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Got introduced to this series via a free download of the pilot last
Christmas Season on i-Tunes. When I discovered that Amazon was selling
it for $!3.99 a season decided to give it a try. They've since bumped
season 2 up to $18.99. Season 3 has just been released.

Raylan Givens was born 200 years too late. A modern-day officer of the
Marshall's Service he wears an old ten-gallon hat and carries a modern
Glock pistol in a side-holster. He drives a big old black sedan rather
than ride a pony but otherwise he'd feel fully at home in a Nineteenth
Century Style Western gunning down bad guys with his quick draw while
romancing the ladies with his charm and good looks.

The US Marshall's Service exists independent of the FBI, DEA, State, and
local Law Enforcement Agencies to apprehend fugitives, transport
prisoners, serve writs, and enforce warrants. They do not do criminal
investigations or law enforcement. Our man Raylan was returned to his
backwoods Kentucky home after gunning down a criminal he'd given two
days to leave town in a quick draw shoot-out in Miami. Seems his father
was a mean-spirited criminal who has lived his entire life making a
living on the wrong side of the law. Raylan's childhood buddies continue
the tradition operating meth labs to cook up millions of dollars worth
of poison.

The show is an interesting study in contrasts. The fact that you hate
someone's guts is no reason to be impolite it seems. The deadliest of
veiled threats are delivered in the most civil manner possible. On the
other hand rarely is a gun drawn unless the user intends to kill. On
Raylan's team is a former expert sniper from the Afghanistan front.
Woman as well as men shoot their opponents dead or cut them nearly in
half with a sawed-off shotgun. This is backwoods Kentucky where
moonshine stills are a rite of passage, the law is a minor
inconvenience, and old time religion still saves souls. Raylan grew up
here, going back is punishment.