Warning: Full spoilers for the episode follow...
While still in recoil mode (more fallout from "You'd Be Surprised"), Boardwalk gave us another slow episode with "Sunday Best" - but a much more engaging one than "Ging Gang Goolie." Last week's look at Margaret, Teddy and the gypsy fire was a shaky, but this week's Thompson family dinner provided many great, small moments of both reconciliation and refusal. Plus, we had some movement, albeit not earth-shaking, in the lives of Gillian, Harrow and Gyp.
Gyp returned to us this week a beaten man. A defeated man. A frustrated man hen-pecked by the women in his family. And a mafioso whose life has crumbled after fleeing Tabor Heights. It was liberating to see him knocked down so many pegs, though when the time was right, and he could exert his psychotic brutality on someone in private, a freakin' priest paid the price. And Gyp's loud, resentful "praying?" Just crazy, man. This guy even feels disrespected by God! "What kind of sick f*** thinks that way?" he screams at a statue of Jesus. But even though beating on a man of the cloth, and stealing the church's money so he could come up even with Joe Masseria, might seem like absolute rock bottom, the look his gives his lieutenant, Tonino, commanding/begging the poor guy to stay and eat so that Gyp's not left alone with his family was the biggest signal for me. Don't leave me here with them.
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