Last night while I was playing around on Twitter and watching “Justified,” the inimitable Spencer Hall tweeted, “So the theme for this episode is ‘Everyone is awesome.’” I concur. I concur TO THE FACE. Some relatively spoiler-free highlights:
- Raylan outsmarting Boyd, then Boyd getting all sneakydevious.
- Art Mullen pulling an “old guy in the YMCA basketball game” on some weasel punk.
- Carla Gugino and Raylan Givens whacking people with blackjacks and pulling guns and making SERIOUS do-me faces at each other.
- Gugino introducing herself as “Agent Goodall” (her married name) and Raylan being like “… Goodall?”, which was a nice inside joke about the fact that she’s clearly reprising her role as Karen Sisco, but they can’t use the name for copyright reasons.
- Swastika tattoos.
- ART MULLEN.
- The Old Testament > The 4th Amendment (badass television dramas ONLY).
- HEADSHOTS.
- Another new bad guy, who, quite frankly, scared me so much that I think a little pee came out.
- Seriously, though… ART.
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Honestly, if I were a criminal, I don’t even think I’d be upset if I opened my door to find Carla Gugino and Timothy Olyphant pointing guns at me. I’d be too turned on to process any emotions.
AAAAAARRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.
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FUCK AND YES.
I wish it would have been Gunderson guarding the lady and her two kids. He would have laughed that they only brought two hitmen.
He probably would’ve tried to bank a shot off a cast iron skillet or something, just to make it worth his while.
The way they handled Gugino clearly reprising her role as Sisko was perfect. It was enough to let anyone familiar with the character know that, yes, its her, and then move on. I also liked the use of the telescoping baton beat-down which is also a Sisko trademark (Out of Sight).
The lye on the hand thing at the end seemed familiar- was that in another movie / show?
Fight Club, homie.
Chazz — you’re probably thinking of Fight Club. While they’re making soap, Brad Pitt puts the lye on an unsuspecting Ed Norton in his quest to get Norton to hit bottom. When Norton keeps acting like a bitch Pitt shows him his own hand with the chemical burn from lye and tells him “Its only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything”. Awesome scene in an all-time great movie.
/Giants fan helping a Patriot fan, WTF?!?
yes! i knew I had seen that before. Badhouse scene regardless.
LIMEHOUSE, Y’ALL. HOLY SHIT.
Jesus. I used the “whole episode was so great I peed a little,” but I think that was just Limehouse.
You got some Chicago Wind in my Justified. This show is amazing.
Karen > Ava and Winona
All day long.
Truth.
Agreed. I agree so much that I’m sharing this link of Gugino and Mrs. Coach stuck in an elevator… in their underwear.
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I thought the same thing after Carla applied that beat down in the hotel hallway.
@Chazz, the movie pisses me off because neither Carla or Mrs. Coach get naked even though one or both are playing porn stars. That’s just wrong.
Even I agree.
I tried to intimidate my roommate this morning using the speech from the end of the episode while slicing a banana into my oatmeal with a butter knife. It was not very effective.
Maybe you should have switched to a tea spoon to slice it……for the incongruity….
I like it when bad guys get shot….
I have seen Mykelti Williamson in a variety of roles, but I never imagined that he had the ability to be quite so menacing. Is it my blind love of this show that makes me think he’s suddenly an amazing actor? Or do the folks on this show really step up their games since they’re given such awesome material? And, honestly, I would be happy to just watch a full hour of Raylan and Boyd talking to each other.
No, it’s the teeth.
Great great show
Holy Mary on Melba Toast….just caught up with it on DVR. I want Art to be my Dad.