Kudos, Justified, for doing in "Reckoning" what I didn‘t think you had the guts to do -- offing Helen, the one person who truly understood Raylan and all his complexities (Winona included), and who gave him his ticket out of Harlan years ago. Her death -- revealed in a gorgeous opening slo-mo montage of Raylan (Timothy Olyphant) visiting the crime scene -- forces Raylan and Arlo into the same claustrophobic grieving space where they‘re both in pain, but just can‘t eat their pride and console one another.
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