--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltablues@...> wrote: > > Walton Goggins is one of my favorite actors since the Shield. > I checked it out last night for the first time. Great scene > visuals. Its like they had a set designer and location finder > saying, "gritty, I need more gritty" over and over. I'm still > a little lost on the characters but I'll hang in there to catch > up. Thanks for the heads up.
Raylan Givens (Timothy Oliphant, previously from "Deadwood") is a Harlan, KY-born boy who was demoted back there from the Miami Federal Marshal service when he basically had a wild- west-like shootout with a bad guy. The title of the series comes from his tendency to wait until such actions are legally justified, but they waste the bad guys big-time. Winona (Natalie Zea) is Raylan's ex-wife, with whom he has taken up again, which is good because she's expecting his baby. She's not entirely happy with him living the dangerous life he leads. Ava Crowder (Joelle Carter) is an ex-flame of Raylan's and the current flame of Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins). Boyd is one of Raylan's oldest friends, but the relationship is somewhat strained in that Boyd is as far on the wrong side of the law as Raylan is on the right side of it. But if you get hooked by the series, you really owe it to yourself and catch up on at least the second season. In it Margo Martindale gave a phenomenal (and Emmy-winning) per- formance as Mags Bennett, matron of a modern Kentucky crime family with its how-we-do-business ways firmly rooted in the Hatfields and the McCoys. > Since we are in the TV discussion I agree that Alcatraz isn't > worth it. If that chick in Prime Suspect couldn't float a > series with 10 times the personality as this chick, this > doesn't have a chance. But I give the actress in Prime > Suspect props for pulling off the hot chick as tough > detective more believably than most. I remember she is one > of your favs. Actually I have liked Maria Bello (star of the US version) a lot in other work, but her performance in this series didn't really float my boat because I'd just finished re- watching the UK version, starring the great Helen Mirren.
