HBO's Boardwalk Empire

There should have been some kind of running deal where someone would call Jimmy a motherfucker and him just go totally off the deep end on them .... "Don't say that. Don't you ever say that!"

 

Jimmy ends up in an opium den next to Reobert DeNiro from Once Upon a Time in America (A GREAT GREAT GREAT MOVIE)

 

If I learned anything from that episode it's that sometimes you have sex with your hot mom.

 

but not until Manny/Cockeye gets killed in a gunfight

 

How about the way the James Woods character dies?

Yikes!

 

Finally got around to watching last night's episode. Wow.

Michael Pitt is a hell of an actor. Just a tour de force performance during the entire episode.

And it's pretty clear — at least to me — that Jimmy is about to (try to) patch things up with Nucky. Here's hoping Nucky doesn't react like he did when Eli came crawling back a few episodes ago.

I'd have to imagine we're done with Van Alden now. It's back to the movies for Michael Shannon, whom I respect greatly as an actor but couldn't stand his character on this show.

And since we know Lansky, Luciano and Capone aren't going to die during the timetable depicted on the show, I'm guessing it's Mickey Doyle who's going to take the next bullet.

Still waiting to see how Richard Harrow reacts to Angela's murder ... and who he blames for it.

 

That was as disturbing an hour of television as I have ever watched.
And I couldn't take my eyes off it.
I think we know now who the most badass villain in this show it. It's not Van Alden. Or Eli. Or the Commodore (RIP). Or Manny.

 

While her motive was to get the police officer out of the house, Jimmy's mother was still seemingly so judgmental when talking about the two women being lovers ... "probably not for the first time" or something along those lines is what she said ... my skin crawled watching the episode, but I, too, couldn't stop watching

 

I didn't like the episode, flashbacks like that are usually because the writers are out of ideas to advance the plot. I can't stand the Jimmy character, very miscast, not at all believable as a bootlegging mastermind.

The show should focus on the bootlegging, corruption aspects, not on the characters homelives. The same problem the Sopranos had, too much focus on the mundane, not enough focus on the main premise of the show.

And please stop with the moral conflicts of Margaret. Can't stand her either.

 

That's the point, he isn't a mastermind. He's in way over his head, partially because his mother never lets anything take its natural course.

Don't really disagree with your other points though.

 

Great episode. Great season - although it has been somewhat of a slow burn/slow build, the payoff has been excellent. And holy Oedipal complex, Jimmy.