Boardwalk Empire Recap: Don’t Get Too Attached

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By vallegirl | Thursday, November 8, 2012 | 12:00 pm | 7 Comments
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Billie and her blonde friend are drunk and dancing around her apartment. Gil, the guy Billie tested with, is there, too, and they’re having a good time and acting like assholes as drunk people do. He’s pretending to be a sheik named Hooz bin Fartin and I’d like to think comedy has progressed since then, but I’d be lying. Nucky arrives, unannounced and uninvited and gets an eyeful of Billie being a little too playful with Gil for his liking. But the drunks are just celebrating Billie’s successful screen test.

Nucky seems to be okay with everything once it’s explained and even makes some jokes but things start to go wrong when Gil calls Nucky “sir.” Oops. Gil was just offering Nucky a drink but Nucky’s got a bug up his ass and tells “Gilbert” to take his “pig in shit smirk” and the blonde and get out. Gil, for his part, is not intimidated by the skinny, older man and tells him to watch his language, or he’ll wish he had…sir.

Nucky decks Gil and Billie tries to stop it since Gil would be her co-star but once a dick-swinging contest is underway it’s always best to let them work it out. Billie is valiant in her attempts to stop the fight though. Both men get a few good punches in until Nucky gets the upper hand and pounds Gil’s face. Billie finally pulls him off, but not before he’s done some damage.

Gil’s not as tough once he thinks his nose is broken and he threatens to sue Nucky, which does not seem to bother Nucky in the slightest. Billie tells Gil that Nucky will pay for everything and asks her friend to just take him out of there. Billie says she’ll be fine alone with Nucky and finally gets the other two out so Gil can have his nose looked at.

Still not over being Mr. Pink.

Nucky’s just biding his time on the sofa, firing up a cigarette and asks Billie what the movie’s about. Billie’s near tears and tells him it’s about a gangster and a showgirl, which sets Nucky off. He doesn’t like their arrangement where she keeps secrets and he’s not allowed to have her followed or kill her husband so she’s dependent upon him. Although I might have conflated her with Margaret. He says he doesn’t like “the lying” but when Billie says she never lied, Nucky knows all the finer points of lying, dissembling, misdirecting and generally causing confusion, so he lets her know about lies of omission.

Billie rightfully points out that she doesn’t ask him, either, and since he’s got way more to hide she thinks it’s “mighty white of her.” (Her words not mine.) Nucky segues into how he can take care of her and she’ll have nothing to worry about. (Until he gets tired of her like he got tired of Lucy and Margaret.) She says she’s not worried and he thinks that there’s nothing she can count on in show business. Billie takes this to mean Nucky doesn’t think she’s talented but he just thinks she’ll get tossed aside when the next It girl comes along.

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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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