Boardwalk Empire Recap: Easter Eggs and Lovely Heroin

Recaps

By vallegirl | Thursday, November 1, 2012 | 11:00 am | 7 Comments
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Back at the Sagorskys and Paul’s still on a conspiracy theory rant, this time about what a bunch of crooks Harding’s cabinet is. Richard’s finished his meal so he rejoins them in time to learn that Paul voted for Eugene Debs (Of COURSE he did) and Richard to explain that Debs was a socialist not a Bolshevik.

Before Richard can explain that difference, though, Tommy needs to use the bathroom and heads straight over to Paul to tell him he has to pee. Paul can’t figure out why he needs to know that and Julia says the boy just wants to know where the bathroom is. Paul confirms with Richard that Tommy’s “housebroken” (pretty much) then tells Tommy it’s upstairs.

Hey gramps…got any hooch?

With a warning to make sure he doesn’t pee all over the bathroom, Paul sends Tommy upstairs, who upon finishing does what any other six-year-old would do: sneak around looking at the bedrooms. First Julia’s with the pretty lamp, then Paul’s austere room…then the one with a sporting banner on the closed door. No, Tommy! NOOO! But the room is just a teen boy’s room with athletic trophies and knick knacks…and as the soundtrack kicks into Parade of the Wooden Soldiers, Tommy spies an array of toy ones.

Eli and Nucky are out in the shed having their drink and talking about going to church. Nucky had to go since he’s a “knight” now and they laugh at how ridiculous that is. Eli wonders if they make Nucky confess but he thinks that’s just for people in “steerage.” Because he doesn’t know the proverb about rich men and getting a camel through the eye of a needle.

But that was just prologue. Eli wants to know just what he has to do to atone. He thinks nearly losing everything and now having to take Doyle’s shit should suffice but Nucky must think forgiveness is also for steerage because he whines about how Eli thinks nothing’s ever his fault and can still call himself Nucky’s “brother” and how much it all still hurts him. Well, try going to prison to have that come to Jesus moment.

Eli, sending you to prison for my crime hurt me more than it hurt you.

Eli grabs a gun off a shelf and puts it in front of Nucky. He tells Nucky to just do it already because he knows Nucky will sooner or later, and to just get it over with. Nucky picks up the gun and Eli’s eyes get watery but Nucky unloads it and asks why everything has to be a melodrama with Eli. Says the man who pitches a hissy if Eddie doesn’t pick the right pair of shoes for his suits.

NotJimmy and Gillian are in bed and he asks about her “dead husband.” He figures she married him for his money but Gillian spins a yarn about how they knew each other since they were children and even though she was older than him, and that’s difficult for a woman, they worked it out. Hmm, curious. NotJimmy asks how he died and Gillian says that he walked out one night and never came back and…no. I can’t. She just told NotJimmy that real Jimmy was her dead husband.

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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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