I finally watched the final two episodes last night. It was a great finale. The beginning of it reminded me a little of "The Shroud of Rahmon".
Wow. And huh. Finally caught up on Leverage, and I have no idea how John was only 50/50 on renewal/cancellation a month ago. Did they have a different ending in the can?
I'm guessing that they would have been pulled back in, blackmailed, or given a job they couldn't ignore, but I'm almost glad it did end, because it was a great ending. I'd like to think that they ended up with some other people in the group eventually because it seems that just the three of them pulling off the cons might be difficult.
This [link] came from elsewhere on b.org but omg, Apollo Robbins who taught most of Leverage everything they know about grift. This kind of story is fascinating and I suspect I will never be clever enough to know or watch it all. But, damn, I wish I were.
Thanks for that link, Cass. The accompanying video is great too: [link]
New episode of
Justified
tonight.
Oh, how I missed Raylan Givins.
Mmm hmmm. Nice to have him back.
I am weirdly disturbed about Boyd hiding money from Ava. They have many failings as human beings, but I liked that they were a team.
Yes, that was good. I had to re-record because the first airing cut off the end (!!!)
Interesting. Kind of a slow start to the season, but not in a bad way.
My recording cut off too. What happened after the prisoner started walking down the hall?
This episode featured two deeply stupid people, and in a different world Oswalt+Olyphant-LEO credentials=Downey Jr+Galifianakis-road trip.
I am not good with the deeply stupid. Even if Oswalt is done and gone, there remains the hooker whose name I did not get because she thought the bill could be real, and that's way off the deep end for my patience.
Raylan using the guy so blatantly worked for me--it's unlike Due Date in that way, since Bob has a perfectly valid pissy fit at him, and Raylan cops to it, and they move on. Just hopefully really far on. In opposite directions. But not so far on that they come back together on the other side of the earth (somewhere off the south west coast of Australia, JIC wondering, you know? Of course now I picture them swimming past each other--Raylan's using clean, efficient strokes, and only pauses his precise rhythm to tap his hat (hat's not leaving without it! Don't be stupid.) and say ";Sup?" and Dorky Dude is dog-paddling (he had a head start) and replies, with puffs of breath in-between words, sometimes in-between syllables, "Great! Actually, now what you bring it up..." and Raylan has gone back to slicing through the water with such determination that he is living shark repellent--Constable Bob, on the other hand, has collected a school of immature dolphins Swimming far below him, and only surfacing outside of his line of sight, who regard him in a complex way that bored dolphins do. He's pet, mascot, and experimental subject rolled into one, and they don't intend to feed him to anyone until they're done using him any way they can--beware the tricksy dolphins, Bob! They're more devious than Raylan.
