Bottom line: tell a satisfying story. The end.

Yeah, this. To me, The Shield is the gold standard. Damn, that show could tell some satisfying stories and just keep building, building, building so organically.

Highly promoted? lol. It's NBC.

@avclub-5d36b15195d38ab67e8aa5fe4241dd03:disqus I love the short stories and the old westerns, myself. When The Women Come Out to Dance, the book with “Fire In The Hole,” has some solid ones in it. Any best-of his westerns with “3:10 to Yuma” will be great. I’m not the biggest fan of his more recent stuff, I like his…

Nah, I'm pretty they've cleared that up by now. Boyd took up the supremacist thing to survive prison/gain a modicum of power during his first stint at Alderson, then kept it up as a means to an end, to get all the shitkickers to do his bidding. Like he calls Jared out in the pilot for being a suspected snitch for…

@avclub-b3d29f8f22c60a4b2c5fc2b1691c1d62:disqus All of those Avas are the best Avas.

@olivececile:disqus A tear just escaped the corner of my eye. That lineup is the stuff of perfect dreams.

It's a shame Vince bought it. That would have been one lucrative spin-off: Harlan Pawn Stars.

I didn't think I'd be so happy to see Wade Messer show up again. LeGros was perfect.

I love how we keep developing the idea that what we've seen of Ava so far— first season with Raylan, last year with Boyd— has really been her trying to live it clean. Like, she's much more comfortable in this criminal role than was first allowed. Like, maybe she was actually involved in (or at least highly…

Who walks into a bar in buttoned-up plaid and a shawl-collared cardigan and then proceeds to just bust shit up?

Hah, that's probably why I was so generous. I'm used to the first 3-4 episodes being a Goggins-less (or at least Goggins-lite) wasteland. I was just happy to get things cookin'.

Ahh, gotcha. Hmm. Thanks!

"The logic is clear: If Boyd was so intent on killing Dickie for shooting Ava that he’d be willing to risk jail-time by assaulting a federal officer in a federal office, then he’d surely go after Dickie if they were under the same prison roof."

The visitation scene! Always my favorite part(s). I'm not entirely convinced they didn't get Boyd back in prison just so he and Raylan could pow-wow through six-inch plexiglass on their life conundrums. Dickie, who?

It's actually not a budget thing. It's a filmed-in-California thing. It's so difficult for the production crew to find long enough stretches of road that can pass for Kentucky that the longer scenes in the cars get green-screened. You'll notice every short-enough car ride mounts the camera to the car. (Scenes in…

I'd disagree that this episode wasn't entertaining/intense— I was plenty into it— but  yeah, second episodes are historically more chess-playing episodes. That said, I'm just impressed at the amount of "grunt work" this episode did without making it seem like grunt work. We got a full-circle standalone storyline with…

Yeah, I second That Evening Sun. It's an excellent little movie. Goggins, set in Tennessee, Patterson Hood score, PLUS based on a William Gay short story… it's like an orgy of all my favorite things.

Not that consequential, but I like that Raylan's made an offhand comment about it too. To Winona, in Save My Love: "It's the only reason I'm not beatin you over the head with a phonebook."

Hot damn. Looks like FX has the preview for next week up, "Cut Ties": http://vod.fxnetworks.com/w…