Last night’s “Justified,” titled “The Devil You Know,” was yet another very strong episode. It was mostly centered around the hunt for Mags’ money, and the continued evolution of Boyd Crowder’s new gang of rapscallions. I’ll get to the highlights in a moment, but first allow me to make one observation: so far, the third season has done a great job of juggling a number of flaming knives. There is a lot going on in the show, and A LOT of characters to cover. For example, we’ve barely seen Tim, Art, Ava, or Winona in the past few weeks, and I barely even noticed because of how strong the Boyd/Raylan/Limehouse/Quarles storylines are shaping up. Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see Tim pop another dude in the apricot as soon as reasonably possible, but it’s a credit to the show that I can go a couple weeks without seeing characters I like and still come away delighted.

The highlights:

• Prison escapes featuring stone cold dudes with ponytails
• Dewey Crowe freaking the freak out — hilariously, I might add — while inside a bodybag
• HEADSHOTS
• Limehouse making threats and barbecue
• A discussion of which colleges have the prettiest girls
• “GIMME A GODDAMN AMEN!”
• Raylan neutralizing the criminal element using the front and rear bumpers of his car
• “You can pretty much live without a spleen.”
• “Goddamn if I don’t have to save Dickie Bennett.”
• Boyd Crowder proving yet again that he is the smartest criminal on television.
• Putting the Devil way down in a hole

Click through to the next page for Chet Manley’s awesome GIFs, and as always, feel free to engage in a spoiler-laden discussion in the comments. Writer Jon Worley said he’d swing by later this afternoon for the discussion (screen name: jubbs), so feel free to leave questions in the comments, then check back later in the day to see if they’ve been answered.

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Another week, another great episode. There were a bunch of moving parts, all centered around a story about some low-to-mid level Oxycontin dealers who were in way, WAY over their heads dealing with our favorite trigger-happy U.S. Marshal. While the whole thing was great, the last scene was… it was… uh, exclamation point-y. Calm, cool Raylan is neat and everything, but furious, rampaging Raylan is still my favorite. The vague, spoiler-free highlights:

• An exciting round of Harlan Roulette (which, for the record, is TERRIFYING).
• Raylan toying with Oxycontin addicts the way a cat plays with a mouse before killing it.
• Neal McDonough’s Detroit gangster character, Quarles (aka Carpetbagger), and Wynn Duffy plotting.
• Quarles talking on the phone with his son while some dude is tied to a bed like it’s no big thing.
• Boyd punching people and repossessing family property.
• Johnny Crowder, wheelchair bandit.
• Headshots, obvs.
• No Tim or Art :(
• [after tossing a bullet at someone's chest] “Next one’s coming faster.”

As always, feel free to discuss the episode in its spoiler-y glory in the comments. The word on the street is that “Justified” writer Jon Worley may try to swing by (his screen name is “jubbs”), so if you’ve got questions for him, fire away. There are a lot of balls in the air right now, with Carpetbagger, Limehouse, Boyd, Mags’ money, etc. How do you think this is all going to shake down? All I know is this: if I was playing Harlan roulette, I would gladly pull twice for immediate access to the rest of the season.

Necessary GIFs courtesy of commenter Chet Manley after the jump.

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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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As promised yesterday in Matt’s review, last night’s “Justified” season premiere was 20 gallons of liquid terrific in a  ten gallon hat. (Read: There was terrific all over the floor.) I’m going to avoid posting blatant spoilers here, but I will post this list of vague highlights from the episode:

• HATS! Everyone wore hats! Good guys, bad guys, everyone! It was like Adjustment Bureau up in that mother.
• Fun games to play before you die!
• WRASSLIN’!
• This exchange: BOYD: Well, now if I found that kind of money, I’d be in Mexico by now. RAYLAN: Boyd, I’ve been to Mexico. I don’t think you’d like it. BOYD: How so? RAYLAN: There’s a lot of Mexicans.
• HEAD SHOTS!
• Bad guys and innocent civilians gettin’ got.
• Moldy weed.
• Tim saying the phrase “Do the pee-pee dance,” and winning my heart forever.
• Ava whacking people right in the gourd with a skillet. Like Ava do, y’all. (GIF after the jump.)

Feel free to discuss the episode in all its spoiler-y glory in the comments. “Justified” is back, you guys. I’m all jacked up.

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"I regret nothiiiiiiiiiing!"

I know that bloggers use superlatives so often that people don’t even understand what hyperbole is any more, but please take me at my word when I tell you that the video below by the brilliant Doctor Roboto is the single greatest TV supercut in internet history. It’s every death from Season 1 of “Game of Thrones” set to Guns ‘n Roses’ badass cover of “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.” It’s 5 minutes and 40 seconds of 200 proof unfiltered ownage from the most badass show on television. VIDEO OF THE MILLENNIUM.

(And I shouldn’t have to say it, but: spoilers, obviously.)

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