Great show so far - looking forward to the season finale next week.
Any word on if the show has been picked up for another season? (Hope so!)
So who’s been poisoning the Commodore? Hmmm?
Van Alden’s fate depends on (1) will anyone who saw the act report it to The Man? and (2) will they be believed if they do?
I thought it was implied that Jimmy’s mom was the one poisoning the Commodore, but I don’t think she really admitted it. Who gave him the cookies?
The only other suspect would be that housekeeper, and she has some pretty good reasons to hate him.
Didn’t Gillian implicitly admit to doing it, in the scene in which Jimmy told her that he threw up after eating a cookie?
The number of people losing things or suffering in this episode is astounding.
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Angela is stood up by her girlfriend – I couldn’t really figured out what happened here. Did she run off to Paris with her husband instead of with Angela?
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Sepso gets drowned by Van Alden
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Margaret leaves Nucky
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Eli is forced to resign
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The commodore is nearly poisoned to death
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Gillian, however, doesn’t get the satisfaction of killing him
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Jimmy finds out that his wife was ready to leave him
There was a lot of underlying menace in last nights epsiode. Even though I know some have complained that the show is not engaging, at this point I could not disagree more, there is a lot of simmering still going on.
It has turned out to be an excellent show all around.
Well, he has played some psychos in his day. Remember Fargo? And he wasn’t the sickest guy in Reservoir Dogs, but he was definitely not harmless.
I think this was the best episode to date. I really like the relationship between Nucky and Margaret… the way they’re both not terrible people, but not perfect people, and in some amount of denial, etc.
Are the previous episodes online anywhere?
No, HBO doesn’t release episodes online. Itunes gets them after the season ends.
It got picked up after the first episode.
ok. thanks
Not online. If you get HBO they should be available on your cable’s VOD.
I am in agreement with those who think the show could have in the very least continued into a much longer season without any compromise in quality. I am addicted to show, have looked forward each week to the premier, then watch the episodes as repeats throughout the week.
Am really bummed that this coming Sunday will the final episode of the season. I don’t remember when I so looked forward to the showing of any tv series. It has become an obsession.
I liked True Blood but often those episodes turned out to be a real letdown - especially a letdown was the finale of last season. What a disappointment that was. Really dumb.
Jimmy seems to be incredibly tolerant with the women in his life when you consider his propensity for incredible outbursts of rage. I’m not saying that’s a bad thing but it gives him an almost Jekyll and Hyde quality.
At first I thought that the photographer’s wife was really acting more or less as her husband’s pimp - finding women willing to do a threesome must have been substantially more difficult in 1920 although I suppose it depended on the circles you traveled in. At this point I would guess that there never were any tickets to Paris, but I don’t see the point of the ruse, if that’s what it was. I suppose it’s possible that the wife was ready to leave Robert but his return changed her mind. In that case maybe the trip had been planned and she just picked a different companion. There are too many possibilities and my guess is that it never gets resolved.
I didn’t get the impression of a ruse. It looked like Angela’s “friend” had a change of heart.
Just after the two women talked of secret plans and Angela left, Angela’s friend’s husband “Robert”, after confronting of hearing secret mutterings, spoke some words in French.
This seemed to cause the wife to react as if a sensitive nerve had been struck, she kisses Robert passionately on the neck.
So then when Angela showed to discover the married couple both gone, I got the impression husband and wife took off together, most likely to Paris. Esp since shop keeper/landlord/guy sweeping said he overheard the couple talking about Paris previously.
You’re probably right, it’s just that this sort of volte-face is inconceivable to me. How do you believe that you’re in love with someone and make plans to run away together only to decide at the last minute to run away with someone else - even if does happen to be your husband. I just don’t get it.
Also, didn’t the rental agent cast some doubt on the idea of their being husband and wife by saying something like ‘. . . his wife, if that’s really what she was’. Not that it makes a difference, just pointing that out.
Indeed, the very person you were planning to run from in the first place.
Okay. Sounds like I might have been wrong, perhaps didn’t look into it deeply enough. Thanks you two for the food for thought. And like you said dzero, I also doubt this will be resolved for the viewer - have a feeling from the way the story is moving, we’ll likely not ever find out the truth of the matter, that Robert and wife are gone from the story. I would certainly like to find out what the heck happened, though.
I’m wondering if Robert found out about Lucy’s plans, reflected on the fact that he had nearly been killed by Jimmy, and said, “We’re outta here.”