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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Up in NYC, Gyp’s in a cramped little bedroom, lovingly sweeping a brush across his suit jacket, and his #1 goon is expositing where Gyp stands after Tabor Heights. They still have some turf but not nearly as much as before and can’t put together a real goon squad to get it back. Gyp is ignoring him as a woman is yelling that they’re ready. Whatever, all that is to let Gyp know his envelope is light.

Somehow we wandered into the primping scene from “Saturday Night Fever” and Gyp Manero’s ignoring his goon and the woman because he’s got to look good for 2001 Odyssey. The goon keeps trying to talk to Gyp about how they’re going to handle Masseria but he gets nothing because the woman’s pounding on the door like she’s Dempsey at the speed bag. She wants Gyp to get his ass in gear because it’s “turning to mush” but Gyp yells that he’s in a meeting. The woman snots at him that he’ll be a big baby and whine that they didn’t wait for him. Heh. This gets Gyp’s attention so he swings the door open, but instead of prancing around in his black briefs yelling “Attica, Attica, Attica…” we see this:

 

MUCH better. You have a lovely wife, Mr. Rosetti, and she totally looks like the kind who’ll happily slap a leash on you. Gyp comes out in his undershirt which does not please the missus but amuses her mother who channels Pee Wee Herman and suggests he marry his suit, Heh. The goon tries to sneak out but withers when the missus pointedly points out all the extra she cooked while Gyp sits in front of a cooked lamb’s head. Mmm. Looks delicious. Gyp tries to sneak an eyeball out of the head (I’m just reporting) but his wife slaps him down because they’re not cats in the alley. No, cats aren’t as crazy or ear-bleedingly loud. But Gyp says a quick grace then pops the eyeball so he can start eating. And it makes a little popping sound for that extra schoche of grossness.

NotJimmy’s saying a joke grace and Gillian flatters him about how clever he is. She pretends to engage him in conversation, like she cares what he has to say about his travels or the women he’s met along the way. NotJimmy thinks she should just sell the house and they could have their own adventure on the money. Gillian plays all shy and frail which gets Roger all horny so they have sex on the dining room table, but not before Gillian flirts by asking if “there’s nothing she can do to stop him.” I won’t even try to dissect that one.

Back with the relatively normal Thompsons, Eli has the kids in the front yard for the egg hunt. Eli’s tells them the rules of the hunt: no fighting and no arguing. Most eggs gets a dime but the kid who finds the red egg gets a quarter. Eli’s in his element with the children so he counts them to three. All the children but Emily run wild looking for the eggs but before Nucky can take her around, Willie volunteers again, because Eli hides the eggs in the same place every year.

Indulge him. It makes him happy.

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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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