A Dangerous Maid
More than a feeling: Paz has been written more in! Her being literally barefoot & pregnant & on the edge of town is a signifier for what, millions of years of contradictory evolution? Anyhow she had the second-best naked crying scene of the television week, holler Dylan McD!
I’m including the monologue she read aloud, from A Dangerous Maid, nearly in its entirety because it’s too funny to edit:
“I know what everyone says about me behind my back. That I’m just some flibbety-gibbet (sp?) with cotton wool between the ears. Well I’m wise to a thing or two I guess. You think I’ll fall for any old bean with pomade in his hair and keys to a coupe? Maybe I would’ve—last month.”
Paz’ fetus is a charge from the Lord—really Nelson? You keep the bitch you knocked up at an undisclosed location so she doesn’t burst into flame when sighted but still need to assure her the kid’s God’s? I forgot how good everyone used to be at slut-shaming!
This was a fantastic episode even in the non-Paz category. It starred Lou Dobbs as the governor of New Jersey; apparently fat governors are New Jersey’s special superpower. The contrasted opening sequences with Paz and Van Alden and Nucky and Margaret found a diaphanous balance; the Paz/Van Alden scene was a moment of IDM delirium—I knew I’d find Van Alden’s breakfast routine riotously great, it did not disappoint! Nucky, bathrobe-sullen in a frond-filled room, looked like Robert Evans or something.
Accents and diction are this show’s finest goods and A Dangerous Maid was all whirry with them—Irish, Italian, Shot In The Face. Even Steve Buscemi’s infamous dry mouth is I guess owned by Nucky now; couple more seasons and we won’t even remember Mr. Pink.
Eddie Cantor was on the program—he confused me, talking that much like Tony Curtis. Stop confusing me, Boardwalk Empire!
On that note, apparently INS is after Margaret? And she went to the Don Draper school of identity-theft? My ADD is so bad sometimes I can’t follow the non-moving parts of a show that isn’t Six Feet Under or The Sopranos. Speaking of HBO Classic, the last time the Pinkertons showed up Al Swearengen was the mark. Nice letterhead, by the way.
Eddie Cantor and Paz were talking about her screwing a “prokie”? Am I hearing/saying/writing that right? Cause prokie in Urban Dictionary is someone who procrastinates a lot. That does not sound like Nelson Van Alden one bit!
The commodore reminds me so much of Bill Macy’s father-in-law in Fargo. Damn it Jerry you’re not sellin’ me a damn car!
Paz aborted her abortion. That scene was so horror-movie. The colors looked like the Rosemary’s Baby poster. People overlook how gothic Boardwalk Empire is, there are so many dark souls and even the opulence is blood-deep. Even though structurally it’s about syndicated crime the makers are doing a pretty good job of making it Eugene O’Neill-y. All the Irishness is on overflow I guess.
