Boardwalk Empire Recap: Easter Eggs and Lovely Heroin

Recaps

By vallegirl | Thursday, November 1, 2012 | 11:00 am | 7 Comments
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Gyp’s alone in church and having a crisis of conscience. He’s angry with Jesus for making him want and putting all these things before him that he’ll never have, leaving him alone and unloved. He’s tearing up and yelling at the mural to give him any kind of explanation for why his life is like this. Gyp closes his eyes…and hears a gentle man’s voice asking if he’s all right. Jesus? Gyp looks around, but it’s a priest. Gyp tells the priest he was praying but the priest points out he was yelling. No, priest! NO!

Why come you don’t like me, Jesus?

Gyp gets out of the pew and asks if he can ask the priest something. The priest doesn’t see it coming, so he agrees as Gyp knocks him across the mouth with a club, throwing the priest to the ground. But Gyp did have a question: Where does “God” keep the rest of the day’s collection? The priest is still too shocked about getting beaten in church so Gyp has to harass him some more to get the money.

Gillian’s walking blindfolded notJimmy into a marble tomb and tells him to prepare to be enchanted. She takes off the mask and he’s stunned…by the bathroom. I mean, it’s all right but it’s not like they have a view of the Adriatic or a waterfall showerhead or an infinity tub, you know?

Now THAT’S a bathtub.

NotJimmy pretends to give a crap about the fancy bathroom because he just wants to get laid again and Gillian giddily tells him they’ll have a lot of fun…as long as he does exactly as she asks. Oh. No. She starts by telling him to undress then tells him to get in the tub. Bad vibe #1 when Gillian’s still in her robe and tells notJimmy to get in first. But the water’s just hot. NotJimmy slides in slowly and relaxes as Gillian takes off her robe. But she’s not getting in, she’s going to bathe him.

Gillian’s gently washing him with a sponge and quietly asking him about a scar on his chest. He got it defending a girl who was being abused. Bad vibe #2 when Gillian barely registers Roger’s (he’s earned his real name) story, she just asks if the bath is nice. Roger settles in and Gillian tells him to relax and let her make him feel good. We get tight close ups of Roger’s shoulder or the back of his head or his arm as Gillian languidly runs the sponge over him.

Bad vibe #3 when Gillian, out of the blue, tells Roger he’s rather a decent person. He’s likely the first man she’s been with who’s capable of a normal relationship with a woman. Roger, unaware of just how damaged Gillian is, tells her he tries but it hasn’t been an easy life. Gillian tells him it’s going to get a lot easier.

You’re an actual good guy. I thought they were like unicorns.

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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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