This episode is one of it's kind... But hey c'mon... he deserved something better...
5 Reviews
Epic entry...
wave_one20 April 2020
Best Show on Television since Lost and The Shield
gplusr20 January 2015
Warning: Spoilers
Holy Mother of Christ, this episode just blew my mind in a way that I still can't describe, it can only be compared with how amazed and shocked I was watching shows like Lost and The Shield.
We see lots of Dewey, Raylan, Boyd, Ava and all the characters we've been waiting for since last year to come back and blow away our minds and televisions with a rocket launcher caliber performance from all of them.
We also got Garret Dillahunt in a scene with Timothy Olyphant in a western show, something that only happened 10 years ago on HBO's beautifully executed Deadwood.
Words can't describe how beautiful and shocking this episode was, it sure held the "Fate's Right Hand".
Wait until next week, we have a special guest coming back and some new faces to keep refreshing the scene and making it more awesome.
10/10
MVP's (impossible to pick just one):
Dewey Crowe (Damon Herriman).
Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins)
Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant).
We see lots of Dewey, Raylan, Boyd, Ava and all the characters we've been waiting for since last year to come back and blow away our minds and televisions with a rocket launcher caliber performance from all of them.
We also got Garret Dillahunt in a scene with Timothy Olyphant in a western show, something that only happened 10 years ago on HBO's beautifully executed Deadwood.
Words can't describe how beautiful and shocking this episode was, it sure held the "Fate's Right Hand".
Wait until next week, we have a special guest coming back and some new faces to keep refreshing the scene and making it more awesome.
10/10
MVP's (impossible to pick just one):
Dewey Crowe (Damon Herriman).
Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins)
Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant).
The ballad of Dewey Crowe
Mr-Fusion7 July 2017
As 'Fate's Right Hand' opens, Boyd's fixin' to rob a bank, while Raylan strong-arms a dirty Federale down south. Both characters at their respective essences: one's returning to bank jobs, the other's a thug with a tin star. But regardless, it's a premiere with undeniable swagger, confidently shrugging off the meandering prior season as it sets to laying out the show's endgame. and while Dewey Crowe provides generous comic relief, the rest is pretty heavyweight; a real sinister vibe.
It's an episode almost as off-putting as it is entertaining, considering the deeply troubled state in which Boyd finds himself.
8/10
It's an episode almost as off-putting as it is entertaining, considering the deeply troubled state in which Boyd finds himself.
8/10
Series in running out of steam
A_Different_Drummer4 February 2015
"Why Can't it be like that again?" (dialog, Dewey)
"I'm going to tell you something in confidence. It is all coming to an end." (dialog, Boyd)
Watching a top series move into doddering old age is like watching a beautiful woman change with the passing of years.
It is not that what you see in front of you isn't quality.
It is simply that the quality is not what it was.
This show exploded onto the scene in 2010 and was ground-breaking. The writing, the acting, the background, everything was interesting and new and explosive. Literally. The first time we meet Boyd in series 1 he has just yelled "fire in the hole" and is showing his flair with dynamite.
It is hard if not impossible to maintain that sort of momentum for six seasons but in the view of this reviewer they did, astonishingly, keep all plates in the air right to the end of the fourth season.
I think Season 5 was too Crowe-centric, placed too much reliance on that arc and became very claustrophobic. (Although Alicia Witt single-handedly carried almost every scene she was in.) And the "Ava in prison" arc must have looked great on paper but in the real world it was relentlessly depressing.
As we move into what has been announced as the final season, we could be in for some roadbumps, unless the production team rediscovers their inner fire in the belly.
Nice to see Timothy Olyphant, a much under-rated actor, have an "Executive Producer" credit even though it is not clear what that means, other than the show is successful and he is the star...? The "mystery developer" arc looks interesting but, off the top, the Ava-spying-on-Boyd routine is getting old real fast. And it is only the first episode...
"I'm going to tell you something in confidence. It is all coming to an end." (dialog, Boyd)
Watching a top series move into doddering old age is like watching a beautiful woman change with the passing of years.
It is not that what you see in front of you isn't quality.
It is simply that the quality is not what it was.
This show exploded onto the scene in 2010 and was ground-breaking. The writing, the acting, the background, everything was interesting and new and explosive. Literally. The first time we meet Boyd in series 1 he has just yelled "fire in the hole" and is showing his flair with dynamite.
It is hard if not impossible to maintain that sort of momentum for six seasons but in the view of this reviewer they did, astonishingly, keep all plates in the air right to the end of the fourth season.
I think Season 5 was too Crowe-centric, placed too much reliance on that arc and became very claustrophobic. (Although Alicia Witt single-handedly carried almost every scene she was in.) And the "Ava in prison" arc must have looked great on paper but in the real world it was relentlessly depressing.
As we move into what has been announced as the final season, we could be in for some roadbumps, unless the production team rediscovers their inner fire in the belly.
Nice to see Timothy Olyphant, a much under-rated actor, have an "Executive Producer" credit even though it is not clear what that means, other than the show is successful and he is the star...? The "mystery developer" arc looks interesting but, off the top, the Ava-spying-on-Boyd routine is getting old real fast. And it is only the first episode...
Liar,liar!
fthomas-2311030 September 2020
Raylan Givens started Justified as a modern day Dirty Harry, but by now he has become a duplicitous, two faced, smarmy piece of dog waste. I have got to the point that I hope he is dead by the end of this series.
If Raylan is an indictment on modern day po!ice in the USA, then God help the Land of the Free.
The series has gone to pot and might as well be recycling storylines. It will be no loss when it ends.
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