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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Maybelle has an idea with what, but Chalky isn’t giving up details, he just thinks that once he proved his worth he was accepted and Samuel doesn’t have to prove his worth because he’s going to be a doctor. Maybelle pouts and sighs that she doesn’t want to marry him. She wants the chance to live her own life. Like her mother did when she married someone “interesting” like Chalky.

All I know is that while you’re cutting off Klansmen’s fingers, Samuel’s sewing them back on.

Maybelle keeps asking what Chalky did to help Lenore’s father, and he won’t tell. She just wants to know if he got rid of someone. This does not sit well with Chalky so he asks her if she want to take up with some “swagger buck” with a wife two counties over. Undaunted, Maybelle thinks that sounds just dandy because then she could write a poem about it. Ah, the stupidity of youth. Before Chalky’s head can explode, though, they’re called to dinner.

FINALLY, Mickey’s gotten Eli home safe and sound and reminds him about the big shipment they’re taking to New York the next day so Eli can tell him to fuck off. He’s home and wants to see his family. Mickey waits until Eli’s out and can’t slam his head into the steering wheel before telling him to have a nice night. Heh.

Eli’s at his own front door but can’t bring himself to just walk in so he quietly knocks. Brian, one of his 382 kids, answers the door and makes this face:

 

Aw, take Mickey’s advice, pack the family up and move away from Atlantic City. The kids swarm Eli and he finally has a moment of release, hugging the whole brood at once until his oldest daughter, Edith, comes and give him a tight hug. The older children are now nearly adult, but Eli still wants to pull them all in as close as possible. Will, the oldest, isn’t really feeling it so he shakes his father’s hand. Ouch.

Eli’s not mad, though, he’s just impressed with Will’s firm handshake. Edith tells him it’s because Will works in a lumberyard, which is news to Eli, but this was prelude to Eli finally seeing June, who we last saw yelling at him to clean up their father. But absence makes the heart grow fonder and she’s as relieved to have Eli home as he is to be there.

Sniff…

Gyp and his goon have decided to have dinner at a diner, and stand out like the mobsters in a small town that they are. They take a couple of seats at the counter and hassle the poor waitress about the spaghetti and meatballs. But order it anyway.

Gyp’s decided to chide her about how he’d like some wine with his spaghetti. The waitress is all “Golly, no, that’s illegal,” but he menacingly flirts with her that maybe she should check in the back of some cupboard…”behind the sody-pop,” properly spooking the poor waitress.

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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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