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

xp to forks - it's tricky. The southern-goth stuff was laid on SUPER thick this season, esp. at the end, but it was handled so deftly by all involved that I can't come up w/ much to complain about (a little more Dewey Crow comic relief, maybe?). Personally, I would have rather seen a more natural build-up of the 'southern mafia' conflict w/o the Black Pike plot device, but Boyd's roll in that did not seem unnatural imo. The way I read it was like: Boyd's existential/introspective phase ended precisely at the point when he snapped on the dumbass miner dude who would not leave him alone. Everything which ensued was him reverting back to his essential (predetermined?) mindset & exploiting various windows of opportunity (even if, yeah, the Black Pike thing was sorta too convenient).

;_; missing u ;_;

sigh

<3 the ever loving shit out of this show

my torrents cut out before the end credits, assuming there are any, and at the end of the ep where they're running around trying to get winona's stolen dough back in the safe, the music from 'the shield' came into my head

that's how good it is

After seeing Josh Gibbs (Gutterson, the awesome sniper marshall) in "The Pacific" this weekend, I feel it is important to say that dude is v v handsome, despite being eclipsed by Olyphant.

ugh Jacob Pitts. Who is Josh Gibbs, wtf my brain

I don't like Justified's theme song. :/

It's not great. Like low-rent Everlast.

one of my dogs LOVES the theme song - damn near any other theme song she freaks out, gets anxious and angry at the tv (30 rock theme sets her the fuck off like mary hart or some shit), but justified comes on and she stops what she's doing, chills out, and sits down in front of the tv w/ a smile on. i think she just likes the show.

haha my kid's like that with the Colbert Report theme music

i believe i once described the Justified theme as Everlast f/ Chali 2na

That story about the dog reminds me of this:

http://nastynets.com/?p=2890

just binged on s2, super dope

yeah, it was a considerable step up from s1 no doubt

btw, have never watched the shield; if i like justified, i'll like the shield?

the reversal at the end where mags took the poison was p awesome, like i saw it coming from when she got the two glasses from different spots, but then for a sec i was like maybe she did give it to raylon, v well executed

one thing that kind of continually annoys and interests me abt the show is their relance on super conventional tv tropes, like rayon is saved from death at the last second by his friends via a bullet through doyles head, but then the thing that makes it interesting and maybe more annoying is that its so knowing, the show is v meta, the tension between the naturalistic and contrived approches is incorporated on many levels in a sort of uh dizzying cycle, it becomes a primary edge and driver of the drama, like raylon wears the cowboy hat because he hated his life and wanted to build a new one, but the only two things he knew abt were this backwoods fucked up criminal bullshit and what hed seen on tv, so he modled himself after a tv lawman, only he actually is a tv lawman, my god

now he has to go back and confront his irl past, but tv stuff keeps happening to him while the supporting players roll their eyes at his strange karma

btw, have never watched the shield; if i like justified, i'll like the shield?

― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, June 29, 2011 3:21 PM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i watched an ep once and it just seemed way too ott, to like a camp extent, but could be i just need to start from the beginning

forks, watch the shield! tho goggins aside it's not very similar to justified at all... still a great show. xp

btw, have never watched the shield; if i like justified, i'll like the shield?

― Don't start the chain you know? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, June 29, 2011 7:21 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark

I enjoyed a decent amount of The Shield, and it nails the ending, but there's some OTT bits as mentioned as well as loads and loads and loads of messy writing that always grated on me. They're not very similar at all though, and I know it's a cliche but The Wire always made The Shield seem like a relic.

i like this show but it reminds me of like...something i'd watch aged 10 on saturday nights rather than modern genuinely great tv. it's entertaining for the downtime between better shows but it's kinda simple and there is no real feeling in it for me, apart from loving wynona.

waht

my opinion...i had to fight my way through both seasons and only when i had absolutely nothing else to watch. that's not to say it's woeful, just there's far better stuff around. everyone is pretty clichéd as a character in this show, there's barely any sense of their inner selves at all anyway, it's just a series of clashes.

i think you are the only person who likes wynona

i would straight up bone timothy olyphant because of this show

Felt that way in Season 1 (though I loved watching it, and found the entertainment aspect refreshingly well-done), but I think certain elements of Season 2 ramped it up.

xposts

xxp she's cute?

would not bone olyphant but would wingman with him

i would straight up bone timothy olyphant because of this show

― the beta banned (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, June 29, 2011 5:39 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

just because characters on the show are terse and guarded doesn't mean there's no feeling!

yeah i find it like entertaining, that's the exact word. but i don't have any craving to see what the overall plot is or where it's going to go cos it's actually not that intriguing. it's fairly old fashioned like this, even though there is a bigger plot each ep feels kinda self contained. and like...there are no questions you ask like "what's going to happen to raylan" or whatever...it has no tension.

wynona is great btw, tho yeah obv olyphant outdoes her!

x-post they're just not v well fleshed out as people imo

i think they are just kind of mysterious

until you get a flash of insight here or there

but totally compelling! and hot!

i am also just mad at you because apparently you think there is more feeling in mad men than justified

i am guessing local garda doesn't know anyone in real life like the ppl on justified

ie someone is projecting, not sure it's the characters here that don't have an inner life

i feel like i should let somebody from kentucky make this point but there's also a feeling for the place if that's not too obvious to say

i am thrilled that natalie zea is on a good show, but slightly less thrilled that she was more naked on 'dirty sexy money' than here.

i totally disagree with the 'relic' remark above about 'the shield' but i do think it helped set a very clear goal for lesser basic-cable shows to follow, i.e. to design interesting short-season plots and load the interest onto those so that individual episodes don't have to be quite so uniform and mechanical as the mediocre end of network dramas.

o it nails the south and southerners, but i'm not sure you can call those ppl 'ppl' really amirite lg? and yeah, if there's one thing you can say about justified it's that it 'has no tension'.

as a character i prefer ava to wynona (wynona was such a pain in the ass this season, guys) but natalie zea is ridiculously beautiful.

oh right, i don't like this show cos i am not from kentucky and cos i apparently have no inner life. sounds reasonable guys. glad we all appreciate subjectivity.

i didn't say that! i do think the show is stylized in an elmore leonard way, but that doesn't make the characters flat.

after raylan settled in during the first season as morally ambiguous but unbothered by that, it seemed that boyd was the much more interesting character. but i have to confess that i only half-watched some of the latter half of the second season, so i couldn't totally track boyd through it.

i said it, nothing i've seen here contradicts it

damn, a justified-style showdown appearing right on this very thread

please no one start shooting

no tension here

are you from kentucky? if so i have to warn you i don't recognise you as a human being.

feel like i could cut this tension with a knife

are you from kentucky?

nb i grew up in ireland, the most cosmopolitan country in the world. please don't talk to me.