Justified rewatch: 6x02 and 6x03

[gwyn]

6.2 Cash Game
Original Air Date: Jan. 27, 2015
Written by: Dave Andron and VJ Boyd
Directed by: Dean Parisot



Raylan sets out to find out more about the mysterious group buying up land in Harlan, Boyd tries to make a profit off the ledger from the bank heist, and Ava is stuck in the middle of everything.


6.3 Noblesse Oblige
Original Air Date: Feb. 3, 2015
Written by: Taylor Elmore and Benjamin Cavell
Directed by: Peter Weller



Boyd discovers that the man he is trying to rob is very dangerous, and Raylan tries to put the squeeze on Boyd's explosives supplier.

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Comments

[mackiemesser]

6.2 - Sam Elliott. Sam Elliott! Sam. Elliott.

OK, got that out of the way.

This episode feels like things are starting to line up again. The humor is dark, the villains are dastardly, Tim gets to be an asshole, and the story starts to get interesting again.

But mostly Sam Elliott. Tho I do miss the moustache.

6.3 - Still not a big fan of Ava as informant. But I did think they did a good job with making her actions ambiguous: is she setting Boyd up or is she working with him and feeding the Feds bad info/double crossing them in the end?

And Sam Elliott offers us a new form of intimidation we haven't seen in the show before: genial menace. Like he could be a mentor or a killer and it all depends on which benefits him the most.

[gwyn]

It always freaks me out when Sam Elliott doesn't have his mustache! It's so funny that he was not in Deadwood. He seems like exactly the right actor for it, and later we see what great chemistry Timothy and Sam have.

[mackiemesser]

His face looks unfinished without a mustache, like it's wrong for it to be out there naked or something!

(Deadwood never quite clicked for me, which is weird because I love so many of the actors that were in it and I'm fond of Westerns to begin with. Media is so weirdly subjective.)

...I now feel like a Tombstone rewatch is in order...

Cash Game

[hafital]

Boyd looks particularly handsome in that barn for some reason.

BANTER. There's a fair amount of Tim/Raylan time in this and I love it. Why is Tim asking Raylan if he would still sleep with that woman if she were a nazi? I should hope not, but mostly it makes me wish we got to see the entire exchange.

I am just super thrilled whenever we get to see Rachel be the boss. *heart eyes*

Uh oh. Dillahunt. That is honestly my first reaction whenever I see him! Every time! lol. Has he ever played a nice character? I guess we've returned to the buy people's homesteads plot line.

That scene with Dillahunt and Rylan and Tim in the realtor's office was fascinating though I really just paid attention to the hate sparks flying between Dillahunt and Tim.

There are many Tim highlights in this episode though watching him wind up Choo Choo and that other dude is truly delightful.

I'LL LET MY BOY KNOW HE DODGED A BULLET. :D :D :D *more heart eyes* I'm gonna focus on the 'my boy' part.

"Long-winded peculiar way of speaking." heee

Despite the complete lack of subtlety on the part of Dillahunt and company, I more or less like the set up for this particular plot.

Re: Cash Game

[gwyn]

Dillahunt has played nice characters! Not a lot of course, but there were a few. One that I remember was playing the dad in the comedy series Raising Hope alongside Martha Plimpton. And he was actually one of the few nice characters in the really detestable Widows--he played the driver for Viola Davis (and the guy who tried to help her out when her husband was killed, starting the whole "let's become the criminals now" storyline).

But I always, always brace myself when I see him.

Tim winding people up is a reason for living in this terrible world.

Noblesse Oblige

[hafital]

Ava should not be driving that intoxicated!

Boyd's bar, which I guess was Johnny's bar, has totally stopped pretending to be an actual bar. Do they even serve patrons anymore? This episode has a lot of uh oh Dillahunt in it.

Yay, we get Raylan and Rachel together for a bit. I like it.

I think this is the second time Raylan grabbed someone's balls.

Sam Elliot's smile really is something else.

I'm very fond of Jere Burns but I do not need to see him in a tiny gold bikini bottom.

I really do love Mary Steenburgen in this role. She's so manipulative and classy!

I forgot how tightly wound all the plot threads are with each other in this season. Katherine and Markham playing a lot of chess with their pieces. Of course they both overestimate themselves. It was fascinating to see Boyd adjust his attitude with Markham. A true pleasure to watch Walton and Sam act together.