Boardwalk Empire Recap: Don’t Be a Jabronie

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By vallegirl | Saturday, September 29, 2012 | 9:02 am | 7 Comments
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Nucky finally drops the wounded boy act and kisses Billie because he has a meeting. Then promises to tell her “landlord” about the leaking radiators. Billie “innocently” says she doesn’t like to bother Mr. Rothstein while Nucky tells her he loves to bother Arnold. I’m sure that wasn’t just filler.

A lazy, jazzy piano start tinkling on the soundtrack and it’s Dunn Pernsley, showing he’s good for more than just chewing on the scenery. They’re at Chalky’s gin joint and as Purnsley plays Samuel, Maybelle’s beau from last season, awkwardly sits on a chair, telling Chalky he doesn’t want to interrupt his work. Chalky’s casually fixing a chair and decides to start yanking poor Samuel’s chain.

Not quite bitchwhittling….yet.

Samuel’s not rising to the bait. He’s there to pitch himself as to marry Maybelle, letting Chalky know that he graduates in 2 ½ years and plans to make a place for himself as a doctor. Chalky asks if he’s already spoken with Maybelle but Samuel says he thought it proper to ask her father, first, because it’s the 20s and women still need permission.

Then Chalky ask Samuel to “doctor” him. Samuel’s earnest, even though he has a good idea this was just Chalky fucking with him, and gives him a perfunctory exam, apologizing for not having any instruments but still checking his pulse and his breathing as well as diagnosing a mineral deficiency because of the white spots on Chalky’s fingernails. But all he needs to do is eat more leafy vegetables. Chalky excuses Dunn to have the cook fix him up some greens.

Sounds like the ocean.

With Dunn gone, Samuel shows that there’s some spine to him and asks if he’s proven himself suitable. Chalky welcomes him to the family.

Margaret walks into a public room at the hospital just like the one she was in during the first season. She’s there to check up on Mrs. Shearer…who doesn’t take it as well as Margaret would have liked. She moves from skepticism to peeve when Margaret asks if she was given any advice on how to take care of herself while pregnant then lands on flat out hostility when Margaret gets a little too personal asking what Mr. Shearer does.

Can’t a fancy stranger poke around in your private life without getting her head bitten off?

Nucky wanders onto another David Lynch set and finds a $100 bill at the bottom of an empty fishbowl as music plays in another room. Nucky keeps yelling out “Hello” like that will make everything normal again but a cornpone Southern accent asks Nucky to put the money in the bowl. Better than to put the lotion on its skin. Still, Nucky refuses because he has no sense of whimsy or the macabre or the just plain weird and wants to know who he’s dealing with before he turns over $40K.

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Vallegirl has never actually lived in a valley, has a lot of time on her hands and likes to yell at kids about how things were in her day.  Currently in LA, she's also spent a lot of time in the great states of  New York and Florida so she's not crazy, it's just a cultural thing.

7 Comments

  1. 1
    ellemck1
    Posted September 30, 2012 at 8:16 am

    I loved Gyp’s line “I got a gun. You got a gun. He’s got a gun. He’s got a gun. Everybody’s got guns!”. It kinda described this show really well.

    Also, I love Owen (it’s the Irish accent. Has an affect on me.), but I’ve accepted that he’ll probably go down soon and I’ll survive and be sad.

    Eli took this episode. I can’t wait to see more.

  2. 2
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted September 30, 2012 at 10:21 am

    I loved the line, too, but it was so heavily promo’d that I felt cheap reusing it so I didn’t. But Cannavale has such an amazing voice to go with his Silly Putty face, that I get why they couldn’t get enough of the way he yelled “Errybody got GUNS.”

    And Shea Whigham was in Take Shelter with Michael Shannon. Played his best friend. All of Eli’s hawkish mannerisms were there, but the character was much more sympathetic. I really came to appreciate his acting in that movie so I gained a better appreciation of Eli between seasons. Clearly, the writers/producers think highly of Whigham and I’m glad he’s getting the chance to flesh out this character.

  3. 3
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted September 30, 2012 at 5:52 pm

    I thought Nucky found another dude’s razor in the medicine cabinet.

    I’m on the Owen train as well. I think he’s hot. I also think that him and Margaret are secretly in love.

    I still don’t understand the scene between Nucky and Means.

  4. 4
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted September 30, 2012 at 11:01 pm

    Different strokes. I think Charlie Cox is average-looking and he’s not charismatic enough for me to make anything interesting out of his role, which is pretty slight to begin with. He’s just kind of there, and I really hope they don’t make Margaret go back down that road again. That’s been her story for the first two seasons and I want them to let her find a way to make herself happy in life.

    But I hadn’t considered that the razor was left behind by someone else. Thanks. That makes the scene make some sense.

  5. 5
    Zo Impressive
    Posted October 1, 2012 at 10:32 am

    Isn’t this from last week? Anyhow, Eli is not looking healthy most def. Gyp is way over the top and Margaret has bc a real b*tch. Nucky is a sap over the new girl, but only set Gyp off more with his note about Tuna. Bad move, Nuck. Gyp is 7 Psychopaths in 1. Holding on rest for recap/update.

  6. 6
    chaosbutterfly
    Posted October 1, 2012 at 11:03 am

    Just cried real tears at the title.
    Omg, I haven’t seen anyone use the word jabronie in so many years. That was the ultimate insult on the playground….it used to make people cry and/or fight.
    Ahh I cannot stop laughing!!

  7. 7
    hot cawfee
    Posted October 3, 2012 at 9:12 am

    Am behind on watching– will catch up this week–pinky swear!!!!!

    I thought the razor was some else’s too. Then and dont know why– I remembered that Nucky’s first wife killed herself (with a razor??) when thie baby died. It flashed into my head. Maybe Nucky fears Billy is unbalanced????

    I still cannot stand Owen. But Bobby Cannavale is really developing his character.

    I love how its getting all Harlem Renaissance in AC—great scene between Chalky and Maybelle. She is trying to go Flapper but her father is having none of it. Do we think Samuel will become the Gangster Doctor????

    I had none of my beloved Richard this week so Eli is getting my love. Wow……when he stood at the door uncertain as to turn the door knob or walk in, I teared up as his hands fumbled. Then he knocked gently and the little guy answered the door “Pop?”.
    Yes Valle—you do see the love he has for his family. I lost it a little too when he took down Will’s b-day gift—and we see his son has become a man now.

    Question—-did Nucky help out June while Eli was away?? And do the kids know that he was in jail and why???

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