MiniCap: Boardwalk Empire

Recaps

By vallegirl | Monday, October 8, 2012 | 1:26 pm | 8 Comments
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Posted in: Boardwalk Empire, MiniCaps, Recaps

Does anyone else feel like this season has been really tightly wound and they keep tightening the screw? And not just Gyp or Al but everyone’s on edge. Even little Meyer’s running around killing people. And it’s still January 1923. So let’s check in with everyone.

Nucky’s in a total shit mood and taking it out on anyone who talks to him including, especially, Owen who has stopped hiding his ambition under a bushel and started thinking that his fancy hat and overcoat make him Nucky’s equal. He’s openly questioning Nucky and telling Mickey’s crew what to do, while Nucky’s standing there. Nucky pays him back by writing him up for a poor job performance and gives him a warning that he better find Rowland Smith or HR will have to take formal action. Owen’s all “whatever” but it comes out like mewling because he was there when Nucky shot Jimmy in the face.

Eli’s spying all this and I briefly think he’s dumb enough to invite Owen to his bitter party and start plotting against Nucky again, but he’s just trying to get back into Nucky’s good graces by offering his surprisingly good cop instincts. Nucky just sneers at him because Nucky’s become genuinely awful this season. Eli starts piecing a lot of things together and remembers, “Holy crap, Mickey’s incompetent” then chicken littles his way around AC but no one will listen to him because he’s still Eli. Surprisingly, this does not deter him from trying to do the right thing.

Nucky and Owen go to Smith’s hideout then get stuck there when the Prohies stop by to take care of Rowland themselves. But Rowland’s a fresh, but fresh-faced, kid who’s a charmer and a fast-talker and it seems like Nucky’s a little taken by the kid, maybe recognizing a bit of himself in Smith. Things aren’t always as they seem.

Over with the real-life gangsters, Al’s heartbroken that even at a school for the deaf his son, Sonny, is still a sweet little boy who’s easy to pick on. So he takes out his impotent rage at his child’s predicament in the worst possible way. In New York, Meyer and Charlie discuss how to address Masseria and not at all gay when Charlie talks about Meyer’s shayna punim while Meyer worriedly tells Charlie not to sit by any windows.

Meanwhile, Margaret and Dr. Mason have cleaned out the storage room and are ready to open up their women’s health clinic, except they need a nun to review the material to make sure there’s no problematical phrasing like “vagina,” “pregnant” or “menstruation.” Mason proves that it’s not just Margaret who tweaks his dickish behavior by sassing the nun then they all share an awkward moment when someone has to explain what Kotex is.

Finally, despite everything but a literal anvil landing on his head that said “Stay out of Tabor Heights,” Mickey sends off the delivery through Tabor Heights. And it ends just about as well as you’d think.

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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
    Rebecca
    Posted October 8, 2012 at 2:03 pm

    Loved the scenes with Al and Sonny. It was interesting to see another side of his character.
    Plus… they made me sob– but in a good way.

  2. 2
    Some guy
    Posted October 8, 2012 at 2:22 pm

    I think Owen had hope for Nucky to just do the booze and cut out the killing. Owen had enough killing and wants to just make money and live. I think he only killed once last year and that was a IRA thing. He had a sad look on his face all year. Need more Richard. Nucky is truly a greedy gangster and not at all likeable. They are showing him change. Great mini recap. I am sure the full recap will be fun to read.

  3. 3
    plockeness monster plockeness monster
    Posted October 8, 2012 at 6:10 pm

    In the scene where Charlie was at the Italian restaurant, I kept thinking some one was going to shoot him in head.

    Also, I think Nucky saw a young Jimmy in Rowland Smith. Did not expect Nucky to kill him.

    Even with all that chest hair, Owen is still freakig hot.

  4. 4
    Philo
    Posted October 9, 2012 at 6:00 am

    WTF is wrong with me when Al Capone brings me to tears?

  5. 5
    hot cawfee
    Posted October 9, 2012 at 6:04 am

    Not a thing Philo—he has made me tear many times—esp. when he played with Tommy and was so courtly to Angela and spoke Italian to her. This may be the season for his Emmy.
    This is such a great show—ssqqueeeeeeeeee that its back!!!!!! And that we are all back together again.

  6. 6
    bumblebee
    Posted October 10, 2012 at 2:14 pm

    I totally agree about this season being wound so tight. I’m pretty sure I held my breath when they were in the basement. This was a really great episode.

    The actor to plays Capone is awesome. He was the gang leader in “This Is England” and was incredible in that, too.

  7. 7
    Classy Drunk Classy Drunk
    Posted October 10, 2012 at 2:45 pm

    philo..I was thinking the same thing. I am not supposed to like Al right…but I think I do.

    I didn’t care for Owen this episode. He’s getting to big for his britches. I figured Nucky would kill the young man. He turned on his old boss too easily.

    Where’s Richard?

  8. 8
    lalaluvr
    Posted October 10, 2012 at 6:49 pm

    Hi Vallegirl thanks for recapping, new to posting on this show. I had to watch it twice because I couldn’t keep up. It really is one of the best shows on HBO.

    I loved how Margaret stuck it to the Head MFIC of the hospital and got her women’s clinic.

    Al got me misty eyed too with ‘my buddy’ (sob).

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