Other characters, Nucky, Chalky, Margaret, even the zipped-up Van Alden are able to tell vignettes from their lives but not Jimmy, and not this.The season was produced by 20th Century Fox Television, Lifeguarded Health in collaboration with Imagine Entertainment, Lee Daniels Entertainment, Danny Strong Productions and Little Chicks, Inc., Lee Daniels, Danny Strong and Ilene Chaiken as Showrunner. This would make the flashback entirely justified since it is the only way to tell this story. It is, under this view, Jimmy’s own narrative, his personal understanding of how he ended up where he did. When he wakes up with the mother of all hangovers and looks out of the window the smart viewer can guess that he will see drilling soldiers.Ī more generous take would be that these events did not necessarily happen all together, but in recalling them, Jimmy’s addled brain associates them with one another. The beating of his tutor, Angela discovering that she is pregnant, sleeping with is mother, even the idea of joining up, are all presented together. That the several events that set him on this course all occur in the same twenty-four hour period is a little much. Of course we learn that it wasn’t the war that screwed Jimmy up, he was like that even before he got on the boat. It’s a neat hint of the closeness of their relationship and a foreshadowing of the nasty, drunken and regrettable consummation to come.ĭespite this, the wider conceit of the episode is a little more simplistic, almost facile. Watch him stare at his mother flirting with Pearson, then see her staring at him return, as he gives the same Mr. We’re talking the little comments and hints –Jimmy’s mockery of his classmate’s patriotism, his insistence that he’ll provide for the baby, the mirroring of his and Gillian’s behaviour. However, the writing is good only in the minor sense. It’s a shame, as given what we later know about the character, it seems a wasted opportunity to have a little bit of fun with the performance. We see him being flippant in class, getting to know Angela, and finding out that he is to become a father, but aside from some laughter he’s still presented as the same old Jimmy we have known since the war. However, most of what we learn about young Jimmy comes from the writing, rather than Michael Pitt’s performance. The flashback is a fairly common device, unremarkable in itself, but an opportunity for actors to show a bit of range and to add to their interpretation of the character. It’s where he first meets Angela, who comes to his dorm room at night for a cheeky visit.
We’re catapulted immediately back to Jimmy’s Princeton years, studying Jacobean literature under a Mr.
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