What is happening to Ava? She stands behind a bar, and her forehead is all wrinkly, and she is wearing a very old maid-ish type of sweater.
Wynona is not in this episode.
Erica Taziel is not in this episode. Self keeps forgetting what her character’s name is. She looks it up: Rachel Brooks!
But we still have Timothy Olyphant! (And he’s been keeping his Stetson on. Without making it seem like he’s trying too hard to be a cowboy. And he has one really good scene of ass-whuppin’. Only Raylan can deliver an ass-whuppin’ and make it look genial. One of his targets is the Mean Man in the Wheelchair. Since the Mean Man is pretty quick with a baseball bat, it serves him right when Raylan smashes his head into a desk)
And we still have bits of the sardonic wonderful-ness of Nick Searcy as Raylan’s boss, Art Mullen!
One of the best things about this episode is that we finally have some back-and-forth between Tim Gutterson and Raylan (Where is Erica Taziel? She’s just — gone!). These two have old-screen chemistry. They’re as good as Tracy & Hepburn, Downey & Law. It helps that they’re both hot.
Self loooves the tailored dark purple shirt Tim wears throughout this episode. Let’s have some more of this shirt, next episode!
If self remembers correctly, in Season 1, Tim showed up to meet Raylan at some place where only US Army Veterans were allowed entrance. And he was wearing a kind of lumberjack shirt, over a blinding white T-shirt. Self cannot tell you how much a man’s appeal is enhanced by the wearing of a blinding white T-shirt. One that tells the viewer, in no uncertain terms: I know my laundry detergent! And I apply it quite liberally!
Exhibit A: Keanu Reeves in “Speed” — in a scene near the beginning. Just before the bus blows up. He’s drinking coffee when KABOOM! He has to run out. Only really manly men can deal with a crisis wearing a blinding white T-shirt. Self realizes she’s never written so much about white T-shirts. White T-shirt White T-shirt White T-shirt. She can’t help it: only American men can get away with performing heroics in white T-shirts. (Where is self going with this? Lord only knows)
Stay tuned, dear blog readers. Stay tuned.