Not nearly as much awesome in this episode, and Scorcese's directing was more powerful, but that's hardly surprising.
I'm starting to like the Capone character more and more, and the Luciano character less and less.
Capone's a bulldog from the midwest, not too much of a hothead, but still has no problem fucking up anybody who ain't acting right. Him giving the reporter his "statement" was proper badass gangster form- It should be a rule that gangsters must always publicly fuck up any reporter snooping in his business. Since we all know who Al Capone is, he'll obviously get bigger, and I can't wait to see it happen.
Luciano thinks Rothstein is some untouchable badass and doesn't realize that although most people can't touch him, Nucky is a different story. Slowly but surely they are unveiling him as the completely untouchable city boss. They portray that in such an awesome way. Its like how gangs of new york, as slow as it was, portrayed the old new york city machine so well, the details are nice. The part when Rothstein tries to bully Nucky again and he shuts him down is epic. You get this sense of them being the adults in the room, though I wouldn't be surprised if they show prohibition creating a changing of the guard.
I don't know what's gonna happen to Jimmy, but in an ad they show him dressed like he gets rich, we'll see how he does that now that he isn't Nucky's right hand man.
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