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

best decision: Raylan/Winona not working out. absolutely true to both characters.

my girl said definitively "she wouldn't be with that guy" and then wouldn't elucidate

Has she already forgotten Gary?

the hat thing was very silly

The hat thing was poor judgement. The whole scene with Ava, I was distracted by the stupid hat with its stupid little tag on the brim.

Terrific show, terrific finale, and the first season where I didn't think "well that was good, but not season 2 good".

Anyway I am stoked they went for a happyish ending with the central cast all surviving, and somehow not being a copout at all. In fact it seemed like the best of all possible choices for an ending.

Been avoiding this thread cuz I still need to see the last season - want to do it binge style - but I finally got around to watching what I THOUGHT was an inxs doc I dvr'ed on Showtime which turned out to be the second half of an Australian tv miniseries about the band, chronicling the miniseries. Took me a sec to realize DEWEY CROWE was playing their manager, demanding they tour and screaming "you're not nick cave!" at hutchence after Max Q and "you're not grunge!" during Welcome to wherever you are. Very disorienting, even if I was vaguely aware he wasn't from the US.

Whoops, I meant to write "chronicling the post-kick years"

A few nights ago I watched Nell, for some reason. Nick Searcy and Jeremy Davies are both in it, and play characters pretty similar to those they play in Justified.

Anyway I am stoked they went for a happyish ending with the central cast all surviving, and somehow not being a copout at all. In fact it seemed like the best of all possible choices for an ending.

― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, April 16, 2015 7:20 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this really impressed and stuck with me. especially in contrast to the Sons Of Anarchy finale.

Justified became a pretty entertaining circus of scenery-chewing character actors by the end. Boon was an especially fun character, considering that i'd previously only seen him as a total wimp on Parenthood and in a couple of horror movies.

just finished this up. final season was so good and the finale was perfect. such a weirdly heartwarming ending w boyd in the prison. those two had such great chemistry. really grew to love his interaction with his partner tim too. gonna miss this show a lot.

in retrospect, i was really happy with that ending.

I must cop to not really enjoying Elmore's novels, but I was missing Justified and picked up Freaky Deaky to get a fix. It's terrific - first Leonard book I really enjoyed. Maybe seeing his writing through the prism of Justified has fixed it for me - or maybe it's just a pretty good book. The hero is very Raylan-esque, kind of tough, sadsack asshole but very likeable. In fact he's much more like Raylan than the guy in Pronto or Riding the Rap.

Started watching this show a few weeks ago, waiting for Better Call Saul, and I'm in love with everything about it. I had some weird ill conceived idea about F/X television shows that was unjustified. Ha, anyway about to finished the second season and I foresee it only getting better.

it's one of the best shows of the past decade, full stop.

Re-watched Season 2 earlier this week myself (I own the first two on DVD, watched 3-6 via Amazon). Really solid, and even funnier than I remembered. I think I'm gonna re-watch Season 3 and see if I like it better than I did at the time (Neal McDonough's and Mykelti Williamson's characters both bugged me).

I always found it very satisfying

Loved every season

Def a rewatchable show

s4 is the best season imo

you can call any season you want the best season as long as you don't say the 5th season because then you're trolling

Or you're Michael Rapaport.

this show has the best ending of any recent show imo, the final scene is fairly tear-jerking

aye it was perfect

very satisfying ending

Best dialogue of any show

As mentioned above, seriously recommend Freaky Deaky (retrograde 80s sexual politics aside) for anyone missing the show

(The book - not the movie!)

Some serious superlative praise here. It's not a bad show but wear its rightwing biases on its sleeve. Overt racism tending even to sympathizing with white supremacists, totally unrealistic portrayals of organized crime (especially early on), uncritical portrayals of law enforcement. Is this seriously one of the best shows of the past ten years?

iirc there are a ton of crooked cops and feds, but anyway the answer would still be yes, I don't need every show to constantly validate my beliefs

Or be realistic

also I can only think of two would-be "white supremacists" - Boyd (who's actually just a craven opportunist) and Dewey (whose true defining characteristic is being an idiot who can't count how many kidneys he has) xp

You could always just watch "The Shield," where the cops are racist and homophobic and evil.

And yes, like "The Shield" it's one of the best shows.

Sam Elliot shows up and steals the show! I'm sad it's almost over.

so much of the speculation about how the show would end was so ill-informed imo, like people were anticipating something based on all the other violent cable shows they've watched as opposed to justified itself.

Just watching Deadwood for the first time and glad to have Raylan there as an anchor in this weird world.

Just watched the final episode and what a humble ending. I feel like saying god bless, if I said that sort of thing.

olyphant was actually about to tear up in that last shot

it was very genuine for sure

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awwww. now i gotta watch it again

Just finished tonight, kinda weird I'd kinda drug my feet on watching the last season didn't want to say goodbye to all these great characters. But yeah what a great, heartfelt last words episode.... That last exchange really got me

i'm mystified by why people were hating on season 4 upthread, having just crammed the first 5 seasons i'd say its something like

S4 > S2 > S3 >S1 > S5

s4 was great, the last half of the season every episode felt like it was one ep away from the end of the season

I loved S4. I'd say 2 > 4/6/1 > 3 > 5. It was a pretty damn consistent show.

The siege episode at the end of Season 4 is a pretty amazing series highlight, I think.

I still have to watch seasons 5/6 but of the first four I'll straight away say 4>3>2>1. And it's very good from season 2, I just thought it was more conventionally cable-structured. The insanity of the many interlocking plots is what was so fun about Justified at it's best.

Let me just say: you're gonna love Daryl Crowe, Jr. Brace yourself!

season 5 is the weak one, not 4

Rapaport's accent is probably as bad as JH's in The Expanse. That bad.