We open six days earlier, with Raylan delivering Jody Adair, the felon from the first episode, to his bounty hunter “friend with benefits” Sharon. (This means that the entire season so far has only been six days in show time, which is kind of amazing, when you think about it!) For plot purposes, Raylan loudly…
The episode opens with Rick up on the fenced in catwalk with an automatic rifle. Rick continues to hallucinate his visions of Lori in a white dress. (As scary as Rick was hallucinating with a pistol last episode, it’s even worse that he’s wandering around with an automatic weapon. What if he sees one of…
This week’s Justified opens with masked men plinking a piano key as a man in an armchair begs them to be quiet because his son is sleeping upstairs. One of the masked men speaks, revealing that he’s Boyd Crowder and that he believes the man in the armchair, Dell Heywood, is really Drew Thompson. In…
I’ve come to the conclusion that The Walking Dead is like a nursery rhyme I used to know about a girl with a curl on her forehead—when it’s good, it’s very, very good, and when it’s bad it’s horrid. Luckily, season 3 has, for the most part been very, very good, and the long-awaited episode…
After last week’s exploration of the disaster that is Raylan’s love-life, this week’s episode of Justified focused on the strongest aspects of the show: the specificity of the setting (Harlan County and its unique customs are as important to Justified as Baltimore was to The Wire); the parade of marvelous secondary characters (many of whom…
After a couple of sublimely well-written episodes, I must confess that this week’s Justified was a bit disappointing. It was hard for me to care that much about Lindsey; mostly she made me miss Winona (I know, I know, hard to believe!). I also feel that Raylan needs a “win” of some sort soon; he’s…
This week on Justified, we learned that although a betrayal by a loved one may be sharper than a serpent’s tooth, a rattlesnake bite to the face may not always be fatal. The episode opens with Boyd waiting for Cassie, whom he’s correctly sussed out as the power behind the Last Chance Holiness Church. Boyd…
As much as I love Raylan Givens (and Boyd Crowder), I think some of the best episodes of Justified occur when the rest of the talented cast is included in the storyline. It’s always great to see Raylan from the point of view of his coworkers; whenever Art Mullen is onscreen, pricking the shiny bubble…
Although my favorite frenemies, Raylan Givens and Boyd Crowder, never shared a scene in last night’s season 4 premiere of Justified, they did share some questionable actions, such as hiding large sums of illegally gained money from the blonde women in their lives. The episode opens in 1983. Ronald Reagan is President, and a suburban…
We open this week’s mid-season finale with a shot of a zombie lady in a sweater tracking screams through the woods. She’s smacked on the head by a hammer-wielding man whom I recognize as the awesome Dennis “Cutty” Wise from The Wire. Cutty—whose name on this show is Tyreese—keeps running through the woods where he…
