SPOILER ALERT: Dont even open until after you’ve seen Boardwalk Empire Devil You Know.
Im not kidding about the spoiler alert.
This is HBO andBoardwalk Empires in its death throes, so you know its going to hurt.
Death scenes may be great for actors, but they suck sometimes for us.
And on HBO death usually comes right when theyre about to do that thing they do really really well.
For instance, we will never see Daughter Maitland (Margot Bingham) through Chalkys eyes anymore.
Was she really that attractive?
Was her voice as good as it sounded to my ears?
Or was it just that Chalky emanated that?
I mean, it doesnt really matter.
Id buy a Sister Maitland album.
Singing the songs she made famous onBoardwalk Empire.
It was effective either way.
Humphrey Bogart was not a sex symbol until Ingrid Bergman looked at him with love and lust inCasablanca.
Damn, that means Michael Kenneth Williams is the new Ingrid Bergman.
Michael Shannon broke through onBoardwalk Empireand I have already gone on about his work inThe IcemanandGrand Theft Parsons.
But damn Im going to miss him.
Two marvelous actors having a blast with understatement.
And that death scene.
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Death scenes are gold.
All the way back to the golden age of Hollywood.
Romeo and Juliet each went out brilliantly, but Willie knew to save the best for Caesar.
When Van Alden jumps on Capone and tries to take him in, he blows Capones mind.
This is the guy with the irons.
But no crazier than handing off corroborating evidence to a fed in mugs clothing.
I said last week that I was looking forward to the George Raft payoff.
Raft actually did know Madden.
An uncle of mine said Raft used to drive stolen cars before he tangoed his way to Hollywood.
The subtle and not-so-subtle references in the show itself jump out like in-jokes.
It makes an enjoyable series an even happier experience.
Raft and Muni dont really have lines.
They just sit there looking a little uncomfortable.
Not overly, though.
A smidgeon of anxious.
Im glad they didnt act scared.
Though Muni was a classically trained actor, I dont imagine him cowering.
Hed probably soak in the atmosphere to see what he could glean for his character.
Raft I picture smiling in amused recognition of his West Side Highway days.
Young Nucky (Nolan Lyons) is even more recognizable in his 1897 flashback.
Same actor, hes just matured, grown into his teeth.
Good casting on both young Nucky and Eli (Ryan Dinning) parts.
Dinning is already showing some of the older Elis mannerisms.
A state that makes Francis X. Bushman feel homesick.
But even in his buzzed mourning, we see Nuckys mind working.
it’s possible for you to see the plan stretching out on Steve Buscemis forehead.
Nuckys going up against Luciano (Vincent Piazza) and Lansky (Anatol Yusef) next week.
I predict this is not going to turn out well.
Lucky and Meyer lived long afterBoardwalk Empireis set and Nucky is really a composite character based mainly in fiction.
This is where hope comes to get fucked in the ass.
Amazing episode and I dont have to say that.
He was also Ben Hurs rival Massala in the silver but silent screenBen Hur.
He may best be known to science fiction geeks as Sessom in the 1961 film,The Phantom Planet.
Devil You Know was directed by Jeremy Podeswa and written by Howard Korder.
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Rating:
5 out of 5
