New York Sour - BE

"New York Sour"
Written by Howard Korder who also wrote next week's episode

Directed by the always badass Tim Van Patten

Previously on Boardwalk Empire, a complete sociopath showed up in the premiere and predictably left thirteen episodes later.

I am going to try to tag real life "spoilers" in blue.  These are historical facts which may or may not factor in the show that have not already occurred in the show's timeline.

• Eddie is making his way along a bit slower, but he's alive folks!
• The Richard Harrow Murder Tour '24 has reached a Midwest swing where he takes out two guys at a rest stop in Warsaw, IN.  
• I'm unclear on Richard's victims and what earned them their fate, but maybe I am not supposed to know
• Warsaw appears to be on Route 30, the third longest in the country which begins in AC ending in Oregon
• Based on the references to Missouri, Cicero, Chicago, Milwaukee and other rust belt locations it sounds like this season may focus heavily on the Midwest, giving them their own storylines rather than simply in reaction to activities in AC
• The Vaudeville scenes, always strong in the past, continue to be strong here
•  Body count - 6
• Guy 1 in Warsaw (Richard with the knife in the parking lot)
• Guy 2 in Warsaw (Richard with the pistol in the parking lot)
• Franklin Warren, president of something (Richard with the pistol in the office)
• FBI guy who played a crackhead in the Sopranos ("Otis" with the booby trap in the garage)
• I was thinking it was nice they expand some of the characters already introduced rather than only rely on Season Four introductions.  Then he bit it
• Otis (Warren Knox near the garage with the pistol )
• Dickie Paster (Pursley in the bedroom with the broken bottle.  A billion times in the neck.)
• Not sure if Purs was originally planned to expand into Chalky's right hand.  His first scene seemed like he'd be a throwaway character.
• Lansky and Luciano are on the outs but each teamed up with a benefactor, AR and Joe the Boss
• Chalky is annoyed but not belligerent with Purs.  He's more like "You did the hole, Purs" and Purs is like "I don't give a fuck, what is this the first hole I dug?"
• Seems like a low level meeting for Nuck, but maybe it's just cause he's so close with Chalky
• In ideal Boardwalk world, Chalky gets a ton of screentime this season, finally
• Time check
• Woodrow Wilson died February 3, 1924
• Was a Republican year in national elections with the GOP taking the House (added to majority), Senate (took control) and White House (Coolidge elected as incumbent following Harding's death) but we are about nine months from that
• J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Bureau of Investigation
• Warren Knox Verbal Kints everyone. 
• He was just enough of a rube that I didn't think it was excessive
• The most by the book Chechov's gun I've seen in a while
• Maybe Nucky takes a sabbatical to Florida
• I guess we'll spend a bunch of time on an Al Capone inferiority complex
• Torrio eventually hands off control to Capone, peacefully, if you are wondering
• Sir Not Appearing in this Film
• Van Alden/George Mueller/whatever name he's going by, and his hilarious weird cadence
• Margaret and her amazing hair
• Jeffrey Wright, the focal point of all the previews for this season 

"Take care and God bless!"