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In response to
"i think it says all you need to know about US Marshal Raylan Givens that the best duty he can land is a backwater like Harlan County -- nm"
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lord tubbington
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I have a close friend from highschool who's a state trooper based in Harlan. He told me the most important thing to do when you pull people over
Posted by
Trish (aka Trisha)
May 7 '11, 22:21
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It's that particularly distinctive tcheek-tcheek sound a 12 gauge Mossberg makes when you pump it.
One of the things I love about the show is the stuff they get right. The accents (collectively) are some of the best regional southern accents I've ever heard. They've not just gotten the accents right, they also have the almost stilted speech patterns perfect. Side note: I volunteered as an adult chaperon (3 times)for our church high school youth group to participate in the Appalachian Service Project. Once based in Harlan and the other 2 times further up in the mountains. The people are very difficult to understand, they're speaking a dialect that is almost the same as old english. It's so weird, they have nothing comparable to the material goods we depend on everyday, but they don't consider themselves poor. Also, they really do have feuds that go back 100 years, like somebody's great grandpa pissed off somebody else's great grandpa and they just won't let it go. It really illustrates the Dickie/Raylan fuss.
But, 2 things piss me off about it. Harlan is much larger than they show. I dated a guy from Harlan off and on through high school. His dad was the principal of the highschool. We met at bandcamp (stfu!) and took liitle trips back and forth every couple of months. So,I've been there, I know a lot about it. They film in western PA, btw. But it does look a lot like Harlan. Also, they'd like you to believe that you can get from Lexington to Harlan in 15-20 minutes. I know it's poetic lisence and all that, but I know for a fact that it's an hour from Lexington to Richmond, home of Eastern Ky University. From there, it's almost another 3 hours to Harlan. That's just stretching geography way too far.
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