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Antonio Mazzaro (@acmazzaro) and Jeremiah Panhorst (@jpanhorst) recap episode 2 of the final season of HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, “The Good Listener”.

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Show Notes:

Chicago

• Things look rough for Eli in Chicago.

• Did the spinning images help tie the Thompson brothers stories together?

• Did we like the Eli and Mueller team?

• Was it a bad idea for Eli and George take money from Al Capone to pay back the 20 thousand?

• Elliot Ness declares war on Al Capone.

• Mike D’Angelo, has gone deep undercover into the Al Capone’s organization. Will he take down Capone?

New York

• Nucky visits Johnny Torrio in NY. Is Johnny really retired?

• Willie Thompson wants to be a prosecutor. What does this mean for Willie’s character? Will he take down Nucky?

• Nucky may get help from Joe Kennedy

• Nucky forces Tonino to tell him it was Lansky and Luciano that wanted him killed and then Nuch get’s revenge for Billie Kent’s murder.

1884

• Susan has passed

• Ethan sold land to the Commodore, what happened with that story?

• What are we learning about Nucky’s character?

Mental Institute

• How crazy is Gillian?

• Gillian trades a dress for letter making materials. Did we think it was going to be a sex trade?

• Who is she writing to?

• Where are they going with this story and do we care?

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