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

the overall arc, i have always thought, is a gradual adjustment of what raylan and boyd can justify as true and forgivable in the face of their own harsh realities. hence boyd's proposal and raylan's willingness to allow boyd to be boyd.

Gotta say, this season feels really low stakes just after half-time. Totally forgotten why I should give a shit who Drew Peterson is, Boyd's problems are pretty scattershot and the random "I'MMA KILL YOU RAYLAN" hoods aren't exactly sparking the imagination, goofball threat video aside

Off episode this week, but really enjoying the season so far.

Yeah, bad dialogue this ep.

back on track this week though.
damn, lotta bodies. And A MAJOR DEATH
those of you requesting character development, here you go

that major death's last words were so, so perfect

That was...a large body count. And yes, that major development was handled v. nicely.

Lots of heavy-handed hints in this episode as to who Drew Thompson really is, huh? Wonder how long they'll keep stringing it out before the end of the season.

Yeah. I didn't get it, but every review pointed it out, and it's... yeah, it makes sense. Still, I like hints. Shows a sense of self-awareness. I mean, it's not like that season of Dexter with the shocking twist that everyone saw coming.

it had occurred to me but i was sorta hoping it wasn't the case as i'd rather keep that actor around for a few more seasons

a friend of mine was an extra in the episode before last nights!

Damn, that opening scene was brutal. Great ep though. Anyone rewatch the last scene between Raylan and Arlo in the previous episode?

really good plotting this episode. appreciated bringing in and then disposing of the hitman so rapidly.

I liked Raylan's response to shooting the hit man - that he really hoped the dude wasn't just an overzealous cop. But honestly, every episode of this show needs more Art-making-fun-of-Raylan.

they're on a good roll here now.
showing their hand with drew thompson two shows ago and then really coming to the table with a smoking gun last episode i was half afraid they'd play this past the point of it being acceptable to watch, given that the show tends to give a viewer so much credit for intelligence. Glad they realized they played it as far as it was gonna go and just put the cards on the table for endgame. And same for ella mae!

for a second i was really convinced it was patton oswalt there haha

I know, I had my "I told you!" cocked and loaded.

Did you read that there were several characters in the running to be Thompson until the last minute? Does raise some questions, though, since they portrayed Shelby as such a good, upstanding guy. Are they going to break him bad? Where is Ellen May now?

in a car with drew i think

shelby as depicted was still a little crooked, it's just in harlan a little crooked is pretty damn upstanding. caught up last night, didn't really have any problems w/ the season earlier but man these last few were a ton of fun. stoked we're gonna see some straight marshalling going on, no shoehorning 'why are the us marshal's concerned with this again' in. no real reason (and tbh i doubt they do two major deaths this season) but i have had the weirdest bad feeling about ava lately.

Oh, as soon as Boyd proposed I got a strong Dead Ava Walking vibe.

Yeah, it hit that "everything is going our way" feeling which is usually a precursor to tragedy.

that would set up a good "NOTHING TO LOSE BITCHES" plotline for next season and is a safe bet considering the way they like to ping pong these two guys from tragedy to tragedy.
maybe close up on raylan with his new son and boyd at the grave, maybe him holding raylan accountable somehow
/fanfic

last two were definitely a step up - though damn if you can't ratchet things up in the last few eps of the season you shouldn't be on cable - but i really hope season 5 has a better engine than Who Is The Old Fart Who Faked His Death In 1983?

as soon as Boyd proposed I got a strong Dead Ava Walking vibe

Definitely. And keep in mind that Yost, Olyphant and co. see this as roughly a six-season show.

God I fell way behind but I'm all caught up now

Impressed by Eldard's work as Colt. He was great! And that last Raylan/Arlo scene was so awesome I rewound it so I could see it again :)

DAMN these last 2 episodes were really great! My main excitement was omg RAYLAN'S SHOOTING UP BAD GUYS AGAIN. I was getting kind of bored with all of his side-gigs with pretty ladies and not really marshalling but kinda...I didn't *mind* Boyd being the center for a while but it just didn't feel quite as compelling at first. But I loved how they pulled all those stories together with these last couple of episodes, excited to see how the rest plays out now.

And yeah, I'm getting a real "marked for death" feel off Ava too.

Oh and the whole class thing with Boyd and the 3 rich guys was fascinating to watch, especially in that first meeting at the orgy house. You could almost see the scales fall from his eyes when their tone changed...ugh Goggins is so great, I want him to be in all the tv shows I watch

okay how come is it that everyone keeps talking about how pretty Raylan is and no one wants to talk about the incredible hotness of Rachel Brooks

good ep, good pace, good direction to the end of the season
THE RETURN OF LIMEHOUSE

Oh man, shit just got real.

Abby Miller's performance as Ellie May is way underappreciated.

I feel like one of the many great things about this season is the way the writers, etc. have decided to craft the plot in order to exploit the recurring cast (Beaver, Miller, Burns) as much as possible.

Also this last episode was fucking hilarious.

great dialogue w/ rachel, appreciate the way things came together. they're always really good at tying things up with big shootout finales.

yeah man that was a really good episode

Art's speech was an epic bit of fan service/not-annoying recapping.

What a fun episode!

On fire right now

They almost filmed a lot of this season on a friend's isolated canyon neighborhood near Santa Clarita and Green Valley. The street is owned by Water and Power, and Justified was r down to film there because it doesn't look like LA at all, this street in the middle of nowhere that doesn't get cell reception, but Water and Power said that the street had to look untouched by production at the end of every day's filming and that's an lol request.

Would've been cool if they had filmed there. Only four families, all water and power employees, on the entire road. About four abandoned houses.

"Fun" is what makes this show so consistently watchable i think. it's regularly cornball and telenovela levels of batshit but it's also almost always just FUN

drew... drewBACCA?

"drew mamma"

pretty sure he's not gonna make it to the end of the season but ron eldard is great in this. feels like boyd might be running his course as well.

so many fun bits this episode. the astronaut argument. the convoy standoff. "yolo". "yoohoo". ava making her move. the extended set-up to the getaway.

I think Ava is the one that's gonna get got. Boyd and Colt are gonna make it through.

i can't imagine boyd goes before final season.

Boyd's safe for sure. The whole series is framed around the Boyd-Raylan relationship.

I don't know about colt, though I'd like to see him survive.

just watched this week's episode. man i remember at one point during the second season thinking this was about to turn into a much better, smarter show but tbh i think i'm glad it didn't cuz what it is so fucking entertaining. i've never been impressed w/ patton oswalt's dramatic acting before (certainly didn't think he was 'robbed' of an oscar nomination for young adult) but thought he was great this week, the tim-colt shit was fantastic (and i really hope and kinda think at this point that colt hangs around). ava - woo boy. at least she didn't kill augustine (which is where i thought it was going) but yeah that marked for death feeling is super strong. easy way to punish boyd and johnny (and am i forgetting any inkling of johnny having a thing for ava before this? beyond 'all crowders are in love w/ ava'?) but keep them around cuz they've proved they're either smart enough or weaselly enough to be useful. thinking that there's no way wynn and boyd both buy it or 'disappear' so what's the turn there, what's coming?

I think there may be another Boyd long con in play, what with Colt killing the henchman and Ava escaping Augustine. Don't know what, though. How many eps left? Two?

yeah I kinda got long con vibe as well, esp w/ them tipping from the get go that boyd is letting augustine think he's smarter than boyd for whatever reason.

Well given what we have seen so far, clearly Boyd knows about the coal train out of town. I would not be surprised if he still captured or killed Drew, probably with the help of Colt, then leveraged that with Detroit, not least to punish Augustine.

I love how much of this season has been spent introducing or fleshing out peripheral characters, but it's pretty weak sauce to bring back his MIA wive just to use her as woman in jeopardy bait.