Boardwalk Empire season 5 episode 7, Friendless Child sweeps the sand off the planks for new management.
What goes up must come down.
Every movie mobster has to have a rise and fall, like an empire.
Someday every rollercoaster falls apart.
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On a historical note, Luciano and Maranzano were never really openly hostile.
Not without it being a contract.
Not at that level.
A Philly gang did the job on Mickey Duffey, not New York.
While Im talking history, a black woman in a law office in the 30s?
I wish, but this is probably an anachronism.
District Attorneys offices dont have a history of progressive hiring *.
Every pairing onBoardwalk Empireis illuminating.
We could see Nucky fitting in very well with Sal if they were in better circumstances.
Nucky is usually the one counseling for some kind of restraint.
Its fun watching him smash bottles and pound tables through Maranzanos eyes.
Hes almost a kid again.
Nucky regains his composure when he sees his own impetuousness might lead the new kid astray.
Well, further astray than Nuckyd planned.
The kid looks like he came right out ofBilly Bathgate, a hick version of a Bronx bomber.
Little Gillian is very smart, knows how the law works.
Young Nucky (Nolan Lyons) learns to keep his eyes wide shut in this episode.
Nucky is young and doesnt know how corrupt he really is.
Benny Siegel could be one of the Dead End Kids that wept for Rocky Sullivan inAngels With Dirty Faces.
Mickey Doyle too, hes got a Huntz Hall thing about him.
Hes not kidding about being crazy.
The hostage exchange was the center point of the action tonight.
It seems to have gotten out of control, but I believe it was perfectly controlled.
Lucky Luciano (Vincent Piazza) and Lansky got exactly what they wanted and exactly how they wanted it.
They even got a free contract out of the deal.
Shea Whigham channels Eddie Bartlett (James Cagney) when Eli reunites with his son.
The stubble, the far away look, even the chuck on the chin are of a different time.
In 1897, Nucky and his wife Mabel tried to save a young runaway from Trenton.
In 1931, which Luciano has already deemed a good year, Nucky can finally bring her home.
Nucky Johnson lived long after the timeBoardwalk Empirewill end.
So I dont think Nucky Thompson will get a Walter White/Tony Soprano/Eddie Bartlett exit.
Nucky will get redemption next week.
Friendless Child was directed by Allen Coulter and written by Riccardo DiLoreto, Cristine Chambers and Howard Korder.
She was one of the first black DAs in the United States.
Luciano was prosecuted for prostitution, spent 10 years in jail and was deported.
Dewey rode Carters work almost all the way to the White House.
Carter was the first black woman to get a law degree from Fordham University.
She worked for womens rights at the United Nations.
He was also the first President of the University of the District of Columbia.
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Rating:
5 out of 5
