Adam Lenhardt
Senior HTF Member
With the new season premiering next week, I thought I'd get the discussion started. Season five of Graham Yost's six-season meditation on Elmore Leonard lawman Raylan Givens premieres January 7th on FX:
Some additional returning characters from previous seasons:
And the new faces:
Trailer:
Some tidbits about the new season from Entertainment Weekly:"A Murder of Crowes": Raylan tangles with a deadly branch of the Crowe family tree in Florida; Boyd goes into the dark heart of the collapsing Detroit mob.
Dewey Crowe's gator-farming Florida crime family will be the Big Bads for the fifth season. “The big thing would be Dewey Crowe, our beloved Dewey, who we didn’t even see last year — it’s a big season for him,” Yost says.After a very condensed story run so far -- seasons two through four all together comprise roughly half a year of Raylan's life -- there will be a jump of a few months between season four and season five. When the story picks back up, Winona's already given birth and Raylan's grappling with out to be a father. “That has a profound effect on him,” teases Yost. “So what does he want to do going forward? And the baby is not in Kentucky. So what is he going to do? And that’s one of the big questions of the season.”Ava's going to spend most of the season, if not the entire season, in prison.
As previously reported, Jere Burns was promoted to series regular for season five so we probably have plenty of classic Wynn Duffy reaction shots in store. And of course Damon Herriman will be back as the dim but lovable Dewey Crowe.TVLine is also reporting that Kaitlyn Dever will be back as Loretta McCready, along with Stephen Root as Judge Reardon, Sam Anderson as Lee Paxton, Patton Oswalt as Constable Bob and Natalie Zea as Winona Givens.
Michael Rapaport, A.J. Buckley and Alicia Witt recurs as Crowe family members Darryl Jr., Danny and Wendy. Edi Gathebi and Amaury Nolasco play associates of the Crowes.David Koechner appears as Deputy Marshall Sutter. Not sure if he's a deputy US Marshal or a deputy named Marshall.Amy Smart appears as Loretta's social worker, and real-life brothers Steve Harris and Wood Harris also play some role in Loretta’s storyline.Karolina Wydra (the green card bride from "House") appears as Lee Paxton's Latvian trophy wife.Dave Foley and Will Sasso play characters involved in Detroit's drug pipeline.