TV GUIDE: Matt's TV Week in Review
Jan 27, 2012
by Matt Roush
... As Cheered earlier this week, Carla Gugino's return to the world of Elmore Leonard in Justified — she embodied his Karen Sisco for a too-fleeting moment back in 2003 — was one of the week's special treats. Packing heat in every way imaginable as Assistant Director Goodall, investigating a deadly breach in the local witness protection system, she clearly had some history with Raylan back in Miami. But she appears to get the message when he plants a big kiss on his pregnant ex Winona right in front of her. The episode is also a good one for the often underused Nick Searcy as Raylan's boss, Art, who gets the upper hand on the villain-of-the-week; and for Walton Goggins as Boyd Crowder, who manipulates the prison system so he can get some alone time with the petrified Dickie — thanks to a corrupt guard (Todd Stashwick) looking the other way — and make clear his claim on Mags' buried loot.
Which leads us to the episode's most significant new character: the electrifying Mykelti Williamson (formerly of Boomtown) as local holler legend Ellstin Limehouse — what a name! — whose menacing soliloquy, while butchering meat, to a petrified young night watchman lets us know he's no one to be trifled with. "Some dogs will take you not giving them the pain they deserve as weakness. Got no choice but to put that dog down." As the boy's dad leads him away, we see the long-ago scars on the old man's hand from the lye punishment Limehouse was threatening to administer to the kid. Let's take odds now on who'll win the inevitable showdown between Limehouse and Boyd Crowder...
Justified airs Tuesday at 10/9C on FX.
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