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

as soon as Boyd proposed I got a strong Dead Ava Walking vibe

Definitely. And keep in mind that Yost, Olyphant and co. see this as roughly a six-season show.

God I fell way behind but I'm all caught up now

Impressed by Eldard's work as Colt. He was great! And that last Raylan/Arlo scene was so awesome I rewound it so I could see it again :)

DAMN these last 2 episodes were really great! My main excitement was omg RAYLAN'S SHOOTING UP BAD GUYS AGAIN. I was getting kind of bored with all of his side-gigs with pretty ladies and not really marshalling but kinda...I didn't *mind* Boyd being the center for a while but it just didn't feel quite as compelling at first. But I loved how they pulled all those stories together with these last couple of episodes, excited to see how the rest plays out now.

And yeah, I'm getting a real "marked for death" feel off Ava too.

Oh and the whole class thing with Boyd and the 3 rich guys was fascinating to watch, especially in that first meeting at the orgy house. You could almost see the scales fall from his eyes when their tone changed...ugh Goggins is so great, I want him to be in all the tv shows I watch

okay how come is it that everyone keeps talking about how pretty Raylan is and no one wants to talk about the incredible hotness of Rachel Brooks

good ep, good pace, good direction to the end of the season
THE RETURN OF LIMEHOUSE

Oh man, shit just got real.

Abby Miller's performance as Ellie May is way underappreciated.

I feel like one of the many great things about this season is the way the writers, etc. have decided to craft the plot in order to exploit the recurring cast (Beaver, Miller, Burns) as much as possible.

Also this last episode was fucking hilarious.

great dialogue w/ rachel, appreciate the way things came together. they're always really good at tying things up with big shootout finales.

yeah man that was a really good episode

Art's speech was an epic bit of fan service/not-annoying recapping.

What a fun episode!

On fire right now

They almost filmed a lot of this season on a friend's isolated canyon neighborhood near Santa Clarita and Green Valley. The street is owned by Water and Power, and Justified was r down to film there because it doesn't look like LA at all, this street in the middle of nowhere that doesn't get cell reception, but Water and Power said that the street had to look untouched by production at the end of every day's filming and that's an lol request.

Would've been cool if they had filmed there. Only four families, all water and power employees, on the entire road. About four abandoned houses.

"Fun" is what makes this show so consistently watchable i think. it's regularly cornball and telenovela levels of batshit but it's also almost always just FUN

drew... drewBACCA?

"drew mamma"

pretty sure he's not gonna make it to the end of the season but ron eldard is great in this. feels like boyd might be running his course as well.

so many fun bits this episode. the astronaut argument. the convoy standoff. "yolo". "yoohoo". ava making her move. the extended set-up to the getaway.

I think Ava is the one that's gonna get got. Boyd and Colt are gonna make it through.

i can't imagine boyd goes before final season.

Boyd's safe for sure. The whole series is framed around the Boyd-Raylan relationship.

I don't know about colt, though I'd like to see him survive.

just watched this week's episode. man i remember at one point during the second season thinking this was about to turn into a much better, smarter show but tbh i think i'm glad it didn't cuz what it is so fucking entertaining. i've never been impressed w/ patton oswalt's dramatic acting before (certainly didn't think he was 'robbed' of an oscar nomination for young adult) but thought he was great this week, the tim-colt shit was fantastic (and i really hope and kinda think at this point that colt hangs around). ava - woo boy. at least she didn't kill augustine (which is where i thought it was going) but yeah that marked for death feeling is super strong. easy way to punish boyd and johnny (and am i forgetting any inkling of johnny having a thing for ava before this? beyond 'all crowders are in love w/ ava'?) but keep them around cuz they've proved they're either smart enough or weaselly enough to be useful. thinking that there's no way wynn and boyd both buy it or 'disappear' so what's the turn there, what's coming?

I think there may be another Boyd long con in play, what with Colt killing the henchman and Ava escaping Augustine. Don't know what, though. How many eps left? Two?

yeah I kinda got long con vibe as well, esp w/ them tipping from the get go that boyd is letting augustine think he's smarter than boyd for whatever reason.

Well given what we have seen so far, clearly Boyd knows about the coal train out of town. I would not be surprised if he still captured or killed Drew, probably with the help of Colt, then leveraged that with Detroit, not least to punish Augustine.

I love how much of this season has been spent introducing or fleshing out peripheral characters, but it's pretty weak sauce to bring back his MIA wive just to use her as woman in jeopardy bait.

It makes sense for them to go after Winona - and yeah, it woulda been nice for her to have had more to do, but that's more or less impossible thanks to the scheduling issue.

caught up with the last two episodes today - really glad to see more of rachel and all the marshalls in action. no way this won't be my least favorite season but it's picked up enough gas that i'll still cross fingers for 5.

and crossing fingers they manage to find a more exciting subject than "Can Raylan figure out which old fart is a fugitive and get that promotion?"

If "cross fingers for 5" means you're hoping for a renewal, it already happened.

i kinda feel like this last episode was a bit weak and had loads of holes in it
still enjoyable

http://http://www.uproxx.com/tv/2013/04/the-top-20-gifs-from-this-season-of-justified-so-far

Excited for the finale!

no way this won't be my least favorite season

Really? Season 3 sucked so much harder than this one.

I think it has been my favourite, but I thought season two is severely overrated. I still can't figure out what on earth Mags thought would happen after she screwed over or killed everyone.

Really? Season 3 sucked so much harder than this one.

i watched it over a weekend and neal mcdonough and co kept me pretty entertained. s4 was the first i saw basically week-by-week, though, so it's possible s3 would have annoyed too in small doses.

season finale was okeydoke but more chill than i thought it would be.

started watching this recently, just finished up with s3. really good show, but raylan kinda gets on my nerves. he's always got the right hunch, he always pulls first, always gets his man, always with the dirty harry shit. i guess his characterization is well done in a sense but im just worn out on Captain Cool and his dumbass hat

upthread people see ava shacking up with boyd as inconsistent but it felt right to me. she always seemed kinda impulsive and somewhat indifferent to the law. i mean she didnt care about bowman crowder's rackets, she cared that he was beatin her up and treatin her bad; she didnt care about the consequences of killing bowman, she just wanted him dead; she didnt care how it'd look that she was sleeping with raylan, she just wanted to pork him. and the show did a good job building up to them gettin cozy, imo. i kinda think the show would be more compelling if it was centered around her

think dickie bennett might be my favorite character. also i love winn duffy's actor, what a crazy face & eyebrows on that guy. love the scene where boyd calls quarles a carpetbagger and they both give each other death stares with their psycho glowing eyes. did anyone point out that james le gros is in this and he also played raylan givens in a tv movie 15 years ago?

just in general i love the idea of the bad guy who is scared by the newer bad guy, it always works well (see buffy)

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Friday, April 13, 2012 7:58 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

yeah but it almost always comes at the expense of the previous bad guy's scariness... not that i really mind, quarles was great. i loved how easily he partied with the prostitutes who were supposed to watch him, just hanging out wearing one of their robes and smoking oxy, nbd

http://i.imgur.com/ctA1GHJ.gif

apparently one of the emmys this was nominated for was "Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music" which is funny because i didnt know that was a category, and also because the theme song sucks ass

my dog LOVES the theme song

i'd probably be cool with it if it wasnt for the rappin guy... come to think of it i think 'main title theme' just means the instrumental version over the end credits

surprised you weren't already watching this canks.

yeh i'd been hearin it was good, just hadnt gotten to it

i could see where a marathon of this might lead to raylan burnout but that schtick works well in measured doses
and yes, the theme song sucks. always vast with the BDUNK tivo button once the drum beats end and the guitar starts
thump Thump ThUMP THUMP batwangatwangTwang "On this lonely ro-" BDUNKBDUNKBDUNK

lol

yeah i could actually see this show being better when watched on a weekly basis

BDUNKADUNK

ON THIS LONELY ROAD
GARGANTUA

Aw, I know the theme is essentially lame, but I like it - maybe its a Pavlovian thing, as the show is so consistently good

Reminds me of Everlast.

There was a blow-up a few weeks back between bourbon enthusiasts and wine douchebag Robert Parker, who introduced his epically wrongheaded take on bourbon with this:

I became enamored with a television series called Justified, starring and produced by Timothy Olyphant and co-produced by the well-known criminal writer Elmore Leonard and his son.

Moreover, the bourbon drinking antics of the many violent episodes of this sensational series that takes place in Harlan County, Kentucky are a prominent sideshow. A little research had me on the chase for Pappy Van Winkle, the most difficult alcoholic beverage to find in the United States. If you think I'm joking, try and find a bottle, especially of the 20-year-old and the very rare 23-year-old bourbon. They are much more difficult to find than esoteric and limited production French wines such as Romanée-Conti, Montrachet or Petrus.

But persistence and knowing a lot of people in the wine and spirits business finally paid off as I was able to secure a bottle from a Washington, DC wine merchant, who shall remain anonymous in order to prevent him from being inundated with requests since he receives so little of it.

What started as a fun distraction to see what was so special about Pappy Van Winkle led to a full throttle inspection/conquest of bourbon. To tell you the truth, I have never been a big fan of liquor, but I was blown away by the quality of the top bourbons. They are every bit as good as a great cognac or Armagnac ... and I'm not kidding!

His reviews suck, and plenty of folks took issue with his Kane-esque "I like Justified, I think I'll review bourbon!" slant.