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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Nucky begs off and says they just go back a while. Gyp wants to take Nucky over to Gillian’s and Nucky’s all “Yeah, no,” then tries to soften it by saying maybe when he’s in Gyp’s “neck of the woods.” Gyp makes a face, likely from acid reflux, which prompts Nucky to catalogue all the ways he could have misinterpreted that comment then lands on the worst possible one, joking that he wasn’t implying Gyp lived in a tree.

This gets Gyp’s dander up and he thinks Nucky’s implying he’s a monkey. Exhausted from trying to read a crazy person, Nucky plainly says “Are we starting with this now?” prompting Gyp to literally grunt at him. That’s new. But Gyp’s just trying to save face so he imitates a monkey and Nucky laughs, because it’s always best to indulge the homicidal maniac.

Speaking of crazy people, Meyer’s walking Benny out and reminding him to just get the money and drop off the drugs. Benny’s peevish because it’s the same instructions every night but he’s barely off the steps when he runs into a couple of Masseria thugs and thinks he can shoot his way out of it. Luckily for Benny, tiny Meyer and his little gun saw all this and takes out one of the thugs. Even though the other thug gets away, Benny still runs after the car, firing indiscriminately and threatening to kill the thugs because he’s not a crazy hothead or anything.

Say hello to my little friend.

Nelson’s lying in bed and feeling sorry for himself until Sigrid comes back to bed to fill his head with the Stuart Smalleyisms that he repeats to himself. Tonight it’s “Confidence and opportunity, that’s what you must carry in your case.” Sigrid also tells him he should share his troubles with her, which he won’t, so she tells him to smile because he’s charming when he smiles.

Good first effort, Nelson. Keep practicing. But Sigrid knows that a handjob always works at getting a more natural smile out of Nelson and they have sex while she calls him “handsome salesman #1,” and tells him to “sell it to her.” Heh. After Rose and Lucy, plain old dirty sales talk is cute.

The blue Rolls drives up to the Artemis Club while other cars drive away. Business is brisk. Nucky and Gyp stop the car at the door as Gillian escorts a patron out and Gyp gets all swoony over her. Nucky’s trying to avoid eye contact, like she wouldn’t recognize his baby blue Rolls. Gyp attempts an apology for being a psycho and Nucky accepts what he can get because, as Gyp says, “Life’s better with friends.” Gyp gets out of the car and walks up to Gillian, kissing her hand and noticing that she’s not at all pleased to see that he came with Nucky. I’m more concerned that the two most dangerously wacked people on the show have found each other.

This can’t be good.

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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!

  5. 5
    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!!!!!!!

  7. 7
    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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