^ Stanley, Alessandra (September 16, 2010).Riccardo DiLoreto & Cristine Chambers and Howard Korder Howard Korder & Cristine Chambers & Terence Winter Main article: Boardwalk Empire (season 5) No. Main article: Boardwalk Empire (season 4) No.ĭavid Matthews & Jennifer Ames & Steve Turner Main article: Boardwalk Empire (season 3) No. Howard Korder & Steve Kornacki & Bathsheba Doran Main article: Boardwalk Empire (season 2) No. Margaret may want to flee Nucky with Owen, but Richard seems destined to flee Gillian with Tommy, and godspeed.Main article: Boardwalk Empire (season 1) No. The kiss was fantastic, as was the bit of lipstick that was left on his mask. In Margaret's way, he's also cultivating a side-relationship with Julia, and I loved the twist that they weren't dancing because of Richard - in fact, he's a great dancer who actually has a bit of theatrical flare. But she is mean and unfair to him, like a wicked stepmother, and he bears it quietly and with grace much like Margaret does. Gillian seems both jealous of Josie and resentful of Richard, and I don't have the time or inclination to unpack that. Gillian, taking no responsibility for Tommy in the least (except when is convenient for her) and punishing Richard for things I don't really understand, blames him when Tommy is traumatized thanks to some mean whores. Leftover from the last two seasons are the continuing stories of Richard Harrow, Tommy and Gillian (and in the "everybody is crazy" theme, Gillian remains true to herself). Him stealing the Mad Anthony Wayne captain's hat was a nice flourish, and it appears that his Last Stand against Nucky may be more complex and interesting than his attacks earlier in the season. He called Nucky to taunt him, but didn't get upset when Nucky hung up on him. Is this The Boss' influence? He didn't kill the Sheriff, he just beat him up. But in "The Milkmaid's Lot" for the first time he nearly seemed on top of things. I still don't like Gyp, I think he's one-dimensional and clearly a one-season irritant that, the quicker he's disposed of, the better. Would even the woman running the Bible Camp be bought off by gangsters? Couldn't someone just, I don't know, leave and try to bring in the police or something? Then again, who knows better than the residents of Tabor Heights how corrupt the police can be? For them, perhaps $200/mo is just a fine price over not, you know, getting gunned down in the street (Historical footnote: $200 in 1922 is roughly $2500 in today's money). On Gyp's side of things, his takeover of the town of Tabor Heights was a risky one. Not to mention where things will go with Margaret, who is primed for flight. Gee, I wonder who will prevail? But the outcome isn't the thing, it's how it will go down and what it will mean when it's all over, for Nucky's business and for the new enemies he's made with this broken alliance. So here we have Nucky and Gyp set up for a face-off, just the two of them. Out of respect they gathered, Arnold told Nucky calmly, but that's as far as it's going to go. Turns out, Gyp doesn't have the backing of The Boss after all, which is good for Nucky since his gangster coalition of Arnold Rothstein, Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Waxy Gordon, and some folks called Peg Leg, Frankie and Wild Bill Lovett didn't materialize as planned. The blast and the war with Gyp that it escalated took a funny turn - not funny ha ha, but funny like Mad Anthony Wayne. He was helpless and confused but still willful and stubborn, an unfortunate combination. After the blast at Babbette's, though, Nucky (though still irritating) became just plain pitiful. Last week Nucky was acting like a petulant brute, attempting to control Billie, beating up harmless actors and continuing his reign of arrogance and petty behavior. Perhaps the best way to help remind us that Nucky is actually the protagonist of the show was to knock him down a few pegs.
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