Ourselves Alone
Louie, talking to the AV Club about season 2, said they found a good head for 7,500 dollars, the head in question being that one the homeless guy lost. I wonder how much good fake teeth cost when they’re simulated being knocked from a head? They always remind me of candy corn, when they come out like that. DFW must have described someone’s teeth that way.
Chalky White is like a Marcellus Wallace first draft. Something about the way both their lips kind of explode up into their head when they get angry. You hear me talkin’, hillbilly boy? I ain’t through with you by a damn sight. But didn’t that other black genle’man have thrilling diction, nervous as it probably made all of us who read Huck Finn with our hands over our ears? Chalky pretending David Copperfield was Tom Sawyer was so fucking funny, I hope every single person watching got that joke. The unwritten ones are always the best.
I didn’t follow, at first, why the IRA was at Nucky’s house but I guess it was to get Richard Harrow a bag-boy. And do you think Nelson Van Alden maybe has an opinion on Irish Catholicism? Holy hell! I almost forgot he already murdered once in Christ’s name. Don’t get him started on the micks. Oh, I guess he’s already started?
This episode needed more Van Alden/Paz. Obv.
There is a moment for every show on a certain scale when the writers must decide how much to make the female lead Lady Macbeth. Carmella Soprano got her moment when Tony got shot. On Breaking Bad Skylar threw in with Walter’s criminal conspiracy but so far, at least as far as I’ve watched, hasn’t really been much more than a superdelegate. Mad Men’s nearest candidate has been Trudy Campbell, which is like the funniest thing that show ever did. Of course the funniest occurrence was on Deadwood when Al basically auditioned the whores for it. (He used a blow job like Calvin used his wagon in Calvin & Hobbes, just as an excuse to get philosophical and long-winded.)
Margaret is looking likely for this. It’s totally why Nucky picked her over Paz; it ain’t cause he likes her so much. I mean he likes her but in way less of a power-dynamic way. Margaret he can almost see as an equal and she’ll work that to her advantage, right quick like. This is almost not a Kissinger thing with her, I suspect. She would use Nucky’s power for good, or so she tells herself while brushing her hair at night, a hundred strokes to the left, a hundred strokes to the right.
