Loved the finale… wondered what the 2nd season would focus on, but didn’t foresee
Jimmy and Eli teaming up with the Commadore to over-throw Nucky
Can’t wait for the next season.
The guy they’ve got playing Eddie Cantor is actually more entertaining than the real Eddie Cantor I’ve seen in old movie clips.
What an underwhelming finale. I was expecting at least *something *to happen. It really doesn’t leave me wanting to see the next season.
Who played the singer at the end? I don’t see him listed in the IMDB cast list.
I did think the closing shot of the boardwalk was pretty cool. I think that was the only time we’ve seen the whole place in one shot.
It was Stephen DeRosa as Eddie Cantor — and I believe nearly all his lines are directly from Cantor’s real act.
Eli is probably having some second thoughts… should be interesting.
Yea, the whole series seems like characters in search of a plot. Nuky has a bunch of problems that seem like they’ll be big deals, but they all kinda work themselves out without much effort or suspense.
I like the setting, so I’ll probably still watch the next season, but they really need to find something to do with the show.
** rushes into the thread, hair messy, dropping things, out of breath **
Sorry, sorry, I’m late to this party - been behind on my DVR. But I can’t shake this: WTF is up with Jimmy’s babymomma cutting her hair so short? He made it clear he liked it (that scene with them reconciling at the kitchen table) and they were both trying to “start over” so why would she go any do something like that? She must’ve know it would piss him off.
it believe it is a sign of her forgiving, and not forgetting, her lesbian lover…
She’s setting the limits of her emotional commitment to him.
She’s showing that she is independant of him and in her own way punishing him. Its very hard to impossible for women in presocial security days to leave abusive husbands or unhappy marriages, she’s stuck with him, especially as in 1920’s America he’ll get custody their son and she’ll never see him again.
In what way is he abusive or deserving of punishment?
He’s a psychopathic, murderous, emotionally stunted asshole. He scares the shit out of Angela. And Angela doesn’t love him, but she is forced to stay with him. Essentially he has her trapped in a cage. I don’t see any reason for Angela to be happy about her situation.
Even before the war broke his soul, he was an idiot, dropping out of Princeton to volunteer in the Army for a foreign war. Where was his concern for his family then?
I hope you mean to ask this only within the context of their relationship, because while we enjoy him and all, he has murdered a least ten or so people that we know of.
Question–did the maid really do it, then? (The arsenic poisoning.) I thought maybe Nucky was trying to put the blame on her…that would explain why he allowed her to go and even paid her. Or did she genuinely do it? I don’t know. I also didn’t want to believe she did it. I really liked her.
Staying in college to avoid WWI was a coward’s way out.
He hasn’t been abusive to Angela in any way. From a relationship perspective, her cheating on him while he was away at war and then trying to steal his son and take him to another country was beyond despicable.
She has been far worse to him than he has to her. And then she’s going to punish him by cutting her hair? Way to pin the “immature brat” needle in the red.
The only reason she’s scared of him is because she knows she’s acted badly enough that if he beat her, nobody would blame him. And despite that, it’s pretty clear he’d never hurt her.
I largely agree with you – she’s treated him far worse than he’s treated her – but she does have reason to fear. He beat a man right in front of her and their son, so even if he hasn’t beaten her, she has clear evidence that he’s more than capable of just whaling on her.
ETA: What a bad season finale, though. The crescendo the series had been building to really petered out (or perhaps crested in the penultimate episode).
My take is that she did it and Nuckey paid her off because the election was coming up and he didn’t want to cause any issues with respect to the “colored” vote.
My take was that they didn’t plan long-term for this series, and needed to create a plot for Season 2…
That does make sense. I was surprised that the Commodore had so little power that someone could try to kill him and basically Nucky makes it go away. But I think it’s a good illustration of how well Nucky ran things, too. And it explains why the Commodore would be bitter.
On IMDb boards a lot of people were debating it. They thought that Jimmy’s mother’s reaction seemed so unsurprised that she had to have known. And some thought that Jimmy’s mother AND the maid were in on it and the maid just took the fall.
The whole thing about the Commodore going away to prison and taking the fall while Nucky stayed in the limelight kind of reminded me of the Sopranos:
Buscemi’s character on Sopranos, Tony B. Tony Soprano was supposed to go with Tony B. on some heist and he didn’t because he had a panic attack. Tony B. ended up in jail for 17 years and Tony Soprano always felt guilty about it.
However, in this case, Nucky does not appear to be the slightest bit guilty