Young Jimmy (whose hair is combed more wussily, or has conditioner in it or something, the better to make us understand he is not yet Mr. The kid’s plucky intelligence shines forth during his seventeenth-century British lit class up at Princeton. It also helps, I think, for us to see a bit of what Nucky must have once seen in Darmody. Even though theirs was a dorm-room sneak-around pregnancy, Jimmy ran off to his military service not so much because of Angela’s family-way status, but because he had slept with his mother the same night he found out he was due to become a father. (It doesn’t hurt that we get to see Angela one more time, either.) As Jimmy recalls the breadth of his initial relationship with Angela (during what turns out to be a heroin-addled lost weekend), we in turn get to know how it was that they came about partnering up without understanding so much about one other. Last week, I wrote that Angela’s death had better pay off for the show in some way. And here’s another consequence of the whole flashback structure of this episode (which felt very Jed Bartlet remembering his boarding school days from that one West Wing episode, to me): I think I cared about Jimmy’s interior head space for the first time in a long time. This is useful information for an audience to know! It retroactively alters a lot of moments. We just didn’t know if it was still to come (sorry) or if it was all in the past. There’d been way too much hinting, and awkward-kissing, and “winky” references, for this to not be an official thing that would be addressed. Something like this had to happen on the show. The intercourse is accompanied, outside Jimmy’s dorm-room window, by a remorselessly chugging locomotive barreling its way toward a tunnel, probably, if you catch the know what I mean she said! So - that whole suggestion-of-improper-affection thing between Jimmy and his mother that’s been going on forever? Turns out those were just aftershocks following a full-on incest-quake that happened one drunken night during a Single Parents’ weekend at Princeton, back in the day.
Let’s address some of your ugly business up front. Glad you made it! Some plot strands on this show have been waiting for you to come around for some time now. * Esther “I’m Sure I Don’t Know What You’re Talking About” Randolph (an unrecognizable Julianne Nicholson) started sniffing around about Nucky’s possible role in the death of Margaret’s abusive hubby, Hans.īut back to the tragic death of Angela, were you as devastated by it as I was? Hit the comments with your snappy judgments and eulogies.Oh, hello, payoff episode. * Jimmy offered to drop Chalky’s murder charge in exchange for an end to the workers strike, but he was having none of it. Margaret punished him with a slap across the face and later expressed concern to Nucky that, “He’s got his father’s cruelty… his sister is lying crippled in the hospital he knows that.” * Teddy, tired of his polio-stricken sis getting all of Mom’s attention, feigned paralysis. * Van Alden received divorce papers from Rose. Other highlights from the Dave Flebotte-scripted hour. (Note: This was the major female death I’ve been teasing for weeks.) It’s also a homicide that will likely reverberate through the final two episodes of the season. It was a haunting image and easily one of the most pivotal - and heartbreaking - deaths in show’s two-year run. John Oliver, Back From Strike, Scolds Hollywood Studios for Not Offering Writers a Fair Deal on ‘Day F-king One’
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