Admittedly, I am somewhat behind on “Boardwalk Empire.” I have about four and a half unwatched episodes on my DVR as type this. It’s not that I don’t like the show, or that I don’t want to watch it, it’s just that every time I tell myself I’m going to try to get caught up, I’m immediately filled with a desire to do something else. The problem for me is that the show has been moving kind of slow, meticulously setting up chess pieces all over the board, and with all the other TV I try to watch during the week, well… Daddy needs action.
Then last night, while I was watching Sunday Night Football, my Twitter and Tumblr feeds absolutely exploded with people reacting to a particular scene in the season’s penultimate episode. KABOOM. I’ll save the spoilers for the next page, but just know that the official Warming Glow review and analysis of last night’s episode is as follows: WHAT NO ICKY WHY.
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Damn, I wished I watched last night instead of falling asleep like an old man. I’m guessing it kicked ass.
It was mental. Best show on TV in my opinion.
I was watching it about six minutes behind everyone else (I’d hit Pause on the DVR to take care of some household stuff) but when my Twitter blew UP, I knew they’d Gone There. Luckily, I could bleep-bloop through the worst of it. Still, it was gross.
I am almost impossible to gross out or disturb or rattle, but my god did Boardwalk get me last night. Jimmy and his mom always had this weird thing going but I did not think they ever ever did THAT.
Me during that scene:
GROSS GROSS GROSS
ononononononononononono
not ok
not ok
not ok
not ok
not ok
i had the uncomfortable fidgets during the sex scene. i almost left the room.
I love the show, but last night’s episode was terrible, and not because it was “gross.” It was more that they threw all semblance of believability and consistency of character out the window so they could do a cheap homage to Oedipus. What the fuck was the point of that? HEY, REMEMBER OEDIPUS???? Durrrr. That’s some half-assed shit you’d write into a high school play to make it seem deep. This was the culmination of far and away this show’s least-interesting subplot. BOOO, REFERENCES TO ANCIENT GREEK THEATER! I DEMAND MORE JEW-DROWNING!
All this episode needed was a cameo by Kay Parker.
@Vince Its not like the Oedipus stuff came out of nowhere. I know that you loathe references to the classics etc, but seriously dude this was built up and very well done. It also explains so much of why Jimmy did things like join the army when he didn’t care about the war. Why he would hate his father and Nucky as much as he does. The creepiness of his mom taking over household duties the last few seasons. The episode was amazing.
Last night they answered Nucky’s previously posed question, “What’s a motherfucker?”
That was all sorts of wrong, but then again my mom looked more like Richard Moll than Gretchen Mol.
Taboo references are always welcome.
It felt over-the-top to the point of being lazy. There really isn’t enough material to work with in order to build a back story? Jimmy really has to bang his mom, so now we have to go back through our mental highlight reel and re-examine all of their interaction? Come on. Let Game of Thrones have all of the incestual fun on HBO, and stick to stories of bootlegging and victrolas.
I had to pause, jerk off, and continue.
Oedipus made WBCN listenable in the 70s and 80s………
For Boarwalk Empire…..moving slow is its top-speed……….
The incest was long overdue. Man they’d been telegraphing that for quite a while. And I’m only surprised his dad wasn’t killed when he had a stroke. Seemed a better way to go than saying “He’s alive but disabled”. I keep waiting for half-face-guy-whose-name-i-can-never-remember to do something badass again. I want him to duel Manny Horowitz.
What does slow mean? Not enough explosions? ps- There is an adverb for that.
Lisa: Dad, you’re just going through a classic Oedipal anxiety.
You remember the story of Oedipus, don’t you?
Homer: Well, maybe five bucks would refresh my memory.
Lisa: [sighs] Oedipus killed his father and married his mother.
Homer: Eugh! Who pays for that wedding?
I’ll go with the mom-fucking (I know, I know, I always say that) but the scene where he kills his dad was just a super-lame way to drive home the Oedipus reference, as if we didn’t get it al-fucking-ready. I got “Oedipus Complex” like four episodes ago when Jimmy’s mom told his wife how she used to suck his dick when he was a baby.
Yeah, the dad-killing wasn’t exactly necessary. Maybe in a subsequent episode or if they’d only hinted at the mom-fucking.
So edible.
It took me an hour to stop making my icky face.
A little off topic, but that guy with the face mask is Jack Huston, Angelica Huston’s nephew.
Shit happens when you party naked.
I fucking loved it
HBO, you’re number one stop for incest on TV!
But yeah seriously, I got that halfway through the first season, they didn’t really needed to show it. Angela was so creepy with Jimmy from the get go…
And yeah, didn’t really see the point in keeping the Comodore alive after his stroke, and it’s way too obvious to have Jimmy kill him now after the incest scene.
His father was a shame to Jimmy and his business in his late state, so offing him one or two episodes earlier would have been better, that is if they needed to show the incest at all (which they didn’t, but yeah, it’s HBO, so they had to.)
Oops, mixed up Angela’s and Gillian’s names… like Jimmy mixed up their vaginas.
To hell with the incest, I want to see more of “Nelson Van Alden, Fugitive from Justice”
Could someone please create a GIF of the face Jimmy makes when he wakes up and realizes he banged his mom last night?
emily52, I think you missed the point. The uniformed military official’s soulmate was his mom!
@Sous Chef: You’re the worst.