Nice find!
I’m assuming this will be a whole-season thread. I enjoyed the second episode a lot. Looks like there will be a few bad guys this season. Was anyone else confused when Raylan woke up in that house? I like when Art goes all badass too.
when waiting for bad guy to open attic stairs and pop his head up - you have several options for countermeasures -
a) place heavy objects in precarious positions such tht they fall on bad guy when he opens the ladder
b.) when bad guy pops head into attic - shoot him in the head - or at the least, club him with a baseball bat.
also - don’t hide in the same place as the folks you are protecting - noises you make moving into position indicate their position as well.
Really wondering what happened to dickie in the cell - did he live or die?
Great stuff - Art is a badass.
I was confused too. For a minute, I thought it was a flashback to when they were married. So that’s Winona’s house and she has to sell it why? If the house belonged to Winona and Gary, how can she sell it without Gary’s involvement? Where is Gary?
I’m not remembering a Winona-Gary divorce. Did it happen and I forgot?
simster, sounds like you’re speaking from experience. Anything to share? We won’t tell anybody.
At the end, my heart went all pitty-pat when Raylan asked Winona to stay. I don’t know if he did it because he was tempted by Ms. Goodall (sp?) or because it was a nice way to let Ms. Goodall know that he was spoken for. They have had a relationship, haven’t they? I haven’t read the Raylan stories.
I’m liking Winona much better this season. The writers have given her some funny lines and she’s not being the stereotypical needy pregnant insecure clingy woman role. It’s almost like she wouldn’t mind so much if Raylan stepped back a little.
There was a line either in this ep or the previous one that indicated that Gary is dead, but from what I recall last season, he was told to ‘run’ by Raylan - so I’m not sure what his fate is.
I was assuming that the house was already on the market and that Winona no longer wanted to live there - It was only in this past episode it looks like they formally decided to make a go of it, so perhaps they hadn’t even had time to consider what to do with that house.
Dickie lived. Boyd had to let him live, otherwise he wouldn’t have access to the money.
How about the money’s caretaker? he seems pretty bad ass. I liked how they showed that the guy working with him had already decided whether or not to go the lye route. I guess he would rather the one time payment, and not owe for the rest of his life. He’s still working for him, though. I guess his head is clearer since death isn’t a constant worry.
Oh yeah. I got the idea that Goodall and Raylan had something going on in Miami. Goodall is a good character, so far. Be interesting to see if they go anywhere with her. I was a little surprised noone asked about apes when they heard her name. I guess people in law enforcement aren’t Far Side readers.
The show keeps on getting better.
Just watched “Harlan Roulette” last night. I’m having a bit of a tough time keeping up with the bad guys this season. Where does Wynn fit into the villain hierarchy? Who does he work for? Why does he live in a RV? You’ve got the creepy dude Quarles who’s in with the “Detroit guys.” There’s the Dixie Mafia. Elston the BBQ guy/head of what seems like the black criminal group in Harlan. Whew!
See if List of Justified episodes and Justified (TV series) can help make sense of the mess. There are links to other sites at the bottoms of those pages that may lead to further help.
There are also some independent reviews worth reading. One of the better ones (IMO) is Alan Sepinwall whom AuntiePam turned me onto.
Thanks, Zeldar. According to Sepinwall, Wynn is a middle manager for the Dixie Mafia. Who is the upper management? Are they all reporting back to Detroit at the highest level? I’d love to see Raylan in Detroit going after the bad guys at some point…
I was going to make a comment similar to this. This show is really starting to feel like The Wire in that it seems like it’s starting at street-level distribution, and you’re gradually being led up the hierarchy into the behind-the-scenes world of the crime organization. I like the direction it’s taking.
Did anyone else want to hear the end of Quarles’ story about how he found the track for the gun while he was Christmas tree-shopping? I was trying to figure out what he might have found to make the thing out of.
To quote a line from GF3 (and mimicked by Silvio Dante in The Sopranos), “Our true enemies have yet to reveal themselves.” Or words to that effect, anyway. We keep getting hints (maybe even names) of who the real bad guys are, but I suspect the writers are still playing with strings that will lead us somewhere specific later. I can live with that approach. It’s the guessing that keeps the show interesting and forces the viewer to pay attention.
This is an excellent observation, it seems to me. The Wire broke new ground that is being copied (more or less successfully) by other creative shows. That new ground is that you don’t have to “tell it all” in one episode. It’s a tightrope that only the better writing staffs can manage, but Breakling Bad is another sterling example of well-crafted plots and character developments that keep the audience involved and even speculating where things will go.
The loose ends that get left along the way always make for fun after-the-fact analysis and commentary, and when they become glaring or silly, the show fails (at least for me). But the major threads may take several episodes (and in the case of The Wire, seasons) to resolve. As long as the story moves along and we learn bits and pieces more about backstories and connections, the clever writers do manage to make ends meet.
I personally am having too much fun with the show to be picking it apart this early. With any luck it will survive several more seasons before the new wears off.
Upper mgt of the Dixie mafia was replace last week by dude from detroit. We have not (yet) met his boss.
with the exception of travel times and a few landmark type directions (east of the ky river on tates creek road from first season) - I don’t have much to nitpick on this show - its enjoyable and seems to be pretty well put together and thought thru.
laying groundwork, threads in some episodes,etc - similar to how NCIS used to do things.
I was disappointed the pawn shop owner was only given a one episode arc. While I was watching the episode I went online to figure out the familiar-looking “That Guy” actor (Pruitt Taylor Vince), which landed me on a youtube video of when his Deadwood character (Mose Manuel) got shot after drawing in Tolliver’s saloon. Which only made me pissed at the fact that Deadwood only lasted three seasons! So glad Justified is still awesome in its third season with hopefully plenty more to come.
“I’m unarmed.” 
He was also shot and eaten in The Walking Dead. Getting killed on-screen to be his niche.
Mose was too fat to die in Deadwood. 
I hear you! Vince has done excellent work in any number of series (movies, too) and I had the vain hope that he might become a multi-episode baddie. And that is an aspect of Justified that I hope they don’t abuse: bringing in a “name” player like Vince or Harrington only to shock the audience by killing them off almost immediately. It does support a notion I mentioned earlier of how actors seem to gravitate to a well-written show like this one, even if their paychecks don’t continue very long. I think it’s a tribute to the concept of the show.
I guess the main thing to take from the early deaths of Harrington and Vince is the lurking dread that each new face, especially of the “name” variety, is apt to be killed off, thus making their subsequent appearance in the next episode a bit of a surprise. I suspect this writing team (with input from Olyphant and Goggins, from what I’ve read) will be toying with us about 50% of the time!
He was too fat to get out of bed in House. 
And he still annoys Jane in The Mentalist