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Not actually a review of Baccano!, episodes 1-13.
The series basically ends here, but there are three more episodes; I will watch them later.
I consider it possible that the story was originally Nero Wolfe fanfic that got distracted in the process of explaining why Wolfe and Archie are apparently immortal. Unless the last three episodes disabuse me of the notion, I'm going to assume that the process had something to do with the undeniable fact that Vino hired Wolfe to find Chane for him.
Considering the tone of the rest of the show, Czeslaw's Kaori Yuki-colored backstory was a little startling.
I consider it possible that the story was originally Nero Wolfe fanfic that got distracted in the process of explaining why Wolfe and Archie are apparently immortal. Unless the last three episodes disabuse me of the notion, I'm going to assume that the process had something to do with the undeniable fact that Vino hired Wolfe to find Chane for him.
Considering the tone of the rest of the show, Czeslaw's Kaori Yuki-colored backstory was a little startling.
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1) Baccano! is set in the Prohibition-era US, a version wherein everyone is a bootlegger, a corrupt politician, a troubled heiress, or an enterprising newspaper reporter. Mostly bootleggers, though. Despite their professions, these people all have hearts of gold, except for the ones who do not and are doomed.
2) The first Wolfe book was set just post-Prohibition, and I think it'd be safe to assume that Wolfe and Archie were already immortal by then.
3) Half the cast of the show is immortal. The vehicle of immortality is a beverage that is either liquor, or tastes enough like liquor that people expecting liquor have no qualms about drinking it.
4) The character who knows how to make the elixir of immortality has vowed never to make more, and refuses to give the full formula to anyone else - but at one point gives half of it to someone they feel they can trust absolutely.
5) People give dangerous information to Wolfe because they sense that he can be trusted absolutely in like, every book.
6) There is a newspaper involved that buys and sells information about the immortals. I am confident that Lon Cohen at least knows a guy who works there.
7) Most of the show takes place on a train whose final stop is New York.
8) Spoilers for episode 13: At one point, an assassin guy named Vino has proposed to an assassin woman named Chane. He then has to go and kill some people; unsure that he's going to make it back, he asks her to write her answer down for him. She's gone when he gets back, but has left a note saying, "I'll be waiting for you in Manhattan. I'll wait however long it takes." Vino complains that Manhattan is pretty big.
convincing!
Lon Cohen knows everybody.
Re: convincing!