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

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

Well this was fucking great btw. Off to the races right from the start.
"James or Wade?"
"Boy or girl?"
"Girl."
"I'd go Wade."
*patented olyphant half-smirk eyebrow raise*

so good!

Yeah, this was great, as ever. The sugar-smuggling thing was a classic Elmore Leonard-style caper.

Good premiere, next week's is good too. I'm expecting it'll take a little while to kick into high gear as there are many moving parts this season.

hope sasso and foley make more appearances as the mean canadians

rappaport <3

I love it that the kickstarter for this season is a lowlife getting a payout from the law, so Justified. Rappaport just blends in seamlessly and is very good. I enjoyed watching Raylan squinting and cringing through all the family talk shit, don't want him going soft!

as always, i liked the yin/yang of raylan paying 300k to fuck up dewey and getting away with it, then boyle trying to pay 300k to get ava out of prison and just when it looks like it won't work because of class strata, crowder shows that violence will out

Next season will be its last. Good move.

but...but I want it to go on forever ;_;

if they could get John Hawkes to play the main bad guy in the final season I would be very happy.

He was just named as co-starring in Charlie Kaufman's forthcoming FX comedy so I wouldn't bank on that.