The penultimate season of this popular FX-aired crime drama—based on a short story (followed by a novel) by Elmore Leonard—finds maverick U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) once again tangling with Kentucky's underworld culture, this time squaring off against a new criminal family. Michael Rapaport guest stars as Florida smuggler, poacher, and drug dealer Darryl Crowe, a backwoods would-be crime boss who decides to relocate to Kentucky and begin a new enterprise smuggling drugs from Mexico in partnership with Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins), Raylan's longstanding frenemy. Family plays a central part in the series, and the Crowe clan has a complicated dynamic that makes Raylan even more committed to shutting them down and saving the youngest member from ending up dead or in jail. Meanwhile, Boyd is set on freeing his imprisoned lover and partner in crime, Ava (Joelle Carter). Other guest stars this season include Alicia Witt as Darryl's sister and legal counsel, Amy Smart as a social worker who starts dating Raylan, Danielle Panabaker as Ava's ally in prison, and Mary Steenburgen as a fixer who arrives to resolve the conflict between Boyd and the Chicago mob. Compiling all 13 episodes from the 2014 fifth season, extras include audio commentaries, a “making-of” featurette, and deleted scenes. Recommended. (S. Axmaker)
Justified: The Complete Fifth Season
Sony, 3 discs, 607 min., not rated, DVD: $55.99, Blu-ray: $65.99 Volume 30, Issue 2
Justified: The Complete Fifth Season
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