Boardwalk Empireis entering the back half of its season, and with that comes plenty of set up.
What is this, Westeros?
Maybe they should invest in a map to start each episode likeGame of Thrones.
Hit the jump for why you should never order a steak for someone who doesn’t want it.
“William Wilson” started to bring, slowly, a number of the show’s myriad characters together.
Joe Torrio and Dean O’Bannion are caught in a raid together that Al is certain O’Bannion set up.
Knox is also using Gaston Means to manipulate Nucky and protect his (Knox’s) true identity.
Off orbiting nearby is Margaret, who has a run-in with Rothstein.
Small town, this New York.
But the show has not given away enough yet to see how.
It’s that loss of direction thatBoardwalkhas suffered from since Jimmy’s death.
Where are we headed?
Is Nucky’s ascension or redemption still something we even still care about?
It was, ultimately, an hour that suggested you cannot outrun or hide from your past.
Even George Remus showed up to throw however many of his former associates under the bus that he could.
Perhaps “William Wilson” was just bringing everyone down into their particular misery.
“William Wilson” was talky and heavily focused on plot points: it was functional.
These kinds of episodes are always difficult to review.
Did it do its job in achieving something?
There were a number of building blocks that are clearly setting up confrontations to come.
Episode Rating: U (ungraded, because it simplywas).
If you like crime novels,Compulsion(a fictionalized version of the events) is a must.
– “Willies a good kid, but sometimes like his father he acts without thinking” - Nucky.
– Al is about to go fully off the rails, isn’t he?
–Stephen Root,always a pleasure!
Perhaps this is part of her new life.
– Margaret also is keeping the alligator on her desk that Nucky intended for Teddy.
Does this portend an eventual reconciliation?
– Oh Hoover, ya jerk.
Knox is going to lose it and go after him somehow.
History would suggest this won’t end in his favor.
– Do I buy Roy as Gillian’s white knight?
I don’t know that I do, nor do I particularly care.
– Speaking of which, the Narcisse/Maitland/Chalky/Purnsley story this week was too obvious.
Narcisse is just another crazy seasonal criminal in the vein of Gyp Rosetti.
I suppose it keeps things interesting though.
– Hoover: “What do you know about Tampa?”
Remus: “It’s humid.”
