Name That Scene

The second episode of Boardwalk Empire, "The Ivory Tower," featured a scene where two well-connected, upper-class men, living in luxury, sit in chairs and discuss politics.  To make a point, one of them asks some tricky geopolitical questions to a servant, who becomes flustered.  This supposedly proves (to the one asking the questions) average voters don't really understand anything beyond their immediate experience, and the ruling class should rule.

It's a good idea for a scene.  I enjoyed it when they did it in The Remains Of The Day (1993).

The episode was written by the show's creator Terence Winter, who wrote the celebrated "Pine Barrens" for The Sopranos.  In that one, gangsters lose a victim they'd presumed dead in the wilds of New Jersey.  Everyone wondered what happened to the guy, but creator David Chase wasn't talking.

Boardwalk Empire also had a shooting in the wilds of New Jersey.  At the end of "The Ivory Tower," two people come across an unaccounted for but though-to-be dead man who is very much alive.  It's almost as if Winter wanted to show the other side of "Pine Barrens."