He has a meeting with the community to air grievances, but this goes awry when all anyone wants is revenge for the KKK’s murders. Likewise, Rothstein showed new found vulnerability in his negotiations with Nucky and Luciano.īest of all, though, was Chalky White’s subplot. Gillian Darmody usually has little to do but play-up her semi-incestuous affection for her son, but her two scenes made an indelible impression and illustrate that she’s willing to even have sex with the man she hates more than anyone else in the world if it will help out Jimmy. It wasn’t quite as unique or compelling as would be hoped, but it left him as threatening as ever. Richard Harrow, who usually just appears, says a few cryptic lines, and leaves was instead given time to tell his backstory. While Jimmy has made his own deal with a butcher/mob boss, Rothstein seems like more of a heavyweight here.Ī lot of what made the episode work so well, though, was because aside from some interesting developments with the show’s leads, there was a lot of time spent focusing on its more interesting supporting characters. At the same time, his new hitman Owen Sleater has been effective in keeping Nucky’s rivals from unloading their liquor and he’s made a new deal with Arnold Rothstein to transport liquor through Philadelphia. This means that he should (though its still-unconfirmed status may mean something) be able to get the entire mess pardoned on a federal level.
Likewise, Nucky and his lawyer figure that they can wrap his election rigging charges into a national case because the prostitutes he used to buy voters were from Philadelphia. Suddenly Nucky’s prospects don’t look so bleak after all. His contacts, assurances, and financial backing are now all gone, leaving Eli and Jimmy to fend for themselves. While Gillian gives him a striptease, the Commodore has a stroke, leaving him almost completely unable to talk and for all intents and purposes killing him as far as the conspiracy against Nucky is concerned. The episode begins and ends with the Commodore and Gillian Darmondy, and while the second of these scenes is more memorable, it’s the first that has huge implications for the rest of the show. Part of this came from getting one of the less interesting characters in the show out of the way (and, likewise, completely leaving Paz de la Huerta’s Lucy Danzinger offscreen). Is Boardwalk Empire the same way? Only intermittently so far, but “What Does the Bee Do” does help justify some of what we’ve seen previously. It’s just that the eventual pay-offs for patiently waiting while the shows’ characters got into place were so good that it was worth it. Both The Sopranos and The Wire had stretches in which several episodes in a row were devoted to setting up future action and were in and of themselves disappointing. That’s also not an absolutely terrible thing, either. It took three whole hours of television to get there, but finally season two of Boardwalk Empire has had an episode that was good with no qualifications needed.
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