I'd like to name check Anthony Hemingway for his excellent direction on this series and in particular for what he did in this episode. The technical stuff was up to his usual standards but especially noteworthy is his work with the actors. The best TV directors understand story and subtext, and use that knowledge to…

No one has mentioned Hour of the Gun (1967), directed by John Sturges, a complex, revisionist take on his own Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. The film starts with the walk-up to the gunfight (over a tense credit sequence) and details the obsessive pursuit of Ike Clanton (Robert Ryan) into Mexico by Wyatt Earp (a…