Admittedly, I am somewhat behind on “Boardwalk Empire.” I have about four and a half unwatched episodes on my DVR as type this. It’s not that I don’t like the show, or that I don’t want to watch it, it’s just that every time I tell myself I’m going to try to get caught up, I’m immediately filled with a desire to do something else. The problem for me is that the show has been moving kind of slow, meticulously setting up chess pieces all over the board, and with all the other TV I try to watch during the week, well… Daddy needs action.
Then last night, while I was watching Sunday Night Football, my Twitter and Tumblr feeds absolutely exploded with people reacting to a particular scene in the season’s penultimate episode. KABOOM. I’ll save the spoilers for the next page, but just know that the official Warming Glow review and analysis of last night’s episode is as follows: WHAT NO ICKY WHY.
In a flashback to college, we found out Jimmy Darmody had… uh, relations with his own mother…
… and then back in the present day, he killed his father. THE FULL OEDIPUS!
Now, as I said, I’m super behind on the show, so I’m not going to be able to give you a full analysis of all the moving parts at play here. For that I direct you to Alan Sepinwall’s review of the episode. But what I can do is post this GIF of Anderson Cooper, which I believe sums up my feelings on the situation nicely.
