Boardwalk Empire Recap: Easter Eggs and Lovely Heroin

Recaps

By vallegirl | Thursday, November 1, 2012 | 11:00 am | 7 Comments
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And just when you think you couldn’t find another reason to love Steve Buscemi, you learn he’s an old vaudevillian at heart and can juggle.

Margaret nearly tears up from how charming Nucky was and June encourages her to go next. She tries to back off, but Nucky affectionately says he’d like to see what she has up her sleeve. They banter briefly and Margaret takes her place. She’s awkward and shy and undersells the song, calling it a bit of nonsense, but it’s a lively Irish folk song and Nucky gets wistful as Margaret’s voice gets tinkly and far off.

Over at the midway, Tommy’s moping around while Richard and Julia hang back. She looks for sympathy from Richard over how awful the dinner was and Richard sweetly tells her that “It didn’t really turn out very well.” She’s thrown by his honesty and tells Richard he’s supposed to say something comforting. This prompts Richard to make a joke and say “In that case, he had a wonderful time,” but Julia shows she’s very much Paul’s daughter when she can’t figure out if he’s teasing her or not and just has a mild freak out instead.

Are you laughing or choking? They sound the same.

She also has no attention span because she gets distracted by the crocodile boy. Richard says they can find out if he’s real for a nickel but she gets scared and starts to say that she’s not afraid to look him at him then has another minor freak out when she remembers who she’s talking to. Richard tells her she can say anything she wants to him so she tells him not to threaten to kill her father because she doesn’t like it. He lies that he was just trying to sound tough.

Julia’s not really looking for any more tough guys and Richard tentatively asks what she is looking for. She starts a thought about looking for a raise but gets distracted, again, when she sees Tommy getting a little too close to a camel. Richard runs after the boy and pulls him away because camels bite but Tommy doesn’t care. Julia cuts through his mood and asks if he’s going to sulk all night because her father’s a dope. Tommy sulks out a “No” then wanders off, again.

Julia thinks the boy needs to go home then says she should, too. Richard tries to ask her something but he calls her “Miss Sagorsky” and Julia corrects him that her name is “Julia.” Richard reintroduces himself as Richard and they shake on calling each other by their first names. Then to hammer the metaphor home, one of the carney hustlers pulls Richard and Julia over so he can take their picture, with Tommy rounding out the “happy family,” for 50 cents.

Happy, loving couples make it look so easy.

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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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