Boardwalk Empire Recap: Don’t Get Too Attached

Recaps

By vallegirl | Thursday, November 8, 2012 | 12:00 pm | 7 Comments
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Eddie comes in and starts hemming and hawing because he doesn’t know how to break some news to Nucky. Nucky shows the concern we’ve come to expect from him with all things Eddie and tells him to “just start yammering like always,” and Eddie announces that “James Darmody is dead.” POV shifts to Owen, Eli and Nucky’s collective GULP! as they try to figure out how he could know that since the only other person there was Manny and…well…

Can’t read their poker faces.

Nucky jumps in and says “That’s pure speculation,” but Eddie has the obits and tells Nucky that Jimmy drowned. Nucky reads further and it says he died at the home of his mother, Gillian Darmody. Eli puts it most succinctly when he mutters under his breath “What the fuck?” and as the three guilty parties do that whole Rocky Horror “Dr. Scott-Brad-Janet-Rocky-UNH” scene sweet Eddie tells Nucky he’s sorry for his loss. Nucky tells Eddie not to be an idiot. Why does Nucky being mean to Eddie bother me more than almost any other awful thing Nucky does? Send your brother to prison, cheat on Margaret, and kill Jimmy? Sure, but don’t be mean to Eddie.

It’s a sunny spring day and Chicago’s bustling. Torrio’s back from Italy and filled with Italian spirit. He wants to tell Capone and Jake about how great it was to take things slowly and enjoy life but Capone’s busy giving a geography lesson on where Vesuvius is and Jake’s take away is that Naples is falling apart. Troglodytes. Torrio tries one more time but Capone needs to talk to him about something in private. In the middle of the cathouse but still, most of the guys are too entranced by the boobies to eavesdrop. Jake gets the hint and leaves, though.

Al slides in that there was a “little eruption” in Chicago, too. Guy named Joe Miller who WAS with Deanie O’Banion. Torrio’s still high on his Italian joie de vivre (I know, that’s French) and doesn’t smack around Capone, he just wants to know how O’Banion took it. He didn’t because they’re meeting up with him at the yards tomorrow. Chicken. Torrio’s silent so Capone starts tap-dancing that Torrio didn’t want to be bothered but there was nothing Al could do. Torrio doesn’t seem to buy it but he gets Al to confirm that he did what he thought was right and they’ll take the meeting with O’Banion together, then.

Once I decided I was going down to the speak to kill Miller, I really had no choice but to go through with it.

Uncle Jun is advising that Gillian will still have that last hurdle of getting custody of Tommy what with raising him in a whorehouse. She corrects him that it’s a “health resort” (heh) but Uncle Jun reminds her that the state will be inspecting everything. Before they can go further into the whorehouse v. health resort debate Nucky’s there to get Gillian’s back up. Gillian looks gut-punched, but steels herself with a swig of whiskey as Nucky walks in.

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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
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted November 8, 2012 at 6:09 pm

    “That demon alcohol doesn’t need an enamel handle as a selling point.” Awesome!!!!

    Loved the scene when Eddie informed the guys that “Jimmy” had died. It was perfect.

  2. 2
    megalicious
    Posted November 9, 2012 at 6:54 am

    Great recap as usual, though surprised that you didn’t initally notice that Van Patten directed it (I always look for him since u astutely commented last year that his shows are usually filled with foreshadowing and heart-wrenching Richard moments) and that you didn’t mention (or notice?) the ticking clock in the background (since u always seem to pick up on the little things in this show, hence the reason i love reading your recaps) when Gillian is telling Rosetti that Nucky will be at Babettes. I agree with you that so far the show has been all over the place, while still managing to be entertaining. Only 4 more episodes left!

  3. 3
    hot cawfee
    Posted November 9, 2012 at 8:08 am

    awesome recap Valle!!!!! I was wonderin g when the explosio would happen (we had alot of chatter in NY about it while the show was being filmed–so no one would call 911). Anytime we can begin with my beloved Richard I am happy. The tones used on his face were beautiful.

    OMG–is Babette herself ok???–She is blonde as is Billy now so maybe mistaken identity??? (That of course would be another show–not a great episode for all blondes I guess). I loved Billy’s screen test and am sorry to see her go.

    Nelson—slow clap—wow…..He is awesome. I nominate Nelson and Al for the “sublte changes in the face” acting award. Nelson went full on Frankenstein wrecking the office and then—stops to get his hat, puts it on and leaves–Killer.

    I hope we will get some more info on all things past with Gillian and Nucky–there is something there I agree so much more than Jimmy. Was it Nucky who brought her to the Commodore and started the ball rolling??

    This era is so exciting–I have to geek out a little bit right now. I think this season’s Margaret begining to embrace a little New Woman/Flapper is awesome. More advanced birth control, more makeup, learning to drive—will she bob her hair?? I hope not but why not???
    She and Sigrid are nicely paralled this season—the woman being clear, rational and focused for her man. Sigrid making the hootch echoes Margaret telling Nucky to get ahold of himself and commit his dealings to memory while she burns the ledger she sneaked from his office.

  4. 4
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted November 9, 2012 at 10:52 am

    Hot C – I was wondering the same thing about Babette!!!!!!!

  5. 5
    BlueCanary
    Posted November 10, 2012 at 6:50 pm

    Am I the only one who’d love to see Gyp push Richard a shade too far? That’d be the shock of a lifetime for old Gyp, that’s for sure.

    And Nelson, my god. I’ve been waiting for that moment all damn season. It’s like those internal fantasies Mihael C. Hall has in Dexter, when he visualizes going apeshit and then snaps back reality and you realize it’s all in his head. Except Nelson actually went there. Nelson Van Alden: crazier than Dexter Morgan. I really think Sigrid is his soul mate.

  6. 6
    hot cawfee
    Posted November 11, 2012 at 6:40 am

    @ 5 Blue Canary– would love to see my beloved Richard go all sniper on Gyp—it could well happen!!!!

  7. 7
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted November 11, 2012 at 3:58 pm

    @megalicious, I usually do read the opening credits just to see what’s in store but just skipped over this week. Of course, the lovely shot of Richard to open the episode should have told me it was at least a Van Patten episode. I guess I was just really pre0ccupied this week because I never heard the ticking clock, either.

    @Blue Canary – I hadn’t seen the Dexter parallel until you pointed it out, but it is saying something that Nelson is crazier than Dexter. Although, I think it’s more that he has less control of his id. I think Dexter would slow clap for Nelson. And Sigrid has now become my favorite tertiary character. I have a fondness for poor, put upon Eddie, but Sigrid’s nuttiness and grit is admirable.

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