Last night while I was playing around on Twitter and watching “Justified,” the inimitable Spencer Hall tweeted, “So the theme for this episode is ‘Everyone is awesome.’” I concur. I concur TO THE FACE. Some relatively spoiler-free highlights:

• Raylan outsmarting Boyd, then Boyd getting all sneakydevious.
• Art Mullen pulling an “old guy in the YMCA basketball game” on some weasel punk.
• Carla Gugino and Raylan Givens whacking people with blackjacks and pulling guns and making SERIOUS do-me faces at each other.
• Gugino introducing herself as “Agent Goodall” (her married name) and Raylan being like “… Goodall?”, which was a nice inside joke about the fact that she’s clearly reprising her role as Karen Sisco, but they can’t use the name for copyright reasons.
• Swastika tattoos.
• ART MULLEN.
• The Old Testament > The 4th Amendment (badass television dramas ONLY).
• HEADSHOTS.
• Another new bad guy, who, quite frankly, scared me so much that I think a little pee came out.
• Seriously, though… ART.

Important GIFs after the jump. Feel free to discuss the show in all its spoiler-y goodness in the comments.

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Justified (FX) – Carla Gugino is on tonight’s episode. After the events of last week, please be advised that the Boyd Crowder Hair Threat Level has been temporarily upgraded from Unruly to Partial Electrocution. (NOTE: I have attached six more promo shots of Carla Gugino’s appearance to this post. You are all quite welcome.)

State of the Union Address (Every channel) – Presidents always invite inspirational figures or people who overcame adversity and have them sit up in the box with the First Lady. If I was president, I would put a koala in a little tiny tuxedo up there. YOUR MOVE, POLITICAL OPPONENTS.

Southland (TNT) – Tonight’s episode features a guest spot by Marla Gibbs, who played Florence on “The Jeffersons.” This is as good a reason as any to link to this video of Sherman Hemsley dancing.

Chopped (Food Network) – Four previous runners-up have to incorporate root beer schnapps and sweetbreads into their dishes. FUN FACT: I am typing this sentence while making my icky face.

White Collar (USA) – Yesterday was Tiffani Thiessen’s birthday. I can’t believe Uproxx made me work. WHAT DO WE WANT? Holidays based on the birthdays of celebrities we used to have crushes on! WHEN DO WE WANT IT? Preferably by Britney Spears’ birthday in early December!

LATE NIGHT GUESTS: Elizabeth Banks and Ben McKenzie (Ryan from “The O.C.”) on Kimmel, and Sam Worthington and a whip-cracking champion named Adam Winrich on Conan. Everyone else is in repeats, but Tina Fey is on Letterman, and it’s the episode of Ferguson that they taped in Paris, if you’re so inclined.

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In the television world, career longevity is a rarity. Typically, if you’re lucky enough to land one successful television show, your odds of landing another aren’t good. Ask Jason Alexander. Ask Roseanne. Or Jenna Elfman. Or Paul Reiser. Or Bronson Pinchot. What’s even more rare is not only landing two successful shows, but landing them a decade apart. Rarer still is being as crush-worthy an actor in his or her 30s and 40s as he or she was in their teens and 20s.

But it happens. Not terribly often, but it does. Here are 10 instances representing the spectrum of TV crushes that you might have had in the 90s and that, thanks to an ability to maintain a high profile — and good looks — over a decade or more, you may still nurse today.

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As good as its surprising first season was, “Justified” entered rarefied heights in its second season, earning critical acclaim (a well deserved Emmy for Margo Martindale, plus nominations for Timothy Olyphant and Walton Goggins) as well as fanboy huffing here at Warming Glow, where all of the show’s trappings — a shoot-first protagonist, complex characters, femmes fatales, bourbon, snappy one-liners, and noir undertones — appeal equally to our intellectual proclivities and baser instincts. Entering Season 3, my primary concern was whether “Justified” would match Season 2′s quality and join “Mad Men” and “Breaking Bad” as a terrific show that grows from year to year, or regress to mere testosterone thrills, as its FX mate “Sons of Anarchy” did after its own stellar second season. After viewing the first four episodes of Season 3, I’m happy to say that the former is very much the case: “Justified” is still one of the best shows on television.

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Fantastic casting news today: my longtime love Carla Gugino will join Season 3 of another love of mine, “Justified,” as a woman who shares a past with my other longtime love, Timothy Olyphant.

In Season 3 of the acclaimed drama, Gugino will playa Washington, D.C.-based assistant director of the U.S. Marshals Service who used to work with Raylan back in Miami — and as such shares a history with our favorite trigger-happy lawman.

Gugino’s character, who is described as “tough, smart and funny,” comes to Kentucky to help safeguard hidden witnesses who have become vulnerable after the murder of a U.S. Marshal. [TV Line]

This makes awesome and wonderful sense. Not only has Gugino starred in another series based on another Elmore Leonard character in the U.S. Marshals (the unfortunately short-lived “Karen Sisco”), but she’s already established on-screen chemistry with Olyphant (banner image). Granted, like everyone else, I’ve never seen their scenes together in Elektra Luxx, but I’ve dreamed about those two having sex often enough that it automatically gets my approval.

I believe this calls for a gratuitous and unnecessary gallery of sexy Carla Gugino pictures. C’mon, you know you wanna click through. Daddy needs the ad dollars.

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