EPISODE
SEASON
Boss - Season 2
Season 2 opens with Tom Kane cementing his mayoral legacy with a lavish ceremony celebrating the groundbreaking of the new modernized O'Hare terminals. While his political future seems bright, Kane continues to battle for control over his disease.
9 August 1955, Illinois, USA
26 March 1985, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
10 January 1985, Chicago, Illinois, USA
16 October 1962, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2 September 1966, Oak Park, Illinois, USA
August 17, 2012
Boss' mix of deft footwork and bull-in-a-china shop clumsiness can be off-putting, but it's always anchored by Grammer's alternately scary and mournful lead performance, and you're never in doubt that there's a fully formed sensibility behind it.
August 17, 2012
Still good. Still heavy going.
August 17, 2012
If the show can stabilize it's relationship to Kane and clear up some of its more frustrating affectations of "good television," it could really be a great show.
August 17, 2012
The acting merits more accolades than the storylines so far.
August 29, 2014
...t a hardboiled, somewhat abstracted view of power relations as practiced by a varied cast of characters... while also imparting an almost Shakespearean grandeur to the proceedings.
August 17, 2012
The simple truth is that no amount of twitching is going to make Boss compelling.
August 17, 2012
At the heart of this drama, in every sense, is Grammer. It's worth turning on this show just to watch his performance.
August 17, 2012
The supporting actors are all capable, although Grammer's glower clearly is the series' tower of power.
