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Boardwalk’s best episodes are the ones with the most narrow focus.
Still, without Richard Harrow, Van Alden, Margaret and others, something felt like it was missing.
Last week I didn’t gradeBoardwalkbecause the episode was purely functional.
It was talky, but entertaining in the basic way the show always is.
We’ve been here before though, with the brothers torn apart.
Nucky paused and countered, “And youwantto be?”
Willie says yes, but Nucky is right to be wary.
The last college boy he took under his wing to learn the business he ended up murdering.
But whileBoardwalkhas yet to really find its direction this year, it didn’t seem consequential in this hour.
But he likes it, clearly, with Sally in a way he never did with Margaret.
He could drop them if he wanted to).
Knox is on the case.
– I liked the stories the agents were telling about the gangsters, especially about how entertaining A.R.
is (which we know!)
– So, Eli is basically fucked.
Unless he goes double agent on this.
– Sally: “He came, he saw.”
Mickey: “He conched her?”
– Nice scenes between Chalky and Maitlin this week, especially the song.
– How terrible was Narcisse’s play, and how amazing is his ego?
The song “Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It’s Flavor (On The Bedpost Overnight?)”
was made popular in 1959, but was originally released in 1924.
And remains popular to this day!
– Chalky: “That’s the blues.”
Nucky: “They picked the right color.”
