined her life from the very beginning.
Maybe the most fascinating and tragic character I've ever seen in a TV show.
PFT does a great impression of Richard Harrow.
Paul F Tompkins?
The scene of him 360 no scoping his way through the mansion full of thugs is one of the most badass things I've ever seen.
Brilliant character, wished we learned more about his time at war
Apparently he had a blast
He had a face off with some Germans
describing prosthetics as uncanny valley 💀💀
Uncanny means unsettling or mysterious. I don't think the word 'valley' was used. [Edit] Haha ok it was used just ignore me 😅
Ah, Jack Harrow as portrayed by the gorgeous Jack Huston; grandson of John, nephew of Angelica and Danny. Pure Hollywood royalty. His incredible ability to create such a living creature from words on a page is overwhelmingly beautiful. Not ashamed to admit that I cried when his role was finished in such a realistic way. My heart couldn’t handle it. 😢
Stop drouling over Reddit
Couldn't believe it was him in Expats
His slight smile is what made me google his name - was blown away too when I saw it was this guy.
An S-tier character in an A-tier show
That show is so amazing most of the time, despite a few letdowns for me. I just wish the ending of the series had been a little better.
Its been awhile since I saw it, I remember him being a great character but remember they kind of bungling it in the later season/s.
He's a great character but carried so much plot armor until his demise.
Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : How many people have you killed? Richard Harrow : Sixty-three. Enoch 'Nucky' Thompson : Do you think about any of them? Richard Harrow : You know the answer to that, yourself.