They really demonized him in that last season.I know Boyd was always a bad guy but through out the series you always got that sense that he was struggling with that thin line between light and dark.Slightly leaning toward dark.But in the last season he shifted into full on dark and turned into an abusive stone cold killer.I mean i guess they had to do it that way to facilitate the end of the series but it made me hate his character in the end.
shareI don't remember where I read this, but I think Boyd wasn't meant to be a recurring character on the show but he was so popular after the first season that he became a recurring series character.
I think the writers planned the series with season-long arcs involving other criminal doings in Harlan and to keep Boyd's character involved they had to involve Boyd with both his own storyline and intersect it with the normal season story arc.
I think this mostly worked for any single season, but over the run of the whole series I think they had to work hard to keep Boyd a crook, out of jail, but able to get involved in whatever came up that specific season. I think the strain showed by the end of the series.
"I think they had to work hard to keep Boyd a crook, out of jail, but able to get involved in whatever came up that specific season. I think the strain showed by the end of the series."
Exactly. It wore very thin by the start of season 6.
Boyd wasn't supposed to survive the pilot episode. Reactions to his character were so strong after a test screening of the pilot that he was written into the series right before it aired.
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