How is this episode so underrated? This is up there with Gimcrack & Bunkum.
What an eventful 58 minutes - Darmody, Capone, Luciano, Lansky, Harrow, Doyle and Thompson (not the one you're meant to root for!) all under one roof was absolutely fascinating! All my favourite characters plotting together, it was a marvel. This scene was the writers way of demonstrating the rise of the second generation bootleggers (the most impactful generation of all.) It's the youth, the new bloods. Jimmy said it perfectly, "Nucky Thompson, Johnny Torio, Rothstein, Waxy Gordon they have any problems, they come to us." Eli's disdain for his brother is at an all time high in this episode, his position is cold and nonchalant. I love the back and forth between Luciano and Capone "What? We counting notches now?" These are some my favourite characters in the whole series!
The emotional narrative though, comes from Margaret's subplot. It was so heartwarming to see her reunite with her family, although later we find out her secret: she left Ireland because she was pregnant, the most heartbreaking part of it all, is that on her voyage she miscarried. She must have met Hans Schroeder in Atlantic City and thus her story in Boardwalk Empire began. I hope her family will reappear later in the series they add an element of warmth that is not so common in the show, especially her little sister who is none other than Debbie from Shameless!
Van Alden as always proves his honour in very peculiar ways. Here we see him tell the ADA about his child with Lucy and then hands her his file on Nucky - I think he was hoping the ADA would trust him and offer to help with his situation, which she did.
Owen's subplot was a little confusing, at first I thought he was tipped by Jimmy about the planned hit on Nucky, and that's why he killed the Irishman but later we find that's not so. Nevertheless these series of events lead to something that has been bubbling under the surface for a few episodes now: the consummation of a romantic affair between Margaret and Owen. This could spell disaster for both of them.
Disaster however is promised for one character: Jimmy. How could he think it's okay to warn Nucky about the hit and still let it happen? He'll surely die for this, which saddens me.
What an eventful 58 minutes - Darmody, Capone, Luciano, Lansky, Harrow, Doyle and Thompson (not the one you're meant to root for!) all under one roof was absolutely fascinating! All my favourite characters plotting together, it was a marvel. This scene was the writers way of demonstrating the rise of the second generation bootleggers (the most impactful generation of all.) It's the youth, the new bloods. Jimmy said it perfectly, "Nucky Thompson, Johnny Torio, Rothstein, Waxy Gordon they have any problems, they come to us." Eli's disdain for his brother is at an all time high in this episode, his position is cold and nonchalant. I love the back and forth between Luciano and Capone "What? We counting notches now?" These are some my favourite characters in the whole series!
The emotional narrative though, comes from Margaret's subplot. It was so heartwarming to see her reunite with her family, although later we find out her secret: she left Ireland because she was pregnant, the most heartbreaking part of it all, is that on her voyage she miscarried. She must have met Hans Schroeder in Atlantic City and thus her story in Boardwalk Empire began. I hope her family will reappear later in the series they add an element of warmth that is not so common in the show, especially her little sister who is none other than Debbie from Shameless!
Van Alden as always proves his honour in very peculiar ways. Here we see him tell the ADA about his child with Lucy and then hands her his file on Nucky - I think he was hoping the ADA would trust him and offer to help with his situation, which she did.
Owen's subplot was a little confusing, at first I thought he was tipped by Jimmy about the planned hit on Nucky, and that's why he killed the Irishman but later we find that's not so. Nevertheless these series of events lead to something that has been bubbling under the surface for a few episodes now: the consummation of a romantic affair between Margaret and Owen. This could spell disaster for both of them.
Disaster however is promised for one character: Jimmy. How could he think it's okay to warn Nucky about the hit and still let it happen? He'll surely die for this, which saddens me.
