Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) has officially become a more interesting character than Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant). I‘m surprised to write this, because Raylan/Olyphant is such a great character/actor combo, but the producers of Justified have made Boyd/Goggins an even more intriguing character, making Raylan seem boring at times. Sure, he‘s a lawman, so it‘s understandable ... but it‘s particularly when Raylan mentally eases himself back into re-settling with Winona (in Glynco, Georgia, where he‘d presumably return to firearms training) that his character arc flatlines. Sure he‘s full of contradictions, which is what makes him so fascinating, but they‘re subtle and, by now, fairly predictable. We want him to be happy, but we also want to see the wild side of him, at odds with domestic bliss.
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