Boardwalk Empire Recap: Easter Eggs and Lovely Heroin

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By vallegirl | Thursday, November 1, 2012 | 11:00 am | 7 Comments
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Happy Easter, Gasmii! Atlantic City’s taking a break from murder (mostly), mayhem, sex (kinda), drugs (sorta) and booze (not really) and everyone’s celebrating Easter by getting gussied up, gathering for an early dinner, hiding eggs, getting drunk and berating six-year-olds, so let’s do this.

A flying chocolate bell? That’s just fucked up.

Episode fades up on an owl getting in his last few hoots as we see a quiet, leafy street in the early morning. While the milkman makes his deliveries a piano starts playing. Eli comes out in his robe and slippers, carrying a box and looking sketchy. Or like Eli sometimes it’s hard to tell. Motherless Child starts on the soundtrack while Eli’s looking around, furtively, hiding whatever is in his box as the song continues on dolefully.

But he’s just hiding Easter eggs. Meanwhile, in the bona fide crazy part of town, Gillian’s lying around rehearsing for her “Camille” audition when Richard knocks. She melodramatically tells him to come in. Not to be outdone, he grandly opens both doors. Richard lets Gillian know he’s cleared the house except for the cook. Gillian subsists on her own suppressed rage and bile so she doesn’t need a cook lollygagging around and tells Richard to send her on her way, too.

I’m tired of all of the coming and going…but mostly the coming.

Then Gillian remembers her manners, briefly, and asks after Richard’s plans. He’s meeting up with some of the other veterans from the American Legion Hall and Gillian assumes it’s because they have some sort of bond from being in the trenches. Richard actually corrects her like she cares that he wasn’t in the trenches because he was a sharpshooter. Gillian doesn’t even bother to take off her sleep mask; she just wants to make sure Tommy’s not “subjected to any rough language” or crude behavior. Says the woman who got her grandson drunk in the first season. Then she bribes Richard with $10 to take Tommy to a proper Easter dinner.

Even though she hasn’t bothered to take that stupid sleep mask off, Richard still asks her how she’s feeling rather than dancing around and flipping her off which may or may not have been my way of dealing with Gillian’s ish. She tells him she’s feeling “murderous” (SPOILER!) then asks to be left alone, still working that Garbo angle. Besides the Resurrection isn’t a good day for business because Jesus, family and hookers don’t always go together.

Richard finally leaves and Gillian pops up out of bed all “La di da” and we hear Emily reciting a bunch of names. Kathleen, Nora, Anne, Edith, Brian, Patrick Dermott and Willie. She’s named Eli’s kids but I’m sure she had to miss a name or 50. Teddy, who is clearly played by the livelier McTigue twin today (same as when they were on AMC), is impressed with Emily’s ability to remember all those names. They look adorable in their Easter best. Especially Emily’s little hat.

You know the Easter Bunny isn’t real.
You’re an asshole.

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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 1, 2012 at 11:20 am

    Yes, Gillian, Tommy doesn’t need to be around rough language. You just continue to raise him in a whore house. And pretend you’re his mother.

  2. 2
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted November 1, 2012 at 1:56 pm

    Oh Lord, the scene w/ Richard and Tommy was so flipping cute!! I wish Richard would just steal Tommy and take him away from Gillian.

    [Pondering exactly how angry Gillian would be if he kills Paul in front of Tommy but doesn’t swear while doing it.] LOLOLOLOL, Valle!!!!!!!!!

    I was under the impression that the woman banging on Gyp’s door was his sister, but now I am remembering him telling Nucky that he hadn’t had sex with his wife in a while. Gag. No wonder he cheats. I really liked the scene in his apartment. I think it gave us a little insight as to why Gyp hates it when a person makes him feel like a moron…he’s surrounded by women that are constantly belittling him.

  3. 3
    Lo
    Posted November 1, 2012 at 7:59 pm

    All of the Boardwalk kids were awesome (and terribly cute) this episode. I thought it was a solid one.

  4. 4
    BlueCanary
    Posted November 4, 2012 at 5:28 am

    Vallegirl, you are killing it on these recaps. Awesome job.

    Gillian made my blood run cold in this episode, starting with the Real Jimmy-as-husband statement. Just wrong. Also, if I have to see Richard scrapbooking one more time, I may have to start self-medicating. He kills me every single week.

  5. 5
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted November 4, 2012 at 8:03 am

    Lo – you are correct that all the kids on this show are cute, and without being cloying or “precocious.” But the twins who play Tommy just get the best stuff to work with and from what I’ve read about them are actually like Tommy in real life since they started harassing Michael Pitt for smoking at some event. They’re a couple of little pistols. The twins who play Teddy also played “Little A” on All My Children (and the triplets who play Sonny played a deaf child on AMC as well) and the joke was how “special” Little A was because they never even let him walk until he was about four, and the only time they showed any life or personality was when they were working with David Canary. So I’m assuming the one who worked this week was the one who worked with Canary on AMC.

    plockeness – my initial thought was that Gyp still lived at home with his mother and sisters, too, but watching the scene a second time, the two young women are actually teens, so I revised it to he lived with his wife, daughters, and mother-in-law and that, plus the whole church scene, explains so much about Gyp.

    And BlueCanary (any relation to David?), thanks. I love this show so much and think it’s pretty meticulously produced but no one’s really completely likable so it’s surprisingly easy to make fun of but Gillian has slowly become the most compelling character to me. She’s cruel and monstrous but so damn tragic. And if they can make Capone sympathetic because of his deaf son, Gillian can get a little sympathy, too.

    The less said about Richard and his scrapbook the better because that will just make me start sobbing again.

  6. 6
    Kai88
    Posted November 4, 2012 at 10:50 pm

    Oh Gillian. Oh, creepy, insane, Gillian. Great recap! Also loved the David Sedaris reference.

  7. 7
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted November 5, 2012 at 10:40 am

    Thanks. And that’s my favorite line from one of my favorite Sedaris essays but thought it might not be that well known. Glad you liked it.

    And if you are unfamiliar with this particular bit of Sedaris brilliance, here’s a link to the essay.

    http://scottduncan.free.fr/blog/jesus_shaves.pdf

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