You gotta love the Justified season finale subverting your expectations right after the first commercial break. Raylan discovers that three of Nick Augustine’s boys have taken Winona hostage and will cut his baby girl right out of her stomach and to kill her separate if he doesn’t fetch Drew Thompson for them. Raylan (with...
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Justified – “Peace of Mind” – review
“Peace of Mind” could have just as easily been called “Get Ellen May” as, you know, that’s what the episode’s about and all, but “Peace of Mind” wisely underlines as a title the thematic concerns that are hit hard in the episode. One of the darkest concerns of season four is the question of...
Justified – “Decoy” – review
Expectations were high for “Decoy.” You’ve got Raylan and the gang trying to protect Drew Thompson and get him the fuck up to Lexington. Boyd and Tonin’s crews are after him, a bunch of bombs and a fucking helicopter in place to aide that mission. We were all excited as shit to see the...
Justified – “Get Drew” – review
Apparently it didn’t take as much effort as we had anticipated to track down Shelby Drew Thompson. Really, the hunt was on for only about half of “Get Drew.” I had thought that he had a better getaway plan and possibly even a master plan of some sort but…nope. He was just gonna roll...
Justified – “The Hatchet Tours” – review
So on this week’s Justified we got a major answer and a particularly heavy shoe dropped, namely we learned of the identity of Drew Thompson and Boyd finally was hipped to the fact that no, Ellen May is not dead after all. But though those are two developments that have been a long time...
Justified – “Money Trap” – review
More wheel-spinning on Justified this week as both our heroes are sidetracked by shit that ain’t Drew Thompson in the slightest…for now, anyhow. “Money Trap” finds Raylan having to close up some loose ends on his at-the-time seemingly disposable story about Jody, the guy who was harassing his wife Raylan picked up as part...
Justified – “Foot Chase” – review
While a lot of shit may go down in “Foot Chase” the episode ultimately ends up spinning its wheels some. But though the writers may be stalling big time on the reveal of who Drew Thompson is, that doesn’t mean that “Foot Chase” didn’t have its fair share of decent character moments and some...
Justified – “Kin” – review
Whoo-boy did a lot of shit go down in “Kin,” episode five of season four of Justified. After last week’s leisurely but very fun entry, this week we were thrown a whole helluva lot of info and incident, starting with the heat being turned up on the search for Drew Thompson. Arlo is working...
Justified – “This Bird Has Flown” – review
“This Bird Has Flown” takes it a little easier in the plotting department than we’ve seen from Justified so far this season, not furthering the Drew Thompson storyline in the slightest for starters (though we did get a quick glimpse of Sheriff Shelby checking up on the case on his office computer), but that...
Justified – “Truth and Consequences” – review
We’re getting ever closer to the full story behind the mystery of the Panamanian diplomat’s bag on this week’s Justified, “Truth and Consequences.” While that storyline remains the most intriguing thus far this season (after all, the secret forced Arlo to cement his stay in maximum security even further in the first episode of...
Justified – “Where’s Waldo?” – review
We’re week two into the fourth season of Justified and already the writers have completely ditched standalone “case-of-the-week” storylines. Yes, there were no random fugitives to hunt down at all this week, just straight-ahead serialized storytelling, and you better believe I’m all for that. But then again, with all the shit that happens in...
Justified – “Hole in the Wall” – review
In the season four opener of Justified, everybody’s got a secret stash in the wall or, as new edition to the show Constable Bob Sweeney (a hilariously excellent Patton Oswalt) might put it, a “go bag.” Raylan’s may be banging the babe who owns the bar he lives above but he’s squirreling away cash...
Justified – “Slaughterhouse” – review
We got an extremely satisfying finale to a very strong season of Justified, one with a hell of a lot of folks ending up dead or in jail. First was presumably Wynn Duffy, who Raylan might not want to press charges against due to his roulette game, but all the same the man did...
Justified – “Coalition” – review
It’s starting to look like Limehouse won’t be one of season three’s casualties. Hell, it’s starting to look like Limehouse isn’t such a fearsome character as we first thought, either. I mean, all this time he’s just been protecting Loretta’s inheritance, not sticking it to Dickie or keeping the 3.2 million for himself. And...
Justified – “Measures” – review
After an episode full of all kinds of double-crosses and twists and turns, it ends with a whole lot of alliances being formed in order to fight Limehouse and Quarles. Whether these alliances are legit remains to be seen, but if they’re successful against their enemies, then this season surely fooled me. I thought...
Justified – “Guy Walks Into a Bar” – review
“Guy Walks Into a Bar” was a whole lot of ramping up to shit, setting the scene for the last three episode of the season. In fact, though the title of the episode obviously refers to the great scene between Raylan and Quarles in the bar Raylan lives above, it could also be interpreted...
Justified – “Loose Ends” – review
So Tanner finally pays off in “Loose Ends,” a very strong episode of no small amount of incident. We kick shit off with Ava getting Raylan to go see Boyd in jail, with Raylan planting one on her for her trouble. Boyd tells Raylan that Tanner Dodd is the one behind the oxy shack...
Justified – “Watching the Detectives” – review
“Watching the Detectives” opens with Quarles setting up Raylan in a seemingly infallible way. He kills Gary Hawkins on Winona’s front steps using the bullet that Raylan threw at Wynn Duffy (love the callbacks to and dissection of “Next one’s coming faster” in this episode, very Leonardian breakdown of a cool, movie-ish line). Then...
Justified – “The Man Behind the Curtain” – review
Alright so now we’re getting into straight-up serialization on the show, Justifans – we’re at a point with episode seven that if you haven’t been following the show this season, you can pretty much eat shit far as the writers are concerned. Right now it’s all about the conflict between Boyd’s crew versus Quarles’...
Justified – “When the Guns Come Out” – review
“When the Guns Come Out” is the first misstep for me this season. Not a bad episode by any means, just not as strong as what’s come before it. The main arc of the episode with Delroy the pimp (the ever-awesome William Mapother from In The Bedroom and, more recently, Another Earth) smacking around one...