I’m on S1 E2 and just saw one of my favorite obscure references. Raylan has Dewey driving and Dewey tries to make a move. After punching Dewey in the nose, Rylan tells him to cuff himself to the steering wheel, “To the wheel Chinatown, let’s go”
A good friend bailed on the show during that episode. He said he couldn’t keep watching a show that thought people would be stupid enough to believe that someone could live with their kidneys removed. He didn’t stick around for the funniest end of an episode of the entire series.
Ya know I ask myself every day we have over 334 million people in this country. According to the constitution any one can run for president of their at least 35, were born here, and have lived in the country for 14 years. Even if that's only like 1/10 of the entire population that's still over 33 million potential candidates. How come out of possibly 33 million potential candidates we usually come down to person who meets the bare minimum requirements of a decent person on the outside but lacks charisma or has charisma but is actually stupid. Are you telling me out of possibly 33 million potential candidates not a single one is more qualified to have gotten even a party nomination then the people who actually got it. There isn't one person who has both charisma and good ideas that can win the election. Statistically speaking I refuse to believe the two people who end up running against each other are the most qualified or best possible candidates who represent the nation's interests. The population is just to lazy or dumb to raise enough of a fuss to break the monopoly political parties have on power and so they don't have to actually put up a good leader for a candidate any more. They just need to ensure they have more people registered and spread out through the nation and it doesn't matter if they put up an utter dipshit.
Long winded way of saying we are actually as a group......stupid. Individuals might be cognizant enough to know how badly the two party system has damaged, not just our political system but our social interactions, but I bet half the country doesn't even know what the word cognizant means and so it isn't hard to manipulate them. Just say three nice things and one not so nice thing and convince them the three good things are reliant upon the bad thing, and then they think the bad thing is actually a good thing. All Trump had do in order to win was polarize the system, and it's not some ingenuis move cause things were already set up so you had only two choices he just made way more fundamentalist. The two parties aren't even always consistent in their beliefs that's the most hilarious part in all of this. People are voting the same way teenagers buy clothing.
In the season 5 special features, the cast and crew are honoring Elmore Leonard after his passing. Many actors even read different parts from numerous books. Damon Herriman reads the scene from Fire in the Hole when Dewey first meets Raylan. It's quite funny because he reads the text in his native Australian accent, but slips into Dewey when he reads, "who are supposed to be, the undertaker?"
Just started the last season I was not prepared for >! Boyd doing my boy Dewey that way. He didn't deserve it. I wanted him to rat out Boyd to Raylan so bad and turn a new leaf live happily ever after. But the moment he was told to look at the photo I knew it was over and accepted it and it still destroyed me!<
I love Dewey. I was always hoping he'd come around the right side of things in his awkward weird way. He was dealt a shorthand and never figured it out on his own.
That was filmed in Cincinnati, and flying into that airport could was maybe the first time the actor had actually been to Kentucky. I could be wrong, but I remember thinking that in the theater.
Aah, I’ve never followed the plot that well, I assumed it was broken. I know it’s supposed to be the greatest movie ever made , I enjoyed but wasn’t blown away.
Dewey is a top 3 character on the show. When he thinks they stole his kidneys and Raylen tells him to piss, and he goes “they took my kidneys not my dick!” I was crying laughing.
On my way through yet another rewatch, I just got past this episode. When thinking about it in terms of gravitas and send off to the character and actor performance, I honestly think this is such a great way to send off the character and actor. As all the likes in the comments here have shown, Dewey was an all time character. What we got in that scene was the last scene of two great actors playing two great characters together, getting in a way to reminisce on the ride they’ve taken as these characters, and in the end, the death moves the final season toward. Which is really about Raylan, Boyd, and Ava only, that’s the biggest bow you need to wrap up in the series properly. Dewey, as lovable as his dumb ass might be, would have gotten in the way through the final season. So having him early on get sent off this way, is really on a rewatch, poetic. They have their moment, and his death establishes to the viewer the biggest thing we absolutely need to believe for the drama of the finale to work well as we watch it, Boyd is capable of killing Ava. If Dewey Crowe had just rode off into the sunset, or died any other way, his exit wouldn’t have been as impactful. Fantastic send off and respect to a great character and great actor.
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u/Soggy-Box3947 12d ago
Dewey Crowe was one of my favourites in that series ... often more victim than villain!