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 starts telling Nucky he sounds like her father who liked to end arguments with a fist and that’s why she left. This cuts a little too close to home for Nucky since he had that same father but he calms down enough for her to speak. She tells him she’s on her own and has been for years. It’s how she likes it. She tells him he’s no fun when he’s acting like a jealous, deranged geezer. But she’s going soft and tells him what she wants from him is to be HER gangster, and that’s not where I saw it going. Then we fade into the next scene after some mild coercion leads to sex.

I told you. I have a daddy complex not a sugar daddy complex.

Nelson’s trying to slip his suitcase out from under Sigrid’s side of the bed so he can skedaddle, but she wakes up right away. Nelson’s confused so he tells her he can carry two cases and Abigail, all she needs to do is get dressed and bundle up…Chester. (Awww, what an adorably dorky name.) Sigrid’s not really keen on this so Nelson explains why as such, “I…at work, an incident. He…a bad person. And the other event.” You just know bugnut crazy Sigrid probably understood this.

Regardless, though, they need to leave and Sigrid gets to pick where. Anywhere except New York, New Jersey or, obviously, Illinois. Sigrid stops him. She wants to show him something. She pours him some homebrew whiskey and tells Nelson she already brewed 14 of the 24 bottles they owe O’Banion as well as three bottles of Aquavit for them. She learned how to make it for Papa back in Norway and even threw in some orange peel for flavor. She is a woman of many talents, that Sigrid.

Nelson, like Esther, still tries to cling to the last vestige of his stern moral center and says “No,” they cannot drink any liquor, but he’s more yelpy and desperate than formidable, and Sigrid corrects that they won’t drink, they’ll sell. To the Norwegians on Kedzie Boulevard for St. Bork Bork’s Day. They’ll become their own bootleggers to make up for Nelson losing his shitty job and as they make more they’ll sell more so they can finally buy that house and settle down. Nelson doesn’t really have any answers for that so he agrees.

She’s like a batshit onion and each layer is crazier than the last.

Next morning at the Artemis Club and Gillian’s standing over Luciano, in a lovely vermillion dress and judging him, while he’s just lying around. She’s booting him out of the room because she’s having roofers come in to fix the leak. Plus, she’s not too thrilled that he’s staying in her house when he has business with Nucky Thompson. She starts to get angry about him “breaking bread” with her enemies but it’s 1923 so Charlie just asks her who she thinks she is then offers to “give her a good hard fuck like she likes” to shut her up. Swoon. Those New York gangsters are dreamy.

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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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