Lots of "holler"ing back to the
pilot in the sixth season Justified premiere. Like a good novel, things
are coming back together from how they were laid out at the start.
Justified does this better than anyone on a scene, episode, season and series
level.
Dewey pined for simpler times when he and the gang hung out with Boyd in the abandoned church as part of Crowder's commandos, as they did in the pilot. Then Raylan came to town and since they everything's gone pear shaped.
Dewey wasn't the only one rehashing the old times. Boyd executed a suspected rat, as he did on the bridge in the pilot. And Raylan and Eva walked through her shooting Beaumon, which had taken place just prior to Raylan's homecoming in the pilot, and what she did to deceive him in the days leading up to it.
But perhaps the most important conversation was between Raylan and Art, which only tacitly brought to mind the pilot. Raylan can easily see a showdown where he shoots Boyd and heads off to Florida to see his baby girl...even if we know he's probably not going to live up to fatherly responsibilities based on the way he dodged any chance to see his daughter last season (and Winona's doctor appointments before that).
Art offered that Boyd could also shoot Raylan, but that doesn't seem likely to the White Hat. He almost finds it comical that Boyd could draw faster than him. So our minds automatically go to that other dinner at the Crowder house that ended in a shooting, when Raylan shot Boyd.
So I supposed we can expect the story to come back around and culminate in one of the standoffs that Justified has been so good at.
You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive is the refrain that's ended most seasons, and an idea that many of the characters have tried to attain. Even in "Fate's Right Hand" we see Boyd try to get Eva to pack up and leave if, part left unsaid, he can rob enough banks to set them up for life in Costa Rica. Each attempt to get out of Harlan has failed because it is some sort of purgatory and they haven't carried out their sentences yet. The question remains is if Raylan's shooting of Tommy Bucks in the first scene of the first episode, the sin that placed him there, is cardinal or venial.
Look-see
Dewey pined for simpler times when he and the gang hung out with Boyd in the abandoned church as part of Crowder's commandos, as they did in the pilot. Then Raylan came to town and since they everything's gone pear shaped.
Dewey wasn't the only one rehashing the old times. Boyd executed a suspected rat, as he did on the bridge in the pilot. And Raylan and Eva walked through her shooting Beaumon, which had taken place just prior to Raylan's homecoming in the pilot, and what she did to deceive him in the days leading up to it.
But perhaps the most important conversation was between Raylan and Art, which only tacitly brought to mind the pilot. Raylan can easily see a showdown where he shoots Boyd and heads off to Florida to see his baby girl...even if we know he's probably not going to live up to fatherly responsibilities based on the way he dodged any chance to see his daughter last season (and Winona's doctor appointments before that).
Art offered that Boyd could also shoot Raylan, but that doesn't seem likely to the White Hat. He almost finds it comical that Boyd could draw faster than him. So our minds automatically go to that other dinner at the Crowder house that ended in a shooting, when Raylan shot Boyd.
So I supposed we can expect the story to come back around and culminate in one of the standoffs that Justified has been so good at.
You'll Never Leave Harlan Alive is the refrain that's ended most seasons, and an idea that many of the characters have tried to attain. Even in "Fate's Right Hand" we see Boyd try to get Eva to pack up and leave if, part left unsaid, he can rob enough banks to set them up for life in Costa Rica. Each attempt to get out of Harlan has failed because it is some sort of purgatory and they haven't carried out their sentences yet. The question remains is if Raylan's shooting of Tommy Bucks in the first scene of the first episode, the sin that placed him there, is cardinal or venial.
Look-see
- Garret Dillahunt played two different characters in Deadwood, sharing the show with TO and many other Justified personalities. His face was oh so punchable. And kickable. And pistol whip-able
- Boyd's tattoo is there to remind us he's a bad guy after all
- "Stupid looking" They nailed it
- I don't even know how to type the phonetic versions of Dewey's "negligence" and "maleficence"
- Boyd mentions that Harlan was a boomtown. Boomtown was another Graham Yost creation that featured Quarles, from Detroit, and Limehouse, from Noble's Holler
- "What's in the box?!" Paperwork. The best season of Justified started with another seemingly innocuous find. In a wall no less. Though there were no drawers in that wall.
- Was Raylan saying the Dewey Crowe was a waterskiing Goofy at Disney World? Orlando makes sense, but the rest? Just plain hilarious.
- Miller's Creek is between Lexington and Harlan.
Tonight's drink: Bulleit Bourbon - Lawrenceburg, KY with one giant ice cube
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