What Does The Bee Do?
Nelson Van Alden had Karen O on blast. “Heads will roll, gentlemen. There is an obscenity scribbled on the water closet wall.” Not showing Nelson’s w.c. trip and subsequent discovery was like the biggest off-camera non-reveal since Jules’ briefcase. Any takers on it being Nelson Van Alden Is A Fornicator w/ attendant art? Although if that one guy did it he sure got his. BE has a lot of moral vanity about graffiti, it seems—was there a lot of public art in that bathroom? Er, water closet?
Check out Chalky White’s Huxtable vibes! They are the only family we’ve seen on the show if you don’t count Margaret and her moppets zoning out at Uncle Nucky’s. Which reminds me: that scene in episode 2 where Nucky’s intentions were mistaken by the kid who kind of automatically lowered his pants was so fucking dark; it was like art you’d see on The Pandorian.
Gretchen Mol* fucked the Commodore to death and then brought his wife a quiche. Oh, wrong show! She almost fucked the Commodore, he stroked out, and now he’s really really pissed. Getting w/in a cock’s-length of Gretchen Mol and then having your brain hit a patch of ice would seem fairly common. But big up to the doctor for defining apoplexy so everyone who watched Rick Perry and Mitt Romney get into a fight knew what they were looking at.
“He’s a fuckin vegetable” Eli spits. Did they really call them that then? I want NYMag to do a piece on period-correct slang, starting with E.B.’s “motherfucker” drop on Deadwood that Milch left in because it was like, SUCH great improv.
The set piece with the prostitutes, the faux-spanking and Jack Dempsey was so Game of Thrones/Rome. Sometimes I think Boardwalk Empire is HBO’s homage to itself, there’s so much retroactivity within reach at all times. It’s like a parallel period piece on the early 2000s! Uncle Junior being on the show but in deep mufti is also pretty funny in light of all the trend pieces (first of which was mine, which I can’t link because the Search My Posts feature needs tending to) re: HBO’s repertory qualities.
*Gretchen Mol and Paz de la Huerta are too transcendent to be referred to by character name. That’s me, breakin’ all the rules when we get together. Also, I can’t ever remember Gretchen Mol’s character’s name.
