Boyd Crowder

Boyd Crowder preaches hellfire in a backwoods Kentucky church that is really a front for blowing up crack houses and worse. A coal miner turned white-supremacist firebrand, he talks like a tent revivalist and thinks like a demolitions expert. He and U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens go back decades, and neither trusts the other an inch.

Walton Goggins turns what could be a stock backwoods bigot into someone genuinely dangerous because he's articulate, funny, and always three moves ahead. The writing lets Boyd talk in long, ornate sentences that sound like scripture and sales pitch at once, and Goggins never lets you settle on what he actually believes.