Justified rewatch: 1x01 Fire in the Hole

[gwyn]

Okay, let's kick this off! Justified rewatch starting with that amazing pilot episode. I'll have a master post up with links as soon as we get more than one episode down, but in the meantime you can find out how to see the series if you want to join in by clicking the justified my love tag.

1.1 Fire in the Hole
Original air date: March 16, 2010
Written by Graham Yost
Directed by Michael Dinner



After the "justified" shooting of a Miami gangster, Deputy US Marshal Raylan Givens is reassigned to his home state of Kentucky, where he takes on a case involving an old acquaintance he once mined coal with, who has become a white supremacist and blown up an African American church.

Please share your thoughts and reactions in comments.

Comments

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[hafital]

The hyper competency of them taking on the idiot brothers who ambushed them outside the hotel was a perfect example of that--we know what we need to know about Rachel in an instant with her two guns.

Yes! I had forgotten that moment until it happened and then I was like -- oh yes, now I remember why I instantly knew I would love this show.

When Raylan confronts Dewey Crowe outside Ava's house, and walks right up to him and grabs the shotgun because he knows he's faster than this idiot and he's sowed the seed of doubt about whether he'd racked in a load in time.

I didn't mention Dewey in my comment, but pretty much each time he came on screen my reaction was "aw, Dewey," haha. I had originally found his character a tad on the tedious side in later episodes but rewatching I found him more endearing.

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[gwyn]

It's really hilarious how weirdly attached you can get to Dewey, because he's so awful in so many ways and yet you find yourself getting to that point.

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[j_pole]

I’m with both of you on Dewey. Someone described him once as “a cartoon man in a real world” and I think this perfectly explains what makes him entertaining. What's amazing is the fact that he's basically the same man in his very first scene, as he is in his last. He didn't change, our feelings about him did.