Episode 309 - "Burned"
A_Ron_Hubbard
Cincinnati, OH
in Justified
Director: Don Kurt
Writers: Dave Andron & Leonard Chang & Jenny DeArmitt
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And Loretta Freakin McCready, man. I just love that character. So glad they brought her back for the final one. She's like Mags 2.0! Haha, her and Boyd= One of the best duos on tv ever. Great acting+ dialogue.
I think Justified is one of the only shows that can pull of introducing so many great new chatacetrs in the final season and not be a bad thing. This guy, Boon, coming in so late, is so damn creepy and despicable. But so good! I'm looking forward to seeing his inevitable death, because you just know that guys gonna die in spectacular fashion, by Raylan hopefully.
And final note: can Ava just make a decision already? I mean, maybe I'm not getting it, but it seemed like she was firmly on Boyd's side last week and now she's helping Raylan again? I loved this storyline in the beginning, but now it's just kind of confusing me. Or is she playing both of them? Maybe someone can clear this up?
Ok, real final note: Loretta McCready spinoff! Maybe I'm just too big a fan? I must be, because spinoffs suck.
That was a good one, for sure. Not much to add to what has been said, but I had a blast watching this one. I loved the speech/debate at the party and seeing Loretta throw her hat into the ring officially. I'm really psyched about our new gun slinging thug. The conversation with Markham and Raylan was great. Kudos all around. Great episode. I really, really want to say that I believe Wynn survives this, but I don't like how he's pushing Mikey. I'm not sure how it is going to play out, but it's pretty clear to me that Mikey is going to be his undoing. As I was watching it I kept thinking "I know this is who Wynn is, but he may want to be a little less glib about asking Mikey to more or less sell his criminal soul." You figure that always seems to be that snitching represents that one uncrossable line, and Mikey has already taken a ton of shit from him. I have a really bad feeling.
@Emily I could be wrong, of course, but I think that Ava doesn't really have a plan at this point. I think she is rooting for things to work out with Boyd and I think that she really wants that all to work, but I think above all else she wants to survive and not go back to jail. I think the business with Raylan comes back to the fact that they know each other and have a history and there is just no use playing around at the fringes. He knows, she knows he knows and so she was going to find out where his head is and hopefully keep herself out of jail which is her prime objective. I think that he wants to protect her if he reasonably can, and I think that she believes that too and in the interest of preserving that I think she is playing ball with him as much as she has to. A very tight tightrope. I really think it's as simple as that. She's just a woman in a super tough spot trying to survive it, and she loves her life and freedom a little more than she loved Boyd (as much as I believe she does love Boyd). She is reacting to stuff however she can best advance an agenda, but really she is just a leaf in a very violent breeze.
Wow man, I think you put it perfectly. I guess that since Raylan and Ava haven't really interacted at all since season 1, I forgot how much they know each other. The show did a good job of trying to remind us, but that's just a hell of a long time. However, I understand now that she really didn't have much of a choice in the pizza portal. They both knew she was lying. Thanks for clearing that up!
Although, hate to be a downer and I really hope it doesn't happen, but I thought as soon as Wynn Duffy said he was the rat and agreed to be a CI again, there's no way he survives the season. And Mikey being his downfall does make sense. I mean, they've given him more to do/say this season alone than all the other ones combined. They've actually given him a personality, which, on this show usually means something bad.
Oh, yeah when he showed his skills, I thought, wow he might be an even faster quickdraw than Raylan. I'm fully expecting/hoping for them to have a great showdown. But, I really doubt that he wil be the be the one to kill Raylan Givens. Just because I don't think they would want to kill off their main character/hero with a guy introduced in the last few episodes.
I completely agree. I didn't like the way they killed him off either. I feel like they didn't use any of Avery's mercs to their full capabilities really. I've said it before, but they just seemed like such really promising badass characters, I'm so dissapointed that they didn't do more with them. I'm sure there were various reasons for this on behalf of the show, but still quite a letdown. And yeah, they got rid of him when Avery paid him off and then they bring him back after a couple episodes for one scene where he falls for a completely obvious trick? I think I can hear the typewriters!
You're right. My brain had kind of landed on a bow having been put on the situation, but those are still loose threads. I really hope they have something cool to put it all together. They've pushed at it so hard and even though this season has been so good in general that I haven't put a ton of thought into it as a shortcoming, I have found myself not too terribly interested in that angle of things. They tied it to Wynn and his survival, which is interesting to me, but the actual "who screwed who over and why" of it... They just haven't given me a ton of reason to get invested. I am just kind of trusting that it will all come together and mean something significant in the end. Mostly, now though I see it as kind of merely a bit of propulsion for characters who need motivations/a little mystery surrounding them.
Like I said, I'm loving the season and I'm not complaining. I'm just not terribly invested in the whole thing at the moment.
I thought about that, but I figure he wouldn't want at least the DA dead. If you make a secret snitch deal it is in order to get something in return. Why would you kill the person who was going to make good on the deal, particularly if it was in secret and thus leaving no one to make sure you were taken care of?
If there was a way to trace the snitching back to him through Catherine's husband, I could see that as motivation to have him whacked in prison, but I don't understand killing the DA.
True, I guess it just has to do with what precisely led to him snitching. What he got from it. I guess I concluded that it had to do with some sort of legal protection (just figuring it is the most common reason someone like Wynn would do that), and if the DA is the only one protecting him and he kills that guy his protection goes away. Even if it is a "use a littler fish to get a big fish" situation he would still want protection against being rounded up simply for being an involved fish.
This is all just assumptions. I am not a criminal or someone in law enforcement and I know incredibly little about what goes on in that world so I may be totally missing an obvious point.
It completely reminds me of season 4. I couldn't guess at all how that was going to end and I was blown away once it was over. (Man, that was a good season.) And to an extent season 5 as well, those twists with both Ava (becoming a CI) and Boyd (going back to robbing banks) at the end left me speechless. Uh, now I'm just remembering how excited I was r this season. Ok, well my point is that, yes, this show is incredibly hard to predict. I don't think I've ever seen the ending of any season coming and this one is like tenfold that. I'm not even going to try and guess. I just hope its not too depressing.