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By vallegirl | Monday, December 12, 2011 | 1:57 am | 12 Comments
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I can’t. I just can’t. Just when you think they got all their Sopranos out of them, they do this.  And then we have to wait nine months.  Damn you, Terence Winter.

In case we forgot just how brutal Nucky is, he reminds us plenty this episode. Unfortunately for Margaret, TV wasn’t invented yet so she didn’t get to see what we did before she did what she did. At least she and the writers will have a few months to think about what she did and what Nucky will do when he finds out.

But Eli saw. And as brutal and stupid as he can be, he knows his brother. Sticking with the devil he knows, and hates, makes more sense than working with the devil he never trusted, anyway.

You know who also knows Nucky? Jimmy. Maybe not as well as he thought, but better than Nucky thinks and well enough to know what he was getting himself into when he went to that meeting, and well enough to want it to happen. And even if this whole episode, if not this whole season, was leading up to it, I still…can’t.

As for all the secondary characters, Gillian worried while Eddie got flip with Nucky and Rothstein and the boys didn’t care about Manny Horvitz or Waxy Gordon. Chalky regained some of his power, but it will always be ephemeral and at Nucky’s whim, Nelson bought a newsboy cap, Mickey was a roach, Randolph got metaphorically screwed, Halloran got the shaft, Owen was there and Richard laughed. Briefly, but he laughed.

Full recap will be up in a few days. Until then, you can catch up on last week’s recap here.

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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.

12 Comments

  1. 1
    Deja Johnson
    Posted December 12, 2011 at 2:52 am

    That swan song was poetic justice just as the ultimate scene was sheer perfection. This show made my life. Bravo.

  2. 2
    hot cawfee
    Posted December 12, 2011 at 6:17 am

    “There’s a character named Eli in Julius Caesar?”– I paraphrase but omgl– how funny. Eli — dont screw up–you saw what Nucky did to Jimmy.
    Sigh– Jimmy is gone and we must wait to watch Lady Gillian go off the rails. Will we have alot of flash backs next season ???
    And Nelson and the Nanny on the run —that will be awesome to behold—quarters are too close for him to function.

  3. 3
    Lmnopie
    Posted December 12, 2011 at 6:57 am

    I could barely watch, I gasped, hands to mouth the second I realized and pleaded with the tv, “No, Nucky, no!!”. But alas, he did it anyway.

    Great story telling, but I’m very disappointed and am going to miss Jimmy. I don’t think the show will be the same without him. Poor Richard, now he’s lost everyone.

  4. 4
    Diane Marie
    Posted December 12, 2011 at 7:10 am

    I was so disappointed with the scene where Nucky shoots Jimmy. I was sooooooo Tony suffocating Christ-a-fa in the Sopranos. And it was just as painful and shocking to watch. I agree, I didnt know the series was going to continue, but it wont be the same with Jimmy. He and Nucky were the main characters.

  5. 5
    Fan-Ann
    Posted December 12, 2011 at 8:45 am

    Nine months to wait….noooooooooooooo! . To me, one of the most important sub-plots is about the harm mothers can do to their children: Gillian was the reason Jimmy ended up in those trenches, running from her and how she destroyed his life. And Margaret, who has vacillated between being the sweet protective mother, Nucky’s partner in crime, the lady of the manor, and the guilt-ridden sinner. Her final actions here were all about assuaging her guilt. Even if she believed that God would reward her by curing her daughter, in reality she sacrificed her childrens’ safety and security by her actions.

  6. 6
    Ravencall
    Posted December 12, 2011 at 9:46 am

    After the initial shock has worn off-MAN! That was one powerful piece of work! First, I hoped he had fired over Jimmy’s shoulder and hit Eli, then that Jimmy was only grazed, but when he just ended his life point blank, hovering over him….just …masterful is all I can say. While I hate to lose characters I’ve grown to know in a show, it has such dramatic impact when the have the cajones to do it…

  7. 7
    Gypsy Rose Lee
    Posted December 12, 2011 at 12:00 pm

    Ravencall- I had the same thought- he got Eli, not Jimmy. That was just shocking. The way he kept looking at Gillian, I thought he was going to kill her or have her killed.

    I cracked up that Nelson and the nanny ended up in Cicero. That’s presumably Cicero, IL which was Al Capone and Johnny Torrio’s headquarters as they tried to stay away from Chicago police. A lot of the Capone-era mobsters had homes and/or businesses in Cicero, Oak Park, Berwyn, or Riverside.

    Some of them still live there, but quite a few have moved a little bit west to Burr Ridge, Hinsdale and Westmont.

  8. 8
    plockeness monster
    Posted December 12, 2011 at 1:56 pm

    AHHHHHHH!!! Can’t wait for the full recap. You’re the best Valle!

  9. 9
    Flipit
    Posted December 12, 2011 at 2:13 pm

    Can’t believe they did that!! I really thought they would keep him, and the relationship would be a Breaking Bad son/dad thing. NOOOOOO!! This was an awesome season. Hardly any of it was boring, and that’s a feat for this show. LOL. Can’t wait to read your recap

  10. 10
    pq
    Posted December 12, 2011 at 2:50 pm

    I can’t either vallegirl. I knew they were leading in that direction, but I never thought it would actually happen. Poor, poor Tommy. Can’t wait for the full recap!

  11. 11
    plockeness monster
    Posted December 12, 2011 at 8:31 pm

    Y’all. How do I never see these things coming?? I pay attention!!

  12. 12
    vallegirl vallegirl
    Posted December 12, 2011 at 11:55 pm

    I hope I can live up to the expectations. And I actually had heard the spoiler a couple of weeks ago but it was pretty vague and unsourced and I just couldn’t imagine it being true. Figured it was wrong…and instead I was.

    And despite it’s “glacial” pace, a lot of stuff really happens in between the nothing.

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