I sure hope the rest of the episodes are more like the pilot than "Riverbrook." It was disappointing to see a second episode that didn't live up to the expectations set forth in the pilot. Timothy Olyphant is still captivating, but his lack of screen time, filled by three insignificant rednecks, kept the episode from reaching that other level. Givens is down pat and doesn't need any working on. The writing, however, needs to be improved if there are the same episode stories. If "Riverbrook" was any indication, Boyd will only serve as a background character to Givens doing his U.S. Marshall work.
The three miscreants, Dupree, Shirley, and Cooper, had plenty of funny lines--dildo talk, incest talk, etc--that were amusing. The more dramatic elements--Shirley and Cooper reconnecting, the money, the standoff--were pretty boring. It felt almost too slow, too lazy to be anything more than the good guys doing their job while the bad guys bumble around.
Score: 8.8/10
