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JJ Perkins
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House was the first TV show I wholly fell in loved with and dissected on a regular basis, in no small part because of Laurie's performance. It's a shame that the later seasons are so sour and taxing to watch, because with the show was well oiled and in tune with its own strengths, it would crank out some seriously

I think it's because for a show like Justified that thrives and is so good at forward momentum, viewers just aren't use to it doing so much circling with seemingly no endgame, seemingly being the key word between showing us how stupid we were for doubting the show and retroactively proving us right in being critical

Well, last season's villain was a strange combination of Boyd and the Detroit mafia. I like the idea of Justified giving its villain role to the ultimate doofus heels of Harlan county, but they haven't really justified (ha!) that position for the Crowes yet. Hopefully there is some master plan or genius reveal and all

Even more so than Arlo, the show just doesn't seem to few table-setting episodes and plot lines with the kind of spark and wit that is Justified as its best, almost as if these stories never made it passed a quick outline of what should happen

Yeah, the show has been on a real tepid and uninteresting streak lately. But this episode rapped up all the uninteresting and narratively dead story lines, save poor imprisoned Ava, that the remainder of the season SHOULD be all backwoods soliloquies and high noon shootouts

To keep with the Friends comparison from the review, it would be intriguing to see the revelation about Marnie and Ray play out like a much darker, more vicious version of when Joey was hiding the fact that he knew about Monica and Chandler

It was interesting to watch in the fight scene how Hannah would consistently jump ship from whom she was tenuously defending moment to moment, as if out of some sort of self-preservation, making sure that she ends up on the "right" side of the argument whenever it would inevitably end. Also, Shosh being the catalyst

It's also interesting to see this episode was a sort of examinations of the different stage of relationships, with either people or jobs. You have the Hannah/Jessa angle, where they are both working at "make ends meet" kinda jobs (though Girls seems to be back to its old not using Jessa shenanigans) and shows their

Also a fantastic noir episode: That one in moonlighting where Bruce Willis acts like he's playing the cornet a lot (with an introduction from Orson Wells filmed shortly before he died).

Regardless of the faults of the episode, this is without a doubt the most a season four episode of community has felt and played like "old" community. And regardless of whatever grade one would give the episode, that's a very jolly thing to have