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

really? i mean it's twisty but completely followable.

the number of overlapping storylines its juggling right now is just enough to make me kinda lose interest

Great ep tonight, perfect balance of serious and light moments.

yeah i was just thinking how no other show really manages both so well.

Most recent ep ties up a stand-alone plot, so I imagine they will get back to the bag in the wall soon enough. No big bad this year so far.

I was just talking about that exact thing, it's weird, this show is getting a little TrueBloodish with all it's tangents

There's really only two planes of action generally though, whatever Boyd/Ava are up to and whatever Raylan's up to

Feels like more

raylan's usually up to 2-3 things any given ep. this one was particularly linear in that regard.

So far this season is much better than last season, which had way too many new villains, none of whom were half as interesting as Boyd and Ava.

So if it didn't before, this show has the best recurring/guset cast on TV right now. Gerald McRaney!

I'm def feeling this season so far, maybe even more than the season two (Mags Bennett/Margo Martindale) excepted. I love a good long-form mystery in a serial drama, and so far the execution of this season's central theme has been A+. Of course, we're only four episodes deep, so there is still plenty of time for them to botch things - but thusfar this writing staff has earned the benefit of the doubt.

This is by far their best start to a season IMO (the whole plot about the Bennetts was constructed a bit clumsily, I think, so season 2 didn't become great until it became tragic in the later parts) Everything about the hill people was hilarious and filmed so beautifully (do they film these scenes in Kentucky?) More Shelby and Constable Bob! It's ridiculously crowded, but they really do a good job of handling it. Of course, the whole thing could still topple over. But that will probably be kinda fascinating to watch as well.

Pairing up Colt and Tim was inspired. In general I'm impressed, given how crowded the show's become, that they're finally giving the other Marshals a bit more to do.

ok this episode i felt the season finally came into its own after a lot of meandering

wynn duffy's reactions are just the best.

lol ' do you see any cats in here?'

his reaction to the shooting was so perfect

otm - or lack thereof in that case!

-that episode must of have set a record for deadwood alum (olyphant, jim beaver, Stephen Tobolowsky and Gerald McRaney)

- Tim's line about being too young to be blownin the heads of taliban felt right.

I think beaver is the one who has taken mcraney. it's payback time!

his reaction to the shooting was so perfect

I watched those few seconds a few times over, so priceless. Jere Burns is consistently amazing, he is not allowed to be killed off till the series finale.

otm - or lack thereof in that case!

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no, it was definitely a reaction, just an amazingly restrained one in a classic wynn brody stylee. loved it.

i mean wynn duffy

but yeah, it was definitely nice to see the mists begin to dispel around the longer arc this episode. i guess i was pretty meh on his barmaid gf and her whole deal

This show is, was and remains awesome. However ... anyone else getting, per Ebert, a "Principle of the Unassigned Character, formerly known less elegantly as the Law of Economy of Character Development" vibe from Patton Oswalt?

This principle teaches us that the prominent character who seems to be extraneous to the action will probably hold the key to it.

This show is not lacking for local color, so it seems weird to suddenly assign a prominent role to a recognizable actor, especially since we have never seen that character before, which is strange, given how often he keeps popping up and overlapping with Raylan this season. Factor in the amount of effort they've taken to paint him as a bumbling fool, and I wouldn't be shocked if he were some mastermind key to the whole disappearing man/drugs mystery.

I don't think that's going to be the case.

I'm hoping one of the last remaining unused Deadwood alum plays Drew Thompson, assuming he winds up still being alive. (Brad Dourif? Titus Welliver? Ian McShane?)

Needs to be William Sanderson.

Oswalt clearly has to play a bigger role than he has now, given how much screen time he's had (more than Raylan's pregnant ex-wife, even, who was AWOL til this ep). Hopefully it won't be the "bumbling deputy shows up and saves the day at the last minute, but dies doing it" variety. His lack of hesitation in stabbing that girl in the foot implies there's more to him than comic relief.

have it on pretty good word that aaron carter is gonna play drew thompson

drew's party (come get it)

have it on even better authority that all the members of new kids on the block, NSYNC and Backstreet Boys will play an inbred hill family gang in the future.

fatone would be sick on this show

You won't be seeing much of Winona, she's a regular on The Following now.

I'm afraid to read the thread because I'm a few episodes behind, but I am enjoying the fact that the little kid from Jurassic Park is the preacher guy.

Patton Oswalt's acting bothers me.

Just wait til they let him switch it up, drop the doofus routine, and go all bad guy on you. Mark my words ...

You won't be seeing much of Winona, she's a regular on The Following now.

Oh, give it a few months.

They shoot it around Los Angeles – one of my friends up in the more mountainous section of Pasadena said that there were signs on his street saying that they shouldn't be alarmed if they heard gunfire or explosions because they were shooting Justified.

I really like this season! That is all.

Yep - replacing the "big bad" (I hate that phrase) with an ongoing mystery plot is a nifty idea to stop the show repeating itself. Although I guess the last season was kind of a deconstruction of that sort of concept anyway (by the end Quarles is a totally feeble antagonist).

Also:

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i love this show. raylan givens seems so aware that he is the main character of a tv show and therefore can't die. i keep expecting him to turn to the camera and raise his eyebrows like tom selleck on magnum pi.

lool otm

yeah, this is some peak efficiency shit going on here where everything moves so swiftly and is so carefully calibrated that you're surprised when the episodes over
i count seven, maybe eight, simultaneous plot threads developed in this episode. doing that and still being comprehensible is tough.

finally "caught up" with this show for the first time ever. still diggin' it.

forks otm: i'm really impressed with how many threads they've got going...and they just keep adding new ones! olympic storytelling, lol

yeah, this is some peak efficiency shit going on here where everything moves so swiftly and is so carefully calibrated that you're surprised when the episodes over

See also: Elmore Leonard.

i probably wound up watching s3 and s4 so far in a two week period. It's funny how, obviously, a lot has happened in that period, and on another level, not much. "A bunch of criminals tried to outsmart each other, Raylan and Boyd got caught up in it, but managed to get out ok."

The only real evolution is how everyone at the Marshal's office just seems to accept they're going to be focused on Raylan's shit now, and not get little one-off episodes about other work they allegedly do.

thank god; the one offs with those guys mostly suck
except for the chief, who is cool