Sure, she had to compete with Angela for the affections of her grandson, Tommy, but deep down inside, Gillian knew she was not living the life she deserved. When we first met her in Season 1, she was still just a topless dancer who supplemented her income by seducing virile young bucks like Lucky Luciano (and somehow dodging a scathing case of VD). Much like Margaret, Gillian has had a rough row to hoe these past three seasons.
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Don’t be fooled into believing she died when Gyp injected her with that needle full of heroin! Oh no it takes more than that to kill Gillian Darmody. You can’t help but love this crazy, incestuous, elder abusing broad.
Gillian Darmody Played by: Gretchen Mol (Season 1-4) Not the continuing adventures of fledgling feminist and terrible investment planner, Margaret Thompson. Sure, her character can still arc through feeble attempts to reconnect with estranged family (now that she has no one else to turn to), but who cares? The show is about Nucky, Altantic City, prohibition, and crime syndicates of the early 20 th century. And finally she left her husband (who tried to buy her back) and aborted Owen’s baby. Her boyfriend, Owen Sleater (Charlie Cox) was brutally murdered and then Fed-Ex’d to Nucky. Competing gangsters threatened the lives of her children. She had to nurse her philandering husband back to health after a bomb vaporizes his club and his mistress. She slams into gender inequality issues while trying to set up a women’s clinic at the hospital she pretty much paid for with her marriage.
She gets rejected by her poor siblings, who had immigrated to New York City. Season 3 was a train wreck for most of the characters, and Margaret was no exception. Which is why no one was surprised to find the Thompson marriage on the skids in the beginning of Season 3. I am sorry Boardwalk writers this dog just won’t hunt. And if nothing else, she was always practical, especially when it came to money. Only Margaret was never emotionally invested in Nucky’s wayward protegee. Yes we could argue that it was a move fueled by mother guilt, or payback for Nucky lying to her about Jimmy’s death. Which is why it never quite felt plausible to this viewer when, wracked by guilt over her daughter’s illness, she lost her goddamn mind and deeded an enormous piece of Nucky’s valuable real estate to the local parish. Even if that act was ridiculously stupid. She knew her mind and when she felt action was called for, she acted. If only Margaret could learn to play the game and bury her head in the sand like a good little enabler.īut if there was one thing we learned about Margaret Thompson in the first three seasons of Boardwalk, it was that she, like her husband, did not meekly take a backseat to anyone. How else was her son going to take his place as a chubby, entitled, fire starter? Who else was going to keep her daughter in top of the line porcelain dolls and French lace dresses?Īnd Nucky was not all bad he did have her abusive first husband murdered before he made his move on her. Of course it was hard to turn a blind eye to the bloodshed, or act as a mouthpiece for larger political schemes that she found morally reprehensible but she had her children to think of. Yet for some reason, her role as a gold digger, er, supportive wife, was never as fulfilling as she thought it would be. Having a household full of people you could be a bitchy boss to took a minute to get used to, but once she hit her stride (and canned the maid who was banging her boyfriend), Margaret really settled into the good life. Getting to lord it over your former bitch of a boss was pretty awesome.
Sure, being married to the mob looked great on paper (specifically large bills of green paper). Nucky’s wayward wife, Margaret, has had a rough few years. Margaret Thompson Played by: Kelly MacDonald (Seasons 1-4)
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