“He's law and order.”
A character drama based on the 2001 Elmore Leonard short story "Fire in the Hole." Leonard's tale centers around U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens of Kentucky, a quiet but strong-willed official of the law. The tale covers his high-stakes job, as well as his strained relationships with his ex-wife and father.
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Episodes
1. Fire in the Hole
Gunslinging U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens faces off against his oldest friend in Harlan, Kentucky, a 21st Century Wild West.
2. Riverbrook
Raylan hunts an escaped prisoner who is determined to reunite with his ex-wife...and his stashed fortune.
3. Fixer
In tracking a vanished confidential informant, Raylan goes against a pair of violent ex-cons who are just dying for a showdown with "The Kentucky Cowboy."
4. Long in the Tooth
Raylan leaves to California to follow the trails of a criminal who has evaded him twice in the past, and Raylan is determined that the third time won't be the same.
5. The Lord of War and Thunder
Raylan's father is arrested in the wake of a confrontation with the tenant of a house he and Raylan's stepmother own.
6. The Collection
After an apparent suicide on an opulent Kentucky horse farm, Raylan must resist the sexy widow as he searches for the dead man's missing art.
7. Blind Spot
Raylan foils an attempt on Ava's life and vows to find out who was behind it. Later, Raylan finds out that Ava may not have been the target.
8. Blowback
When a murderous inmate takes hostages, Raylan must scramble to defuse the situation before the bullets start flying.
9. Hatless
Raylan has a few drinks and gets himself beaten up, after being suspended as a Marshall. He pulls himself together and decides to jeopardise his career further by going after the thugs who have been harassing his ex-wife's new husband.
10. The Hammer
Determined to repair the damage he's done, Raylan takes time away from his assignment bodyguarding an eccentric judge to track down an old lead.
11. Veterans
When Boyd Crowder and his crusaders become vigilantes, Raylan takes it upon himself to try to shut them down.
12. Fathers and Sons
In order to work for the Marshal's Office, Raylan's dad Arlo agrees to become a double agent and work for Bo Crowder. Meanwhile, Bo sets up a meth lab to get back in business.
13. Bulletville
In the season finale, things come to a head in Harlan when the worlds of Raylan, Boyd and Bo Crowder collide.
Cast & Crew
Timothy Olyphant
Raylan Givens
Walton Goggins
Boyd Crowder
Nick Searcy
Art Mullen
Jere Burns
Wynn Duffy
Joelle Carter
Ava Crowder
Jacob Pitts
Tim Gutterson
Erica Tazel
Rachel Brooks
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Reviews & Thoughts
There are a lot of coded reviews about this...mostly based on politics. And, unfortunately, it's the worst kind. The despise all things remotely rural for intelligentsia snobbery politics kind. In other words, you break down a lot of the negative reviews, and most of them really tend to be based around the fact that it takes place in Kentucky and tells the story of people living in the country. Moving past that it's Elmore Leonard and stories don't get much cooler than him. Plus it's the merging of Elmore Leonards famed westerns with Elmore Leonards famed crime novels and...if you can't love that you really have no heart. or at least no love for fine pulp literature. And then there are complaints that it's based in Kentucky and Obviously shot in California. There's no excuse for that. It's as Kentucky as the first Halloween was Illinois. They should have filmed in Georgia like everyone else is these days and gotten the scenery a little closer to legit. Beyond that, in typical Elmore Leonard fashion, the characters are all great and pull off amusing and ominous at the same time. And the actors are talented enough to reinforce the prototypical Leonard characters. The entire run pulls off Leonard's ability to twist and turn character arcs into unlikely alliances, have ominous and malicious villains that are an entertaining and humorous pleasure to watch, and heroes that can walk the line between vice and virtue like alcoholic on a bender and still come out with something resembling a moral compass. In other words, it's an Elmore Leonard show, you're going to be entertained despite its faults.
This has to be one of the most overlooked TV shows of recent years. Crammed full of excellent characters played brilliantly by the cast. All headlined by Timothy Olyphant channeling his inner Eastwood but with a more wry, modern twist. But the show is stolen by Walton Goggins as the main protagonist Boyd Crowder.
