His loss does mean a changing of the order. We might call it The Tragedy of Jimmy Darmody, the story of his attempt to make something of himself in the post-war world. However, taking the longer view, this brings a major two-season arc to a close. The real pity about the performance was that he was such a gift of a character, ambitious, intelligent, troubled, and a linchpin of the show’s narrative. I won’t be too sorry to see the last of Michael Pitt, who was always a little too leaden in his performances, but I am sorry to say goodbye to Jimmy. The failure of the Commodore, of Eli, of Jimmy himself, they all stand to benefit Nucky, it’s only right that he gets his hands dirty. So much of the fracturing of Jimmy’s group has happened without Nucky’s involvment, it was like they were barely at war at times. It’s also appropriate that Nucky himself is the triggerman. This isn’t anything for him to get worked up about. As far as he’s concerned he died years ago in the trenches. At the very end, it’s Jimmy who seems more in control, arriving unarmed and in total acceptance of his fate. It’s a moment filled with obvious sadness, but not without poise. In a beautifully noir-ish scene by the war memorial in the pouring rain, Jimmy finally meets his end at the hands of Nucky. A certain settling of scores, righting wrongs and heartfelt apologies comes entirely naturally to proceedings.Īs does his death. Much of this is, however, supported by the storyline, Jimmy is using his last days on earth to make up for all the days that preceded them, and is genuinely contrite, at least as far as his morality allows him to be. It has been, as I noted before, a steadily paced season, adding new characters and plotlines alongside the overarching arc of Jimmy’s rebellion against Nucky, and although the last couple of episodes have seen several strands approach their climax there is a nagging sense of a rush to the finish line. An exciting and thrilling opening to a solid, but functional final episode.
It’s a nicely taken opportunity, setting up a group of mopes no viewer could have sympathy for against two characters with very little to lose.
In picking up the three men responsible, Jimmy and Richard dispense with the niceties of threatening and get straight on with the shooting. However, unlike the assault on Chalky White’s warehouse that opened the season, this time the KKK are the ones facing the masked men with guns. Appropriate then, that the second season ends as it started, with a bloody shootout involving the Ku Klux Klan.
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