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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Thankfully even Gillian wants to change the subject and asks where they’ll go with the money from the house. NotJimmy thinks they should go to Cuba so they can order rum punches and see where that takes them. This, like everything else, gets him horny but Gillian has an idea. They should take a bath first because she’s feeling a little bit “greasy.”

Tommy’s on the floor playing with the tin soldiers and making up a story when Paul comes in asking Tommy what he’s doing. Tommy tells Paul that “the cowboys are fighting the Germans” but Paul just grabs him by the back of his neck and picks him up off the ground. Tommy’s screaming and the others come running upstairs. Paul’s wild-eyed with anger and grief, screaming that Tommy was touching Freddie’s stuff. Julia tries to talk him down but Paul’s still belligerent and says Freddie’s stuff matters more than the kid or the “freak” she invited. Even more than her.

What, Daddy-O? I’m just catching a buzz, playing Cowboys and Germans.

Julia gets hurt, telling him he’s drunk and doesn’t know what he’s saying. Paul’s still angry, if not wild-eyed and grief-stricken so Richard steps in, telling Paul to let go of Tommy. Still thinking he’s dealing with the punks from the Legion Hall, Paul gets liquor-brave and asks “Or what?” Richard tells him plainly that he’ll kill him. Clearly, Paul can recognize that look so he lets Tommy go and tells Richard to leave. One last howl about how they’re all strangers then Paul locks himself in Freddie’s room to grieve over his dead son.

The others try to rush out of the house as Julia offers to make them plates to take home. The younger vets are all “Yeah, no…” but the third, older one, Mr. Corbett, kindly offers to help since he’s been there, too. This leave Richard and Tommy. Julia somehow managed to swipe a tin soldier for Tommy but Richard’s agitated and tells her she’s coming with him and Tommy. She’s a little confused but I think she agrees. Those two speak in fits and bursts. They have to be each other’s lobster. Who else can understand them?

You’re more awkward than me. Marry me? Oops, too soon?

Beautiful Dreamer is warbling in the weirdest way. Oh, one of the Thompson daughters is playing it on the handsaw. As you do. Everyone applauds because TV hadn’t been invented yet, and June suggests Eli “do his pirate” for them. Heh. But they do have eight kids, who knows what that could mean. Eli says he’s sitting this one out so Brian suggests Uncle Nucky. The kids start chanting and cheering for him so he “humbly” says it’s been years while preparing to entertain. Then Brian tells him to show some leg. That boy’s a real Thompson.

Nucky stands in front of the family and tells some corny jokes, asking Teddy where he’s from (Nucky’s house) and if he can borrow some of Teddy’s eggs. The spry McTigue must have been in the whole episode because Teddy expresses amusement and Nucky starts his tale. And I’ll let Nucky tell it to you.

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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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