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

whatever the next show is the creators need to base it around how Olyphant looks damn good in a hat

i like him best with facial hair but its not required

seeing this thread again has made me realize how much I miss this show - especially since I don't think anything since has managed to walk the same line of being both smartly written/performed and actually fun to watch

yeah, it wasn't perfect and had some dodgy seasons (less said 'bout Crappaport the better), but there is nothing quite like it currently running. It just had *something* that isn't easily replicated.

That something was Elmore Leonard, and he's dead and can't be replicated. On the other hand, he wrote a shit-ton of books that capture the spirit of this show, that mix of smart cops and dumb criminals. There's a reason stuff like this, Jackie Brown, and Out of Sight are so good - Elmore Leonard is the best. I remember reading an interview with Stephen King where he said every time he finished a book he rewarded himself with an Elmore Leonard novel.

iirc only a couple of characters were taken directly from Leonard and he wasn't directly involved with the writing! so I think he can replicated to some extent.

Well, the entire first episode is the short story he wrote, and the rest spins from there. But yeah, obviously screenwriters can capture his spirit pretty well!

I did appreciate that he liked the show so much that he gave Raylan his own book.

Saw this:

One of Justified’s hallmarks is its ability to perfectly replicate Leonard’s whipsmart dialogue. And much of this comes from the first assignment Yost gave after assembling his team of writers: Read! “When we started the writing room, we bought as many of Elmore’s books as we could find and divided them up,” Yost told IESB. “Everyone took a couple on and read them, so they would get into the rhythms and get the style. One of the great things that I got to do in writing the pilot was actually retype a lot of Elmore’s style and put it in the script. It was interesting. Just the act of retyping it let me get into the language a little bit more.”

But again, the Drew Barrymore show, I don't think anyone really watches that, and regardless, it's the Drew Barrymore show that he happens to be in.

Season 2 starts in a couple of weeks so I guess some people watch it

From what I understand, every Netflix show receives a minimum order of two seasons out of the gate.

Olyphant is also great in Go but it's a small role.

^Is that right as there's been a few cancelled after just one? (The Get Down, Disjointed, Gypsy, Girlboss)

also there wouldn't be so many press releases about them commissioning second series of things

Haven't read the thread cause *spoilers* but we are near the end of Season 3 and I love the show with some reservations. Olyphant is a lot of fun as the lead and they have done a great job of populating the show with a host of minor characters that add a lot to the show's world building. It reminds me of a more fun and less consequential Breaking Bad.

Season 3 has been great! The build up of double-crossing and alliances between Raylan, Boyd, Limehouse, Dickey, Detroit, Quarles, and all of their lower henchmen is like an opioid-haze Miller's Crossing. Quarles is so hatable everyone just wants him dead. My one reservation is the Quarles backstory seems to rely a bit on a kind of gay panic that leaves me feeling a bit queasy.

Dewey Crowe is the best (loved when he thinks he has had his kidneys stolen).

I will say my wife is a bit less enthusiastic than I am. I guess it is a bit of a macho show and certainly some of the violence is a bit much. Ironically she didn't have a problem with the violence in GoT, so maybe it is just the guns.

s4 is the best one imho, I hope y'all enjoy it

bit bit bit

*spoilers* Oh yeah, one of the reservations was the episode where it appears Raylan is about to be arrested LPD for the murder of Gary and by the FBI for being a crooked cop and the entire story is created and resolved in a single hour. I liked the story and wish it had been developed/paced differently.

Loved this show so much!

Advance warning that S5 is ropey and really goes through the motions, but the last season after that is great.

They really underused jere burns though huh

Lol @ Raylan's "I disarmed him" comment.

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They really underused jere burns though huh

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whaaat no way. wynn duffy was an excellent character

yeah he gets good stuff to do in every season (ok maybe not s5)

S4 E1 is wild. What is up with Arlo's sudden shift from dopey small time hood/thug to prison assassin?

And if the thing in the wall is so valuable/dangerous, why wasn't he spending all his time searching for the presumed money/destroying the evidence instead of leaving it in the wall for 30 years.

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lololol Forgot Quarles reaching for his forearm and Raylan just slowly pulling it away from him.

We just finished S4 after a bit of a delay. Great season, though I felt like it lost a bit of steam after the Drew Thompson reveal and Detroit just sort of gives up.

S5 is almost $30 on Amazon so don't think I'll be watching it any time soon.

iirc season 5 is not good. season 6 on the other hand...
I might be ready to rewatch this myself sometime.

they should pay US $30 to watch s5
i hate that season so much
tbh i dont think i finished it?

PBKR i dunno if you're in the US but Justified is on Hulu which would make it notably cheaper.

Is Season 5 Michael Rappaport?

yep

diiiiiiire is the only word

only the Alan Tudyk appearance episode and the "21-foot rule" scene are worth revisiting

wood harris was fun!

Leonard died before S5 iirc

it's been a while since i've watched, but i remember s5 being a step down, but not bad by any means. in general, even seasons > odd seasons in justified, but it's all good.

i wouldn't spend 30 bucks on it, but if you're already buying seasons of tv, you might as well get a hulu sub for a couple months to watch justified and many other shows (like, say, what we do in the shadows).

Ya I always assumed Leonard dying took the wind out of their sails xp

Ppl overstate the extent to which s6 is better. It was majorly assisted by all those guest stars.

Unpopular opinion: the first season was the best season, back when the show was more episodic and more driven by Raylan rather than Boyd. (I love Boyd, I just don't like whole seasons of Raylan hanging around waiting for Boyd to do something.)

s1 rules but I doubt the "lawman shoots someone dead in every episode" format had legs

There's a point in S5 where Boyd becomes a full-on unsympathetic murderer and it becomes less enjoyable rooting for him - IIRC even Walton Goggins had a problem with that.

yeah, that made a lot of the Boyd/Ava stuff in s6 a drag for me

and also made the ending, poignant as it was, a little jarring

Yeah. That's not a knock on Goggins though - he improvised that last line, even!

I like S2 (peak serious Justified) and S4 (peak larky Justified) best, although the first and last seasons are excellent and fun

I still blanch when I think about how Picker went out, though

S1 felt like they planned to make Tim and Rachel more prominent characters than they wound up.

yeah, Rachel never got anything interesting to do and the ep with her brother is the nadir of possibly the whole show outside of s5. at least Tim got the great stuff w Ron Eldard in s4

i loved tim, he was one of the wise-crackiest in a show full of wise-crackers

yeah he perfected that hyper-dry delivery

in S5 where Boyd becomes a full-on unsympathetic murderer

which makes the pilot what exactly???

lololol Forgot Quarles reaching for his forearm and Raylan just slowly pulling it away from him.

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I've been rewatching the whole series and when I got to this scene I had to hit rewind and watch it a second time