Thank you for that first sentence. I've never read so perfect an encapsulation of every "celebrity" reality show ever created. I will be quoting it endlessly in the future.

Hah! A fan of Terriers never has to apologize for ranting about the frustrating state of non-premium cable dramas. I'm glad to have gotten into that show after it was already cancelled. I couldn't have taken the disappointment of devoting 13 weeks to that gem and then finding out it didn't get renewed.

I had the same thought sequence as you when the episode ended…In fact I winced, waiting for an exterior shot of her house exploding or something. But then I realized the writers would never kill Winona simply because Justified isn't that kind of show. It's more or less a modern Western, where the *point* is that the…

Re: Colt's trap. This has probably been mentioned in the comments already, but the implication is that he most likely didn't actually "set up" anything.  In his soldier allegory, the soldiers never find out if bombs were rigged, but they were to scared to do anything out of fear of potential traps that they end up…

That second paragraph is pretty much a literal transcript of my thoughts after the episode ended last night, albeit more articulate than I would have managed at the time (which ended up more like: "WHHHAAA, fslkfjapajiod OMG holy shittt that was awesome Constable Bob is my new favorite character AVA even though I hate…

I'm late to the game, but totally agree. It achieved one of the most important, but least often realized, aspects of the buddy-cop genre (or really any drama for that matter): I truly, genuinely cared for these guys. Probably the best cop-partner chemistry since Riggs and Murtaugh in the first Lethal Weapon.

I'm late to the game, but totally agree. It achieved one of the most important, but least often realized, aspects of the buddy-cop genre (or really any drama for that matter): I truly, genuinely cared for these guys. Probably the best cop-partner chemistry since Riggs and Murtaugh in the first Lethal Weapon.

Wait wait wait…Was Raylan on  the verge of tears at the end of the episode because his father had just died, or because he might not solve this case and will be unable to be the father he wants to be (because his father died)?

Walton was so good last night. So Good.
Last week (or the week before) a discussion got ugly because someone was rooting for Boyd and lots of people called him an idiot for it. I said I had trouble rooting for him or even watching his performance, because he was simply unlikable. He'd become a selfish, cold-blooded…

I would watch the *shit* out of that show.

I'm still looking for Damen Lindelof's name in the writing credits.

Came here to mention Louis; glad to see you did. I'm a big fan of his series-wide character progression, because it made him more likable, but also because it was perfectly believable. Today's Louis is what I would consider the true Louis, all his dickeshness before was just defense mechanism.
Also love that Donna and…

I don't think the show is unaware of Mike's raging hypocrisy. I think that's kind of always been his thing, if you think about it. It's just that before, it was tempered charm and parlor tricks. Now, both of those have worn thin and he just seems like a selfish asshole most of the time. Previews for next week's…

Agree. I whined about that last week or the week before. Even bro comedies need a serious moment or two, but not an entire half-season. Not that a show like present-day Suits would be bad, just that it wouldn't be Suits. I think it's pretty obvious no one got hooked on this show for the dramatic legal proceedings.

Faux-XX and I've been hearing (especially this episode) a lot of Massive Attack-esque beats a la http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Exactly. Though that's been a progression since the show started. He could have passed as flawed-but-likable antihero earlier, but he's become too evil lately. Loved his arc in Season 2.

The zingers were back, the swagger was back, and Louis was back to being a huge asshole for no reason other than to be a huge asshole, instead of being the whiny emo grumpus he was post-Hardman's departure. Glad to see Suits back to what made it so enjoyable, instead of the depressing (if entertaining) "we just lost a…

Didn't think of that, but I loved it too. In fact, I rewound the DVR and just to listen to Harvey yell "Shut up" at Mike a second time.

2012 seems to be the year when the badass-but-admirable antihero protagonists go off the deep end into full-blown asshole-ville. First it was Jax Teller, then it was Rick Grimes, now it appears to be Mike Ross.

Lance Briggs' "I don't drive, it's too dangerous" joke was priceless. I feel it may have been over the heads of non Chicagoans, or non-NFL fans.