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

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.

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

I am disappointed because this isn't like BE where it is tied to an era, this could fucking go on for easily a few more.

end all good shows before they turn into vague imitations of themselves imo

yeah glad to see it has an end in sight, makes me more excited to get back on board this season

gonna agree there, especially with leonard passing.

This season isn't grabbing me yet. Too many new ingredients without clearing away the old dishes. Darryl Crowe, the mortician's wife and the creepy trooper who's after her, Loretta's boyfriend, Hot Rod's pair of enforcers, the Canadians. It's turning into too jumbled a mess.

Oh great! Haven't seen the latest episode yet, but one of the funnest things about Justified is it's jumbled-mess-ness.

Alicia Witt being part of the Crowe family is really something

spending a lot more time spotting the familiar faces than actually giving a fuck what happens to anyone. hoping this current storyline goes somewhere more gripping than "which old dude stole a lot of money in the '70s?"

maybe they could finally have raylan actually deal with the death of his dad already

I kinda don't put in the effort to follow the plot anymore, it's always so convoluted. Detroit! Harlan! Miami! Crowders! Givenses! Crowes! Who gives a fuck, I'm here to be charmed in the moment.