Atlantic City just became Copout City!
What a terrible end to the season! This is what should have transpired:
- Horvitz should have been killed as planned by Jimmy and Nucky.
- Slater should have been ordered to kill Jimmy's mom and Harrow and made to look like as if perpetrated by Rothstein and the New York boys in a botched assassination attempt, so now Jimmy would be completely alone and has to keep it together for his son, and teams up with Nucky to get revenge on AR and his crew.-
Slater also should have been killed after Nucky discovers Margaret's infidelity, but now Margaret is trapped in the marriage to Nucky since she knows he will kill her too if it comes down to it, thus leaving her in a state of perpetual fear. -
Nucky buys into Jimmy's story about Eli being behind the assassination attempt (it was true after all) and Nucky kills Eli in a chilling closing scene, thus keeping the 'ruthless' angle to Nucky intact.
Instead we've lost 3 central characters - Jimmy, Van Alden and Eli (jail) - and the show has to completely rebuild itself with this new idiocy with Margaret signing over the land to the Church.
Less is always more!