Boardwalk Empire
Gimcrack & Bunkum
Season 2, Episode 5 · Aired 2011-10-23
Synopsis
After paying lip service to his enemies, Nucky introduces a surprise guest speaker at a Memorial Day dedication for war veterans. With his options dwindling, Eli questions his allegiances, but ends up digging himself a deeper hole. Nucky gets a new lawyer; Jimmy is taught a painful lesson by a Commodore crony; Richard goes hunting deep in the forest.
In the series
This episode is part of Boardwalk Empire (2010–2014) on HBO.
Prohibition Atlantic City — Nucky Thompson’s empire in Scorsese-sheen.
Key cast
- Steve Buscemi as Enoch “Nucky” Thompson
- Kelly Macdonald as Margaret Schroeder
- Michael Shannon as Nelson Van Alden
- Shea Whigham as Eli Thompson
- Michael Stuhlbarg as Arnold Rothstein
- Michael Kenneth Williams as Chalky White