BOARDWALK EMPIRE Recap: “Friendless Child”

In many ways, Boardwalk Empire‘s penultimate
episode, “Friendless Child,” was a capsule of the
most essential elements of Nucky’s full story over
the course of the series. The waning hours of
Nucky’s gangland battle with Lucky and Meyer
mirror the show’s twilight as well. The gangsters
are tired. Many of them are dead. There’s a new
world order, and all Nucky wants now is to make
amends as best he can. The flashbacks in
“Friendless Child” also tied together his
relationship with Gillian, and how she may be his
only hope for some kind of redemption. Hit the
jump for why “all I have — all I’ve ever had — is
Atlantic City.”