***OFFICIAL*** Boardwalk Empire thread (3 Viewers)

[fantasycurse42]

Best scene of the entire series was Mickey getting struck with the cane. Annoying prick.

Heh-heh-heh-heh

That was great.

 

[fantasycurse42]

Yeah, Nucky always pursues the least interesting women

She is the polar opposite of Mrs. Schroeder.

I'm not a fan of either... I did like the broadway girl from last season though.

 

[Gr00vus]

What does Patricia Arquette have on somebody such that she got this role?

Up to now, they've actually shown Nucky getting down with his woman - this year we get muted sounds from one room over while watching Willie.

She's a flesh avalanche.

 

[Gr00vus]

Oh yeah - suck it Pernsley.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

I did like the broadway girl from last season though.

She was the cat's pajamas.

 

[biggamer3]

I am a week late with this, but Willy's college girl was much hotter when she was in the cute little outfit, then when we saw her nude she was like just decent, nothing special.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Call me crazy but I have really liked this season. Even the cheesy college drama with Eli's son was entertaining to me. In seasons past I would get instantly bored from most Margaret scenes and her whiny little demeanor.

I think this season is being set up very methodically to an explosive final few episodes.

I like it. Seems like most of the Atlantic City plot-lines came together this week inclusive of the FBI.

We still don't know why agent Knox had that other agent killed early on, right?

I assumed that he knew the agent was too corrupt to work with and it showed us that Knox doesn't have a moral compass either; he will go to Van Alden lengths.

The odd thing is they made a point a few weeks ago to say he's missing, rather than he was killed in the line of duty.

 

[Brady Marino]

Oh yeah - suck it Pernsley.

I actually was sad he died. But, this show enjoys whacking characters you like.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Oh yeah - suck it Pernsley.

I actually was sad he died. But, this show enjoys whacking characters you like.

Yeah. Pernsley was a pretty fun character.

 

[Gr00vus]

Oh yeah - suck it Pernsley.

I actually was sad he died. But, this show enjoys whacking characters you like.

Yeah. Pernsley was a pretty fun character.

He was a good character. I was a bit surprised they closed him out this early, but you knew it was coming eventually. Don't #### with Chalky. Wasn't thrilled that he had to have floozy save his life, I'd rather see him handle his own business, but her choice does set up what should be an interesting end game between Chalky and captain Libya. I hope Chalky comes out of it alive. He, Harrow, Van Alden and Capone are the show for me.

 

[biggamer3]

Call me crazy but I have really liked this season. Even the cheesy college drama with Eli's son was entertaining to me. In seasons past I would get instantly bored from most Margaret scenes and her whiny little demeanor.

I think this season is being set up very methodically to an explosive final few episodes.

I like it. Seems like most of the Atlantic City plot-lines came together this week inclusive of the FBI.

We still don't know why agent Knox had that other agent killed early on, right?

I assumed that he knew the agent was too corrupt to work with and it showed us that Knox doesn't have a moral compass either; he will go to Van Alden lengths.

The odd thing is they made a point a few weeks ago to say he's missing, rather than he was killed in the line of duty.

I think the guy they said was missing was the first Nucky government insider who was arrested or charged with corruption.

 

[gump]

Chalky had a little more fight in him than Purnsley realized...I guess the only fight he's seen him in was in the jail cell, and Chalky didn't lift a finger.

 

[Daywalker]

Yeah, Nucky always pursues the least interesting women

I found her matronly breasts to be oddly intriguing.

So did the nephew.

 

[Daywalker]

Chalky had a little more fight in him than Purnsley realized...I guess the only fight he's seen him in was in the jail cell, and Chalky didn't lift a finger.

It was poorly done. Chalky has the jump on Purnsley and decides to fight him to the death?

Chalky should have played with Purnsley, as he did, before putting a bullet in him. Purnsley, still a little life left, falls on Chalkey and starts to strangle him. Girl then stabs Purnsley.

Same result without being ridiculous.

 

[biggamer3]

Chalky had a little more fight in him than Purnsley realized...I guess the only fight he's seen him in was in the jail cell, and Chalky didn't lift a finger.

It was poorly done. Chalky has the jump on Purnsley and decides to fight him to the death?

Chalky should have played with Purnsley, as he did, before putting a bullet in him. Purnsley, still a little life left, falls on Chalkey and starts to strangle him. Girl then stabs Purnsley.

Same result without being ridiculous.

Yeah, I felt that Chalky could have played it like he was going to leave with Purns and then put a bullet in him. But Chalky was probably not thinking straight since he probably just found out that Purns was backstabbing him then.

 

[Raider Nation]

And they telegraphed the girl coming to save the day. Although my money was on a cast-iron skillet instead of a knife.

 

[Daywalker]

Nitpicking, but what was the point of trying to undermine Chalky? Just going to lead to war. Just take out Chalky early. Narcisse has the club ties for leverage with Nucky and he could have assumed leadership within the black community by pinning everything on Chalky. Narcisse even knew Chalky was Nucky's pawn for the most part.

It was clumsy. But I guess it's better to have Chalky going forward then Narcisse's ridiculous character.

 

[Daywalker]

And they telegraphed the girl coming to save the day. Although my money was on a cast-iron skillet instead of a knife.

Yeah I was waiting for that.

 

[Daywalker]

Chalky had a little more fight in him than Purnsley realized...I guess the only fight he's seen him in was in the jail cell, and Chalky didn't lift a finger.

It was poorly done. Chalky has the jump on Purnsley and decides to fight him to the death?

Chalky should have played with Purnsley, as he did, before putting a bullet in him. Purnsley, still a little life left, falls on Chalkey and starts to strangle him. Girl then stabs Purnsley.

Same result without being ridiculous.

Yeah, I felt that Chalky could have played it like he was going to leave with Purns and then put a bullet in him. But Chalky was probably not thinking straight since he probably just found out that Purns was backstabbing him then.

Just because Purns knew where he was?

 

[Daywalker]

Would like to see things come to a head with Nucky and his brother over the nephew. Nucky ends up killing his brother and taking on his nephew as the heir apparent. Leading to eventually the nephew finds out and realizes Nuckys' true colors.

Would help if the nephew was a bit more charismatic. He's not horrible just pale's in comparison to Jimmy.

 

[Raider Nation]

Outside of the action in Illinois, the warfare on this season of "Boardwalk Empire" has been of the cold variety: lots of stealthy moves and countermoves, with players either focusing on the long game or oblivious to the fact that they're at war in the first place.That sort of combat plays to the strengths of certain characters like Dr. Narcisse, Rothstein and Gaston Bullock Means, less so to men like Chalky White or Eli Thompson. They have their political gifts — Chalky has successfully controlled an entire voting bloc for Nucky for years, and Eli had a healthy run as sheriff — but they've been developed more out of necessity than preference. Chalky has never been entirely comfortable in his fancy clothes and his bourgeois life; usually, when we see a White family dinner, it ends in him resentfully chasing away his more refined wife and kids. Eli can supervise business for Nucky, but pretty much every defining Eli moment of the series — including a great one here in the diner booth with Tolliver and his partner — involves his volcanic temper getting the better of him.

Chalky and Eli are at the fulcrums of the two big plot pivots of "The Old Ship of Zion," but they end the hour in very different circumstances.

I've been worried for weeks that Chalky is badly outclassed by Narcisse, and now too entranced by Daughter Maitland to have the first chance of figuring out what's happening to his own organization and community. It turns out he's not completely at a loss, as he brutally cleans up the shooting gallery Dunn has been running on Baltic Avenue(*), then very publicly calls out Narcisse in front of his potential new followers. Their confrontation in the street is among the best-looking "Boardwalk" sequences ever (unsurprisingly in an episode directed by Tim Van Patten), with Chalky defiantly banging on a trash can lid and Narcisse glowering through fire and smoke as he recognizes that this illiterate hustler has temporarily gotten the better of him.

(*) As always, reference to any of the Atlantic City streets from Monopoly makes for a disorienting moment.

And even Chalky's unabiding love for Daughter Maitland winds up serving him well, as it turns out that she hasn't just been playacting with him. She feels enough for him — and how could she not, after he poetically describes the sound of her voice as "like you tying up a secret"? — to warn him of the threat Dunn poses. (Though Chalky's antennae had been up about Dunn for most of the episode.) What follows is more gorgeously shot tension (with each man standing as far from each other as possible in the apartment), and then brutal action, with callbacks to Chalky and Dunn's first encounter in the Atlantic City jail, and with Chalky surviving against his much larger and more powerful opponent only through the intervention of his lover. I'll miss Dunn Purnsley as both a character and a foil for Chalky (do any of Chalky's other underlings even have names?), but as with Eddie a few weeks ago, he went out in memorable fashion, and now sets up a new, more open phase in the White/Narcisse battle.

Speaking of Eddie, Agent Tolliver(**) finds a new weak link in the Thompson organization, and this time a man like Eli who has everything to lose. Eddie had the ability to escape his predicament in the exact manner in which he did. Were Eli to jump off a balcony at the Albatross, Willie would still be in danger of prosecution for Henry's murder, and who knows what would become of his wife and his other kids?

(**) There was a stilted quality to Brian Geraghty's performance that I thought worked when he was posing as Agent Knox, but that hasn't always served him so well when he's in Tolliver mode.

In an ideal world for Nucky — who remains a largely passive(***) background figure so far this season, here befuddled by the arrival of Sally with the first load from Tampa — Eli would come to him with this news and they would find a way to escape the noose Tolliver seems to have placed around Eli and Willie. But relations between the brothers have always been strained, and they're at another bad spot right now because Willie seems to be turning to his uncle for parental advice, and because the two of them kept the Henry story secret from Eli. I don't anticipate the Bureau of Investigation collaring Nucky anytime soon, but Eli's an ideal target for Tolliver in more ways than one. It's not like he hasn't already demanded his own brother's murder, right?

(***) One very active, satisfying moment for Nucky: he takes back Eddie's cane and beats on the annoying Mickey with it. The decor, management and entertainment at the club have all changed, but Mickey Doyle is still getting assaulted by his colleagues there.

Another strong outing, particularly on Chalky's side of town. As I've been saying, so far this season feels a bit more loosely-constructed than the last few, but most of the individual are really strong, and they've got several episodes left to tie together as much as they want to.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Man, someone puts a knife through my mouf, I'm just calling it a day right there.

 

[jdoggydogg]

That was an epic fight.

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

And they telegraphed the girl coming to save the day. Although my money was on a cast-iron skillet instead of a knife.

Yeah I was waiting for that.

I thought she was going to backstab chalky.

 

[gump]

How did Daughter warn Chalky?

 

[Billy Bats]

Where does the chick put all of her hair when she performs at the club?

 

[Raider Nation]

And they telegraphed the girl coming to save the day. Although my money was on a cast-iron skillet instead of a knife.

Yeah I was waiting for that.

I thought she was going to backstab chalky.

Chalky ain't goin nowheres.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Man, someone puts a knife through my mouf, I'm just calling it a day right there.

Wasn't it a piece of wood? Like from the window frame?

 

[fantasycurse42]

I really hope Narcisse is killed soon, although I think he sticks around for the season (hopefully not longer)...

If Narcisse doesn't go, it will be Chalky, which would suck!

 

[Aerial Assault]

Man, someone puts a knife through my mouf, I'm just calling it a day right there.

Wasn't it a piece of wood? Like from the window frame?

Hm, thought it was a knife, but I need to rewatch the ep (which was outstanding). One Chalky had on him, maybe?

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

Man, someone puts a knife through my mouf, I'm just calling it a day right there.

Wasn't it a piece of wood? Like from the window frame?

You are correct, sir.

 

[gump]

How did Daughter warn Chalky?

Anyone? What's Sepinwall referring to? A look, or did I miss something?

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

How did Daughter warn Chalky?

Anyone? What's Sepinwall referring to? A look, or did I miss something?

I don't think she warned him. She just was being a little over zealous about him staying, which seemed to raise Chalky's suspicions.

 

[Gr00vus]

How did Daughter warn Chalky?

Anyone? What's Sepinwall referring to? A look, or did I miss something?

I don't think she warned him. She just was being a little over zealous about him staying, which seemed to raise Chalky's suspicions.

Actually, I think at one point just prior to Pernsley's arrival she said something like "this isn't right" which was pretty out of context for the rest of the conversation they were engaged in, and it seemed like Chalky figured out that it wasn't a coincidence that someone came knocking at her door at that time.

 

[LittleLarry]

I think Margot Bingham, the actress who plays Daughter Maitland, is smoking.

 

[Daywalker]

How did Daughter warn Chalky?

Anyone? What's Sepinwall referring to? A look, or did I miss something?

I don't think she warned him. She just was being a little over zealous about him staying, which seemed to raise Chalky's suspicions.

Actually, I think at one point just prior to Pernsley's arrival she said something like "this isn't right" which was pretty out of context for the rest of the conversation they were engaged in, and it seemed like Chalky figured out that it wasn't a coincidence that someone came knocking at her door at that time.

Which added to the sloppiness of the scene. Chalky went hand to hand with a bigger dude with a potential enemy at his back. Made no sense.

 

[Sheriff66]

I think Margot Bingham, the actress who plays Daughter Maitland, is smoking.

She is hot

 

[Leeroy Jenkins]

How did Daughter warn Chalky?

Anyone? What's Sepinwall referring to? A look, or did I miss something?

I don't think she warned him. She just was being a little over zealous about him staying, which seemed to raise Chalky's suspicions.

Actually, I think at one point just prior to Pernsley's arrival she said something like "this isn't right" which was pretty out of context for the rest of the conversation they were engaged in, and it seemed like Chalky figured out that it wasn't a coincidence that someone came knocking at her door at that time.

Which added to the sloppiness of the scene. Chalky went hand to hand with a bigger dude with a potential enemy at his back. Made no sense.

She said something wasn't right, but it had to do with the song she was singing for some reason. The episode they keep alluding to Chalky knowing Purnsley is shady, then they make it seem like he caught on to her as well. You're right though, if he was on to her he wouldn't have sent her away. If he was knew he was being setup, he'd have been quicker to get to his gun.

 

[Gr00vus]

How did Daughter warn Chalky?

Anyone? What's Sepinwall referring to? A look, or did I miss something?

I don't think she warned him. She just was being a little over zealous about him staying, which seemed to raise Chalky's suspicions.

Actually, I think at one point just prior to Pernsley's arrival she said something like "this isn't right" which was pretty out of context for the rest of the conversation they were engaged in, and it seemed like Chalky figured out that it wasn't a coincidence that someone came knocking at her door at that time.

Which added to the sloppiness of the scene. Chalky went hand to hand with a bigger dude with a potential enemy at his back. Made no sense.

I agree, he should have just shot him. But they had to demonstratively expose that floozy had switched sides.

 

[Raider Nation]

I'm going to throw up if Eli's kid becomes a major part of the stories moving forward. He has zero charisma.

 

[Billy Bats]

I'm going to throw up if Eli's kid becomes a major part of the stories moving forward. He has zero charisma.

He's going to be dead by season's end.

 

[Raider Nation]

I'm going to throw up if Eli's kid becomes a major part of the stories moving forward. He has zero charisma.

He's going to be dead by season's end.

Hmmm. By Nucky's hand?

 

[Billy Bats]

I'm going to throw up if Eli's kid becomes a major part of the stories moving forward. He has zero charisma.

He's going to be dead by season's end.

Hmmm. By Nucky's hand?

I'm thinking it will be his fault, and Eli will blame him regardless.

 

[otello]

I'm going to throw up if Eli's kid becomes a major part of the stories moving forward. He has zero charisma.

He's going to be dead by season's end.

I think you may be right.

 

[fantasycurse42]

I'm going to throw up if Eli's kid becomes a major part of the stories moving forward. He has zero charisma.

He's going to be dead by season's end.

Hmmm. By Nucky's hand?

I'm thinking it will be his fault, and Eli will blame him regardless.

Bold prediction:

Eli's last season

 

[Raider Nation]

I'm going to throw up if Eli's kid becomes a major part of the stories moving forward. He has zero charisma.

He's going to be dead by season's end.

Hmmm. By Nucky's hand?

I'm thinking it will be his fault, and Eli will blame him regardless.

Bold prediction:

Eli's last season

He's kind of a one-note character anyway.

Angry, wronged Eli.

...

 

[fantasycurse42]

I'm going to throw up if Eli's kid becomes a major part of the stories moving forward. He has zero charisma.

He's going to be dead by season's end.

Hmmm. By Nucky's hand?

I'm thinking it will be his fault, and Eli will blame him regardless.

Bold prediction:Eli's last season

He's kind of a one-note character anyway.

Angry, wronged Eli.

...

Yea he is...

I kinda see him cooperating & as the Feds are about to take Nuck down in the finale, Eli gets murdered.

 

[jamny]

I'm going to throw up if Eli's kid becomes a major part of the stories moving forward. He has zero charisma.

He's going to be dead by season's end.

Hmmm. By Nucky's hand?

I'm thinking it will be his fault, and Eli will blame him regardless.

Bold prediction:Eli's last season

He's kind of a one-note character anyway.

Angry, wronged Eli.

...

Yea he is...

I kinda see him cooperating & as the Feds are about to take Nuck down in the finale, Eli gets murdered.

Hmmm. By Nucky's hand?

 

[fantasycurse42]

I'm going to throw up if Eli's kid becomes a major part of the stories moving forward. He has zero charisma.

He's going to be dead by season's end.

Hmmm. By Nucky's hand?

I'm thinking it will be his fault, and Eli will blame him regardless.

Bold prediction:Eli's last season

He's kind of a one-note character anyway.Angry, wronged Eli.

...

Yea he is...

I kinda see him cooperating & as the Feds are about to take Nuck down in the finale, Eli gets murdered.

Hmmm. By Nucky's hand?

Yup, Nuck is cold... He certainly will take care of Eli to save himself.

 

[The Ref]

I'm going to throw up if Eli's kid becomes a major part of the stories moving forward. He has zero charisma.

He's going to be dead by season's end.

Hmmm. By Nucky's hand?

I'm thinking it will be his fault, and Eli will blame him regardless.

Bold prediction:Eli's last season

He's kind of a one-note character anyway.

Angry, wronged Eli.

...

Yea he is...

I kinda see him cooperating & as the Feds are about to take Nuck down in the finale, Eli gets murdered.

Hmmm. By Nucky's hand?

Elis son kills Eli and then Gyp hits him with a lasagna.