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.

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Comments

[gwyn]

That first scene is just so incredibly evocative--they really did such a fantastic job of bringing Leonard's settings to life. And it does do such an excellent job of telilng us who Raylan is--and that you absolutely do not fuck with him. It makes the failure he describes at the end about what Bucks did to him in Nicaragua all the more poignant.

I am SO glad that someone had the sense to realize what they had with Boyd Crowder and Walton Goggins. The show would not have been the same without that yin & yang, you're right.