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Way to make me eat my words, there, Justified. Just a few days after complaining about a slightly listless episode in which the focus appeared to be entirely on setting up action, things exploded (in some cases literally) in ‘Watching The Detectives.’
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The last few weeks, as Justified crossed the halfway mark of the season, I’ve continually been reminded of (and referenced in these recaps) a game of chess: there are at least four groups of players and slowly, but surely, they’ve been moving into position. And while ‘The Man Behind the Curtain’ didn’t result in knocking anyone out of the game, there were some preliminary moves more than worthy of being discussed.
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After last week’s Dewey Crowe-centric episode, Justified loses a little bit of focus this week. As we head into the second half of the season, it’s clear that the players are beginning to take their places on the battlefield. On the plus side, Limehouse (Mykelti Williamson) confirms that he’s leaving the sidelines, which means that Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) and Quarles (Neal McDonough) had better watch their backs!
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We’re just under a quarter of the way through season three of FX’s Justified and those concerns that everyone had about the show having difficulty topping last season’s saga of the Bennett clan? Yeah…they were unfounded.
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As Alan Sepinwall says: “With all the players now on the board, the games can really begin.” We’re only three episodes in, but already the stakes are high and the bodies are piling up.
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After a stunning conclusion to the events of last year, which saw US Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) shot, the Bennett family mostly wiped out and Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) return to his life of crime, what could Justified possibly do for an encore? How about return just as solid as ever?
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