I don't think Boyd even knows what he's going to do at this point. I imagine that's why he's back in the mines, so he could return to his roots, regain his bearings, and decide where to go from here.
Also apparently ratings for this are up 40% from last season, so that's awesome.
Yeah, the creator has been saying in interviews that he's trying to make this season more serialized, less stand alone episodes, which can only be a good thing. So that family is the big bad for the season. Excellent first episode, as well. The whole gas station scene was brilliant. Thinking the girl comes back and testifies to avenge her dad, maybe? Unless when the mom told her son to get the girl, she meant kill her
Nah, she seemed like a Bad Momma character and probably plans to raise the girl as her own. It was pretty evident from their talk earlier that she didn't think much about the dad.
I am all for more serialized seasons, but I wonder what will draw the Marshals into investigating them...
Boyd is probably the most fascinating character on TV right now who isn't named Walter White.
The scenes with him and the scene with Mags were pretty much the only redeeming parts of last night's weak, weak episode. Probably my least favorite of the whole show's run.
I'm cool with the first few episodes of a show being inconsistant. It takes time to get into a rhythm and a feel, so if it heads downhill I'll definitely stick with it for long enough to allow the show to pick itself up.
With Breaking Bad and Mad Men being on hiatus, and Terries and Friday Night Lights having recently ended, Justified is my favorite drama on air right now.
I am an asshole and had been letting this season accumulate on my DVR, I am now fully caught up again and holy shit I love this show and this season has been fantastic so far.
I love the Bennett family
I love that they are fleshing out Rachel and Tim more this season
I love that Emmit Arnett came back and that apparently Wynne Duffy will be coming back as well.
I love Dewey Crow (particularly Dewey Crow's Raylan impression)
and I love love love what they are doing with Boyd
Where to begin with the awesomeness in this latest episode? How about the fact that Ava dropping an ice cube made for a scene more tense than anything in last week's on-rails episode? Or how about the final moment of the episode, where Raylan has a lifetime of things to say to Loretta, but recognizes enough of himself in her to know that he should just walk away? Fuck, that was a beautifully acted moment. Volumes in a glance.
But no, I think I want to talk about Boyd's line, about the immutable nature of his criminal proclivity. "Everyone seems to know that but me." Holy shit, what a tragic, perfect line. From Boyd's incarceration on, he has honestly tried to be a better person, at every single turn. And yet because of his family, and his past, he can never fully escape the world's expectations of him. Not so long as he's in Harlan, anyway.
"Small towns are resistant to change" is hardly new fodder for fiction, but man, Justified has an amazing exploration of that phenomenon in Boyd. His struggle to be his own man in a place that seems to be aggressively trying to regress him is absolutely riveting. Boyd is, hands down, the most fascinating character on TV who isn't named Walter White.
i'm still diggin the show, so damn good. love how everything is slowly coming together, and raylan getting his ass kicked means there's gonna be a reckoning soon. holy poop is the next episode gonna be amazing at mag's whoop-dee-doo
how goddamn amazing was last night's episode? so dang amazing holy poop. everything coming together like that, boyd and mags working together, boyd dancing, raylan getting his, loretta acting her butt off, dang coover geting a sympathetic light, yet still acting bananas, and mags being terrifying, goooooood.
The choice of scenes for the "previously, on Justified" montage had me all paranoid about poisoning, so I spent the whole episode on pins and needles whenever anyone lifted a glass to their lips. When the actual threat turned out to be right in front of my eyes the whole time.
The way this season has built conflict has been absolutely stunning. No one person instigating anything, no deus ex happenstance pushing things along artificially - just a series of small mistakes and errors of judgment, from a whole bunch of people, slowly stacking and compounding until they inevitably tumble over, mingle with bad blood from the past, and cross a point of no return. The last four episodes are gonna be nuts.
Also, Margo Martindale is so far ahead in this year's Emmy race that it's kind of ridiculous. The competition is so one-sided, even Bryan Cranston's like "Damn, girl, go easy on em"
The choice of scenes for the "previously, on Justified" montage had me all paranoid about poisoning, so I spent the whole episode on pins and needles whenever anyone lifted a glass to their lips. When the actual threat turned out to be right in front of my eyes the whole time.
The way this season has built conflict has been absolutely stunning. No one person instigating anything, no deus ex happenstance pushing things along artificially - just a series of small mistakes and errors of judgment, from a whole bunch of people, slowly stacking and compounding until they inevitably tumble over, mingle with bad blood from the past, and cross a point of no return. The last four episodes are gonna be nuts.
Season three's got a tough act to follow.
No kidding. There was enough intensity in that episode for a season finale on most shows - and there are still four episodes left this season? I don't even know how they can sustain this level to wrap things up in THIS season, much less season three.
Boyd's crazy happy dance was amazing but I am not sure I follow exactly what his game is
I'm pretty sure he has a stake in Mag's deal. He got Raylen's dad's land right? And that was an integral part of the land that was needed for the road, so I just assumed he was getting a cut from Mag's or is just selling to her outright.
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Boyd's crazy happy dance was amazing but I am not sure I follow exactly what his game is
I'm pretty sure he has a stake in Mag's deal. He got Raylen's dad's land right? And that was an integral part of the land that was needed for the road, so I just assumed he was getting a cut from Mag's or is just selling to her outright.
What I don't understand is what Black Top(?) was planning on doing. So they want the coal, and apparently need some land for a road, so why didn't they tell her about it? They would have to deal with it eventually, right?
Boyd's crazy happy dance was amazing but I am not sure I follow exactly what his game is
I'm pretty sure he has a stake in Mag's deal. He got Raylen's dad's land right? And that was an integral part of the land that was needed for the road, so I just assumed he was getting a cut from Mag's or is just selling to her outright.
What I don't understand is what Black Top(?) was planning on doing. So they want the coal, and apparently need some land for a road, so why didn't they tell her about it? They would have to deal with it eventually, right?
She thought Black Pike was buying up land around the mountain for conservation
Instead, they need the land to build a big ol' road
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Boyd's crazy happy dance was amazing but I am not sure I follow exactly what his game is
I'm pretty sure he has a stake in Mag's deal. He got Raylen's dad's land right? And that was an integral part of the land that was needed for the road, so I just assumed he was getting a cut from Mag's or is just selling to her outright.
What I don't understand is what Black Top(?) was planning on doing. So they want the coal, and apparently need some land for a road, so why didn't they tell her about it? They would have to deal with it eventually, right?
She thought Black Pike was buying up land around the mountain for conservation
Instead, they need the land to build a big ol' road
Ah, thanks. I thought she was just negotiating the top, and was completely unaware of anything else.
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Also apparently ratings for this are up 40% from last season, so that's awesome.
I am all for more serialized seasons, but I wonder what will draw the Marshals into investigating them...
Really liked the this episode, also Jeremy Davies yes!
and I am really liking this show a lot.
I love Timothy Olyphant so much now, after seeing him in Deadwood and now this.
And I'm really starting to like Boyd. I'm interested in seeing where he goes.
The scenes with him and the scene with Mags were pretty much the only redeeming parts of last night's weak, weak episode. Probably my least favorite of the whole show's run.
We've been listening to this song a few dozen times per writing session:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k5dMrXh4jw
it fucking rules
Gonna get all of that first season for definite
And then there's the Alan Ruck episode, and shit goes on an insane hot streak.
I love the Bennett family
I love that they are fleshing out Rachel and Tim more this season
I love that Emmit Arnett came back and that apparently Wynne Duffy will be coming back as well.
I love Dewey Crow (particularly Dewey Crow's Raylan impression)
and I love love love what they are doing with Boyd
But no, I think I want to talk about Boyd's line, about the immutable nature of his criminal proclivity. "Everyone seems to know that but me." Holy shit, what a tragic, perfect line. From Boyd's incarceration on, he has honestly tried to be a better person, at every single turn. And yet because of his family, and his past, he can never fully escape the world's expectations of him. Not so long as he's in Harlan, anyway.
"Small towns are resistant to change" is hardly new fodder for fiction, but man, Justified has an amazing exploration of that phenomenon in Boyd. His struggle to be his own man in a place that seems to be aggressively trying to regress him is absolutely riveting. Boyd is, hands down, the most fascinating character on TV who isn't named Walter White.
What happened?
The choice of scenes for the "previously, on Justified" montage had me all paranoid about poisoning, so I spent the whole episode on pins and needles whenever anyone lifted a glass to their lips. When the actual threat turned out to be right in front of my eyes the whole time.
The way this season has built conflict has been absolutely stunning. No one person instigating anything, no deus ex happenstance pushing things along artificially - just a series of small mistakes and errors of judgment, from a whole bunch of people, slowly stacking and compounding until they inevitably tumble over, mingle with bad blood from the past, and cross a point of no return. The last four episodes are gonna be nuts.
Season three's got a tough act to follow.
No kidding. There was enough intensity in that episode for a season finale on most shows - and there are still four episodes left this season? I don't even know how they can sustain this level to wrap things up in THIS season, much less season three.
I'm pretty sure he has a stake in Mag's deal. He got Raylen's dad's land right? And that was an integral part of the land that was needed for the road, so I just assumed he was getting a cut from Mag's or is just selling to her outright.
What I don't understand is what Black Top(?) was planning on doing. So they want the coal, and apparently need some land for a road, so why didn't they tell her about it? They would have to deal with it eventually, right?
She thought Black Pike was buying up land around the mountain for conservation
Instead, they need the land to build a big ol' road
Ah, thanks. I thought she was just negotiating the top, and was completely unaware of anything else.
this show
I think I liked this week even more than last week.
also man Natalie Zea is super pretty
Pretty fucking awesome, so far. I'm just past the halfway point of Season 2 right now, hoping to finish it today.
my anticipation has grown mightily. justified starting soon, and then archer...
Loving Ava this episode
Bad guy is sufficiently scary and intimidating, though will probably be not as amazing as mags, but who cares raylan and Boyd are back kicking ass
it is good to have it back
and archer on thursday!