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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As Nucky and Margaret are being walked into the church for the ceremony, Nucky’s whining about being uncomfortable. Margaret, assuming he’s still bitching about having to accept the award, snots at him that he’s made his discomfort abundantly clear. Surprised at having his own petulantly childish behavior thrown back at him, he tells her he was talking about the suit. But now that she mentioned it, does she even remember the last time he was in church. Yes she does. Their wedding day. One last whine about not sleeping and it’s time for them to take their seats.

Mawwiage…that bwessed awwangement.

Nucky and Margaret take their seats in the church and as the choir sings, Nucky hallucinates Dream Baby Jimmy and his bullet hole are one of the singers. The vision spooks him enough to grab Margaret’s hand. She’s none too pleased by this development but doesn’t pull away. As “Enoch Malachai Thompson” takes his place on the altar to receive his award, Margaret has a brief moment of self-satisfaction and Nucky starts hallucinating Dream Baby Jimmy and his bullet hole again. He does manage to keep his shit together long enough to receive the medal from the bishop, though, because appearances matter.

Nelson’s finishing up his lunch at his desk and the other salesmen ask him to join them for a drink after work at some speakeasy. They want to take him out to welcome him to the “brotherhood of bullshit and blarney,” since they successfully hazed him with the pen gag. Nelson looks like he’s having a stroke but musters up his best approximation of a smile and agrees to join them.

Handsome salesman #1

With the ceremony finished, the congregation has gathered in the church hall for refreshments and Nucky’s watching that one singer like a hawk, waiting for him to turn in Dream Baby Jimmy, but he doesn’t. He’s just pocketing as many sweets as he can. Margaret and her only female friend, Cornelia, come up to talk to Nucky but he’s lost in his dream world and babbles some nonsense, cueing Cornelia to leave, again, because Margaret’s menfolk always make things awkward. Margaret notices that Nucky’s not right but he just hightails it out of there, claiming he needs to use the rest room while Margaret gets called to meet the bishop.

Nucky tries (and fails) to reach Billie one more time because there were no “missed call” messages on rotary phones in 1923 so she wouldn’t know he’s stalking her. Back with Margaret and she ever so kindly calls over Dr. Landau to meet the bishop so she can tell the bishop the good news about St. Theresa’s opening a women’s health clinic. HA! As Dr. and Mrs. Landau look queasy the bishop is interested in hearing his plans. Margaret slips in the “pre-natal care” like it’s Dr. Landau’s idea while assuaging the bishop’s concern that they’re not too “modern” in their approach before he leaves them with his blessing. Margaret tells Landau that he’s finally trapped her. She and Nucky will sponsor the clinic, as he wishes. Heh.

Like a boss. In a floral hat.

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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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