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I adore that show!
I adore Justified, I adore Dewey Crowe and I adore Raylan Givens!
The episode was so funny, and sad at the same time. The writing was excellent. I loved the absurd situations Dewey's desperate mission caused, and his dumbness in picking places where there's little cash (or thinking that strippers would have money at 10 am!!!!).
I loved the way the writers twisted the "urban legend" of stolen organs while making us laugh and feel for Dewey Crowe. Lance pegged Dewey for the fool he is and knew he could con him because Dewey would believe his kidneys have been removed without questioning it. Poor Dewey. And his reaction after his pissing proved he had two kidneys?
"You mean I have four kidneys?!!!!"
Hilarious. I just laughed out loud in front of my screen. Dewey is so naive and dumb, almost cartoonish, and yet he remains, thanks to the actor and his priceless facial expressions, believable and touching! Damon Herriman can sell anything.
I totally agree with what Scott Tobias wrote in his review on the T.V Club:
"It seems odd to feel any kind of affection for a character with a Third Reich tattoo emblazoned on his chest, but Dewey has always been naïve and impressionable, the sort of soldier (per Devil) that Boyd likes to have on his team, if only for his limitless malleability. (Had Boyd changed his gang from a white-supremacist group to a rainbow-pony club, Dewey probably could have been talked into those tattoos, too.)"
Apart from the Dewey show we got a stellar scene between Boyd and Quarles sizing each other up. The latter obviously underestimated the former. The "carpetbagger speech" was great and I loved the look on Boyd's face at the end, when he knew he had scored a point. He was so self-satisfied, almost on the verge of smiling. To think he considered that he might be outmatched when he talked with Ava! His line about the men from the North who came to Harlan in the past seemed directly taken from the song "You'll Never leave Harlan Alive". So we know that soon or later, Quarles will encounter the same fate...
Surely, Boyd's band (old Arlo, Johnny in the wheelchair, the punk-looking guy) seems a bit pathetic compared to Quarles' backup, but we must not forget that Limehouse,who has eyes and ears everywhere, might play a role in this and side up with the locals against the arrogant Northener, and Boyd has a secret asset....his dear friend deputy Marshall Raylan Givens.
Even though he still has his secret sleeve-gun, I don't think that Quarles is ready for that Former Coal Digging team!
I totally expected Winona leaving Raylan after her telling him that she was past pretending she could change him or that she could feel about anyone else the way she felt about him. But Raylan never saw it coming, just like he didn't see the needle coming when he was at the nurse's house. Sometimes Raylan is a bit over confident, which was a nice counterpoint to Boyd's doubts about being a match to Quarles. And speaking of parallel, the Ava/Boyd kiss was the counterpoint to Winona kissing Raylan. One woman is "in" with her man, the other is "out".
Raylan heard the sweetness in Winona's words not the defeatist tone. His love for having banters with suspects is a nice feature, but in the flirty nurse's case it could have killed him. The drug wearing off just at the right time was a bit convenient maybe, but the girl warned us that it wouldn't last and the shot on the gun that Lance put in his back was a big clue foreshadowing Raylan's quickly regaining consciousness...especially given that we saw that the gun had already disappeared when Lance put Raylan in the bathtub. Justified is so good at writing wonderful dialogues but also at the "show not tell" rule!
After several episodes of Raylan not using his gun and shooting skills (and we even got a meta comment on it during his scene with Ash at the hospital as the prison guard complained about his running over him!), he pulled on an unlikely shot, hitting her while being still dozy and shooting through Lance's body! I love that they dared to write that. And Raylan was surprised by his own aim. And there's the fact he shot a woman. Apparently it was his first time...a new line he crossed.
Not enough Johnny Crowder (my favourite Harlan redneck!) but he got a badass' line when he told a beaten-up Tanner, about his bar:
The episode was so funny, and sad at the same time. The writing was excellent. I loved the absurd situations Dewey's desperate mission caused, and his dumbness in picking places where there's little cash (or thinking that strippers would have money at 10 am!!!!).
I loved the way the writers twisted the "urban legend" of stolen organs while making us laugh and feel for Dewey Crowe. Lance pegged Dewey for the fool he is and knew he could con him because Dewey would believe his kidneys have been removed without questioning it. Poor Dewey. And his reaction after his pissing proved he had two kidneys?
"You mean I have four kidneys?!!!!"
Hilarious. I just laughed out loud in front of my screen. Dewey is so naive and dumb, almost cartoonish, and yet he remains, thanks to the actor and his priceless facial expressions, believable and touching! Damon Herriman can sell anything.
I totally agree with what Scott Tobias wrote in his review on the T.V Club:
"It seems odd to feel any kind of affection for a character with a Third Reich tattoo emblazoned on his chest, but Dewey has always been naïve and impressionable, the sort of soldier (per Devil) that Boyd likes to have on his team, if only for his limitless malleability. (Had Boyd changed his gang from a white-supremacist group to a rainbow-pony club, Dewey probably could have been talked into those tattoos, too.)"
Apart from the Dewey show we got a stellar scene between Boyd and Quarles sizing each other up. The latter obviously underestimated the former. The "carpetbagger speech" was great and I loved the look on Boyd's face at the end, when he knew he had scored a point. He was so self-satisfied, almost on the verge of smiling. To think he considered that he might be outmatched when he talked with Ava! His line about the men from the North who came to Harlan in the past seemed directly taken from the song "You'll Never leave Harlan Alive". So we know that soon or later, Quarles will encounter the same fate...
Surely, Boyd's band (old Arlo, Johnny in the wheelchair, the punk-looking guy) seems a bit pathetic compared to Quarles' backup, but we must not forget that Limehouse,who has eyes and ears everywhere, might play a role in this and side up with the locals against the arrogant Northener, and Boyd has a secret asset....his dear friend deputy Marshall Raylan Givens.
Even though he still has his secret sleeve-gun, I don't think that Quarles is ready for that Former Coal Digging team!
I totally expected Winona leaving Raylan after her telling him that she was past pretending she could change him or that she could feel about anyone else the way she felt about him. But Raylan never saw it coming, just like he didn't see the needle coming when he was at the nurse's house. Sometimes Raylan is a bit over confident, which was a nice counterpoint to Boyd's doubts about being a match to Quarles. And speaking of parallel, the Ava/Boyd kiss was the counterpoint to Winona kissing Raylan. One woman is "in" with her man, the other is "out".
Raylan heard the sweetness in Winona's words not the defeatist tone. His love for having banters with suspects is a nice feature, but in the flirty nurse's case it could have killed him. The drug wearing off just at the right time was a bit convenient maybe, but the girl warned us that it wouldn't last and the shot on the gun that Lance put in his back was a big clue foreshadowing Raylan's quickly regaining consciousness...especially given that we saw that the gun had already disappeared when Lance put Raylan in the bathtub. Justified is so good at writing wonderful dialogues but also at the "show not tell" rule!
After several episodes of Raylan not using his gun and shooting skills (and we even got a meta comment on it during his scene with Ash at the hospital as the prison guard complained about his running over him!), he pulled on an unlikely shot, hitting her while being still dozy and shooting through Lance's body! I love that they dared to write that. And Raylan was surprised by his own aim. And there's the fact he shot a woman. Apparently it was his first time...a new line he crossed.
Not enough Johnny Crowder (my favourite Harlan redneck!) but he got a badass' line when he told a beaten-up Tanner, about his bar:
I rewatched, not so long ago, the episode from season 1 in which we met Johnny (and the second episode in which he tried to "warn" Ava in a way that sounded like a threat, and when the crooked cop bared his ass!!!!), and I think it's a character that would deserve more screen time. He isn't intelligent even though he's less flamboyant than cousin Boyd, but also less "crazy". Johnny is a Crowder, he is tough and likes money enough to break the law, but he is down to earth; he isn't "nice", he can be violent (even with limited mobility, ask Tanner!) but he isn't that bad either, at least not a criminal like his uncle Bo or cousins, even Raylan said so in season 1 (he knew Johnny, used to play football with him, never thought that Johnny would hurt Ava). If he were an addict Johnny Crowder could turn into Teardrop from Winter's Bone. And Johnny is hot! :- )
Boyd is smart and follow a sort of code(hence his burying Devil because Devil "was a friend before he became a traitor"and preventing Arlo from stealing from the dead's wallet) but he also has that darkness in him, that little insanity that explains why he felt God's hand in season 1, and why, to quote Raylan, he loves to blow things up.
The file I downloaded had a preview for next week so looks like we'll have a Raylan/Boyd scene this time!