TV GUIDE: Matt's TV Week in Review
Mar 9, 2012
by Matt Roush
Some thoughts on the highs and lows and assorted other TV news that caught my eye this week:
... JUST DESSERTS: Best news of the week (though hardly unexpected): FX's renewal of Justified for a fourth season, the news of which arrived the same week as one of the current season's best and twistiest hours, establishing Neal McDonough's Quarles firmly in the pantheon of memorable villains with whom Raylan Givens has tangled. Raylan's in particularly hot water, as Quarles and restless sidekick Wynn Duffy do their darndest to frame him for the murder of Poor Gary (left on the lawn of Gary and Winona's old digs), with the Feebs and local Lexington detectives double-teaming the embattled marshal. Favorite moment: When Raylan explains why he threw the (now) incriminating bullet at Duffy — "told him the next one might be coming a little faster" — one of the Lexington shields can't help but laugh: "Deputy, that might just be the coolest thing I've ever laid ears on." Yes, Raylan is just that cool, and it's even cooler when he confesses he heard that line on the Johnny Carson show once. Not so cool is the attempt of crooked Sheriff Napier to set up Boyd Crowder for the car bombing the sheriff arranged himself.
But it's Quarles, unhinged and unleashed, who we're left with, as he's cut loose by his Detroit bosses after failing to nail Raylan. Popping an Oxy while driving and listening to the strains of a revival sermon about "the beast," this icy killer finds his way to Limehouse's holler, where he approaches the backwoods kingpin: "You said you liked to back the winning side." Game on, but who exactly are the players again?
Justified airs Tuesday at 10/9C on FX.
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