Boardwalk Empire Recap: Easter Eggs and Lovely Heroin

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   Kai88
   Posted November 4, 2012 at 10:50 pm

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

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   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