![]() ![]() We find out what drove him to leave Princeton University and fight in the Great War – and we answer the question about his relationship with his MILF-caliber mother that’s been gnawing at us since last season.īack in the late 1910s, Angela was just a sweet-faced local waitress who enjoyed hopping between the sheets with a floppy-haired student from Atlantic City. But once it became clear that much of Jimmy’s story line was being told in flashback, it was a thrill to see a long-haired Angela back onscreen. The entire episode was Freud’s Oedipus complex writ large: Jimmy slept with his mother and killed his father, promptly replacing Angela‘s brutal murder as the show’s most disturbing development to date.Īfter last week’s episode closed with Angela and her female lover shot to death by Manny Horvitz, it was a little confusing to see actress Aleksa Palladino’s name in the opening credits. But it wasn’t his fault in “Under God’s Power She Flourishes,” Boardwalk Empire‘s penultimate episode of this season: when it comes to story lines, incest trumps federal charges. So did we.For all the jokes that Steve Buscemi made during his Saturday Night Live hosting gig about his move from character actor to leading man, he still couldn’t avoid playing the supporting role this weekend. I will continue to watch this show, but I am disappointed by the laziness and thoughtlessness of its writers this week. The specifics there have a lot to do with the controversy over Tara’s death on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” but the same cliche visited on that fan base has been visited on those of “Boardwalk Empire.” I can’t lay out the situation any clearer than it was done at this site: It’s the same reason Shirley MacLaine’s character had to die at the end of “The Children’s Hour.” It’s the same reason Sandy Dennis died in “The Fox.” It’s why Tara on “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” was shot dead and why Tara on “True Blood” was shot in the head just THIS SEASON. Oh, and there was that psychopath butcher coming for him, too.īut there’s a much more powerful reason that I believed Angela’s days were numbered. Also, this was happening at a time when Jimmy’s status as top man in Atlantic City appeared to be getting the better of him. If Angela is not married to Jimmy, what is her place in the show? This is a show about gangsters, not about painters. ![]() Very recently, she and Jimmy had admitted to each other that they were not in love. There was ample reason to believe that the writers were done with Angela. I told my wife, but I guess nobody would take her word for it. I did not make that prediction, however, because I wanted to believe that it wasn’t true. I should have predicted the eventual victim of Manny’s wrath here on LeBlog last week. Horvitz makes sure that both women are dead, shooting each one extra time after both are already lying still in blood on the floor. He is genuinely surprised, but wastes little time in terrorizing and killing Angela despite her pleas for mercy. Instead, he has shot Angela’s new girlfriend. When it does, he shoots the figure that emerges. When he finds Jimmy’s wife Angela in the bed and the shower running, he takes her hostage and waits for the bathroom door to open. He chokes the location of the Darmody home out of bootlegger Mickey Doyle and creeps in during the middle of the night. ![]() He believes that Jimmy Darmody, who he’s been needling over a debt, was the architect of a failed attempt on his life. The character played by Aleksa Palladino is just the most recent victim.Īs I had predicted, Manny Horvitz (William Forsythe) descended on Atlantic City with blood on his mind. I hope nobody was too surprised by what happened to Angela Darmody and her girlfriend Sunday night on the usually stellar “Boardwalk Empire.” If you were surprised, then you haven’t been paying attention to pop culture very carefully. ![]()
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