![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Harrow also copes with Julia Sagorsky’s father even as that drunkard rants-and even as Harrow is trying to figure out how to woo his daughter. He cares for Tommy even as Gillian is cavorting with Roger. Harrow remains the moral center of the show. Margaret will have to gather strength on her own. And so June says nothing except that Margaret brought a pineapple upside-down cake. Eli went to prison June is raising eight kids Margaret lives very well. But June knows it’s impractical to think that way-and she has little willingness to comfort Margaret. He’s involved in doings I can’t bear to think about … I feel like the life is being pressed out of me.”Īll that may be true. And rather suddenly, she says everything: “He has a mistress, an actress in New York. Her version of morality has broken against Nucky’s. Nucky, she says, protected his brother-”held them together.”įinally, Margaret can’t contain herself. She tells us that Nucky and Eli had a beast of a father and “a wisp” of a mother. June is a picture of motherly understanding. A confessional Margaret apologizes for “everything that’s happened,” which I think is supposed to be an apology for Nucky’s unwillingness (inability?) to save Eli from prison. Margaret and Nucky have gone to Eli’s for Easter, and she ends up in the kitchen alone with June. The scene with Margaret (Kelly Macdonald) is, thankfully, more subtle. And of course she now gets to own the house that Jimmy had inherited. She has accepted Jimmy’s death by murdering her version of him. He drowns in her bathtub.Īfterward, she puts dog tags around his neck-presumably Jimmy’s-and then lights a cigarette. Gillian violated her son-we learned in a previous episode that she liked to touch him when he was a baby, and of course later she seduced him-so she has no trouble violating and then killing Roger. ![]() After she is coquettish, horny, and then satisfied by Roger, she injects him with a giant dose of heroin. (Forgive me for the 1920s pun: she wants Roger to roger her.) But Gillian is also devious. She has found a new Jimmy-a young man named Roger ( Billy Magnussen)-and I thought last week that she just wanted to relive her incestuous moments with her son. Both Gillian and Margaret finally reveal themselves.Īs I wrote last week, Gillian Darmody must be the creepiest character on television. The soul of this episode lies in two breathtaking scenes. By the end, Nucky appoints Eli as a head of distribution-and seems to recognize that Eli’s almost-grown-up son William ( Kevin Csolak) may emerge as a candidate to help with some of the family’s illegalities.īut let me step back. Nucky finally relents to the idea that Eli is a man who conspired to kill him but can now conspire to help him. (Eli’s wife June tells Margaret during the episode that Nucky has been generous during Eli’s absence.) But the brothers need to come together. He is hiding Easter eggs his house is well-appointed and tidy his children are neatly dressed. We begin with Eli, father of eight and survivor of 16 months’ imprisonment. Including the pilot, I can’t think of a better Boardwalk Empire episode than “Sunday Best.” Revealing facts and motivations costs any fiction writer a great deal, and let’s thank the Boardwalk writers for giving up some secrets. The theme of “Sunday Best” is revelation. Follow alert: If you haven’t seen “Sunday Best,” learn to juggle before reading on. ![]()
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