I'm with you too, @avclub-dd559568c01f9208a72241c9d58fdc16:disqus . I thought it was a solid, strong, funny episode. The ending a bit rushed, maybe, but it wasn't The Ending… it felt like one of those whirlwind days where a bunch of shit happens and you're just trying to get to a place to take a breath before you can…

@avclub-911285503d1458f7d7023b39fa36837b:disqus Oh, "might could" for sure. And "used to could." I'm so bad about those, I say them all the time.

Yes. What Adam and @avclub-39a252fe0ba427fd461fcd765a72e998:disqus said. I'm from rural NC, have lived in the south my whole life, and TV drives me nuts on this.

Yeah, I've done the no t-shirts, dress like a grown-ass woman thing for a few years. (Tank-tops, sweaters, and lightweight denim or comfy flannel are all I need around the house. So… maybe it's dress like a grown-ass lumberjack instead?)

Yeah, Boyd says outright he knew it was a setup as soon as Errol and Dickie walked in. Doing due diligence on the bank (once he had been stopped by Ava from just killing Dickie then and there, mind you) bought him time to figure out the setup and the best way to play it, plus make sure it was a setup and he wasn’t way…

I love The Moonshine War. I'd love if they mined it for some kickass ideas.

Errol has slowly and steadily become one of my favorites this year. I hope his schemes shake down in a way that has him surviving til next year.

@avclub-92ff69fa7b457b9d94d89c04f0b42042:disqus I think you're in for an amazing show. Incidentally, I ended up being spoiled for nearly every major plot point throughout the series before I watched it last year and it couldn’t have mattered less— that’s the awesomeness of the show. But I’m glad you get to go in…

It was the trailer Joel premiered on The Soup last night. So I think that answers your question too.

Yes! And I’ll see @avclub-0f0d67e214f9fef69b278e3d08114da9:disqus on the Police Squad! dialogue and raise him one old fashioned Cone of Silence from Get Smart:
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Actually, I’d say Justified is picking up that mantle directly from The Shield. Each episode is awesome and satisfying, but yet all of the details accumulate into a much more serialized whole. They don’t forget a detail, threads and characters from 3-4 seasons back will reemerge and/or impact storylines. Each season…

Tim's gotta love that Raylan's "mad ninja skills" got him promptly… no, immediately scooped up by the Feds.

Well said, Olaf.

Half because I've watched Cottonmouth such an inordinate number of times, and half because of the innate awesomeness of Jim Beaver, "holy shit Shelby!" was what I yelped at my TV in glee.

No shit. Just that scene and all I was thinking was, I would watch hours of this show every week. Boyd, Ava, Johnny keeping bar. Arlo hanging out. Raylan dropping by every now and then to crack a few skulls and engage in witty repartee.

He said "digging 'sang," not innuendo but an awesome-in-its-obscurity regional reference. Poaching wild ginseng, or "digging 'sang," is a thing up in the hills. Tough and tedious as all hell but quite the lucrative black market.

@drdarke:disqus I read it as the latter, except with no investigation at all (or just a bureaucratic exercise). Letting the little guy win one. Come on, forty years in a basement, pushing retirement, victimless crime: Art would totally let Charlie live the dream.

The doc's the one that saved Ava last year though. So, like… five more seconds of screen time.

I'm surprised too. For me:

When it first aired, I watched the pilot three times within 24 hours. I even have a list of tip-offs I look for, with a pretty solid track record of telling me whether a show is going to be worth my time and trust or not. I think that episode had cleared them in first 11 minutes. Might be some kind of record.