Boardwalk Empire Recap: Easter Eggs and Lovely Heroin

Recaps

By vallegirl | Thursday, November 1, 2012 | 11:00 am | 7 Comments
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Teddy can’t even remember their “uncle’s” name, since they’ve never met Eli or his family, and Emily hesitates long enough for Nucky, Margaret and her Easter bonnet to come into the room. Changing the subject, Emily tells Nucky she knows everyone’s name. He thinks she’ll make a fine politician some day but Teddy’s all “Ew gross…girls can’t be politicians.” Neither can emotionless firestarters, kiddo. Nucky misinforms him that women can because England has queens. Queens aren’t elected but good try, Nuck.

Gillian strolls into the great room looking rather lovely with her hair down and wearing a loose, floaty dressing gown. A man’s voice wonders if she always leaves her front door open but Gillian coyly says it depends upon who she’s expecting. Funny, I totally didn’t pick up on the whole Black Widow vibe in that exchange the first time. She throws one set of very heavy curtains back and the man’s notJimmy. He wasn’t sure he had the right address since Gillian lives in the House of Seven Gables but she just flirts that she hopes he’s sure, now.

She’s circling around the room, speaking in metaphors and confusing notJimmy who’s only interested in the house. He figures she must be rich if she lives there but Gillian lies that it belonged to her late husband and that she can barely afford to keep the lights on. NotJimmy thinks she should just sell it, because he’s a practical boy from the Midwest and not familiar with the 12th level crazy that is Gillian. He thinks they should “christen” every room. Gillian leans in to kiss him but thinks they should eat first because he’ll need his strength. Has she seen him? He’s built like a side of beef.  He’s plenty strong.

HUSH! DON’T SPEAK!

Nucky, Margaret and the children arrive at Eli’s and Emily makes her way straight to the steps. As the 219 members of Eli’s family stand and watch the little girl struggle, June confirms that they shouldn’t help her. Not until she asks, Margaret says and then Emily’s had enough because those stairs are steep. Willie rushes down to her, like the proper young man June raised, and carries Emily into the house while June has her entire brood greet their aunt and uncle. The children come down the stairs one by one and even Nucky can’t keep them straight, confusing Brian for Patrick. But everyone’s on their best behavior, even Teddy.

Richard and Tommy are walking up a street and we see Richard has a bouquet of lilies. Aw, sweet little killer. Tommy asks if that’s where his sister lives and Richard doesn’t remember telling Tommy about Emma in the premiere. Tommy, delicate flower that he is, barks that Richard doesn’t remember anything then has to remind him that he has a sister and a daddy and a mommy and they live on a farm. Richard gets embarrassed and adds “…in Wisconsin.” Tommy wonders if they’re in Wisconsin but Richard says, and I quote, “This is Michigan Avenue. Not the same thing.” Oh, Richard. Bested by a six-year-old.

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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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