Boardwalk Empire Recap: Never Wish a Sicilian Good Luck

Recaps

By vallegirl | Wednesday, October 3, 2012 | 1:00 pm | 8 Comments
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Father Schuck dances around it, claiming that the bishop is just too busy for one. Margaret’s used to smelling bullshit and does her own little dance pointing out that Nucky will be so disappointed after he was so generous with the diocese and encourages Sch(m)uck to try and make it happen because she wouldn’t want the bishop to look like he’s ashamed of meeting members of his flock. Then to drive the point home, Margaret touches the priest on the arm and offers to call the bishop’s private secretary to handle the arrangements if they’re too much of a bother for him. Realizing he’s way outmatched in this battle of wits, the priest says he’s sure something can be arranged.

Whatever Peggy wants…Peggy gets.

Out in Chicago, Nelson comes back from the rest room and all his co-workers are watching and giggling as he picks up a fountain pen. He hesitates briefly, looking for his little notebook and completely misses his pink-faced co-worker barely containing his glee, then begins writing, getting sprayed with ink. Ho, ho, ho. The things you had to do to entertain yourself before your whole life was contained on a tiny phone.

As his co-workers laugh and laugh and Nelson considers taking them down to the lake for a baptism, Scotty the boss comes in and starts spouting the company slogans and selling points while Nelson haplessly wipes the ink off his face and reaches a slow burn. Once the pep talk is over, Scotty hands out the day’s leads but Nelson’s near hysteria about his shirt being splattered in ink so he hides behind his sales case and pretends the strap’s broken. Scotty’s all “freak” but leaves his leads on the desk calling Nelson a “pip and a half.”

I don’t understand what that MEANS.

We’re at a roadside diner so that can only mean one thing, the crazy’s come to town. Nucky walks into the diner and is greeted by a gravelly chipper voice welcoming him to Tabor Heights. Gyp’s set up an “office” by the window and is having coffee with his goon, who gets up when Nucky walks in, followed by the sheriff and his deputy. Gyp tries to be coy but Nucky just wants to get down to business and figure out what exactly he did to piss of Rosetti so he can negotiate a solution.

Of course, Nucky also uses the word “whom” because he forgot that thugs don’t like the fancy book larning and Gyp mocks him. But Gyp wants his booze because if he can’t provide his clients with liquor someone else will and then he’s screwed. Nucky HILARIOUSLY points out that Gyp’s acting like a petulant child because he forgot about the tantrum he threw at Babette’s because the table settings for his birthday party weren’t perfect.

Hey pot, it’s me kettle.

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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.

8 Comments

  1. 1
    aschowe
    Posted October 3, 2012 at 7:44 pm

    Excellent recap!

  2. 2
    plockeness monster
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 7:39 am

    I am wondering about the Gillian/Dead Jimmy situation too. Luciano was there when he was killed, right? So he knows. I guess Gillian is holding her hate in until the end of the season.

    Thanks for the screen cap of Jimmy. I miss him so.

  3. 3
    plockeness monster
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 7:41 am

    Valle, this, “A whole lot and yet, not much, happened this week ” PERFECTLY sums up this episode. Next week’s should be a doozey!

  4. 4
    queenofthesouth85
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 7:41 am

    Vallegirl I just wanted to tell you what an amazing recapper you are! Boardwalk Empire is my favorite show and one of the very few shows I actually watch live rather than from my DVR. But when I come on here and read your recaps it makes me see things I didn’t even catch and understand things that got past me! I love this show but you make me enjoy it even more! Very, very well written and insightful! Thank you!

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    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 11:55 am

    Thank you so much,aschowe and queen of the south. BE is my favorite show currently on, and maybe one of my favorites of all time, so it’s tough getting into the sarcastic mode because with very few exceptions (Owen) and despite being full on, batshit crazy (Gillian/Gyp) I love all the characters on the show. Probably because to an actor they seem to realize that this is going to be a highwater mark in their careers and are really delivering. I’m glad I’m able to straddle the “I love them all so much,” mentality with actually writing the recaps.

    Without giving anything away, I picked up on something from the pre-season promos that looks like it started to play out this week.

    And plockeness, Charlie wasn’t at the War Memorial when Nucky shot Jimmy. It was Owen, Manny and Eli. It seems like the only other people who know Jimmy’s dead, and Nucky killed him, are Richard and maybe Margaret, since she didn’t buy Nucky’s story, and Gillian. I just thought it was curious that in the year and a half since Jimmy’s been dead no one’s concocted a story about how he died. If for no other reason than for Nucky to assuage his guilt.

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    plockeness monster
    Posted October 4, 2012 at 1:07 pm

    Thanks for the info, Valle. You are awesome as always!!!!!!!

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    bumblebee
    Posted October 5, 2012 at 8:05 pm

    Every time Gyp is on, I think, “Wow. Will’s boyfriend really went bad.”

    Smiling Van Alden is so unnerving. It’s like seeing a dog walk around on it’s hind legs. “Haha…okay that’s cute, but now you’re starting to creep me out.” It boggles my mind that an entire office of people supposedly make their living by selling nothing but clothes irons.

    I know you don’t like Owen, but I can’t help it, I love him. What he doesn’t have in looks, he makes up for with that accent and smile. My completely uneducated guess is that Nucky flaunts Billy in front of Margaret and she hate fucks Owen by the end of the season. I LOVED when she got the woman’s clinic.

    I’m too lazy to go back and post it on the episode one recap, but, vallegirl, you mentioned the whole Irish versus Italian mob war thing. That’s super significant in this whole story, because in reality, O’Banion tricked Johnny Torrio into getting sent to prison. Then Torrio ordered O’Banion killed. Eventually, Al Capone orders the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre against the rival northsiders.

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    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted October 6, 2012 at 7:13 am

    That is the perfect way to describe Van Alden trying to smile. A for effort now cut it out. But have you seen the tumblr Michael Shannon Tries to Smile? It’s not just Nelson who isn’t used to smiling, although Shannon does manage an actual smile at least once, but the tumblr’s pretty funny. Here it is:

    http://michaelshannontriestosmile.tumblr.com/

    And thanks for the info on O’Banion. If wikipedia is to be believed, we’ve got some really good times coming out of Chicago real soon.

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