Came across this on Netflix, slowly fell in love with the show, smashed 3 seasons and then watched the last s3 episode on FX and just found this thread !
I realised I liked raylan, when the thought of wearing a Stetson, big ass belt buckle, cowboy boots and f it some spurs, with a jacket and jeans combo which I already am comfortable with
suddenly became an outfit I thought genuinelly would be a cool ... However I also appreciate my biological constraints which means I am not 6ft, lean and muscular or have chiselled features which luckily had stopped me dressing like that in public and no doubt getting beaten into a coma.
I think things drifted in s3 for a while, or maybe that was the result of watching too many episodes too quickly, I don't know
I started thinking this was traditional good guy vs bad guys story, but this quickly became very grey including raylan who I thought would be the black and white good guy and he is, but he isn't. Raylan has a troubled family back story, which I think intrigued me at first and I probably wanted to see some full on retribution and redress, I'm a simple man, who likes simple things but this didn't turn out to be simple by any stretch, challenging at times to watch but so worth it IMO.
His smile, which ain't always a good thing, good manners which won't stop him "drawing" if needs must and as someone else said, when raylan knows/realises that arlo shot someone wearing a hat who was pointing a gun at Boyd, well that was just heartbreaking. I think
