Justified – Recap & Review – Cottonmouth

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Justified
Cottonmouth

Original Air Date: Mar 9, 2011

Lyssa G – Reviewer
Lyssa@thetwocentscorp.com

Starting out this season we have some very interesting characters that were introduced to the show. We start to dig into Raylan’s past this season it seems as though the more that we dig into this season, the more insane that it becomes…

This week starts out in the prison with Raylan and Dewey Crowe. Dewey is always a funny moment every week. This time when he is trying to tell Raylan different information, he seems to always lose track of what he is saying though when he is talking to Raylan… Cannot really blame him though when all Raylan does is beat him up and throw him in jail.

Loretta has been one of the best characters on this show this season. She is supposed to be this younger child but her intelligence is incredible. When Mags son comes into her store and sees Loretta is running it all, it seemed more like a brother mad at his sister for being better than he is.

Raylan is referenced as “Hillbilly Whisperer” by his boss Art. They seem to be playing a lot off of the fact that he has a lot of connections down in Harlan. We saw it in the first week as well when Rachel asked him to come down to Harlan because everyone down there makes her uncomfortable.

Arlo and Helen have always cracked me and they do in this episode as well. We see Arlo come into the US Marshall’s office to give back what was left of the money that he stole and of course it is nowhere near what he stole in the first place. Earlier this season we saw that Helen is very upset with everything that has been happening with Arlo and Raylan and that she isn’t going to take it anymore. After everything that happened last season I am surprised that she hadn’t left already.

Boyd and this group of men from the mine are just crazy. He is very smart though and he has found a way around what everyone else wants. When he uses the cell phone to call the house to find out what the plan is behind his back, it was a little predictable but it was the right way to go about it without drawing suspicion.

Raylan and Boyd together are a great combination. I was surprised that Boyd didn’t tip him off in any way though seeing as he was there anyway.

I am not sure why Boyd is still trying to go along with their plan. It doesn’t really seem to make sense, especially knowing that they plan to kill him.

Winston Banks, the ATV tour guide, also the person that was writing those phony signatures on checks. “Praise God and ride hard”. While Winston was trying to get away from Raylan it was sort of an odd and stupid way to go about it by trying to knock him out, that seems to only get him angrier.

Tonight we see a bit more of the crossover between Deadwood and Justified. They brought Jim Beaver into this episode as Shelby, the head of the coal mine there. When they were robbing Shelby it was like a chicken with their heads cut off. They seemed to be panicking rather than keeping their cool.

Raylan in Harlan talking to Mags son was sort of sad in a way. They talk about Walt, Loretta’s father and the fact that he has been cashing his checks.

Boyd actually has a great moment where he truly shows that he has changed. By saving Shelby and blowing those men up, he really did save himself some trouble. It truly does show his quality.

Coover and Dickie really are stupid. Coover knows that Raylan is onto them and everything that they are up to with Loretta’s fathers checks.

Within that last 5 minutes of this week, you see two completely different sets of parents/guardians. You see Mags who is out of her mind, smashing her sons hand in with a hammer. Then you see Raylan, who is not related to Loretta in anyway, and he cares about her enough to leave her a cell phone and tell her that she can call at any time.

Any thoughts or ideas on next week’s episode?!?

Next Week : Blaze of Glory