Remember when Ray first met Chelsea, and he said, " She's got a huge set of balls! "![]()

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Remember when Ray first met Chelsea, and he said, " She's got a huge set of balls! "![]()
What a great example of self ownage by Danny. Ironically, killed by the hole dug for his dead dog...
what a fucking dumbass
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Showrunner Graham Yost revealed in an Entertainment Weekly interview last week that the Hatian Jean-Baptist's sudden exit came at the behest of actor Edi Gathegi, who didn't like the role, so don't expect the vagueness and overall silliness of Danny's explanation for his departure to be elaborated upon; it's just one of those "wave your hand and it's done" type of things.
Let’s talk about Danny’s scene with Kendal and Jean-Baptiste (Edi Gathegi). I did not see Jean-Baptiste’s death coming.
Nor did we. (Laughs) So the Danny-Kendal scene, we wanted to establish this thing that Danny’s got, the idea of the 21 foot rule. You can look it up online. The idea is supposedly that within 21 feet, a guy with a knife can beat a guy with a gun, if the gun is holstered. If the knifer takes the initiative and starts running as he’s pulling the knife, while the other guy’s trying to pull his gun, the knifer can win. That came up early in the writers room this past summer and was one of the things that we decided to give to Danny from the beginning of the season. Then we wanted to see him torment Kendal with it.
And the idea for Danny to shoot Jean-Baptiste?
Listen, we make our best efforts early on in the season as we hire actors to come on the show, and we can’t always guarantee them what they’re gonna be doing or where it’s gonna go. Getting Edi Gathegi was a big get for us, but the character just wasn’t panning out for him. He didn’t see where it was going, and even though we were thinking that Jean-Baptiste would survive until toward the end of the season, Edi wasn’t enjoying the journey. We had no contract to hold him to, so we said, “Well, let’s kill off Jean-Baptiste in episode 5.”
We weren’t sure how we were gonna do it, and then we watched the scene between Jean-Baptiste and Danny, and it became clear that there was such animosity there, that man it could work. So the scene got adjusted to play it this way. What we then found from that, which you’ll see in subsequent episodes, is that it gave us a lot: It established Danny’s close to psycho pathology and his really bad judgment. And it also was something that happened in front of Kendal. Kendal’s known that he’s living in a crime family, but I don’t know what truly bad stuff he’s seen. You’ll see in subsequent episodes the effect that this has on him and really how that propels us to toward the end of the season.
Gathegi better chill, he's going to end up getting black balled.
Gathegi better chill, he's going to end up getting black balled.
I was very disappointed with him, regardless of the specifics.
He KNEW the writers of the show (or SHOULD have) he knows how they do.
He should have trusted them.
But I will say this...I think they were going somewhere with his relationship with the lead Crowe, he trusted him MORE then the brothers and the sister. And even the last episode when he learned the truth you saw the HURT not only about being lied to by everyone in his family but losing JB they were setting that up to be something BIG.
I'm not saying it was going to be something twisted but rewatch those episodes and see how they were showing then to be tight (and the Haitian and the sister along with the son were also shown to be REAL close)...we might never know the TRUE story arc but it is OBVIOUS there was gonna be some huge family conflict.
And just off the opportunity for a Haitian to be represented on one of my all time favorite shows...makes me even angrier because I didn't want them to cast him anyway (he s a good actor though)...he squandered a quality role for other brothers.
I agree. Edi had no further to look than Erica Tazel's character Rachel Brooks. She is in the credits, but she has appeared in the fewest amount of episodes. It doesn't matter, but just trust the writers and their plan. Everybody wants to be more important, because if we aren't we feel that people will feel that we are disposable, even if that isn't the case.
Dave Chappelle said be wary of the White guy in the Black gang because you never know what crazy things he did to earn their respect, well I said the same thing about JB. There was something scary and deep about him, almost lethal like, you even saw it in his last episode. Sad we never got a chance to see it play through because I believe that it would have made for an entertaining story.
playahaitian, I feel you, brother. It's almost like when Black people royally screw up I cringe because of the negative fallback that it could have on other brothers. You felt the same way about this Edi and what he did. Is he truly Haitian or just playing a Haitian character?
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I have to avoid this thread until I can catch up, very amusing episode this week
- Always fun to see Dickie Bennett, he has the worst barber in Kentucky
Told you he has 9lives. Raylin and Boyd owe him a bullet
- "You'd still have your legs if you weren't such an asshole" cold Raylan
- When Ava comes on the screen now I check my email...she bores the hell out of me. She's going to become prison queen, who cares
Not to me, You never know what is going to happen to ava at any minute
- Penny is mad she had to abort her prison rape babies???
- I don't think that Boyd is ever getting his heroin
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- That lady wants to fuck Wynn Duffy seriously, he better get that mobile home ready
- Dewey alias is Parker Stevenson, doesn't seem like he would have watched the Hardy Boys but.....
- Dewey wanted to get his hoes and play naked Marco Polo again in a new city, but these girls ain't loyal sold him out
- “I love her, but I don’t have the power to make her mine" statement saved the guards life because Boyd realized it applied to him as well
I dont think he meant in that since. More in the way of "Ava has that effect on people"
- Ironic that Kendall killed Danny indirectly by being forced to dig the hole for Chelsea. 21 foot rule my ass, Danny fell in a ditch like Wile.E.Coyote
We still dont know if Danny could have pulled that off or not.
- Daryl Crowe beat his sisters ass...wow that's a redneck for you.
He was emotional, I dont think he has ever hit her before.
That beating was just...brutal.
And I really think it will be a game changer.
Daryl had a FEW chances to just back off and he didn't.
He hates her.
All that resentment from her wanting to be BETTER then the family manifested.
All his failures and insecurities came to the surface because she WAS right.
This is all correct right here. People look at me when I used to go in the hood and sometimes say shit like, "You think you better than me because I carry myself a certain kind of way and speak properly, but they do that because of a feeling of lesser worth within themselves.
She hates the life because she IS better than the life. She wants more for herself but she feels compelled as many people do to help downtrodden close family members who are always fucking up. They can't walk away though they know they should. Darryl feels looked down upon and he thinks that he is deserving of praise for keeping the family together. He can't take the strong coffee when she tells him that he is nowhere near the man their father was and he beats her because it is true and he knows it.
Like Lot's wife Sarah, she would have been better off leaving them to fuck up their lives while she came up on her own in spite of them, now she will waste away like a pillar of salt because she refused to turn her back on them and fell in an almost inescapable trap. Her son is screwed and now she has lost the two people she cared the most about because she couldn't turn her back on what she knew was not worth it, but they were blood.
But NOW we know he is a complete monster...remember he murked the brother with the Haitian's help earlier.
This dude is MORE dangerous then Boyd on THAT level (remember how he beat that Aryan dude unconscious)
Its always bubbling under the surface he is like Boyd on steroids...and WORSE he is in denial.
And Jay you under Ava's spell too...
I just don't get her.
That beating was just...brutal.
And I really think it will be a game changer.
Daryl had a FEW chances to just back off and he didn't.
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I'm gonna be sad to see it go, but better to risk ending it too soon than hang around too long. This show's had so much integrity and never insults your intelligence as a viewer. Glad to see it's gonna get a chance to tie everything up right.
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I'm gonna be sad to see it go, but better to risk ending it too soon than hang around too long. This show's had so much integrity and never insults your intelligence as a viewer. Glad to see it's gonna get a chance to tie everything up right.
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Exactly. I got through almost 4 seasons of True Blood before I was like...this shit did a Fonzie on the shark. I love this show and if it does have to end I'd rather it go out before it gets to the True Blood/Dexter phase where you as a viewer are watching it just because.
Boyd Fucking Crowder!!!!!
"There aint no way in hell Im gone beg you for my life"
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Boyd Fucking Crowder!!!!!
"There aint no way in hell Im gone beg you for my life"
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Just about the smartest baddest motherfucker on TV, his bad ass was made for HBO. How the fuck is he doing HBO shit on regular cable?
Damn that is a bad ass dude. The ultimate magician, always got something up his sleeve - and if not that one the other one. I'm so glad that they didn't kill him off in the pilot. I don't even want to think of how this series would have been without him. Great actor, great character.
He pulled a James Bond/Mission Impossible trick to get out of that jam.....PERFECTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And I dont think he put the explosive in the pack until after the first meeting. When they stupidly said to him "This is where we decide to kill you or not"
Boyd will never loose if people keep under estimating him.
"I may not know a lot of things, but I know how to blow shit up!"
And he still offered duffy the same deal when he could have just killed him.
disagree...
I think he thought of it BEFORE the first meeting and even had the explosive on him.
He didn't know the marshal's were coming but knew no one would REALLY check a pack of smokes.
Dude has such foresight he established with EVERYONE (even dudes on his own team) that he would be carrying smokes so that no one would notice.
Its when I saw him click the pack...I KNEW it.
This is how shows should be done.
Breaking Bad and Mad Men (and the king The Wire) are cut from the same cloth, EVERYTHING matters...we went right back to the very FIRST time we met Boyd with that explosion..
this dude is resilient and just keeps on coming just like Raylan.
But UNLIKE Raylan who sees some type of good in EVERYONE until the end,
Boyd KNOWS people are evil including himself.
That is why he is so rarely surprised or disappointed.
"Shit happens, Mr. Picker"
I hate that FX has made me love characters who are white racist sociopath tic assholes...and I have had people ask me to explain myself...
"but they aint my mama."
But I dont think Boyd's Character is a racist at heart, I think As always he has the gift of gab and that was just a phase to build an army.
Your were correct when you said a while back that Only difference between Boyd and Raylin is the star.
Raylin is a terrible Marshal but Is and has been an excellent Gangster.
He took Dickie out into the woods to shoot him.
He threw a bullet at duffy and said the next one will be coming faster.
And Raylin sees a type of good in people? He is an asshole to everyone and thinks they all are up to something.
I hate that FX has made me love characters who are white racist sociopath tic assholes...and I have had people ask me to explain myself...
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- Ava no longer needs to bring a Dairy Queen to Harlan with Boyd she has all the ice cream in lockup
- When Boyd asked for the cigarettes that was symbolic for returning to old bad habits, I forgot he was an explosives guy
I wouldn't put justified in the same list as the wire and breaking bad
This is the best season & the one with the fat white lady, I don't remember the others that much
I really liked Raylan's comment to Tim, who thought he and Raylan should deal with Daryl Crowe themselves because it's what Art would do for them: "I don't think you know Art as well as I do." Is he talking about the fact that Art has been angry about him about not doing things by the book - or is he wondering if he had damaged his relationship with Art so badly that Art wouldn't have done just about anything to bring down someone who shot Raylan?
I really liked Raylan's comment to Tim, who thought he and Raylan should deal with Daryl Crowe themselves because it's what Art would do for them: "I don't think you know Art as well as I do." Is he talking about the fact that Art has been angry about him about not doing things by the book - or is he wondering if he had damaged his relationship with Art so badly that Art wouldn't have done just about anything to bring down someone who shot Raylan?
When Boyd asked for the cigarettes that was symbolic for returning to old bad habits, I forgot he was an explosives guy