Justified rewatch: 2x10 and 2x11

[gwyn]

Apologies for being a day late!

2.10 Debts and Accounts
Original Air Date: April 13, 2011
Written by: Chris Provenzano
Directed by: John David Coles



Raylan and Winona's idyll is shattered by violence, as Boyd and the Bennetts struggle to rise from the ashes of chaos in Harlan.


2.11 Full Commitment
Original Air Date: April 20, 2011
Written by: Benjamin Cavell
Directed by: Peter Werner



Raylan realizes he wasn't the sole target of an attempted assassination, and confronts the unlikely culprit once and for all.

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Comments

[mackiemesser]

2.10 - Great stuff with Art in this episode, but overall too little time spent with the marshals. The show is always improved by more marshals!
And continuing with the frustrating characterization of Winona. I just fail to see what's compelling about that relationship other than nostalgia and good sex?

Any scene with Raylan and Loretta is worth watching. So at least there's that counterbalance. And Mags is starting to unravel a bit here. Her practical side is giving way to personal concerns. She's known all along that Coover was a liability and yet she's going to set things on fire anyway. I think that we get to see that Mags understands how badly this could go and yet she can't not seek revenge.

I fully admit that I am on board with Ava/Boyd.

2.11 - See, this gets to the part where they lucked out with Jeremy Davies. Because he suddenly manages to become very scary. Still not the brightest bulb, but one who has nothing to lose at this point, and Davies is just terrific. And the episode ending!

More Tim = happy me.

Gary is such an idiot. Such. An. Idiot. I kinda wish he had been killed coz he just makes a mess wherever he goes.

[devilc]

I hated Winona so much -- by the end of the season I fast forwarded through any scene she was in after 30 seconds.

My husband and I called her Whine-onna, because all she did was whine on about this, that, or the other.

[mackiemesser]

*nods* I spent a lot of time just shaking my head any time she was on screen.

Debts and Accounts

[hafital]

Things are all hurty between Art and Raylan. I like Art's thinly veiled way of dressing Raylan down. And I think Raylan is very fortunate he has Art as his boss, especially considering how things end this season.

Great scene between Helen and Mags, a relationship I would have liked to have seen more of.

Winona really does run hot/cold with Raylan. Ignores his calls, then shows up in the middle of his work day and asks him for a ride, then says they shouldn't see each other. Then, despite saying she thinks they shouldn't see each other, she goes to see him. He gives her what she wants, offering to go to Glynco. But then she backs away again. I mean! I can understand that she loves him but that he's no good for her, creating a conflict inside within her, but at one point you gotta live with your choices. I'm not sure what the goal was with her character.

The one thing I do like about the 2nd scene between Raylan and Winona though is that Raylan's decision to get transferred to Glynco seems to really stem from Art being done with him, and less because of Winona.

Yay Loretta! It always struck me how she says her dad was pitiful, denying she misses him.

I like the reveal that Boyd's speaking to Johnny Crowder. Boyd's setting up his little empire. Poor Devil, though. I totally forgot about him. His team is complete with Ava.

Full Commitment

[hafital]

I like Art stepping in to put Gary in his place.

Tim should be tasked with babysitting Raylan more often. It cracks me up that they have the "oh no there's only one bed" trope right here in this episode.

"I love this shit. This shit makes me hard."
"Well then we've both been warned." lol

There is some serious marshal/marshal flirting going on here. I like it when Tim gets angry :D.

"I feel like I'm in The Big Chill." Tim! ILU!

Honestly I know stuff happened in this episode but I was distracted by irritated Tim. <3