Tag: Walton Goggins
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2011-2012 season wrap: Top 10 series of the season
The 2011-2012 television season has been over for almost a couple of weeks now, which means a sufficient amount of time has passed and we are primed to reflect. Over the next handful of days, I will be producing some pieces and lists looking back on the season that was. I missed out on a…
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Test Pilot: File #44, The Shield
Test Pilot #44: The Shield Debut date: March 12, 2002 Series legacy: One of the best cop dramas, and series, of all-time Hello, everyone. Welcome back to your favorite discussion of television pilots on the internet, Test Pilot. Today we conclude our survey of the contemporary police drama. Hopefully we have done a fine job…
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Review: Justified, “Cut Ties”
I’m short on time again today, but I wanted to put down a few short thoughts on last night’s Justified. If you were to say that Justified had one weakness in its first two seasons (primarily in its first, though), it would be how the series handled the supporting characters who work with Raylan in…
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Season Premiere Review: Justified, “The Gunfighter”
I’m a bit short on time today, but I wanted to jot down a few thoughts on the very-good season premiere of Justified. When series take the kind of leap in quality that Justified did in its second season (although I maintain that somehow, we’ve retroactively decided the first season isn’t that great and that’s…
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2011 Primetime Emmy Predictions: Outstanding Supporting Actor and Actress in a Drama Series
The 2011 Primetime Emmys are so close! September 18th to be exact. Up until the ceremony airs on FOX, I’ll be working through most of the major categories and discussing who could win, who should win and of course, who will win. I’ll likely be tackling two categories in each post, just so you know. Hey…
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2011 Dream Emmy Ballot: Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
It’s that time again, folks. The Emmy nominations will be announced on July 14, which means I have almost an entire month to flood this space with hopes, dreams and predictions about what could happen come nomination time. To kick things off, I’ll be bringing back the Dream Emmy Ballot. It’s something I did last…
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Season Finale — Justified, “Bloody Harlan”
“It’s not your problem. Not today.” I don’t usually preface my reviews with quotes from the episode. It’s something like a lot of good reviewers do (some regularly, some occasionally) and I guess it’s a way for me to separate myself. The format of these kind of post-air reviews is mostly standardized now, that’s my…
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Justified, “Debts and Accounts”
Note: I don’t have a lot of time, but I wanted to get some ramblings down about last night’s episode. After last week’s epic episode of Justified “Debts and Accounts” is one of those episodes where the dust is settling and characters are trying to position themselves perfectly for when it’s actually all cleared. In…
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Justified, “Brother’s Keeper”
There was A LOT of hype for this episode of Justified. People were calling this best episode of the series yet, the best episode of 2011 and so on and so forth. For the most part, that hype is, well, justified. “Brother’s Keeper” is a fantastic episode of television and most certainly one of the…
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Justified, “The Spoil”
In my review of last week’s Justified, I talked about how that episode served as a nice pivot point for the rest of the season. While I still stand by that observation, this week’s episode more overtly points out those sorts of things. So many of the characters and smaller problems introduced in the first…
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Justified, “The Life Inside”
It seems like Graham Yost and his team listened to the criticisms of the fans who hated the middle three or four episodes of season one. Although “The Life Inside” is most certainly a standalone episode, it does a lot of other things that address larger threads in the narrative. There is a normal Justified…
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Season Premiere — Justified, “The Moonshine War”
There was a lot to love about Justified‘s first season, but one of the things I found most impressive about those 13 episodes is how easily and quickly the series created the world of Harlan, Kentucky. Harlan is certainly a unique place and from very early on in the pilot episode, the series presented those…
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Musings on the Emmy submissions and the importance of the awards
This past weekend brought us the full ballots for this year’s Emmy awards (PDFs for writing, directing and performing), which means we can now see who submitted what and try to deduce why. The one thing that I’ve learned over the past few years of following the Emmys very closely is that the submissions are…
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