Cornballer
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There is a weariness about all of the characters at this point.
"It's all coming to an end."
"It's all coming to an end."
Can't think of a scene with Dewey where I don't laugh at least once.
That was a damn good premiere. I already feel much better about this season than last season.
Edit: A.V. Club review
That episode was moving. Still had those entertaining Justified one liners, but they're not wasting any time with the heavy stuff. RIP Dewey with all of his brilliant dumbness.
I keep returning to that photo of the miners because it feels like the visual nexus of the whole episode. It's got a touch of that final shot in The Shining, which revealed that Jack Torrance was always the Overlook's inkeeper: the past repeating itself, or never changing into the future. Also, ghosts: The episode is metaphorically haunted by them, haunted by how things were, or how the characters idealistically believe they were. When Ava takes her smoke break and contemplates her impossible situation, Raylan all but materializes in the background, startling her: "You can't sneak up on me like that," she tells him. He replies, "I reach out again and again and I don't hear from you" the complaint of a spirit trying and failing to get the attention of the living, or perhaps of a living person reaching out to a ghost. Boyd and Ava specifically reference ghosts and hauntings and the living dead in their conversation after that lace-curtain shot. "If we stay in this ghost town, Ava, together or otherwise, how long you think it's gonna be before we turn into ghosts ourselves?" "You're saying that like we ain't dead already," she replies.
"I want to go back," Dewey tells Boyd, his eyes full of tears. "Those were simple days, good days," Boyd says. "It's all coming to an end."