Well, I don’t know if anyone saw quite that ending coming. At first glance, “The Promise” is one hell of an anticlimax,…

There is a nothingness to Raylan Givens. As Boyd observes during their nighttime confrontation—a final prelude to what…

It’s when someone has nothing left to lose that you learn the true measure of that person. Perhaps that’s why the one…

And in the 10th episode, the world burned. It was glorious.

There’s a clear sorting mechanism to the Justified universe. This is a show that revels in the idiocy of its lesser…

After last week’s brilliant “The Hunt” had its characters tell some unexpected truths, tonight’s episode is defined by…

No one ever means what they say on Justified. For most of the characters, that’s a natural side effect of positions in…

I need to step back for a moment and talk about Raylan Givens. Let’s say, just for the sake of argument, that Rachel…

For all Raylan and Boyd’s well-documented willingness to kill their way out of a crisis—albeit with slightly different…

Here’s just about all you need to know about “The Trash And The Snake”: Boyd and Wynn Duffy’s story tonight features…

Respect takes odd forms in Harlan County. Boyd twice pays the highest possible respect to Sam Elliott’s Avery Markham.…

What makes a good Justified villain? It would be going a touch too far to say that the show’s seasons have always lived…

The essential issue with the last season of Justified—and it’s one that could only properly be seen in hindsight—was…

This season of Justified was never about the Crowes. It was never really about Raylan confronting his own worst…

The fifth season of Justified mistakes being complicated for being complex. It’s a pitfall the always busy series often…

Almost everything you need to know about “Starvation” is conveyed by a trio of reaction shots. For the first time this…

“Now I don’t know a lot about a lot of things, but I do know how to blow shit up!”

For most of the show’s run, Raylan Givens’ and Boyd Crowder’s dealings with the Kentucky criminal hierarchy—Raylan as…

“Reason not the need, marshal.” As Hot Rod Dunham’s former enforcer Roscoe launches into a gloriously tortured extended …

Michael Rapoport is 43. Jacob Lofland is 17. While quarter-century age gaps between siblings aren’t impossible, it was…