Comments on: Recap: ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Season 4, Episode 9 ‘Marriage and Hunting’

By: Slekker

Slekker — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:44:55 +0000

On why Arquette's character pulls out the shotgun when she hangs up with Nucky, I think it has less to do with gators at the moment & more of a sign that as a single, independent woman, the gun is her sense of security and talking to him, she feels comforted or protected by her association with a "strong man." The way she caresses & cradles it is like a security blanket the same way a man in the bed is. Buschemi also directed an episode on The Sopranos where, during their separation, Carmella is going to bed & puts a handgun under the pillow next to her and gently pats it and smooths the pillow over the gun and kind of smiles at the picture of Tony. And as an independent single woman myself, I sometimes do the same thing just because it makes me feel safer when I'm sleeping alone. I immediately identified with that "it sucks to sleep alone, but I can do it if I have to because my gun makes me feel a little safer" feeling & the similarity of both women in both shows directed by Buschemi (being strong without a man but substituting the "safe" feeling makes sense.

By: JBARRA

JBARRA — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:44:55 +0000

Great review, I just wanted to point that the gunmen who killed Dean O'Banion were Frankie Yale, Albert Anselmi, and John Scalise. The one who grabbed O'Banion by the hand so the other two could shoot him was Frankie Yale, the same New York gangster that Torrio hired to kill "Big Jim" Colosimo in the very first episode of the series. Frankie Yale has also briefly appeared in four or five other episodes of Boardwalk, he is one of the gangsters present when Gyp Rosetti goes on his tirade after Nucky informs them they he will no longer be selling them liquor. Frankie Yale helped kill Dean O'Banion on orders from the Torrio gang, so Al Capone must have sent them, in addition to Van Alden/Mueller, in order make sure the job got done.

By: jman

jman — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:44:55 +0000

Nucky should have disposed of his brother the first time he betrayed him.

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:44:55 +0000

The show is one 2013 best, for historical events are
Being presented. However with a very non fictional lifetime of Nucky.
This is also true for the lives of Eli and Chalky, writers are teaching the
Masses. Oh the shotgun totting Sally has trouble with locals seeking
answers for new riches. Also death of their friend, "knife to the head". LmaO

By: dee

dee — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:44:55 +0000

Very good recap….I think Mueller/Van Alden has some kind of personality disorder. He seems to be a different person when kills someone.

By: Carroll

Carroll — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:44:55 +0000

She sleeps with a shotgun because she lives in pre-developed Florida! Alligators, anyone?

By: Slacker

Slacker — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:44:55 +0000

Mueller/Van Alden isn't stressed just from fear of being killed; he's been repressed and terrorized by everyone, including his wife, and he can't take it any more. He's always been that way; once he snapped and drowned his partner, once he snapped and burned the guy with the iron. This time he hasn't snapped, but he stopped taking it.

He hasn't killed "many men"; just four or five, but three of them that very day. Besides killing those guys, he's stood up to everyone: Capone, O'Banion, the wife; he escaped two brushed with death; and he has the contents of the register, so he's feeling pretty good. It's been quite a day for him.

By: PositiveID

PositiveID — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:44:55 +0000

Dion O'Banion is not a fictional character. On Boardwalk Empire you only get to kill people if they're fictional, or if they really got killed, and then it has to be the way they really got killed, or at least consistent with the known facts. According to Wikipedia, O'Banion was killed by Torrio's men, which is the same side as Capone.

By: Olaf the Blue

Olaf the Blue — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:44:55 +0000

She's Norwegian!