A thread for JUSTIFIED, a TV show on FX starring Timothy Olyphant

It's kind of maddening, as far as Ava and Winona are concerned. I mean, the writers are capable of coming up with an awesome, well-shaded female character like Mags...it's not like they cant get better storylines for them. But yeah, if they're just going to be cartoons, then don't have them at all.

How are we to this point on the thread without anyone mentioning how Mykelti Williamson is ABSOLUTELY KILLING IT as Ellstin Limehouse? The introduction of Noble's Holler is this season's stroke of genius, and his patriarchal menace is the photo negative of Neal McDonough's Quarles character.

yeah noble's holler is a development i am v *excited* and Limehouse is already a great character

Yes, loving Limehouse. that dude is badass. He's sort of got that even-tempered, still waters run deep kinda, I dunno, Marsellus Wallace feel about him...

His creepy "bacon"-flavored sex threat against my lovely Deputy Brooks REALLY pissed me off.

(there is a sentence I did not ever expect to type)

he's strong but I don't feel like he's gotten a *great* scene yet.

the torture scene was a sign of things to come,

I'm willing to bet that first great scene will be his first encounter with Quarles.

kinda too bad I don't have cable for this, cuz I can't see haviong the time to watch DVDs of prev season til, oh, September

bummer morbs! it's really great!

yeah, evil bbq guy is great
the one weak link is the female marshall imo. they gave her an ep last season and she basically threw it away. I'm not sure she can act.

er Brooks, I guess.

no i love her!

aw I like her

i'm not sure YOU can act, forks...ya big jerk :)

I am, in fact, Dewey Crowe.

you lowdown gimp

AHMA DESPERATE MAYUHN

lol everytime I think of Dewey I think of him in the trailer with the hooker, naked wearing his cowboy hat

brb got a hot chick in my trailer

lolol

YOU MEAN I GOT FOUR KIDNEYS?

still lol'ing @ this

yeah that was classic. cartoonish but still funny. sort of convinced elmore leonard wrote that line himself.

I like to think he writes the funniest zings

and Raylan's pun was A+

I don't know if I ever mentioned this upthread but I heard somewhere that Leonard's one note to Olyphant after seeing the pilot was "lose the hat". O_O

i like this show a lot but i am having trouble with suspension of disbelief when they are supposed to be in frankfort, lexington, harlan etc and it looks nothing like any of those places. otherwise though it has wet my whistle and i can't wait to watch the older season(s?).

seasons - there's 2 before this one

just such enjoyable television. like i just find elmore leonard vibe stuff sooo fun, i don't even care that it's not wire caliber or that everyone has to do like ironic james bond bad guy gone hillbilly monologues before they kill everyone, it's just all so much fun...

also someone mentioned upthread about how they really stock their cast with good actors for every small role, like so many great people, like raylan's boss, etc even if they don't get a ton of time...

i feel like jeremy david playing dickie is right up there with olyphant and the dude that plays boyd too

love the name of this tumblr, just found it looking for a picture of boyd:

http://fuckyeahjustified.tumblr.com/

Yeah, the woman who played the dodgy nurse (Layla, was that her name?) was so good I was surprised when she copped it. Although I think they said she was going to make it, so maybe we haven't seen the last of her.

she had the sexiest snarl

yeah this is real talk, boyd's all-the-way-buttoned + flannel jackets is an amazing look

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super OTM post here^

Boyd's "come into my parlor" sitdowns with Devil, and then Quarles were so fucking good. Goggins, man.

ive been watching this show and its v v enjoyable but really really really stupid. there have been more murders in one season of this show than there were in the entire state of kentucky in 2010

:D

>:[

it's not a documentary

yay kentucky killing fields! MOAR SHOOTIN

is there a more overrated virtue in entertainment than "realism"?

its just sort of tiresome tho like cant the show find another way of being 'exciting' w/o just killing people all the time? tbh it kinda feels like the show isnt that interested in anything but violence, which makes the show a fun distraction but sorta shallow? idk hs i want to like it just tim o is so dreamy and the dialogue is often p sharp but outside of the character of boyd its all so thin an well, dumb. like i think theyve tempered the rayalan myth stuff p well like having him get his ass kicked or the other characters kinda just rtde at him but i think the show is too casual and too quick to use violence to define its action?

i mean i watched the first season in like three nights while filling out grant applications, it was lots of fun but it just left a sour taste

it is tv, it is america, people be dyin

if you're looking for a rational argument with me about this show it's not happening

i am really quick to hurl the accusation that a show is shallow but i don't really think this one is. i don't know; it's so leonardy--lots of cartoonish characters that don't seem to have much depth but the realism is situational, or something? or the whole tone is so wry that the show can't let itself explore depth in a straightforward way. i should just work out my defense of this show on these grounds because it keeps coming up, and i understand the criticism, but ultimately disagree.

lol or what m@tt said

yeah this is real talk, boyd's all-the-way-buttoned + flannel jackets is an amazing look

haha in the most recent episode i watched he was wearing a charcoal plaid under this really stylish like maybe waxed cotton button up jacket and dark slim cut jeans and i was like 'lol he dresses like half the guys i know'

really this show is p stealthily stylish, feel like winona has some p excellent celine and apc style workwear, these trim and elegantly patterned silk floral dresses and blouses in trendy colors with good proportions

you must run in some p cool circles, a great look

i dont really want the show to be 'realistic' but i think that the cartoonish/gratuitous violence ends up giving these actions an uncomfortable weightlessness. and i also think the show is inconsistent about how it views 'legitimate' murder. like raylan got transferred to ky because he killed that guy but then he goes on to kill like a half a dozen more ppl really lightly. similarly the ag stuff w/boyd's shooting ends up being more about getting boyd out of prison than like ethical qn about how 'justified' it is for raylan to just go around killing people all the time

like i guess i feel realism aside that while the show sometimes seems interested in looking at the ethical qns around violence it leans so heavily on violence as a storytelling that any attempt to address the morality of this stuff is compromised and distorted. also on just a mechanical level the 'gotta shoot somebody' approach seems to offer real diminishing returns

lamp otm really but i'm liking this season's breezier, comic book-y murder rate. I think all the killings are still "justified"; no one is killed unless they drew first and if they are, then their comeuppance is forthcoming.

the justification is "me or you", consistently and anyone who oversteps that boundary pays the price, even if it's Mags. The reason Boyd and Raylan are, more or less, co-pro/antagonists and it's often hard to tell the difference who's in the right is because they share virtually the same moral code. It's only ethically that they disagree.