Drama
Boardwalk Empire Season 4 episode 2 recap: Resignation
“A servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who dispatched him.” With such pointed scriptural citation does Jeffrey Wright bring his mesmerizing presence to HBO’s Boardwalk Empire Season 4, playing Dr. Valentin Narcisse, a new rival to Nucky Thompson and Chalky White (Michael K. Williams) on the Atlantic City stage and a man who uses many words to cut to the chase. And he is a key foil in the ongoing power gymnastics of who answers to whom in perfectly corrupt, institutionally racist Prohibition America. The question drives these Roaring ’20s, of […]