huh....i guess Gugino was really playing a disguised version of Karen Sisco....pretty cool!
Gugino's role as the mysterious Agent Goodall (whose married last name isn't what Raylan knows her by, and whose first name is never uttered, despite Tim Olyphant's best efforts to slip a "Karen" into the dialogue somewhere) is the show working around copyright a bit. Sony owns the rights to Raylan Givens, but not the other stars of the Leonard canon. But that can't stop "Justified" from featuring characters who are evocative of the others. And if you can get an actress who once played one of those characters in an underrated, short-lived TV drama, why not? I like the idea that Raylan and Karen used to work in the Miami field office together and hooked up after he divorced Winona. (Compared to most of the men Karen has been involved with on the page and screen, Raylan's a prince.) And I was glad to see Gugino sleep easily back into a role she owned for 10-odd episodes back in 2003.
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