It's the only case he can't solve.

1) Boyd had absolutely no reason to trust the funeral home asshole. He'd have had Ava up on charges as a personal joke.
2) Ava loves Boyd too. A plan that puts him in jail for life is not what she wants either.

I'm happy Justified is back, and I enjoyed watching Boyd and Raylan involved in violent shenanigans.

And he was doing a generic Islands accent rather than anything Haitian. Obviously "good accents" isn't the primary axis of television quality, but once you get a high enough volume of 'em, the show suffers.

Yuuuuuuuup.

I agree that the non-Bennett episodes of S2 are pretty middling (midding for Justified), but the Bennett arc is so far above anything else the show has done, so rich in character, place and history, not to mention event, that it just outweighs everything else for me.

Now I'm worried that Adams got this idea from something in the first two episodes, and that would be really bad.

I read that Timothy Olyphant has been pushing for a long time to back off on the "Raylan shoots everyone" thing, and there were a bunch of jokes, esp seasons 3-4, on that.

"Go back to your Eli Roth dvd collection."

The key to this was the honest sadness. There were moments that Season 4 tried to go dark (the reveals in the puppet episode in particular), but it was always in service of a joke. The point wasn't to connect with the characters, or to have the characters connect with one another, in their sadness. It was to tell a…

I realize this isn't the Braverman way, and it certainly isn't the Person on TV way, but Dan Savage is right. If you just slept with someone else once, there is absolutely no reason to tell your partner. It's hurting the other person just to make yourself feel better. This applies all the more so when you just kissed…

Piecat reference.

The judges have in the past complained about people not making their noodles, but I think it's been misinterpreted. There is *absolutely nothing* wrong culinarily with dried noodles. All of the great noodle cultures use dried noodles at times. Italian cooking uses both "pasta fresca" (fresh-made) and "pasta secca"…

Of course she doesn't. No human deserves Joel.

Yup, clearly a wedding ring not an engagement right. And the mix of fear, sadness and confusion on Amber's face clearly signalled what had happened.

So is Kristina running as the rightmost candidate in this race? She has a passion for education and she's really nice to a nice lady, but in terms of actual policy, as best as we've seen, she has one position of any kind of substance.

I mean, I loved everything about the scene as I was watching it.

Exactly. The anti-hero of this sort drives the action and stands at the emotional center of the story, but he or she isn't trying and succeeding to do right by the standards of the world of the text. Being flawed, having done wrong and been wrong, does not make one an anti-hero. It requires the consistent…

I think this is right, but I do worry that the (admittedly hilarious) scene afterward with Badger and Skinny Pete undermined it. The cut from the Schwartzes collapsing in tears on the couch, terrified in a way that they will not cease to be for years, directly to the Badger business kind of pushed the audience to…

I think this is broadly right. Something like a loving God allows for Walt's final attempt at redemption before death. I don't think a non-theological reading of Breaking Bad can account for the tendencies Todd outlines in the article.