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Justified: “The Promise”
Well, I don’t know if anyone saw quite that ending coming. At first glance, “The Promise” is one hell of an anticlimax,…
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Justified: “Collateral”
There is a nothingness to Raylan Givens. As Boyd observes during their nighttime confrontation—a final prelude to what…
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Justified: “Fugitive Number One”
It’s when someone has nothing left to lose that you learn the true measure of that person. Perhaps that’s why the one…
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Justified: “Burned”
There’s a clear sorting mechanism to the Justified universe. This is a show that revels in the idiocy of its lesser…
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Justified: “Dark As A Dungeon”
After last week’s brilliant “The Hunt” had its characters tell some unexpected truths, tonight’s episode is defined by…
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Justified: “The Hunt”
No one ever means what they say on Justified. For most of the characters, that’s a natural side effect of positions in…
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Justified: “Alive Day”
I need to step back for a moment and talk about Raylan Givens. Let’s say, just for the sake of argument, that Rachel…
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Justified: “Sounding”
For all Raylan and Boyd’s well-documented willingness to kill their way out of a crisis—albeit with slightly different…
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Justified: “The Trash And The Snake”
Here’s just about all you need to know about “The Trash And The Snake”: Boyd and Wynn Duffy’s story tonight features…
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Justified: “Noblesse Oblige”
Respect takes odd forms in Harlan County. Boyd twice pays the highest possible respect to Sam Elliott’s Avery Markham.…
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Justified: “Cash Game”
What makes a good Justified villain? It would be going a touch too far to say that the show’s seasons have always lived…
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Justified: “Fate’s Right Hand”
The essential issue with the last season of Justified—and it’s one that could only properly be seen in hindsight—was…
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Justified: “Restitution”
This season of Justified was never about the Crowes. It was never really about Raylan confronting his own worst…
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Justified’s fifth season gets too complicated for its own good
The fifth season of Justified mistakes being complicated for being complex. It’s a pitfall the always busy series often…
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Justified: “Starvation”
Almost everything you need to know about “Starvation” is conveyed by a trio of reaction shots. For the first time this…
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Justified: “The Toll”
“Now I don’t know a lot about a lot of things, but I do know how to blow shit up!”
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Justified: “Weight”
For most of the show’s run, Raylan Givens’ and Boyd Crowder’s dealings with the Kentucky criminal hierarchy—Raylan as…
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Justified: "Wrong Roads"
“Reason not the need, marshal.” As Hot Rod Dunham’s former enforcer Roscoe launches into a gloriously tortured extended …
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Justified: "Whistle Past The Graveyard"
Michael Rapoport is 43. Jacob Lofland is 17. While quarter-century age gaps between siblings aren’t impossible, it was…