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First episode last night on FX.  Getting rave reviews, and I really enjoyed the premiere.  It basically feels like an updated, modern Western combined with a cop show.

DVR'd it for friday night most likely. The trailers for it looked pretty good so I figured what the hell.

I liked it, will keep watching.  Its like Seth Bullock found a time machine.

Olyphant was really good, but the character is the opposite of Bullock.  As a character, Bullock was devoutly moral in an environment of immorality/amorality which caused much of his anger and frustration.  He was so moral, he tried to committ suicide by Swerengen over his guilt about having an affair with Alma.

This character almost feels like a psychopath who has found a loophole to legally get away with indulging his base desire to murder people.  But he is one charming, badass mofo.

Shane Vandrell Lives! 

This show definitely gets the "three episode grace period".  I found the direction and cinematography to be quite bland, and the characters lacking a bit of nuance, but the show has potential.

I just saw the show based on the forum's recommendation. Pretty good pilot. The problem I have is that the Kentuckian accents needs getting some used to. Due to that problem, I have some questions:


The show kind of gives the impression (IMO) that Lexington, Kentucky (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexington,_Kentucky) is a small rural town but I think its a rather major city.

Also how likely is it for a wife to be released on her own recognizance after killing a husband with a 30-06 rifle while he was having dinner (not in self defense).

Good show though - gonna follow it for a few episodes, hope they don't go too overboard with the "authentic" accents.

Yeah, she clearly got her shot off after he was already falling backwards and the gun kicked up.  And he was the instructor at the police training camp that taught recruits to always shoot for the heart, i don't believe for a second he missed.

Watched last night. I was not disappointed


Definitely getting the SEASON RECORD option on the DirecTV dvr.

Yeah, that's what I thought too. He and the BBEG had nearly identical lives up to adulthood and they were best friends. The difference though seems to be that the marshall found an accepable method for venting his rage at the world, while his friend chose to do the same by rejecting the idea that society and law matter.

Also, Lexington is a pretty big city (It reminded me a lot of Columbus), but 10 minutes outside of town it's a whole different world. Or at least it was in the mid-90's.

Just finished watching ep #2.  This has potential to be my favorite show on TV.  The writing is stellar and the acting is top notch so far. 

Since I am a broke mo-fo, I have to work when this comes on; however, I have been recording this show and I may not erase it from the DVR. I am pleasantly surprised with how much I am enjoying watching this show.

Maybe I  should DVR it, but it just seems like a modern-day Deadwood.  T.O. seems to be playing another angry sheriff.  NOTHING must trample my love of Deadwood!  Do you hear me?!

Don't be silly; not only has there not been a single utterance of cocksucker, but there is no Swearingen character.

I like Timothy Olyphant's character much more in this than Deadwood, for some reason. I think it's that he has a sense of humor in this but lacked one in that.

That third episode really sucked.  Needs more Vendrell.

I disagree. The third episode screamed Elmore Leonard. And since Elmore Leonard wrote the character, I thought it fit.

The third episode felt too rushed for some reason. Seemed to be over without any build or any development. I still dig the show, but when it was over this week it felt like there was something missing - maybe the lack of a hook or something.

Have now watched this two Sunday nights in a row, and I think I am hooked. Have always liked Olyphant, and he doesn't disappoint here.

Yeah, I'm digging this show. Olyphant playing a pissed off badass lawman? Sign me up.

As for Lexington, I've never been, but it's the South. If it's anything like Mississippi, you can have fairly cosmopolitan cities (though not quite New York level cosmo) that suddenly turn to barren, redneck wastelands in the blink of an eye.

>Olyphant playing a pissed off badass lawman
And yet, I get this feeling of him being a social worker trying to help people even if "helping" them is putting them down like a rabid dog.  Certainly he likes the criminals more than anyone else in law enforcement.

That's typical of Leonard's stuff.  The criminals are usually compelling characters and the nominal protagonist often straddles the line between them and the institutional "law". 

Yeah, so far there's a human element to the "bad-guys" that is lacking in the other crime dramas... in those shows there seems to be a certain lust for depravity.

The episode where the old-timer escapes and locks Olyphant in the cooler was the hook that made me think there might be something to this show... the dialogue was extremely well done, and presented a much more interesting criminal/lawman dialectic.

If they can avoid the inevitable soap-opera relationship drama that seems to be lurking at the edges, the show might blossom.

Been to Lexington. Yeah, it was pretty much like that. Put a northern brown guy in there with his blonde, blue-eyed local girlfriend in there in the early 90s and watch the fun happen.  :ye_gods:

The show with his father was fantastic.

This show is really turning into a solid series. If you can catch up with it I recommend trying to do so.

I agree. The characters are developing quite well and I am liking the dynamic between Boyd and Raylan. This, House, and Dr. Who are the only things I religiously watch.

This is actually becoming our favorite show on TV right now. 

"...because I didn't order assholes with my whiskey."

I'm about 2 episodes behind now, but I am definitely loving this show. Walton Goggins as Boyd Crowder is doing a damn good job with his portrayal of the villain. I'm especially loving the "Trying to save your soul, Raylen" speeches he keeps giving.

Goggins is going to be on NPR's "Fresh Air" today.  Damn librul media tellin' me about TV stuffs.

How do you guys find these things?  I browse to see what's on the telly and I've never even heard of half the shows you watch.  Are you all members of some secret tv society?  Can I join?

Same here.

Fucking awesome. :drill:

Another great episode last night.  This Bo Crowder arc with its satisfyingly tangled web, great stuff.

For a while this show was getting pretty weak, what with the single episode encapsulated plot lines and no larger story, but they have rescued it very nicely.

The FX channel consistently has the best TV shows these past few years. 

Boyd is turning into a very interesting (anti-)hero.

I wonder if the conversion is genuine.  IMO, the show will demonstrate superior writing and longevity if they keep Boyd as a true believer in a Dark-Vigilante-Pentecostal sort of way.  If it devolves into the cynical (but obvious) arc of him using his "faith" to take over the family business... well, then, meh.

Oh, and while we're in wishful thinking mode... drop the relationship drama; the show hits a visible stutter when they drag out the triangle arc - it is simply too formulaic.

I hardly even remember that channel, although I watched that show "Damages" for a while.  I don't know why I stopped.  I think it was one of those things where it disappeared long enough for me to wander off and forget.  Geez, I suck at TV!  Thanks, though.  I'll look it up.  Maybe I can dl some of it.  

I think the Bo Crowder transformation is genuine. I hope so at least, because Goggins is chewing the scenery with it in such a satisfying way.

Season finale this week. I am excited and sad. That means a good series in my book.

Totally. Bo has become sort of a shadow Raylan... Though I fear he will die before all is said and done.

Just to clarify this a bit... Are you talking about the father Bo or the son Boyd? I is confuggled.

Boyd. DOH.

Double d'oh

The actor for Boyd has signed a contract for season two, so it won't be this season.

The Boyd and Raylan dynamic is an underlying thread. I doubt they'd do anything to tarnish it like, say, kill Boyd off. Once it plays out down the road, maybe he'll go back to prison but not with the storyline this fresh. Besides, Boyd vs his father is going to be just as juicy.

That was what I was getting at, Boyd's a helluva lot more likely to get killed by his father than by Raylan at this point.

Fuck. Yeah.

I think I cried a little.

Washed a little of the "Lost" stink off me.

Good work.

"Any of them good with a gun?"

"Not as good as you..."

Awesome. So glad I started watching this one.

"You willing to bet your life on that?"

"No, I'm willing to bet you're the only friend I have left in the world."

Boyd is stealing the show from Raylan... I smell a death coming.

This show is very, very unafraid to play against expectations.  They had two random character shootings that came out nowhere in the finale (Bo and Arlo).  Set up the betrayal plot for Arlo that immediately gets squashed because Timothy fucking Olyphant is that good.

I mean.... Boyd is a hillbilly racist neo-nazi murdering asshole, and yet you still manage to feel sorry for the poor bastard because of how badly the deck is stacked against him when he tries to make good.

I think you are eliding your prejudices there (perhaps for effect?)... Hillbilly murderer, sure... but I haven't seen any racist neo-nazi stuff - in fact, two of the 5 men he buried last night were pretty clearly...non-Aryan.

Not to say that as a member of the crowder clan he wasn't a full-blood member of various depravities... but it is precisely the (imperfect)conversion of character that makes him so interesting - highligthed, in fact, by his repentance/12-step apology to Eva.

Boyd was most definitely part of a neo-Nazi/aryan gang in the first episode.  He even had a bullshit speech to Raylan about how the Bible supports his views, which Raylan calls him on.  It was left fairly open about how much of that Boyd believed and how much was adopted to fit in and make use of the Aryan connections to extend his criminal activities.

It's a big reason why no one actually believed his spiritual conversion.

I guess I missed that... I thought he was being beaten by the neo-Nazi's until daddy intervened with the "No harming members of the cloth" rule.

In prison, yes. But the first episode he was quite clearly a neo-Nazi racist. Don't you remember the mud people speech?

Didn't raylan call that out as bullshit during the first episode? with something a long the lines of "you just wanna blow shit up and rob banks".

Yeah, he did.

That last episode had a huge body count.

This show is great, it's like an evil version of the Waltons.

Wow, just finished the final episode. Fantastic. FX has been amazing with their original programming, a lot better than showing shitty movies all day. I need to see Walton Goggins in a lot more things, right nao.

Anyone else get this from the last scene?

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A bit. You wanna see Goggins in more stuff, watch the first few seasons of The Shield.

Bang.

Ya, I've been meaning to watch the Shield ever since the first season of Sons of Anarchy (and the realization that FX can do no wrong). I wish Netflix would carry the older seasons on Watch Now.

Actually, watch ALL the seasons of the Shield. Goggins really comes into his own in the last season, IMO.

Did this show just stop at episode 13?

Yeah, it's kind of a typical FX season.

Lots of channels seem to do that now.  They show half and then have a really long break and then the other half.  I don't know if that's one season or two but I generally wander off after the first break and forget about it.  I'm always surprised when it suddenly reappears.  By then, however, I've missed a bunch of them which seems to matter more and more these days. 

I prefer 13 episode seasons actually. It makes the writing tighter and more focused because there are less B.S. filler episodes.

Arise!

Justified is set to restart on February 9th on FX.  If you missed season one, it was one of the most critically acclaimed new series.  Basically a combination of modern Western plus crime caper drama, with outstanding acting by Timothy Olyphant and Walton Groggins.

The new promo, where Raylon talks about the Star Wars cantina scene while trying to lure a badguy into drawing?    :awesome_for_real:

"You know in the originals Han Solo shoots first, but then they changed it to make it look like the bad guy shot first..."

Such a fucking bad ass, i missed this show.

Thanks for the reminder.  The first season was excellent, I hope for the same out of this one. 

New season starts tonight

Fuck.  This is a great show.

Great great show, spectacular antagonist.  Mags is one cold blooded bitch.  I just don't like Jeremy Davies though.  Granted, he's got 'ok, be creepy! aaaand action!' down pat but he's just very unwatchable for me.  Maybe he's too good at being creepy. 

Anyway, loved it.

But needs more Boyd.  I think they (writers, directors) know what kind of gem they have in Goggins/Boyd and don't want to overuse him.  Looking forward to his development. 

Holy shit.

Cold blooded bitch doesn't begin to cover it. This season is gonna be good.

I like this show; there is good acting all around.


Edit: Do we spoiler quotes from current episodes? I'll do that.

That is part of his charm like an old school old west law man. He means what he says and he says what he means.

Edit:

I think it would be safe to spoiler discussion of an episode in the same week.  I know that alot of posters were DVRing or catching up on episodes well after the first air date.

I loved his resigned "i don't know why they give us guns" after finding out he's in trouble again. 

A twisted and dark take on rural small-town life; like the evil twin to Northern Exposure.  I agree with Johnny Cee's comment... that is what makes the show interesting.

This season is off to a good start, it's great to have Justified back again.

Agreed. I loved the "apricot" moment in the most recent episode.

Third episode was great, after a lackluster second.  Eminently quotable.

"If it was me, I think I would remember that unless you Rufied me.  Did you Rufie me Raylan?"
"What are you, the ski mask police?"
"Are you speaking Martian, Doyle?"

I'm not sure how he does it but the actor playing Boyd keeps stealing scenes even with Timothy Olyphant sharing the screen.. I think at this point I'd watch a spin off show about him. I actually find myself feeling sorry for him this season and I suspect his arc will be him falling back into his old ways which I find somewhat disappointing as I dig the conflicted version of him who seems to actually be trying even if noone believes him.

There are some great interviews with Walton Groggins about the character of Boyd Crowder.  He really cares about the performance, and the showrunners give him leeway as to the direction his character is heading.

The character makes a great foil for Raylan, too.  I hope we see Boyd become more of a shadow figure...  he would be great as kind of involved in crime but also working with/playing Raylan as a CI.

Also, this was one of the original ideas for the first season finale:

"According to the DVD for the season one finale, the original plan for the finale would have been for Boyd to visit the family of the white supremacist recruit that he murdered in the pilot in order to try and offer some form of restitution for the man's death. Raylan would trail him to Oklahoma in hopes of getting the family to help him trick Boyd into confessing to murder. Unfortunately for both, the family turns on both of them and tries (unsuccessfully) to kill them with chainsaws."

 :awesome_for_real:

Stay strong Boyd, Stay strong.

 :oh_i_see:


The two Winonna episodes were kind of meh, but last nights Bennett-centric episode had some real highs.  I like the fact that every once and a while they deflate Raylon's invincible aura, and the town meeting was great drama.


This has been renewed for season 3!

Yeah, I never quite bought that whole Winona takes the cash plotline, and was bummed they spread it over two episodes. But this week's episode more than made up for it. Raylan in Mag's store, hung over, counting on his bravado and the badge, then ... holy shit! What an awesome and unexpected scene. And yeah the town meeting was a really well written and acted scene. Eva and her shotgun again! This is great television.

You would think it being such a small town type atmosphere there pretty much everybody would have heard if Eva says she is going to shoot your ass with a shotgun she is damn well going to shoot your ass with a shotgun.

I had the same thought when that Bennet brother mouthed off and said she wouldn't do it. I thought that for sure Boyd would say "excuse me, weren't you at my brother's funeral?"

Well, at least she shot the critter to keep her street cred.

So, I quite enjoyed this week's episode.

Another good episode, even if it was setting up the end of season bloodbath.  Winona works much better as a character when she is changeable and capricious.  Telling off the guys tailing him was classic Raylan.

If it plays out like last year, Crauders vs. Bennetts will get derailed when Frankfurt shows up leading to lots of bodies.


I can't get out of head how awesome a Hollywood remake of The Man with No Name trilogy would be with Olyphaunt.

Trying to figure out why the Dixie Mafia (assuming that was who was in the silver Cadillac) is getting involved, and I'm not exactly sure if they're after Raylan or Winona.  Are they trying to take out Winona under the guise of making it look like they were actually after Raylan?  How is Gary involved (you just know he is)?  Is Gary in debt to the DM again?

Did you miss the scene where Gary went back to Wynn Duffy (sp?) for money a few episodes back?

Also note how Gary breaks down when winnona mocks him for being so petty about the insurance policy.

He went to him to offer an investment to his race horse, but not to borrow money from him.  Could the investment have gone sour?  Sure.  But I guess it depends on how much time has passed since then and the proverbial now.


I tend to fall on the "That was totally fake" side of that coin.

Telling someone about an "investment opportunity" is either a clever way of borrowing money, or a scam. Remember last time Gary was underwater, when he went to his football player friend?

I watched the scene a few times but I could not figure out about what kind of insurance they were talking with their attorneys.

I thought it was life insurance which could potentially put a whole new spin on the last episode.

The first scene of last episode was just devastating.

Raylan and Boyd are stars, but don't overlook Art.

He has some of the best lines.

It was life insurance.  I really only skim watched the second Winona episode, so I missed anything in there that is indicating that her husband is tied back in to the Dixie Mafia.  Sounds like we're dove-tailing the Bennets, Boyd, and Raylan & Winona arcs for the final episode plot.


I think I could watch an entire TV show just based around Boyd Credeur.  He's almost hypnotic.

Did you watch The Shield?  Goggins is great in that show too.

Nope, not yet.  It's on my list to pick up eventually when there's a good deal on it.

There is a bit of a lull just after the midpoint in the series but don't stop as it is worth it.

The Shield is one of the best TV shows ever made.

Ok. Watched tonight's episode and...damn.

I recently looked through an old "Television Thread" here, where you would chime in once every couple pages to recommend the Shield!  The Shield is on my list for future bargain purchases.

I did just pick up the first two seasons of Damages for $16, which I'm stoked for.  I watched about the first half of the first season when it was on, but dropped it when I had to miss a couple episodes since it is an ongoing storyline. 

Back to Justified:

Wow.  Cleverly played. 

Another great episode. Looks like its really gonna hit the fan next episode.

There's another? Thank god; I thought this one was decent but a bit weak as a finale.

It's Justified, it ends in bloodbath.

Frizzle-fracking....

Cable had an update, and I wasn't informed that I needed to re-setup my TV, so my cable was out and missed last episode.  I'll have to hope the episode makes it to OnDemand before the season finale.


I've almost purchased the season 1 DVD a couple of times now...  it's going for $10-$15, and a re-watch would be fun.

Just watched the season finale.

Fantastic finale, though it could have been 2 hours long and I'd have been okay. 

That finale was just about perfect, what a great season.

You mean besides .  Don't think that's the kinda thing they just let you walk away from.

I've just finished watching Season 1 of this, so I've completely avoided the rest of this thread to prevent any inadvertent spoilers.

Wasn't sure about it at first, it felt like it was just going to be Raylan Givens getting to kill someone each week but was really into it by the end. Loved the way they developed Boyd and I actually feel that season 1 was more about him than it was about Givens.

What I'd really like to see in Season 2 is for the female characters to be given a bit more depth - at least Ava and Winona, both of whom felt a bit one dimensional. I thought for a fleeting moment that Rachel Brooks (had to look her name up, the one who rode with Givens from the Marshal's office a couple of times) was going to play more of a part but it didn't happen. Actually a lot of the supporting cast could do with more screen time and fleshing out a bit.

I'll return to this thread in about 3 months time when we finish watching season 2!

Well, not to gainsay everything you just said... but no.   :why_so_serious:

Pretty sure the fastest way to kill this series will be

I said way upthread that the soap opera pull will be strong... and feel justified (  :oh_i_see: ) to confirm that [most] every episode or arc with Winona was nothing more than a derail for the Raylan/Boyd freight train.

There may be far more viewers like you than like me, so ultimately they will just write for whatever audience turns up... but Raylan as the other half of a committed monogamous relationship with duties and obligations to his family does not have the edge to keep the show watchable.  I literally hope she is run-over by a flaming Crowder mobile meth lab in the first episode of season 3.  In fact, the writers should initiate a fan campaign on how to off Winona... trapped in a collapsed pot barn, executed when accidentally picnicing too close to a neo-Nazi hideout, sudden death from a rare respiratory disease caused by inhaling spores from mouldy dollar bills kept in basement storage lockers for decades, or perhaps just simply choking on actual Apple Pie at a Sunday gathering of the local notables.

Oh, and I'd like to fully express my disappointment that

Season's been over for a few weeks now, so is there really any need in spoilers anymore?

Anyway, Boyd is an opportunist.  I don't think he really believed the nazi white power bullshit he espoused, or even the fundie religious angle he used for a while.  He used the nazi angle because take advantage of those that followed that particular path.  Once he saw that it was a little harder to recruit for that, he discovered religion as a means to reach more people to follow his 'beliefs' towards his end goal; which is really just blow shit up and cause mass chaos.  And I think it's pretty obvious that he used those...beliefs....as tools to a mean to an end because he hasn't referenced them at all as he moved from white power nazi to preacher to whatever you want to call him now. 

It's pretty obvious it's not about the money (so far).  He's like the Joker - he just wants to see the world burn.  But he found the problem with both the nazi white power guys and the religious nuts were they weren't very smart.  Things went wrong because they weren't very smart and couldn't do anything without his direction.  He's now surrounding himself with smart people with proven histories of knowing that the hell they're doing.  Arlo, Devil, and Johnny are his captains that can be counted on to be autonomous without him having to micromanage everything.  You could easily make an argument that Arlo, Devil, and Johnny aren't educated in terms of book sense and using proper english, but they're brilliant in terms of what they do.

Personally?  I think he's setting up a crew to take over Harlan, with the end goal being the Dixie mafia in Frankfort for no other reason that just to do it, but that may be only because that's where I would LOVE to see them take the show.  And if he were to succeed, I think he'd come down off the high of the accomplishment pretty quickly and find some other mountain to climb.

He's a deep character, and easily my most favorite of the show with Art being a very close second, and Raylan a distant third.  Goggins was given free reign to develop his character together with the writers in connection with the story, and it really shows.

Thoes who watch it on hulu.

Actually, the religious conversion was something that Olyphaunt and Groggins worked out together when Olyphaunt was trying to get Groggins to sign on for season one (Boyd dies in the original pilot).  Groggins had problems with trying to play a racist, neo-nazi dick all the time.  I think it was Olyphaunt who insisted on playing Raylan as believing that the neo-nazi stuff and the religious conversion were all lies.

I don't think that the character wants to see the world burn, or that he's an opportunist.  He's directionless, and he desperately wants to find that direction.  First it was the lure of a cause, then he thought that was religion/vigilantism, and now it seems that he's focused on Ava as his prime motivation and becoming the outlaw boss of Harlan is his way of doing that....  After all, what other prospects does he have?

It's the old saw about people born in poor backgrounds, about how you either become a cop or a criminal (a bandit or a priest, if you prefer Tuco).

He's still the parallel character to Raylan (cop to criminal, both doing things for the women they love, etc), and the show is at it's strongest when those two characters are playing off of each other.


Almost all of the secondary characters are great.  Even Tim and Rachel, who don't have nearly enough to do.  Winona is the weakest, but Ava was pretty mediocre last season when she was a major character and she's much more interesting with Boyd.

I think that has to do with Raylan, who is more subdued and more of a straight-man.  He enables some great stuff, but the weaker characters don't really shine when paired with him.  

The Black Pike mining rep actually worked really well with Raylan, and I think Winona works better as minor character driving Raylan nuts.  I'd love to see Winona drop Raylan, while causing him grief with the pregnancy, and use a relationship with the Black Rock rep to pull Raylan into Harlan.

I don't think we're going to see Boyd take on Frankfort, as it would fly a little too much in the face of the show's world.  The Dixie Mafia is basically set up as THE major power in the region, and Harlan is just small beans compared to that.  I mean, despite cornering the Harlan crime racket for a while, the Bennets were still engaging in out-right petty shit like cashing welfare checks and snatching the haul from an Oxy bus.

Meanwhile, the few times we've seen Frankfort in action has been multi-million dollar land swindles, hiring professional hitmen to take out a US Marshall, and generally doing stuff that a few hillbillies with guns would never dream of.


I'd love to see the new mining project, and the massive environmental impact of it, become the major story in the next season.  Have Boyd come down against the company, and what it would do to his new business (thousands of acres of pot farms), with support from the average yokel who feels betrayed by the Bennets.

Boyd could become the hillbilly Che Guevara!

Finally watched all the episodes from this season over the last week. Fan-fucking-tastic season. I knew Goggins could act from his time on the Shield, but he is absolutely channeling some amazing shit with Boyd. His quiet menacing lines have been some of the best all season, and he and Olyphant play off of each other so damn well. I'd love to see more of the secondary marshall characters become more prominent, especially Sniper Tim. The Winona steals money plot was probably the weakest part of the season - it felt like padding, though it did set up some antagonism between Art and Givens.

I think Snake's right on target with Season 3. Boyd isn't about Joker crazy, but his motivations really are that he likes to blow shit up and steal money. Once he solidifies his hold on Harlan with the Bennetts out of business, the next big target is going to be Black Pike - and I'm guessing that behind them will be the Frankfurt Mafia. I always expected behind the mining company would be something of the Mafia they keep talking about.

I'm going to miss my dose of hillbilly comebacks until Season 3 gets here.

The reruns from the first season are on again, gearing up for the beginning of season 3 in January or February.

I had forgotten just what a delightful show this is.  Great writing, terrific characters.

This is a Season 2 trailer, but it encapsulates what's so awesome about this show:

Season 2 trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVT0B3pPsa8&feature=related)


Season 3 trailers are out now, this one being the best:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp0POkOLb-I&feature=player_embedded

 :grin:

Edit:

Carla Gugino joins the cast for season 3!

New season starting out awesome  :awesome_for_real:

Yep, good stuff.

The dialogue and editing are excellent, really snappy and funny. Very happy this is back!  :awesome_for_real:

The tablecloth move was badass. Love this show.

I  :heart: Dewey Crow.

Crowe. 

This season is off to a great start. Was hoping there would be no third year slump after last year's stellar outing and it is just getting better.  Both McDonough and Goggins are just killing it.

This. 

So far, you have Dickie, Limehouse, Boyd, and Carpetbagger mixing it up.  Always interesting to see which will be the red herrings and which will be the major antagonist for Raylan.

"I saw that Kenny Chesney on your computer and I thought you were capable of anything..."

Started watching this and am hooked.    Went through all S1 on Amazon Video -- great stuff. 

Let me see if I understand how the Dixie Mafia's Oxycontin trafficking scheme works - and whats happening now.

• They set up corrupt doctors in clinics to issue bogus but legally legit Oxy prescriptions to shill buyers hired by Mafia
• Mafia sets up legal but corrupt pharmacies that sell only Oxy to the prescription holders.
• The shill buyers turn around and give the Oxy to Mafia.
• The Mafia in turn sells the Oxy to real addicts at a profit.

Oh man, this shit is about to get messy.

Goddamn, I fucking love this show. So many great lines.

"Shit, I forgot to bring a knife!"
"I don't care what kind of shitkicker on shitkicker crime you got going on."

I love the whole discussion they had about how cool Raylans line was to duffy when he threw the bullet at him, i wonder if it really did come from a Johny Carson show.  Oh, and that is twice someone has said something about Quarles hidden gun jamming.

My one criticism of the show this season is the way Tim and Rachel, the other marshals have been marginalized. Granted the show is about Raylan but I really liked where those characters were heading after first season and they've been kind of window dressing this season.

The last episode was chock full of Tim, good stuff too.

What happened to Rachel? Is she even in it this season?

She's incredibly pretty.

She's there - she had a bit role as the black help Raylan brought with him when he visited Limehouse at the Holler.

Here is Yost talking about it in a recap of the original episode it was in:

That's right - but I haven't seen her since then.

I wish they'd do more with her and less with Raylan's ex. She seriously drives me up a wall.

It's amazing when a show can put on a setup like the town hall, and they have an actor with the chops of Groggins who can actually pull off the Big Speech.  Loved how they framed Boyd with the flag behind him....  you know he's a self-serving criminal, and still he can talk you right over.


Also nice to see Ava make her season quota of shooting male scumbags with her trusty shotgun. 

With the added bonus of looking smoking hot.

The performance of the actress playing the canny old mum was incredibly moving at the end of the last episode. I really felt the grief in her performance.... Or is it that all the people who love their mums can really relate to her? Nevertheless, incredible acting IMHO.

The great thing about Justified is that they get really great performances out of their cast - even those in relatively minor roles (especially so). From Devil, the doofus who thought his kidneys were removed, the Bennett brothers from last season and last episode Tanner (the guy on top of the explosives) and Earl (Limehouse's henchman).

I thought it was, but just found out that the actor that played Delroy (hippie-redneck-pimp)?  He was Ethan on Lost, which makes his story about growing up in a commune fucking hilarious.

Yeah that took me by surprise, I was suddenly aware that I actually had a tear in my eye at that point. The acting is superb, and helped by the great script and razor sharp editing. I think good editing can make a huge difference to a TV show, especially one that relies on humour as much as Justified does. Comic timing and all that.

Also, Walton Goggins performance in this is making me want to go back and watch The Shield again.

I'm itching for next week.

"Why wait?"

TV Easter egg: The tiny snippet of a black and white movie shown at the end is from the original 1957 "3:10 to Yuma" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050086/) based on a short story by Elmore Leonard.

I am loving this season. My prediction is that Limehouse is going to turn out to be, by far, the most dangerous person in the show this season. Quarrels is ruthless but I think Limehouse is the smarter of the two and is likely even smarter than Boyd. I think even though people know it's an act that the 'aw shucks' routine still works to disarm his foes. I wouldn't be surprised if the finale ends up being Raylen having to deal with Limehouse.

"A Guy Walks Into A Bar" episode.

"His initials are, 'Boyd Crowder'"

Okay, the last two episodes of this season have some huge potential.

- Oceans Eleven, but with Earl (Limehouse LT), Boyd, Dickie and gang?  I'd watch a Hillbilly Eleven movie.
- Quarrels descent into crazy town has been wonderful.  Is he going to play the spoiler or get rolled up into the Hillbillly Eleven?
- Limehouse is fucking canny, and you know he's not going down without a fight.
- The Marshalls are setting up a raid on Limehouse's money stash.
- Raylan is backing into it from the opposite end.
- You still have Detriot...  you don't brink in Micheal Ironside for a one-off appearance, do you?
- You can't spell Wynn Duffy without win!

So many ways to play this.  Anti-climax?  Guy Ritchie style pileup?  Mother of all shootouts?  Remember, many of the players in this seem to have a touch of chronic back-stabbing disorder....  so who knows where Dickie, Wynn, or Quarrels will end up.

"Big, dumb, baby head"  :awesome_for_real:

Apparently Yost challenged the writers to keep one-upping each other on derogatory ways to describe McDonough.

Oh, holy shit, what an ending.

So I was totally wrong above.  I like being surprised.

Great ending.

"It's a piggy bank!"

"I disarmed him"


Only thing I did not like about this season is how one of the trailers showed something that never happened in this season.

Yeah, I was waiting for the Raylan/Boyd team up too.

I am stunned. What a terrific season. Completely blown away.

Quarles reaching for his arm and Raylan pulling it away with a "no, can't haz" look was fucking priceless.

Necro!

Oh this shit's back and more rednecktastic than ever. Throw in Patton Oswalt (who's been showing up everywhere lately, good for him) for the comic relief and it's on.

Damn you FX for being the only network to not stream shit online :(

First episode of the new season did not disappoint!

"If you run into an asshole once during the day, you ran into an asshole. If you run into a bunch of assholes during the day, it's probably you that's the asshole." Raylan Givens, Redneck Whisperer.

"What's he gonna do, tell everyone he was shot in a whorehouse wearing a bear costume?"

I just realized that these really do need a spoiler tag.

Oh, holy shit, Constable Bob, you fucking badass.

Drewsitania!

Epic. Bob is my new favourite character in the show. :)

Just got into this show on the recommendation of a friend.  This is pretty fantastic, at least so far (S1E11).

Art: "First thing we are gonna do is we are going to acknowledge that this guy is awesome!"

Raylan: "What?"

Art: "He shoots Theo Tonin, fakes his own death in a spectacular fashion, pushes a guy out of an air plane WHILE he is flying it, parachutes into Harlan county with enough coke and cash to jump-start the economy of a small country. And then he has the balls to get a job in law enforcement, not once but two times. He spends a couple of days riding around with you while you're looking for him. And now he's run off with a hooker that's half his age. That's some bad ass shit."

Raylan: "That's pretty bad ass"

Hands down, best bit of dialogue of the season.

Underestimate bob at your peril.

Finally caught up on the show this weekend. So much awesome. I like that a lot of the situations have NOT been solved by Raylen with a gun but by talking or by someone else doing some awesome shit. Like Bob. Bob was awesome.

Sooooo... what the fuck happened to uncle Johny?

Finally, Natalie Zea stops being a damsel in distress. Now, if only she could be that much of a badass in The Following.

Season 6 will be the final season (http://blog.sfgate.com/dwiegand/2014/01/14/tv-justified-ending-confirmed/).  FX wanted more but the writers and Tim said no :D

I just finished watching season 4 on Amazon Prime.  Fantastic.

Damn. I love this show. They've actually been able to keep it pretty fresh with the beginning of each season, but I guess better to end it while you're still doing good work.

The new guy is hilarious.  "Oh no, the technology for replying to blog posts is like... decades away".

Ok, I'm going on record right now to predict that the song at the end of tonight's season finale is prophetic and neither Raylan or Boyd is leaving Harlan alive before the series ends next year.

This season has been fantastic.  Didn't know tonight was the season finale :(

Eh, I thought it was the weakest season so far and a lot of filler to set up the final confrontation.

Just watched ep1 of the new season. Great start.

This. I enjoyed it, especially Boyd's use of the cigarette pack, but it seemed like a lot of the Hillbilly follies. This entire season was Boyd fucking up selling drugs yet somehow surviving his own stupidity or the stupidity of others around him. And somehow he was supposed to be menacing but he had like two fucking henchman who both seemed to waver between barely competent and utter dipshit. And the Crows? I didn't get the menace.

And yet, I still liked it because of Raylan.

I think to some extant this season was Raylan and Boyd finally understanding themselves. Raylan has gotten his nose shoved in the consequences of his actions and almost got art killed because of them and Boyd finally realized that as much as he may wish he is really not cut out for the whole criminal master mind thing.

I think next season will have raylan trying to be a more serious lawman and less loose cannon and boyd going back to what he is good at robbing banks and being a badass criminal not a criminal mastermind.

I kind of disagree. They're both finding out they're limited somewhat, but they also saw that all the shit they got into never came back to fully bite them.

Raylan got off the hook for his misdeeds as did Boyd. They're the immovable object and the irresistible force. I still posit the series is going to end with them killing each other.

May be the weakest season yet, but goddamned better than 99% of TV.

Wendy Crowe was terrifically played, as was Daryl, as was Ava.  I've always liked Rachel; glad to see her a little more this season. Was not disappointing in the least. I'm going to miss this series when it's gone.

Daryl met her Gom Jabbar and it was a .380 to the junk.

New season has begun - episode 3 airs this week.

"I told you you were s'pposed to leave your cell phones in the car"

 :drill: :drill: :drill: :drill: :drill:

Wynn Duffy used to surf where I used to spend my Christmases!

Last episode was a home run.

Triax, that scene was perhaps my favorite. Maybe my favorite of the entire series.

Also was tickled by this (although not on the same scale).

Triax scene was all sorts of win. (Duffy).

I hate Ava this season. I mean damn, put in a tight spot sure. But she clearly doesn't trust law enforcement, repeated multiple times that Rayland doesn't care about her (which she is ultimately right about), and discounted pretty much half a season worth of effort Boyd put into getting her out of prison last season. Maybe hindsight is twenty twenty but I personally wouldn't trust the guy who has a golden parachute to Florida complete with wife and kids regardless of what goes down in harlan county. Something tells me if she just told Boyd that she was released because the Marshal department is gunning for him would have saved her soo much trouble.

"You ok boss? you look a little aplexed"

This season has been spectacular imo.

Binge-watched this season so far over the last 3 days. Ava has been a bit annoying, but I can tell I'm thoroughly hooked because I got to the end of last night's and was mad because I couldn't watch another til next week.

I've had exactly the opposite reaction to Ava this season, though it could be that anything is better than the shitshow that was her whole story line last season.

Everyone this season is doing great work, particularly their "extras". Choochoo, Constable Bob, Duffy's assistant guy, Errol, all of them have had great stuff so far.

Choo Choo was awesome.

Poor Choo Choo.

Raylan quoting Elmore Leonard was awesome.

Yes indeed.

Man. I love this show. And I love the parallels between Raylans and Boyds relationships. 

They're mirror images of each other. Raylan being the guy that looked around and decided to extract himself, Boyd being the one to make the best of what's around. Neither is as smart as they think they are but both are survivors.

I don't think Raylan thinks he's smart. I do think he thinks he's the fastest gunslinger in Kentucky. That might end up being fatal by the final episode, we'll see.

Did not see that coming.....

You're not the only one.

Although ironically its pretty in character for her. She has proven when pushed into a corner she is more than willing to do whatever she feels is necessary.

Oh for sure.  They wrote it perfectly to not make it seem out of character but also be surprising.

I just can't wait 'til hipster gunslinger gets shot in the face.

That said, did you notice the guy in the diner was the leader of the FYC from Walking Dead?

Yeah, i recognized the terminus guy.

I have a suspicion that they're building Boon up to be Jack McCall here.

Funny thing is I am pretty sure he is not going to get shot in the face. He is going to go up to hang out with his "girlfriend" and realize far to late she is is way more dangerous than she looks.

If Loretta doesn't kill Boone, I'd be surprised.

I didn't say who would shoot him in the face. Wouldn't be surprised if it's Loretta.

Ya'know, I'm not going to be able to hear Pachelbel's Canon in D at weddings any more in quite the same way  :awesome_for_real:

"911, what is your emergency?"
"I don't know where to begin..."

Really strong episode, though I'm not sure if I like the whole "I'M GOING ROGUE!" thing. Sort of fits, but reminds me too much of 24.

 death there was one of the few in this show that have moved me. Excellent scene and build up.

Exactly.

This season is surpassing all of my expectations. What an excellent series this is.

The ridiculously cartoony henchman is the only complaint i have about this season so far.  Guy just takes me out of the show every time he is on.

He's ridiculously cartoony because big bad is scraping the bottom of the barrel. His PMCs are all dead, so now he had to go local and this was his best shot. Literally as well
As figuratively.

I got a bottle of Pappy to celebrate the last episode.

I'd also say he is ridiculously cartoony because the character himself is attempting to live up to various stereotypes of movie cowboys, hence the John Wayne talk he and Raylen had.

Boon is from Colorado actually, not a local.  I think he is a cartoony henchman because Leonard stuff is all about cartoony bad guys.  He's also hamming it up as part of his own shtick.

You're right, Boone is from Colorado. Still, most of the people I know from Colorado are pretty much cartoons.

I love the Boon character. He's like a modern day Billy the kid, just a slight bit less icky than the real one.

His eyes are so so so so so shiny.

I'm satisfied by that ending.

and now, Ruby Friedman's Orchestra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiE_Bk8FOY0

Yup. Solid finale.

Wynn for the win!

 :crying_panda:
Gah, I'm going to miss this show something fierce.  The ending worked for me, not 100%, but well enough in the end.

Loved it.

It was a nice end to a good series. Especially Raylan's last words to Boyd seemed very fitting for the finale.

That was an excellent ending to a superb series. Wynn finally doesn't need a tanning bed anymore, and I think he's earned it. The last scene being Raylan and Boyd and how it played out was perfection.

This was great, from start to finish. Will miss it a lot. Very glad they wrapped it up properly rather than just letting it go on and on into mediocrity.

The one other character that I would have liked to have seen a nod to in the 'Four years later' section was Loretta.

I am so bummed this is over.  It was a perfect ending though.

She's at that age where 4 years later would have been difficult. That said, I definitely got the impression over the course of this season that she was probably the smartest person in the whole county or at least the best survivor.

Very good ending. It didn't have to blow things out, just end with that satisfying feeling like you just had a really good meal that lasted 6 years.  :awesome_for_real: