Reasons to Watch Boardwalk Empire

You know we're consummate and prolific Mad Men fans — we're just swooning over the "restraining order" Valentine its cast sent us — but we were happy to see the Golden Globe for best TV drama go to Boardwalk Empire. With the gangster plot lines of The Sopranos and period detail of Mad Men mixed with the very real history of Prohibition in the United States, it had a slow start but quickly became one of my favorite shows of 2010. If awards aren't enough, here are five sexy reasons to check it out.