Definitely S&M stuff imo, especially with Raylan's later chirp of "you seem like a bigger fan of woodwind instruments"
$3000 suit not fitting was definitely a choice by the directors. That suit was so clearly ill-fitting and it explains a lot about that character.

I love Justified, but that was easily the worst episode they've had yet. (Yes, I even liked the stand-alones in the first season).

It was the most dialogue-heavy, repetitive collection of crap scenes they could put together, with virtually no actual plot progressed. Why do we need to see every machination Quarles is putting into motion when we already know his overall goal? Just get to it already.

I liked Raylan coming after Boyd all pissed that Quarles thinks he's dirty, but other than that I didn't need to see yet another FBI guy flaunt his territory over the Marshals (hi, Ned Ryerson/Stu) and for Raylan to dismiss it. Snore.

They really spun their wheels with this one, but clearly it's just a setup for the next couple of weeks which are going to pay off all this dusty squeezebox of exposition.

EDIT: Also, remember when Max Perlich used to be awesome (like in Homicide and Rush)? Now he's forgotten how to act.

Was the scene in the bar the last in the episode, ends on 'yes Gary, you do?' - seemed a few minutes shorter than usual?

Yep, it's the last scene.

I thought this ep was fine.

occasionally you need a run play to open up the passing game and play action.. or something

And the episode was a few minutes shorter than usual.

Come on!

Meh, I enjoyed the ep well enough.

Really hate that I saw this preview.

You're being overly harsh. It setup a clashing of the factions in the next episode or two. We need to know what they showed about Quarrels because, on top of giving justification in both plot and character development with the slave-boy sessions, it lets us know that now a psychopath is in do or die mode. It did more for plot advancement then several of the first season episodes, and even the previous kidney escapade episode. It's increasing the stakes for the eventual fallout.

If was a fun change of pace, also, in how they played off Raylan's usual quick mindedness by him both not being known to his adversaries, but also him being completely confused at each turn of events. Usually he's a step ahead, this episode had him being a step upsidedown, which was played with a bit of comedy.

Also, the last scene was huge in that is now brings Winonna into play along with her ex-husband.

I have to disagree with PJ as well. I think some of this episode was unecessary, but there was so much excellent Leonard banter that I liked it quite a bit.

Good post. I'll add that they were successful in executing the bolded, too(I mean, it was believable, obv Olyphant always nails it).

PJ doing his impression of an entourage viewer ?

I'm critical of Justified's crappy episodes only because I'm so delighted by its great ones (of which there are very, very many).

What, it doesn't pain you a little to think how good you'd look in a $3,000 suit?

AD quote fail by Holliday.

What's an AD quote fail? Arrested Development?

maebe.

Yeah like the guy in the $6,000 suit is gonna explain that to you

yay!

Disagree with PJ totally. This ep wasn't trying to move the plot forward. It was an origin story for our Big Bad. Maybe you didn't like the way the plot moved (and it moved more than you're giving it credit for- a lot of things were set in motion) but this was far, far, far from bad.

Because it's interesting? Because Neal McDonough is great?

I'm jumping on with this season, and that might be part of why I found the Raylan/Boyd stuff more interesting than some- but I think there is some need for serving those fans, as I assume there' a lot of us given all the great press the show got after last season.

Tried reading the book 'Raylan', didnt like it much at all, the way Leonard writes kinda annoys me, surprising as I love alot of the adaptions of his books

I think for raylan you need to read the earlier books that have raylan first. Can't really discuss more in this thread though imo.

David Chen and Myles McNutt interviewed Yost over at Slash Film. Haven't listended to it yet and it sounds like it might have spoilers so be warned.


Dave Chen and Myles McNutt from Cultural Learnings interview Graham Yost about how he developed the third season of Justified. Graham discusses getting the show’s dialect correct, figuring out how to resolve the Raylan/Winona storyline, and trying to change up the game from season two. He also drops some tantalizing hints about the future of the series.

http://www.slashfilm.com/interview-g...cer-justified/

Not a surprise but FX announced Justified is getting a 4th season.

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/whats-al...d-for-season-4

Yost said in the Slash Film podcast that he sees the series going 6 seasons.