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

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.

whats the big deal

who cares how he got into it?

i can't imagine anyone's "how i got into reviewing bourbon" story not being sad

when i was a wide-eyed, bookish kid, bourbon was my window into another world...

The big deal, for those who care (which is not many), is that Robert Parker wrote The Wine Spectator newsletter, which featured his famous/infamous 100 point scale, which could make or break a bottle. He's been called the most influential wine critic in the world, has his nose insured for $1 million, etc. At the end of last year he announced he was going to step down from his wine-critic perch after decades in a serious position of power. So what this looks like is a guy who spent years reviewing wine, was the name in wine, semi-retiring from wine and then deciding, on a whim, based on a TV show, to start writing about bourbon, which he flat out admits he's not a huge fan of and knows little about. Of course, bourbon has its own guys who have been writing about it for years, so it was an invasion of turf made worse by the numerous mistakes the dude made in his first column, and made even more worse by the guy conspicuously beginning his column with one of the single most hard to find and expensive bottles of bourbon, then giving it 100/100, which even whiskey snobs don't do. Then proceeding to make many more mistakes in fact and judgement.

I mean, this is one little corner of one little corner of one littler corner of the world, but he got the whiskey snobs atwitter.

http://www.scotchandicecream.com/2013/05/07/taking-the-bait-git-offa-our-property-parker/

some context
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/22/dining/22pour.html
http://observer.com/2013/01/a-very-vine-mess-oenophile-overlord-robert-parker-has-a-short-finish/

*clutches pearls*

Oh yeah, as far as feuds go, it's a rather ... rarified conflict.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Parker,_Jr.

bustin makes him feel good

Can totally imagine him a character in the show, tbh. Interloping wine bigwig heads down to Kentucky to get a bead on bourbon, bites off more than he can chew, is "convinced" by Boyd to highly rate some shitty swill he's drummed up for a quick buck.

"That's a fiiiine bordeaux you got there Mista Parker. But if you don't mind me saying so, I believe you done brought yourself a knife to a gunfight. So why don't you take your refined 55 point ass out of my establishment before my associate decides to pop your cork... with a 45. Do I make myself clear?"

"Now down here in Kentucky, we consider ourselves fine judges of whiskey. But perhaps not as fine as you, Mr. Parker. The way I see it, if a whiskey gets you good and drunk, that whiskey is as good as perfect. Now, you might say this bottle here is ten points better than that bottle over there, but I say, if you're talking about it more than drinkin' it, you have no business drinkin' it at all."

woo! this whole show is on amazon prime now so i can catch up w/ s03 (s04 is still for-pay)

\m/

Seriously feel like s2/3/4 are all very different but equally awesome.

otm

i just finished the 1st season and

You know what I would love: SOA/Justified crossover episode. Imagine Clay and Raylan facing off....

is otm.

Not even a contest imo, Raylan would put that motherfucker down with a smile.

it's all over when he puts on the hat

Drewbacca!

Finally getting into (and loving) this, after a post-BB break from serial tv. About six episodes into S2 now.

Season 5 coming next month, it is so good.

can't wait!!!

the teaser looks p great, I love it when he pops the pool

I have been seeing these short trailers featuring Crows and reading about Dewey's cousin being the next nemesis. Damn it I just want to see if Art, Rachel and Constable Bob are all getting full length episodes or something like that.

about to get the first two eps in the mail, yesss

the teaser looks p great, I love it when he pops the pool

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, December 17, 2013 3:44 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he poops in the pool in season 5??? Damn it's gonna be a long month

Alicia Witt is joining the cast

woo hoo!

haha yes