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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Nucky’s sitting in the hallway as Margaret comes downstairs after putting the children to bed. They discuss how it was a nice day and the children enjoyed having something to do outside of their home. Then Margaret brings up how sweet June is. Nucky tells her that Eli and June have been together since he was 20 and she 17, and he’s never looked at anyone else…but slyly reminds us that with eight kids, they’ve kept themselves plenty busy.

This leads into the first fun, touching moment between them since…ever? Margaret seems impressed and pleased that Nucky can juggle, he picked it up from hanging around the midway, then tells him he can be charming and funny and generous…and Nucky looks smitten again, telling her he can say the same about her. Margaret gets shy and says she can’t juggle but Nucky offers to teach her, right now. Margaret absently says it’s too late, then gets a little sadder, saying she’s sorry but it’s too late and goes off to bed, leaving Nucky confused. I don’t think she was talking about the hour just then.

For a bullfrog, he can be kinda cute sometimes.

June’s in the dining room surrounded by all the good china they used for Easter dinner and Eli comes down to check on her. She’s dozing at the table so he gently wakes her to tell her to go to bed. She’s done enough for the day. June’s in a happy little haze because it was a good day, like the old days when Nucky used to visit regularly and everyone was happy. She liked Margaret, too, but tells Eli she’s not happy. Aw, she did take Margaret’s confession to heart. Eli kisses June on the head and tells her “It’s their problem.” Yeah, listen to your husband, June.

The phone rings and Eli walks off to answer it, telling June to go to bed. As she walks off Eli answers and it’s Nucky. He tells Eli that he should have commended him for being the only smart one about Tabor Heights. Eli apologizes for not being able to stop it, but Nucky says he put himself on the line and it “did not go unnoticed.” (Baby steps.) So Nucky’s making a change. Starting tomorrow, Eli will be running the warehouse with Mickey. Eli thanks Nucky who tells Eli that “the whole family” had a good time. Eli’s a little shocked at Nucky’s turnaround. Or trying to figure out if “whole family” meant Nucky, too, because he still wants Nucky’s approval.

Wait, what? Hello?

Richard’s in his bedroom, looking at the “family portrait” with Tommy and Julia and pasting it down into his scrapbook. But this photo’s special so it goes into a real scrapbook and not placed willy nilly throughout his Bible. He tries to take a moment to look at the photo, but Gillian’s at the door. She’s back to her conservatively dressed madame persona, but she’s somber and distracted. She asks how Richard’s day with Tommy went and he manages a couple of half-lies that there were some ups and downs but it ended nicely and there wasn’t too much untoward vulgarity.

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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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