Welcome back, Trasheleh. After last season’s premiere featured Gyp Rosetti going on one of the most sublimely vulgar rants then passing off a dead man’s dog to Margaret as a gift, this new season was destined to start more slowly but they more than made up for it with gorgeous Wyeth and Hopper looking shots. So I’m expecting this season, much like the Onyx Club, to be sleeker and subtler. But still blood-soaked. This is Boardwalk Empire after all. Pretty!Anyway, previously Gillian became a junkie hooker who still had her good manners because even if she was raised in a group home doesn’t mean she doesn’t have class. Then she met Peter Gibbons and remembered what it was like to be courted by a man who wasn’t older, creepy or deranged. Al brought his big brothers out to Chicago, who still didn’t show him no respect. until he tried to beat one with a shoe and even then, not so much. The New York crew agreed to see other people, creating a very awkward scene when they all gathered so Nucky could pay off Masseria for last season’s massacre. WHAT!?!?Dunn picked the wrong week to start banging white women. No one pointed out that some kid started living at Eli’s house pretending to be one of his 98 kids. And Richard went home to Wisconsin, and his wonder twin Emma, only killing three people along the way. Fade up on a knock on a door and an instrumental version of It Had to Be You and AWESOME! Nelson’s back and he’s delivering flowers for Dean O’Banion. First to Mrs. Grant to congratulate her on her new baby. Then to Professor Foley to offer condolences on the death of his wife. Finally to Mr. Hewlitt … who just gets a punch in the nose and a demand for the money he owes O’Banion. Candygram …Hewlitt promises to pay up the next day so Nelson can take a moment to lift what cash Hewlitt has and preach that it’s better not to vow than to vow and not pay. Yes, and it’s better not to kill your partner than to drown him in front of a Baptist congregation but we all make mistakes, Nelson. Richard returns to Emma’s farmhouse and in a not at all creepy, Angelina Jolie/James Haven way, they’ve pretty much set up house like a loveless married couple, as Emma tells Richard that Sampson the dog ran off. Emma’s butchering a chicken while Richard forages for his straws that Emma’s already moved around on him as they foreshadow how the dog’s gotten so old and senile that he doesn’t recognize them. Except Richard’s been gone for five years so what does he expect? Then they quibble over who raised Sampson so Emma can exposit that Richard was the big softie who indulged the dog while she had to train him. Why did I want him to come home all these years again?Then they move on to talk about Richard […]
Welcome back, Trasheleh. After last season’s premiere featured Gyp Rosetti going on one of the most sublimely vulgar rants then passing off a dead man’s dog to Margaret as a gift, this new season was destined to start more slowly but they more than made up for it with gorgeous Wyeth and Hopper looking shots. So I’m expecting this season, much like the Onyx Club, to be sleeker and subtler. But still blood-soaked. This is Boardwalk Empire after all. Pretty!Anyway, previously Gillian became a junkie hooker who still had her good manners because even if she was raised in a group home doesn’t mean she doesn’t have class. Then she met Peter Gibbons and remembered what it was like to be courted by a man who wasn’t older, creepy or deranged. Al brought his big brothers out to Chicago, who still didn’t show him no respect. until he tried to beat one with a shoe and even then, not so much. The New York crew agreed to see other people, creating a very awkward scene when they all gathered so Nucky could pay off Masseria for last season’s massacre. WHAT!?!?Dunn picked the wrong week to start banging white women. No one pointed out that some kid started living at Eli’s house pretending to be one of his 98 kids. And Richard went home to Wisconsin, and his wonder twin Emma, only killing three people along the way. Fade up on a knock on a door and an instrumental version of It Had to Be You and AWESOME! Nelson’s back and he’s delivering flowers for Dean O’Banion. First to Mrs. Grant to congratulate her on her new baby. Then to Professor Foley to offer condolences on the death of his wife. Finally to Mr. Hewlitt … who just gets a punch in the nose and a demand for the money he owes O’Banion. Candygram …Hewlitt promises to pay up the next day so Nelson can take a moment to lift what cash Hewlitt has and preach that it’s better not to vow than to vow and not pay. Yes, and it’s better not to kill your partner than to drown him in front of a Baptist congregation but we all make mistakes, Nelson. Richard returns to Emma’s farmhouse and in a not at all creepy, Angelina Jolie/James Haven way, they’ve pretty much set up house like a loveless married couple, as Emma tells Richard that Sampson the dog ran off. Emma’s butchering a chicken while Richard forages for his straws that Emma’s already moved around on him as they foreshadow how the dog’s gotten so old and senile that he doesn’t recognize them. Except Richard’s been gone for five years so what does he expect? Then they quibble over who raised Sampson so Emma can exposit that Richard was the big softie who indulged the dog while she had to train him. Why did I want him to come home all these years again?Then they move on to talk about Richard […]