Boardwalk Empire Recap: Easter Eggs and Lovely Heroin

Recaps

By vallegirl | Thursday, November 1, 2012 | 11:00 am | 7 Comments
Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,
Posted in: Boardwalk Empire, Recaps

Richard knocks and…oh my god, this is too cute…asks Tommy how he looks. Tommy gives him the once over then tells him to fix his glasses. Julia comes to the door and Richard announces that he’s there. You don’t say, Richard. He starts twitching so Julia introduces herself to Tommy who charms her because he really is the cutest (two) kid(s) on the show. Then Richard shoves the lilies at Julia with an alluring “HERE.” Silver-tongued devil, that Harrow. Julia’s still flattered until her father kills the moment by asking if the flowers are for him.

You’re no me, but you look aw’right.

Eli and Nucky are on Eli’s gorgeous porch and avoiding eye contact while Nucky lights up a cigarette. Eli wants to talk about the shipments but Nucky just wants to get loaded. Except, Eli promised June he wouldn’t drink before sundown and never in the house. Nucky looks like someone told him he was getting a prostate exam but Eli points out that it helps keep his head clear. Nucky gets cranky so Eli calms things by telling Nucky he’s glad he came. They don’t need to talk at all, he just wants the two families to have a nice dinner. Even Nucky wouldn’t dick his way out of that.

Emily’s saying grace. with a little prompting from Margaret, because she’s the smart little Schroeder, and she’s wearing a junior string of pearls to match Margaret’s grown up version. Margaret may be flinty but she is passing down her good, if conservative, taste. As soon as the prayer is finished Eli and one of his sons grab for the rolls but June stops them. She has something she’d like to say. She thanks Nucky for all he’s done for them and she’s grateful to have him back in their home, with his new family.

Then June goes off on a tangent about how she loves spring because things begin to grow after being so gray and that for them all to gather on such a day…she can’t finish because she’s overcome by emotion. Eli gently wipes her tear away and kisses June, telling her how beautiful her words were, as the camera focuses first Nucky on then on Margaret, both stern-faced, as they watch this touching and honest expression of love and devotion. June breaks up their little moment by chiding that they should eat the soup before it gets cold.

Wait. Did I pick the wrong Thompson?

Over at the Sagorskys one of the vets says a rather quick and no nonsense grace so old man Sagorsky, Paul,  asks if Tommy liked it. It was okay. Then he wants to know who the hell Tommy even is and why he’s there. Julia gets fluttery with embarrassment but bless Tommy, he’s the oldest six-year-old, ever (that’s probably from getting drunk with Gran when he was three), he just tells Paul that “mama” (grrr) is sick so they came there for Easter dinner.

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
vallegirl
About

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

Post a Comment

Your email is never published nor shared. Required fields are marked *

*
*

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

Human Verification: In order to verify that you are a human and not a spam bot, please enter the answer into the following box below based on the instructions contained in the graphic.