I want weirdo uncles like Michael Kane and Robert Duvall who buy yachts and biplanes with stolen gold. My uncles are all good dudes, but MAN are they BORING.

I took it as another example of how broken she is right now and how weak that's made her, so that she's bending to Daryl's will even on something she knows is phenomenally stupid and bad for her.

All four residents of my house were watching SOA when VVD debuted. All four of us realized just who she was being played by at the SAME TIME. It was the biggest weirdo group epiphany of all time.

Picker must have told him.

Anyone else think that Secondhand Lions was a lot of fun? I rented the DVD on a whim and absolutely loved it.

I reiterate that we need spinoff shows, namely one centering around Rachel and Tim, and another featuring the misadventures of Dewey Crowe. I swear, Dewey scurrying off is the funniest damn thing, whether it's into the woods to avoid arrest or off with a watering can full of pilfered gasoline whilst dodging granny's…

There's a 5-second take while Wendy Crowe is lying in bed, just before she gets up for pills and booze, where it's clear that she's just breaking inside and is on the verge of completely losing it. That one take is the best damned acting in the whole show so far, and this is a show full of fine acting. Kudos to…

I've been trying to start thing on Twitter: #constablebob4sheriff. Nearly every damn thing I tweet about Justified or Patton Oswalt includes that hashtag, and considering that 95% of my tweets are about how Justified gives me a boner…well, you can do the math. I so very much wanted Bob to run for sheriff after…

Sorry, meant to reply to PuraPuma, not to you.

Look up The Boys From Brazil - either the movie or the novel by Ira Levin (the same guy who wrote The Stepford Wives and Rosemary's Baby). Krieger's origin is such an excellent 70's pop-culture callback, even better than Archer's obsession with Burt Reynolds, IMHO.

The fact that Cameron Diaz is in this - meh.

I love Love LOVED the "Boys from Brazil" callback. I about shit myself laughing at that.

I worked in a pharma-/medical-/organic chemistry lab for a while with a lot of legit chemicals that would fuck you up. And my favorite thing to do every day before getting into the hood was to quote that line.

This wasn't so much "the book is better" than "the book is a legitimate epic and the movie (really, the movie series) only covers a few tiny slivers of an amazing story."

I don't agree with your characterizations (I think Freaky Deaky and the Justified universe call for very different folks) but I agree that EL's work is VERY hard to get right on the screen. I both read the novel and watched the movie, and I was very disappointed with the latter as well. I agree that most of it was…

Not weird at all. That is one seriously sexy older lady. Much like I only want post-menopausal Helen Mirren.

Yes, but in a completely Dewey way. Like he accidentally knocks a grain silo onto Darryl. Then scurries off into the woods.

I dunno if I would characterize Phillip and Elizabeth as "bad people" in the same sense as the characters you mention. Those other characters are knowingly crossing very distinct moral and societal lines. However, Phillip and Elizabeth are intelligence agents, and to characterize them as "bad people" just because…

Nice to see Boyd returning to form as a legit scary badass. Not to say that he hasn't been a badass for a while - but man, between the bedroom execution and cigsplosion, I got a serious case of the chills.

As t_mcgee says, they are two very different shows. Justified is the closest we've ever seen of Elmore Leonard truly coming to life on TV, so there's lot of comedy, quirky characters, and snappy dialogue.