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By Steve Ahlquist
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Having wrapped up a significant portion of its plot lines last season,
Justified's season premiere, "Hole In The Wall," spends most its time establishing new story arcs and new characters to keep
Timothy Oliphant as US Marshall
Raylan Givens busy for thirteen new episodes.
Most interesting right out of the gate is
Patton Oswalt, playing an old high school friend of Raylan's, Constable Bob. Bob is played most for sad sack laughs, but there's a dark prepper edge to the Constable, including a violent attack on a high school classmate in his past, that points to a cauldron of volatile emotions beneath his self-deprecating demeanor.
Also joining the cast is
Ron Eldard as Colton Rhodes, and old army buddy of
Boyd Crowder, played by the amazing
Walton Goggins. Colton is a dangerous man, able to kill with a shrug of his shoulders and a well placed bullet. Colton's savagery surprises even Boyd, who didn't exactly order the man's killing. "I told you to take care of him, not shoot him!" Shades of Abbott and Costello there.
Speaking of Boyd, he's expanded his reading over the hiatus. Though he's usually fond of quoting the Bible, this year he gives us two choice quotes, one from atheist science fiction writer
Isaac Asimov and the other from economist
John Maynard Keynes. As a fan of both these authors, I was properly pleased, until I remembered that Boyd Crowder is a murderous drug dealing villain. Talk about mixed signals.
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