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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Inside, Mickey’s delivery boy is finally bringing that case of exposition booze. Richard’s stocking the bar and the delivery boy tries to start up a friendly conversation about how great it would be to work in a brothel, even if you can’t get with the women. Then tells Richard, in confidence, that Mickey bragged about killing Manny. He thinks Mickey’s dangerous even if he looks dopey, totally missing Richard’s own dangerous look in his eye. Which, I’ll let you write your own jokes.

Nucky’s still trying to get Billie on the phone when Margaret walks in. Really, Nucky? He’s home so they can all head down to the church for the ceremony together. And he’s having problems sleeping. Margaret could not give less of a shit if Nucky paid her so she tells him to try some warm milk then walks off to bed.

As Nucky grabs his scotch a young woman’s voice is reciting “Dream-Love” by Christina Rossetti (no relation) with all the passion and zeal of a middle schooler while a harpist plucks along. Wow, Gillian really wants her patrons to work for their right to pay women to have sex with them. Gyp’s bored senseless and tells the young woman, Evelyn (?), that he didn’t understand a word of the poem…but it was beautiful.

I think that’s what you call “seller’s remorse.”

Gillian offers Gyp and the goon more entertainment like singing, dancing, “games of chance and skill,” but Gyp gets up and growls that he wants to talk to her alone. Gillian’s bemused and says that’s not what he came for but Gyp takes the classy route and tells her not to sell herself short. In the face of such unbridled flattery, Gillian can only say yes. Sadly, they actually go to the sitting room to talk as Gyp compliments Gillian on the décor but wonders about the upkeep. Gillian tells him he need not worry but he does, because she does. So does her partner, Luciano. Oh yeah, and Nucky. He’s worried.

Gillian covers nicely and the hesitation was barely noticeable when she says she wouldn’t know about that. Gyp pours two more drinks and starts nosing around in what exactly is Gillian’s relationship to Nucky, but all she’ll give up is that she has to pay him off to do business in AC. Feeling a kinship to Gillian, Gyp goes off on a “poor me,” rant but backs off when she turns on her hostess voice.

Does this face give me away?

Instead, Gyp flatters her that she’s smart, gorgeous and a great businesswoman but Nucky treats her like dirt. Gillian drops some hints that she’s not the only one and “she’s heard things,” like Nucky’s own brother, Eli, tried to have him killed. Well, that’s “what they say.” Gyp gets all intense and says when you lose your own flesh and blood, what have you got? Gillian looks like she’s about to shatter but holds it together and tells him you don’t have anything. These two aren’t going to be a problem.

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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.

  6. 6
    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.

  8. 8
    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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