'Riverbrook' is symptomatic of the awkward nascent stages of "Justified"; it feels a lot more like your average procedural than what eventually really makes this show tick. Here, we get Raylan settling into the new environment, and his unconventional style of police work. He doesn't go by the book, but has got to be the smoothest gunfighter on TV. Mostly, this means barbed repartee with the people around him.
The crime itself is pretty typical (an inmate escapes to retrieve the money he'd stashed in a new housing development), complete with wannabe criminals and the inevitable double-cross. It's very much in the spirit of Elmore Leonard's brand of bad guys. Well-written, too. As much as I look forward to the forthcoming serialization , I did greet the end credits wishing for more.
That alone says plenty.
7/10
The crime itself is pretty typical (an inmate escapes to retrieve the money he'd stashed in a new housing development), complete with wannabe criminals and the inevitable double-cross. It's very much in the spirit of Elmore Leonard's brand of bad guys. Well-written, too. As much as I look forward to the forthcoming serialization , I did greet the end credits wishing for more.
That alone says plenty.
7/10