The waning hours of Nucky’s gangland battle with Lucky and Meyer mirror the show’s twilight as well.
The gangsters are tired.
Many of them are dead.
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Lindsay admired Nucky’s tenacity, and showed him what a loving home looks like.
In “Friendless Child,” though, even Lindsay had had enough.
He doesn’t seem to have the same driving force, and, frankly, greed that Nucky has.
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Nucky then, of course, killed Jimmy (and his wife Angela).
Would it not be poetic, then, for Jimmy’s son to return and kill Nucky?
His fight to stay relevant, and to build his business interests back up, have been thwarted.
That struggle is one he has to face now, because everything else he had is gone.
That empire he longed to build has crumble, with nothing in its place.
But there is one thing (or, person) to remain against all odds: Gillian.
And with her, Nucky has the opportunity to again to save someone, just like he was saved.
It may also be his final act.
– Maranzano’s murder was brutal.
I like how they wove in that historical connection, and made Nucky the one behind the hit.
He just wants to do right.
Is Willie part of Nucky’s repeating history too, or is he the one who will break free?
This season, though, he seems to be going his own way.
– Eli is also breaking my heart.
He looked broken down as hell, too, when he went to meet Willie.
– Bugsy Siegel was one obnoxious little shit, apparently.
That’s an unholy trio he’s in with Meyer and Lucky, too.
I loved the framing gear, though, when Torrio was literally left behind during the party.
Make way – there’s a new sheriff.
– Lucky: “What does that make you?”
Nucky: “Dumber than I knew.”
Lucky: “Good words for the headstone.”
She had the potential for so much more, and it was just wasted in the last few seasons.
– “I’m not looking for absolution, but relief.
[…] Everything in this world has been taken from me” - Gillian.
Thank God someone finally killed Mickey Doyle, though.
A scumbag until the end.
– “What is it you expect me to be?”
