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It's my favorite show at the moment. Timothy Olyphant's easy repartee with the bad guys is what keeps me coming back. They're not written as black hats and white hats, or criminal masterminds. They're all just flawed people, and some can be reasoned with over whiskey and fried chicken. But other times, ya just gotta outdraw a mother****er.

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I can't believe there wasn't anyone here that gave this show a chance. The first season finale was tonight and it was a great conclusion to a solid season The acting is better than ANY show on right now. First class and I recommend it highly!

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I watched most of the episodes. Missed a few here and there, as it didn't do much to reel me in...but it's a good show. No doubt that it'll get picked up for another season.

Missed the finale, though.

I just happened across it in the first episode--hadn't heard anything about it and didn't know any of the actors except the "fire in the hole" guy also played a good--and somewhat similar--part in The Badge.

I like the way they do Southerners, both black and white, with an ear for our language and an eye for our eccentricities. Olyphant and his boss would fit right in with the real US Marshals I've known, and I've known a few judges who were almost as colorful as the speedo-wearing, woman-chasing, gun-toting magistrate in that one episode.

I really liked the season closer--for the first time I bought into the conversion of the marshal's killer buddy. That scene when he asks,
"Have I just been talking to myself?" was a fine piece of acting encapsulating all of that character's doubt of himself, doubt of his religious conviction, and doubt of his God, with all the resulting spirital and emotional pain.

Those two gangster daddies were something, weren't they? Both the marshal's and his criminal buddy's. Talk about your hard cases!

Ol' Waylon's (Wayland?) ex-wife should dump her loser husband and get back with him. Just don't get married again--marriage has ruined a lot of love affairs, especially in the South. She's prettier and probably better in the sack than that white trash ol' gal who nearly got her and him killed because she wouldn't get out of the state.

I just finished watching all of the first season. Exceptional! The best way to describe the charm of Justified is it has a slow unhurried pacing like a Clint Eastwood directed movie. The actors dont seem like actors, the characters are easy to like, and the writing is above the norm in whats been available for a long time on tv. I encourage everyone that hasnt heard about it to give it a look.

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I didn't read most of the posts above because I just started watching this last night. The TV season is over now so all our favorite shows are done for a bit, save South Park, basically. We're going to dive into Breaking Bad soon but we want to save it just a little bit longer, so in the meantime we thought we'd buy the pilot episode of Justified, and we liked it enough to buy the entire first season on Amazon Video. And I hear the second season is better, so odds are good we'll roll through both in the next month or so.

We're two episodes in, by the by. I'll come back after we've finished season one, most likely, or if there are any truly awesome moments, though in the latter case I'll keep avoiding the posts above.

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Finished Homeland, which saw no thread for, and heard this had amazing second season so giving it a go from start. Olyphant picking up his Deadwood hat

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Cool, let us know what you think. I expect you'll dig it.

Comes back on the air quite soon, too. Woohoo.

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Yeah, i'm a sucker for Walton Goggins too, very underrated character actor. He owned the final season of The Shield. Pilot was good, didn't really develop a hook or unique premise, yet.

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Not reading most of the posts in this thread, just in case; I've been DVRing these and for one reason or another just didn't get around to them, and when I didn't I thought, hey, let 'em pile up and go marathon style later. Started last night; just the first two, so I'll pop back in when I've caught up to be on the safe side, spoiler-wise.

Gotta say, though: two episodes in, and this show is dense. I'm probably simplifying the show a little in my memory, but I don't remember it being nearly as complicated in the first two seasons as it already is in this one. I'm not complaining, but it seems like a big shift.

Do really love the feel of it, though. It's got that Coen-esque love of dialects and that lovely toying with stereotypes that comes from folksy accents saying eloquent, witty things. I love just listening to it, regardless of what else is happening.

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Love it!!!

Ive watched Justified from the first season and it not only gets better each year, but much better. Season 3 seems like an entire new level of plot twists & intensity that 1 & 2 didnt touch. Walter Googins is a great talent, but I enjoy the Art Mullins character (Nick Searcy) quite a bit.

Also if anyones ever wondered, heres the lyrics to the theme....


On this lonely road
Trying to make it home
Doing it by my lonesome - pissed off, who wants some
I’m fighting for my soul
God, get at your boy
You try to bogart - fall back, I go hard

On this lonely road
Trying to make it home
Doing it by my lonesome - pissed off, who wants some
I see them long hard times to come

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I'm liking this season a lot, but I don't know, I still think I liked season 2 just a little bit better. I can't really judge it until I see the finale next week though.

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I'd agree with that. I think the first half of this season was exceptional, but it setup a lot of potential payoffs that I think it's only somewhat delivered on.

The finale could turn that all on its head, but I'll be surprised if it does. Still been very good, though.

Yeah, I feel like they've done a lot of stuff they're not going to be able to wrap up. I find it hard to believe Rayland is even still a marshal, because we have barely even seen any of the other marshals this season. It's like he's just off doing his own thing or something, to me at least.

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Wow, Justified knows how to end a season! Ive never complained about their finales, that was some awesome television!

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Yeah, I was pretty satisfied. Especially given that I wasn't expecting much based on the last few weeks; not because they were bad or anything, but simply because it looked like the numerous plot threads weren't going to tie together in interesting ways. Turns out they didn't really have to.

More tomorrow.

Holy crap! That was the best season by far. At times the Robert Quarles character would turn my stomach, and then make me bust out loud laughing. The Limehouse characters an exceptional addition, and Walter Googins is able to display alot more, and run with the part with Boyd a full fledged criminal. I hope they give Dickey Bennett his ballcap back next year though.

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I became a Timothy Olyphant convert at Deadwood and enjoyed the Hitman character. Justified is a very cool show with lots of good old Southern boy characters, something that James Lee Burke would be great at writing about, although his fixation is New Orlerans.

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I was pleasantly surprised by the finale. After the first few episodes this season, I was highly impressed at how intricate and heavily plotted the series was; far more so this year than in the past, to my memory. And as it went on, it just kept going, with characters and their interests and their angles become more intertwined. I got excited to see how they would wrap it all up, and make sense of the chaos.

A few episodes before the finale, though, it became clear they weren't going to do that, and I got a little bummed. Quarles broke down (which I like in a few ways, mind you) and characters started doing all sorts of things based on informed guesses and sometimes opaque motives. I like this in small doses--a character making a mistake because they think something wrong that we know is wrong is usually the height of drama--but there was quite a bit of it. And I, admittedly, like the stories that can go all the way to the edge of chaos and bring everything back into alignment by the end.

So, I was a little disappointed then. But the finale was the next-best thing to tidying everything up, because it had a number of simultaneous payoffs. We've been watching Quarles use that rig all year, and there've been multiple comments on the possibility of it jamming up, so naturally I assumed that it would jam during some climatic battle. And we've been watching Limehouse hang around those pigs holding that cleaver all year, too, so it was nice that both toys came to a head against one another, just above Quarles' arm. And Raylan holding it farther away from him as he reached for it was pretty hysterical, too.

Wasn't quite what I'd hoped for it, but still quite good. And I could feel better about it if several of the dangling conflicts are resolved nicely next year. This is actually the rare TV season that might heavily benefit from a second watch, given the angles involved. There were a few episodes around two-thirds of the way through where you basically needed a machete to cut through the web of what everyone was trying to do to everyone else.

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And man, I really thought Boyd was going to get that money. However the show ends, we know a big confrontation between Boyd and Raylan has to be in the cards, and I figured $3.2 million would really kick his criminal enterprise into high gear. Then again, maybe that's the point: the show's plenty successful and they see no reason to ramp up the inevitable end game just yet.

Still a really great job, and I'm glad it's already been picked up for a fourth season. I know of no better modern source of badass one-liners, either.

Little more than halfway thru season 4, and I can honestly say its better than last season. If anyone hasnt been watching it youre missing out. The show is as-good-as Game Of Thrones, Breaking Bad, and Walking Dead. I mean that. :yup:

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The season finale last night was just incredible. I have been such a fan of this show since the beginning, and they continuously deliver every. single. season.

There are some huge Nolan Batman parallels recently. How Raylan is walking the line of what he has to do as the stories Hero. "I don't have to kill you, but I don't have to save you".

Also, these writers are able to keep on delivering the Raylan dialogue that I love so much. My favorite from last night:

"Take the deal or you die here tonight in this limo...."
"You didn't kill me."
"You're still in the limo."

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Great season. Not as good as 2, but better than 3, and probably better than 1.

And man, every scene with Olyphant and Goggins is a pleasure. I could listen to Boyd talk all day. Even if guys like Nicky need Google Translate on their phones to understand him.

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Oh man, their exchange in the high school was gold.

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End of season 4, and truly happy with the direction and style of this series. Was, and is, a big elmore leonard fan and though i missed a large chunk of season 1, I've been addicted ever since. Dialogue, characters, storyline have continued to shine with each season. DAMN FINE series!!

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Just two more weeks until season 5! And here's the trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3we6iP0i_mw

Season 5 !!!

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Im halfway thru 2nd episode and this show is still solid as a rock! 5th season and not slowing down any. I really appreciate how many actors you see in each episode that you recognize from film. Huge fan of the writing of this show. I hope theyve won an award or will.

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Most of you have probably already heard, but they've declared that next season (the 6th) will be the last.

Little bummed, but not terribly so. The whole thing was based on a short story to begin with, and I can definitely feel them going over the same kind of ground a little, so this should be for the best. And it'll probably have the added benefit of making this season and the next one a lot better, since they can afford to ramp things up, knowing they're about to end it.

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Yeah, six seasons sounds about right. And gives them an entire season to build toward something, with that knowledge, rather than finding out after a season has been shot and done that it was the last. I love it, but I'd rather it go out strong and with purpose than be one of those shows that are great to begin but kind of wither and die. I was never a fan of "Dexter", but from what I understand from its fans that is one that ran longer than it should have. And I was a HUGE fan of "Weeds", but it became nearly unwatchable in its last couple seasons.

This show doesnt have to do much for me to have a great time watching it. This whole season has been a script from hell for poor Boyd & Eva. Its seemingly impossible for either of them to catch a break.

Eric Roberts sighting! He did very well effortlessly, and must think he really did a job on his name with a-list hollywood "back when". Its been awhile and he's put in good work. Im guessing he's sober. Anyway with all the idiocy today in tinseltown, and amount of time thats gone by, Im surprised hes not in more mainstream stuff.

I wonder if theres any way they can bring Ian McShane in for the last season. That would just be too awesome! :laugh:

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with the passing of elmore the writing as gotten a more darker tone, not critiquing, just remarking on the lastest turn and on an excellent ride, and damn happy to see when this show makes me jump or chuckle at what happens next. Last night's episode was an excellent example of that.

Very different episode in how everything played out. Usually Raylan draws his weapon, and you certainly expect that with a motive like this, but they put together a slick presentation by not showing us what the "bad guy" was doing. The whole storyline with Raylan was from just the justice departments perspective so everything seemed more random.

Boyds storyline was awesome, and he surprises me everytime something like this happens. They have some serious buildup on all three storylines with Raylan/Boyd/Eva, and the shows as good as it ever was.

Btw, Rachels hot.

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Preview for season 5 episode 12...

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I've been assuming for awhile now that, whenever they decided to wrap the show up, Boyd would "turn" somehow and go back to being the more overt bad guy we knew him as from the beginning, thus forcing a confrontation with Raylan before the end.

So, when they announced that next year would be the last, it wasn't hard to figure out that things would Ava would get rocky, because it seemed like her death (or absence from his life for some other reason) would be a necessary precursor to Boyd going off the deep end. And that certainly seems to be where things are headed.

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It's a real testament to the way they've developed Raylan and Boyd that almost any outcome would feel earned--Raylan killing Boyd, Raylan letting him him, Raylan putting him away. You can make a great case for any of them. But I lean more towards Raylan putting Boyd away or putting him down. Either way, the confrontation's coming, which is why they're giving Boyd less and less to lose and reminding us more and more how dangerous he is. That's necessary groundwork to lay, given that like all complicated bad guys, we start to like him too much after awhile.

Boyds knowledge of explosives comes out infrequently, but when it does its major. If Ava were to ever die Boyd would kill anyone and everyone responsible for her going in. Lawmen included. So yeah, that would be bad. Not even the Marshalls office itself would be safe if it ever had to go there.

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having read so many elmore novels, it would be hard to guage WHERE the conclusion of the raylan/body conflict would lead and I've been having FAR more fun watching and seeing, with the occasional guess and getting wonderfully surprised at what does happen.
There is a definitive spiral for Boyd going on and the tension to where it goes, as well as, for everyone else and their storylines is a true sign of the great writing that this series has brought to the table.

Season 5 is done, and I'm really looking forward to the 6th and final season. Was somewhat disappointed that this episode wasnt tension filled, came off anti-climactic, but it was still great.

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since next season is the finale, I think the reason (may be) for what ya felt was anti-climatic was setting everything and everyone up for a huge finale to an amazing series.

I do think youre in the correct on that.

Still wished they had brought in Ian McShane at some point in this series.

Sam Elliot incoming. Oooooh hell to the yeah! :yup:

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After reading a bit of this thread and the Wiki page, I will be seeking it out to binge watch! Thanks for the heads up!

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Besides Sam Elliott theyre bringing in Garret Dillahunt for season 6. At first I didnt know this person, and then after IMDbing it my jaw dropped as he blew me away awhile back.

He played 2 different pivotal characters in two seperate seasons of Deadwood. He was Jack McCall and Francis Wolcott. Incredible talent!

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The Sam Elliot news is great. He needed to be in this universe. Here's to hoping he is the guy that tells Raylan and Boyd that they are actually brothers.

Timothy Olyphant vaguely comments how it should all go down in the final season. I will miss this series. With Longmire getting cancelled and Justified winding down theres just no alternatives like it anywhere :(

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Watching the last season of Justified the past couple months, and for the first time I think the show dipped some overall. I dont know if its the contrived way theyre bringing back every single person that was ever in the series, or being disappointed they never brought in Ian McShane to play a part, or if I just expected too much. Positive thing with the episode last week is the huge buildup, and If Mary Steenburgens fate in this episode was any indicator, in the end you know theyll deliver.

Meh. Final season was flat for me, thats a shame. overall a great series Ill suggest many times.

Agreed. Disappointing finale. Certainly wasn't an easy series to finish, but still. Out of interest how would everyone rank the seasons?

Season 3
Season 1
Season 4
Season 2
Season 5
Season 6

Season 4
Season 3 (Most graphic of all the seasons, but deep storyline. A season which was a overhaul on the former slow tempo series had.)
Season 5
Season 2
Season 1
and a noticeable drop to Season 6

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Season 5 could have been higher for me, but I really couldn't stand the guy who played Darryl Crowe. Non Justified fans may know him as the cop who dated Phoebe on Friends. I get why you had 1 so low, but it just felt a lot more fresh (obviously) to me and it was the season I enjoyed Ava the most during.

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How about favourite characters?

1.Boyd Crowder (Easy one for me, during Seasons 2-5 he was among my favourite of any show)
2.Raylan Givens (Had to be)
3.Wynn Duffy (Guy cracked me up, glad he stayed longer than Season 1. Actually this reminded me, Wynn asked that woman for a map of Harlan, was that resolved and I'm forgetting?)
4.Dewey Crowd (Another hilarious character. Loved that Raylan always broke his nose :laugh:)
5.Robert Quarles (Chilling performance. My vote for best villain outside of the regulars)
6.Arlo Givens (The writers did a very good job with him, some of the most heartbreaking scenes dealt with Raylan and Arlos relationship)
7.Art Mullen (was a bit cheesy, but great character nonetheless)
8.Dickie Bennet (Fantastic performance by Jeremy Davies. Had me feeling sorry for him until he started going after children and stuff)
9.Loretta (My favourite female character. Really interesting relationship explored with Raylan here.
10.Sheriff Shelby (Season 4 was excellent and Shelby had quite a bit to do with that)

Besides Raylan & Boyd...

I liked Wynn Duffy alot and glad they wrote him into the show more.

I actually didnt care for Dickie Bennet, and felt Davies was overacting terribly. Now Ma Bennet was awesome, and one of the best villains in the entire series.

I enjoyed Boyds dad in season 1, and thought how he went out was too sudden and weak for such a well built character.

Yeah Robert Quarles was chilling, and surprised they didnt try to bring him back for season 6.

I thought Art Mullens was awesome, and was my 3rd favorite character on the show. Ava was sultry, and I loathed, just loathed Wynona. :sick:

Sam Elliot was solid in 6 but it was a crap trite script. The storytelling in 6 really dipped hard. Mary Steenburgen was amusing in it, but really was out of place. How she was able to get stay at that same hotel both seasons after Boyd blew up that guy is beyond me. :laugh:

Worst villan ever? Thats easy.

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Followed by Darryl Crow, who also overacted, but more noticeably than Davies.

Ian McShane needed to be seen in this series at some point, and would have done a helluva better job than Sam Elliot. Ah well, I wonder if hes retired. Ill never forget the Deadwood alumni. :up:

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Great post. Too bad you didn't like Dickie, I can't disagree that he was overacting somewhat but felt it was necessary and worked with Dickies personality.

Boyds dad was fine but I was never crazy about him and thought he was killed of at the right time personally.

I wouldn't say I liked Wynona, but also wouldn't go as far to say I loathed her. Still that whole stolen money storyline during Season 2 really didn't work for me, ruined Raylan a bit for me actually.

Love Sam Eliott, but I wasn't crazy about Markham if i'm honest. IMO there was next to no chemistry between him and Steenburgen, and his character just felt boring and underdeveloped. My fav new villain during season 6 was Ty or maybe even Choo-Choo :lol:

Also agreed on Mr.Crocodile Dundee, whatever his name was, horrible character :rolleyes:

I felt Sam Elliot was a poor choice to play a kentucky weed baron. Enjoy him though. Yeah Ty & Choo-Choo were my favorite characters too. I was hoping the chase for Ty was going to be a season long thing, and couldve been more compelling while they were "developing" that other crap story. Oh well, 5 out of 6 seasons aint bad at all.

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Tongo, as I said on the Wynn Duffy part; when Wynn met that woman who he gave the jewels to as payment for things she was going to get him; he mentioned that he wanted a map of Harlan. Am I completely forgetting something (wouldn't be surprised) or did they just leave his story there? I thought he wanted the map to go after the money? A Mr.Pink type ending with Wynn escaping with the money would have been awesome :cool:

Yeah, no idea why they dropped Ty and co. that early for that fool (seriously can't remember his name). Also the Ginger one? What the hell was the point in that guy? They really did drop the ball during the last season, I thought it was going to really pick up during the last few EPs but it sadly never did imo.

I think it was Wynns escape plan to save Ava and keep the money, thats why he got a dog grooming truck. Thing I liked about Wynn was he was always mannerly, intelligent, ruthless, and a complete survivor. A metropolitan Boyd. :) Was shocked to see the physique Jere Burns has when he came out from that tanning bed :eek: Reminded me when Mac took his shirt off one episode in Night Court.

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