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Luke de Smet

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 13, Slaughterhouse

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 13, “Slaughterhouse”

by Luke de Smet
April 13, 2012

The major criticism of Justified’s third season is that it’s included a few too many plot elements.

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 12, 'Coalition'

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 12, “Coalition”

by Luke de Smet
April 4, 2012

If Justified feels plot heavy of late, it’s out of necessity given the premise of the third season.

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 11, Measures

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 11, “Measures”

by Luke de Smet
March 29, 2012

An episode like “Measures” seemed inevitable at this point in Justified’s third season.

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 10, Guy Walks Into a Bar

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 10, “Guy Walks Into a Bar”

by Luke de Smet
March 21, 2012

It’s fitting that the title of this week’s installment of Justified is the classic joke lead-in “Guy Walks Into a Bar.”

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 9, Loose Ends

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 9, “Loose Ends”

by Luke de Smet
March 14, 2012

When the show titles an episode “Loose Ends,” you can bet it will be all about tying up, well, loose ends.

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episodes 7 & 8, The Man Behind the Curtain & Watching the Detectives

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episodes 7 and 8, “The Man Behind the Curtain” and “Watching the Detectives”

by Luke de Smet
March 9, 2012

For two episodes with very little action, they wind up revealing quite a bit about Justified’s representation of violence.

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 6, When the Guns Come Out

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 6, “When the Guns Come Out”

by Luke de Smet
February 22, 2012

As season three of Justified reaches the halfway point, things are starting to escalate in a hurry.

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 5, Thick As Mud

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 5, “Thick As Mud”

by Luke de Smet
February 15, 2012

There’s something incredibly strange, frantic, and amazing about Dewey stumbling his way through Lexington trying to raise the money to buy back his own kidneys.

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 4, The Devil You Know

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 4, “The Devil You Know”

by Luke de Smet
February 8, 2012

A lot of talk regarding season three of Justified has centered around whether the show could successfully replace Mags Bennett.

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 3, Harlan Roulette

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 3, “Harlan Roulette”

by Luke de Smet
February 1, 2012

With “Harlan Roulette,” the full potential of season three is starting to show itself.

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 2, Cut Ties

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 2, “Cut Ties”

by Luke de Smet
January 25, 2012

The case-of-the-week A-plot of “Cut Ties,” the second episode of Justified’s third season, doesn’t have much meat on it.

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 1, The Gunfighter

Justified Recap: Season 3, Episode 1, “The Gunfighter”

by Luke de Smet
January 18, 2012

In many respects, the third-season premiere of Justified, “The Gunfighter,” is a difficult episode to love.

House of Lies: Season One

Review: House of Lies: Season One

by Luke de Smet
January 11, 2012

The newest no-good, scumbucket-of-an-antihero on cable TV is House of Lies’s Marty Kaan.

Shameless: Season Two

Review: Shameless: Season Two

by Luke de Smet
January 9, 2012

It’s easy to give Shameless the benefit of the doubt, because, at its best, the show is a lot of fun.

Mad Men, Tomorrowland

Mad Men Recap: Season 4, Episode 13, “Tomorrowland”

by Luke de Smet
October 27, 2010

As it turns out, this low-profile episode is an apt distillation of a largely low-profile season.

Mad Men, Chinese Wall

Mad Men Recap: Season 4, Episodes 11 and 12, “Chinese Wall” and “Blowing Smoke”

by Luke de Smet
October 14, 2010

Addiction has played an important role through most of this season, most explicitly through Don’s struggles with alcoholism.

Mad Men, Hands and Knees

Mad Men: Season 4, Episode 10, “Hands and Knees”

by Luke de Smet
September 30, 2010

“Hands and Knees” is very explicitly focused on the theme of secrets.

Mad Men, The Beautiful Girls

Mad Men Recap: Season 4, Episode 9, “The Beautiful Girls”

by Luke de Smet
September 21, 2010

Some Mad Men episode titles are more difficult to decipher than others.

Mad Men, The Summer Man

Mad Men Recap: Season 4, Episode 8, “The Summer Man”

by Luke de Smet
September 16, 2010

Its greatest challenge is usually avoiding becoming muddled and weighed down by its many interwoven thematic threads.

Mad Men, The Suitcase

Mad Men Recap: Season 4, Episode 7, “The Suitcase”

by Luke de Smet
September 9, 2010

For the umpteenth time this season, Don has thrown himself into a drinking binge, precipitated by an urgent call from Anna’s family in California that he can’t bring himself to return.

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