As promised yesterday in Matt’s review, last night’s “Justified” season premiere was 20 gallons of liquid terrific in a ten gallon hat. (Read: There was terrific all over the floor.) I’m going to avoid posting blatant spoilers here, but I will post this list of vague highlights from the episode:
- HATS! Everyone wore hats! Good guys, bad guys, everyone! It was like Adjustment Bureau up in that mother.
- Fun games to play before you die!
- WRASSLIN’!
- This exchange: BOYD: Well, now if I found that kind of money, I’d be in Mexico by now. RAYLAN: Boyd, I’ve been to Mexico. I don’t think you’d like it. BOYD: How so? RAYLAN: There’s a lot of Mexicans.
- HEAD SHOTS!
- Bad guys and innocent civilians gettin’ got.
- Moldy weed.
- Tim saying the phrase “Do the pee-pee dance,” and winning my heart forever.
- Ava whacking people right in the gourd with a skillet. Like Ava do, y’all. (GIF after the jump.)
Feel free to discuss the episode in all its spoiler-y glory in the comments. “Justified” is back, you guys. I’m all jacked up.
KABOOOONNNNNNGG!
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THAT WAS THE TITS, YO.
Oh, and Raylan pulling on the tablecloth was pure genius. I damn near though he was in a Babe Ruth baseball sized pickle.
i just love this show so much. nothing else i can say.
I can’t believe y’all are still on Team Winona. Would Winona crack a bad guy with a skillet? NO SHE WOULD NOT. Team Ava, bitches. #skilletbeatinFTW
#TeamDoesNotWantToBeKabongedWithASkillet
RIP #teamsluttysecretary
I’m only up to the 2nd season, but I’ve noticed that they do this thing A LOT where they call people by their full names (“well if it isn’t Boyd Crowder!” “Raylen Givens! What in tarnation!” Anybody else notice that or am I taking crazy pills here?
That’s how we roll in Harlan.
My family in southeast Ohio, which, based on how the show portrays Kentucky, is exactly like Kentucky, all call me and each other and their friends by their first and last names all the time for some reason.
Vince always harps on the full name issue, but being a southerner I find that a lot of people down here frequently use full names in causal conversation.
It’s acceptable because the names are so awesome. Next up: JIFFY POP Givens.
I live in Kentucky now and have lived here all my life. In small towns, like Harlan, and every other little fiefdom in the Commonwealth, people use last names like that as a means to basically stereotype or fill in the blanks about someone to someone else who may not know them. Identifying someone as a “Crowder” in Harlan would instantly provide context about who that person is to whomever you were speaking. Being a “Crowder” or a “Givens” or a “Bennett” means something to the local population and therefore they are identified by their full name.
If you’ll notice, if two people who know each other are speaking, ala Raylan/Boyd or Art/Raylan in a conversation they just refer to one another by their first name only. However, if one of the locals is referring to one of the principals to others, then you get the full name or also in a situation where Raylan shows up to confront Boyd or Mags or whomever that person will announce, “Raylan Givens” so that everyone else there knows who it is that they’re dealing with.
My brain at the end, “Oh shit, Boyd’s in jail Dickie. Wonder if he meant toooooooo OH SHIT HE MEANT TO BE IN JAIL WITH DICKIE.”
Boyd is just the best. THE BEST.
Dickie dead ya’ll.
Well, guess Raylan did deliver Dickie to Boyd. NO APOLOGY NEEDED!
Consciously I just thought, “Boyd is gonna fuck some shit up now.” But thanks to you, Sarah, I just went “oooooooooh!”
I am trying to decide whether Raylan was in on it with Boyd or not. Was the fight at the office a real fight or a show for everyone there so that no one would suspect anything?
Think about how hesitant Raylan was to confront Wynn Duffy just because of the promise he had made to him last season. He made another promise to Boyd regarding Dickie. You would think keeping his word to Boyd would be even more important.
Think we might get a reveal at some point that the Raylan/Boyd conflict was possibly staged or Raylan figured out what Boyd was trying to accomplish and facilitated Boyd’s transfer to the same prison as Dickie.
@ Mattox
I don’t know if Raylan was in on it, but I’m with Sarah that Boyd had it planned all along. None of his crew was at all shocked that he was locked up after the fact. Also, I don’t recall exactly what he said to Ava when she said it was hard to see him behind the glass, but it referenced a different prison as if to say, “But I’m in the right place”.
I easily enjoyed Quinn more in that 42 minutes than I have in 6 seasons of Dexter.
Man, amend that statement to “Season 6 of Dexter” and I’m right there with you.
The Ice Pick vs. The Ice Truck Killer: who you got?
Seconded. He’s much better as an asshole bad guy than he is at an idiot good guy.
And I tweeted this to DG but he also forgot to mark out over awesome sleeve-hidden expanding pistols! I pretended that all the time as a kid. PEW PEW!!
Robert Quarles, played by Neal McDonough, is cold blooded.
Justified kicks ass, that is all.
/#teamwinona
Loved Detective Quinn in this episode. I hope Raylan didn’t kill him so he can come back. I loved the way he took him out by pulling the tablecloth. That was clever.
Honestly, I think my favorite scene from last night was the one in the elevator with Raylan and Ice Pick Bro. Shit was TENSE. Hitchcockian, even.
Honestly thought that they were going to go super slick, confident finish w/ Raylan and Ice Pick with Ice Pick accidentally stabbing down inside the trigger guard, and Raylan spinning the gun around and blowing him away…but yeah, this fit with the whole, “Raylan is still kinda weak” narrative.
ALSO, I hope Ice Pick is still alive. If Boyd can survive a shot in the heart, what’s a punctured lung?
I don’t think he’s dead based on them showing Raylan all over the map at the shooting range. Maybe I’m reading too much into that, but they did set up the tablecloth being on the table with the throwaway redecorating line earlier.
I think it fit more with, no matter how smart you think you are Raylan is smarter.
@Paul…now that you mention it, yeah, you’re right.
“Do you know who I am now?”
Good start for the first new villain. This show is SO GOOD.
Ava got a lot of momentum behind that cast iron skillet. Not easy to do when you’re good arm is in a sling. Badass.
Does anyone know what was said by Fletcher Nix in the elevator? I couldn’t make out one of his lines.
He told Raylan he liked his hat. Then noted that there wasn’t much of a need for cowboys anymore.
Great start to a great show.
Arlo’s reaction in that .gif is awesome.
If Ice Pick is dead, I’m gonna miss him. He was a great character and if he truly is dead than he jumps to the top of the one episode villain list.
BTW, I smiled through the entire first scene with Raylan and Boyd. There aren’t many better written shows on TV.
They are my favorite couple on TV. Juuuust beating out Walter and Jesse, Draper and Campbell, Tom and Jean-Ralphio.
“If I didn’t have to, I wouldn’t have done it.” (paraphrasing) Ava is so much more badass than Winona.
And, I really, really enjoy the exchanges between Raylan & Art. “Why? We’re all alone.”
Art and Raylan is second only to Raylan and Boyd in the dialogue department. Those exchanges are solid gold.
(Paraphrasing)
Raylan:Why can’t I just sit around, do nothing and tell other people what to do?
Art: That’s my job asshole
According to Executive Producer Graham Yost Fletcher Nix isn’t dead but he isn’t currently in anymore storylines:
I loved the character Fletcher Nix. Is he dead, or could we see him again?
He’s not dead, because according to the rules of film and television, you only die if you get shot in the center of the chest…..It was the right quadrant, it was up more toward his shoulder. So he’s technically still alive. He’s just in our quiver. We have no plans to use him again this season, but Desmond did such a great job. If we can figure out a way to bring him back, we’ll bring him back
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It’s a shame we won’t see him again this season.
they need to get him back in at some point…don’t waste that character with one ep…dude was cold…
Dude may be coming back, but it would have to be a while. He attempted to kill a federal marshal and after he got shot, there was no credible way for him to get away. It’s not like Raylan’s going to just let an escaped fugitive who pointed a gun at him walk away. We didn’t see it, but there’s no way Nix left the hotel without cuffs. Short of escaping again, it’s going to be hard to build him back in. It is a shame though.
So basically if they parse it out properly…Fletcher Nix could become one of the…BEST RECURRING CHARACTERS ON TELEVISION!
My favorite line: “You did put your lipstick on this particular platypus” – Raylan to Winona post-coital
Arlo was great in Walk Hard. Underrated.
And his wife was Mags.
It took me way too long to figure out that Tim was Cooper in Eurotrip.
Can’t believe the guy from the hit movie Wrong Turn (staring Eliza Dusku and Emmanuelle Chirqui) played such an awesome Southern badass…
also hot secretary chick was the girl from Paddy’s Next Top Model in It’s Always Sunny.