Boardwalk Empire Season 2 Episode 5 Review - "Gimcrack & Bunkum."

[NuJoiseyMAN]

@Stellatmo, she's unhinged?? The guy raped her when she was only 13... I think the commodore had it coming. A bitch slap for a child molester is getting off light. Revenge was long overdue.

[PerversionsOfNature]

It sounds like you wish Richard Harrow was just a one-dimensional character. I don't know what to say to that.

[dmiller185]

He wasn't bashing the man's face in to kill him. He did it to cover up the identity, so that no one would recognize him. The deathblow came when he smashed his throat - probably crushing his laryngeal prominence.

[dmiller185]

The Mann Act. That's how they got Jack Johnson to flee the country.

[Crosshandz]

The change in Nucky is signficant. We know where this story is going cos we know how prohibition changed crime and created a new class of criminal. Since he threw Commodore's lobster on the floor Nucky's been less political and more violent. Last season he couldn't even bring himself to tell Jimmy to kill the D'Alessio's now he's trying to choke out his own blood. Nucky's learning to be a boss in a changing world he has to change. Dont be surprised if all the witnesses against him get killed...

[bangbangboom520]

So Eli knows who is testifying against Nucky and Nucky doesnt? I have to rewatch the episode but it got me to thinking, maybe everything with Nucky's case will get screwed up and no one can help him in court. Then he would turn to Eli and have Eli tell him who is testifying against him, which would help Nucky forgive Eli

[lattrelle]

and lets not forget Nucky is Eli's older brother probably bested him all of his life, so Nucky throwing down the way he did with his brother is not that far of a stretch. Age and physicality might have taken over eventually, but i don't think Eli had the stones to off Nucky even if Mrs. Schroeder hadn't of intervened.

[lattrelle]

I think Richards depression is integral part of his story arc, also it was memorial day, and that played a huge part in Richards depression. When he asked jimmy basically would he go down for him and Jimmy said yes, the button pusher was back and Richard was all business. I think at the end of the day Nucky and Eli are brothers and i don't think Eli would have the wherewithal to kill him outright. When he killed the alderman he was drunk and mad, bad combo.

[Ejay669]

Felt really bad for Richard this week; hope Jimmy was honest about fighting for him.

[doxide]

Goddam that scalping was crazy! That was some old-school cowboys and indians shit!

[comiclove5]

Gimcrack: Cheap & Shoddy or a showy object of little use or value

Bunkum: insincere or foolish talk

[Drudenfusz]

Eli was sad when he met with Nucky, not ready for a fight. So it took him some time to get into it, but I think he had obvious the upper hand, and would have killed Nucky if that fight was not stopped. Later in the episode he was more angry than sad, that is far better to win a fight (and to start one too), while his opponent did not see that coming. Emotions are just as relevant to win a fight as age and fitness can be, and I think the episode did that well.

[GrahznySlovo]

My best guess is that Eli didn't go quite as far as he could have (he did have that gun on hand) because, at the end of the day, Nucky is his brother and he may not yet have the backbone or resolve to put a slug in him. Though for how much longer is anyone's guess. Nucky's humiliated him and it's clear his killing of the alderman was just drunken, misdirected rage at his brother from the earlier fight (as well as panic to put a lid on leaking the Commodore's stroke to others).

[sethvicious]

lmao great fucking review. I loved the scalping scene, Jimmy is doing some badass shit this season