Nuckys wayward wife, Margaret, has had a rough few years.
Sure, being married to the mob looked great on paper (specifically large bills of green paper).
Not being poor was nice.
Getting to lord it over your former bitch of a boss was pretty awesome.
How else was her son going to take his place as a chubby, entitled, fire starter?
Who else was going to keep her daughter in top of the line porcelain dolls and French lace dresses?
Really, Nucky was a gentleman.
She knew her mind and when she felt action was called for, she acted.
Even if that act was ridiculously stupid.
Only Margaret was never emotionally invested in Nuckys wayward protegee.
And if nothing else, she was always practical, especially when it came to money.
I am sorryBoardwalkwriters; this dog just wont hunt.
Season 3 was a train wreck for most of the characters, and Margaret was no exception.
She gets rejected by her poor siblings, who had immigrated to New York City.
She had to nurse her philandering husband back to health after a bomb vaporizes his club and his mistress.
Competing gangsters threatened the lives of her children.
Her boyfriend, Owen Sleater (Charlie Cox) was brutally murdered and then Fed-Exd to Nucky.
And finally she left her husband (who tried to buy her back) and aborted Owens baby.
That is a bad year.
Which begs the question: where does Margaret go from here?
Hopefully, off the damn show.
The show is about Nucky, Altantic City, prohibition, and crime syndicates of the early 20thcentury.
Not the continuing adventures of fledgling feminist and terrible investment planner, Margaret Thompson.
You cant help but love this crazy, incestuous, elder abusing broad.
Dont be fooled into believing she died when Gyp injected her with that needle full of heroin!
Oh no; it takes more than that to kill Gillian Darmody.
The woman is like a cockroach.
A really sexy cockroach.
Much like Margaret, Gillian has had a rough row to hoe these past three seasons.
All of which she accomplished by Season 2.
And then she Rick Jamesd the ever-loving shit out of Dabney Coleman.
It was one of the finest moments on television.
I compared Gillian to a cockroach earlier, and I stick by the analogy.
Not even a nuclear blast could take this ginger out.
Something inside of Agent Van Alden is seriously broken.
More so than when we first met him in Season 1.
The stern, self-flagellating hypocrite has shrunk down into a whipped dog.
And who better to do the whipping than the new nanny/wife, Sigrid?
A recent immigrant from Norway, Sigrid met Van Alden when she responded to his ad for a nanny.
By the end of Season 2, Sigrid and her adopted family are on the lam.
She is the only one left who has faith in the man.
But we were speaking of Sigrids giant, brass, cajones.
What woman wouldnt bludgeon a Fed for her family?
Except, as Van Alden points out, she acted in error.
You get the feeling this might not be Sigrids first rodeo?
Sigrid has been making akvavit, and selling it to the Norwegians at the market.
Because you know how Scandinavians love a good glass of dill flavored akvavit.
Go ahead and laugh.
Oh those crazy kids from the northern climes!
A new addition to the cast, Wheet is a speakeasy owner from Florida.
One of those sacrifices being her life after Billie caught a bomb to the face meant for her sweetie.
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