Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Tuesday TV Touchbase: Justified

 


I just completed Season 3 of Justified. While the season lack the menace and gravitas of Season 2's Mags Bennett (Margo Martindale), her legacy looms large over the 3rd season. 

Bowd Crowder thinks he can move into the power vacuum left by Mags' death. But others have similar plans for the criminal activities of Harlan County, Kentucky. The Detroit mob has exiled Robert Quarles to Kentucky to take charge of the various criminal enterprises in Harlan including the lucrative meth and opioid operations.  

Also the Detroit mob bosses just want Quarles out of their hair because he's a messed up fuck, driven by demons expressed in drug use and violent sexual hang ups. If Quarles happens to succeed, great. If totally fucks up, he winds up dead and he's now one less problem to deal with. 

Quarles is brutal with no real sense of where the line is so he frequently crosses it. Summarily executing people, making threats to the wrong people, Quarles thinks he's being tough but smarter than the yokels in Kentucky. 

That attitude will cost him.

It is terribly ironic that of the once powerful Bennet crime family, the only one to survive last season is Dickie, the dumbest and weakest of the whole lot. And he is the target of a lot of unwanted attention since he the sole inheritor of Mags Bennet's fortune.

Which brings us to Ellstin Limehouse, butcher, barbeque chef and the big boss of Noble's Holler, a predominantly African American community in the heart of Harlan. 

Seems Mags had a deal with Ellstin Limehouse to protect her money. Limehouse runs a very tight ship, brooking no missteps from those who serve him, swift and brutal in his punishments of those who betray him or the Noble's Holler community.  

In the middle of all this is US Deputy Marshall Raylan Givens. Life seems to be moving in a positive direction for ol' Raylan. He's back together with his ex-wife Winona who is pregnant with Raylan's child. Raylan is happy at the prospect of being a father but Winona's patience with the inherent violence of Raylan's profession is being stretched more than she can stand. She leaves Rayland to go live with her sister which kind of puts Rayland off his game just as all sorts of death and more death are bursting out all over Harlan. 

I have three more seasons of Justified to get through but I am keenly aware that this series is a limited resource. I am enjoying this series too much to rush it to it's conclusion. So before I move on to Season 4, I am working on season 1 of Gentleman Jack and then after that, I will work through season 2 of The Orville.  

Oh, and I've started the new Marvel stop motion series on Hulu, MODOK.  

Meanwhile, the family is still working through Star Trek Discovery and we've added Doom Patrol to our viewing rotation.

And Andrea is watching The Flight Attendant with me. And the two of us are going back to watch season 1 of Young Sheldon. 

So much TV, so little time.  

Until next time, remember to be good to one another and to keep it down, would ya? I'm trying to watch TV over here. 



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