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

let's be honest, we watch for this

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ha otm

yeah i mean its still the guys we like being all badass with unexpected character actors popping up every ten minutes but its gotten soapier and samier - if they don't have something REALLY HAPPEN soon (and jesus if arlo dying didn't particularly faze raylan what will) i'm worried it's just gonna become backwoods entourage

There is a true joy of plot, character and writing in this show. As long as it has that, it could never ever become Entourage, no matter how unfazed Raylan can be by everything.

Raylan was definitely affected by Arlo and his passing. He's just not the "vocalizing his feelings" sort.

ya tbh i was a bit tired when i watched it but i really have no idea what's what and who's who in this show

Really? It's been a year since i last saw it and all the relationships/characters still feel fresh and lively.
my girl has never seen this show so we're starting over from ep 1/season 1(which is apparently only streaming on amazon now?) and EVERYTHING that's in the first episode of this season is referred to in s1/e1; all the miami backstory comes into play really well. Same actors too!

im really bad at remembering details like that tho, my brain just flushes them out when the season or whatever is over

Yeah I've been watching the early seasons with my folks and Dewey's Florida siblings are mentioned by name in the pilot. Neat.

duffy with the bb gun! raylan beating up shamrock tatto guy when he said "bitch" and then telling him he hadn't been fair by not telling him the rules other than not moving! duffy&raylan meeting was quite good too. tbh duffy is always great, but that scene with the bb gun really was the high point of the ep.

I might have to rewatch it a bit but there's some point where Amy Smart's character is coming on to Raylan at the beginning where he replies and it's kind of a hoarse yelping affirmative. Hilarious.

Only seen the first ep of the new season so far, but it seems pretty consistent. It's always been about the various farflung colorful characters. Raylan's gift, aside from being a good shot, is being a bridge between conventional society and this weird parallel society, with its own parallel sense of honor. He's like a specialist, brought in when they need to reign in the hicks.

As someone who loved the last season, I'm not feeling the new characters (or increasing violence) this season, and even Raylan seems a bit more one-note than usual, but it's still a super fun show.

More Dewey is always good though.

xpost Man, like 20 people got killed in horrible ways in the first ep this season!

Yeah, feels like there's a mild (possibly unintentional) sadism that wasn't there before

This season has so many plates in the air that they're having to cut into Raylan's screen time. Too many Basil Exposition scenes without Raylan or Boyd.

I like the multiple plate spinning, just the, er, plates themselves are not so Interesting. That said the Boyd n Dewey scene this week was great.

It does look like they're shifting Boyd from anti-hero to villain for the last season too.

just redid the whole first season in a week, really holds up better than i remembered

i just re watched season 1 as well. I forgot how menacing wynn was in his season 1 episode. Seems like the've played him for laughs since season 3.

i like where they took wynn; originally he was top dog psycho but they eventually started using him as the yardstick for what REAL psychos are like

Michael Rapaport, that is the worst excuse for a southern accent I've heard in a long time. Thaat shyit's owwful, Daryl Crowe.

agreed. and though last ep acting was fairly strong, I am not enamored of the continuing homicidal adventures of dewey crowe, small business owner

Wow, this was suddenly 10x better than the first few episodes of the season. It had me on edge enough that I was sure that janitor mopping in the background at the marshals' office was about to pull out a gun and kill Art.

Yeah, agreed; they picked up the pace considerably. Still. Rapaport's accent. It's so bad i start to wonder if there are a group of weirdo panhandle types that actually talk like that. No one else in his family talks like that!

I'm on episode five of season three in a full rewatch; enjoying it a lot.

Season 3 is underrated. But I have stated that often enough.

And yeah it stepped WAY the fuck up tonight. Enough reversals for an entire season, goddamn. Wasn't crazy about the Danny Strong/Ava thing, though. One knife-twist too many.

yeah, that ava in prison subplot is kinda ????
also, why take all the time to build up the gator guy as a potential bad ass and then just throw him away? tho' honestly that unpredictability is part of why i like the show. who would've imagined dewey would've lasted this long

Yeah the janitor. I am very worried about Art now.

You know what this show needs? More characters.

After they just offed a half-dozen or so?

So obv Boyd's upset about Ava, and Dewey's got some heavy-breathing relatives from Florida that Raylan's not particularly fond of either, and occasionally a comedian playing a hitman shows up from Detroit to glare at somebody, but am I missing some heavy stakes at the moment beyond this?

raylan is outing himself to art for allowing the big dude from last season to get shot to death in an airport next episode, so there's some heavy stakes.

I wished no-one had mentioned how bad Rappaport's southern accent is, I wouldn't have noticed otherwise. Even as an English person, now I can discern how fucking terrible it is.

i honestly forgot that raylan had let that happened, and didn't pick up whether art really cared.

honestly, this show is getting too soap opera in structure for me, a few lead characters in wandering familiar narratives. really missing the focus on the marshall's office and the short-story-like form their interactions with baddies used to take.

sorry for the abuse of the word "honestly"

i lean the opposite direction; really enjoy the wandering long-form narrative.
just finished third season, forgot how abruptly it ends!

Art specifically traveled to Detroit to investigate, so yeah, he cared.

But I do agree that they've had trouble clarifying the stakes this season. Now that they've cleared the deck a bit, not to mention neutralizing the almost series-long Big Bad, they should be freed up to hum right along.

also the other high stakes thing is ava going to federal prison! it's not just raylan's show; i daresay we're certainly meant to care somewhat equally for boyd at this point.

The Danny strong bit was so corny and underdeveloped I don't want to give them any credit for it.

Throwing in this knockoff orange is the new black scene for some shit "she was one day from retirement!" drama, ugh

I'm all for Boyd going ham, though

I heart Olyphant but Goggins straight-up owns this show now. I love that he doesn't have an Emmy, but he does have an Oscar.

prison story is some bullshit i just hope it's lazy writing in service of something awesome, which in fairness this show has kind of earned.

I'm loving Ellis from Mud as Kendall Crowe.

This season is missing something, though, isn't it? It's just so over-stuffed, it's hard to work out what that missing thing is. My theory is that Raylan has gotten too broody.

Last two eps have been tons better though.

I knew I'd seen that kid somewhere!

Only he wasn't Ellis, he was the pal, "Neckbone."

well you said you wanted higher stakes
whole goddamn episode was uncomfortable to watch, dunno about the ava is the new black C-plot (D-plot? how many threads are they running simultaneously?) but otherwise they kicked this up a few notches to overflowing boil
one of the best cold opens in this series too

"overflowing boil" seems more than a bit much - would like to think raylan's grin would dissipate at that point - but i was glad to spend some time with the marshalls and see some plot strands finally come together