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

funny to hear people finally snapping and giving up when i'm kind of intrigued by where the hell they're going with raylan. possibly nowhere (wouldn't be the first show to have character motivations jerked all over the place in later seasons) but he's been aggressively non-shit-giving in the least aggressive way possible, and i almost expect him to turn crooked or something.

like, tell us again you won a radio contest, dude

I'd like to think none of this has anything to do with the death of Elmore Leonard.

One big prob. is turning Boyd into some sort of weird, bug-eyed Southern Gothic cartoon (which the show has even made fun of), while Raylan is so smug in his confidence he's sort of a non-entity - what's danger to a dude who never misses? Three of the best characters are his co-workers, but they're barely on-screen. Some of the least interesting stuff is his love life, and that takes up a ton of time. And given all the big personalities the show has to work with, Rapaport is just a lumbering miscast mistake. I'd rather the ghost of Mags Bennett than his whatever the fuck accent he's struggling to maintain.

His main danger is being stuck on a desk at work, estranged from his ex-wife and daughter with circumstances showing that he really isn't motivated to go see them, and finally separated from the crime going on in his hometown due to burnout.

With his dad gone, his life on hold, and Boyd moving into more complex territory, Raylan's been getting progressively more restless. Kind of thinking this is a pressure cooker that we're not quite noticing yet.

If they're actually attempting "let's be boring* to set up an amazing emotional climax and final-season plotline," then I will tip my cap.

* I know nobody is actually trying to be boring.

I don't know, Raylan is pretty bored and fed up, trying to get transferred and all.

I think a spin-off series featuring Nick Searcy and co would be excellent, definitely would watch. Back in Season 3 one of the ep's they mainly gave to Searcy was a standout

i would soooo be down for a show that actually centered around the marshall's office

I don't feel like theshow is totally going off the rails or anything, it's just a bit of a weak patch. They're four and a half seasons in, it happens. I'll be very surprisedif they don't have some really great stuff in store for the final season (or even the end of this one).

Season's going to end with Rapaport showing off the fancy gator pool he had built, because he missed gators so much. Then he's going to give a long speech about gators before Raylan shoots him and he falls in the gator tank and is eaten. Then they're going to find out he was a crooked undercover NYC agent. Then some weed-smoking, moonshine-swilling mountain person finds the gator (which had been on the loose), thinks it's a dragon and kills it to eat it. When the hillbilly takes a bite of his gator burger he bites into something hard, and it turns out to be Rapaport's badge. So the hillbilly tosses the shield over his shoulder and it lands with a thud on a pile of other found badges and personal effects that mean nothing to this man of the mountain soil. Banjo music plays. The end.

Oh, sorry: SPOILERS!

unless i missed a sentence of exposition somewhere, last night's "i dunno how william forsythe found them in that parking lot before us...or even found another car...we may never know!" was a real storytelling low point for the show. not to mention how little they gave forsythe to work with.

yyyyeah. time to stop adding new characters for fuck's sake. Which will not happen; we have a VERY SPECIAL GUEST STAR next week already.
This isn't breaking the show for me but it's miring it down in needless complexity and occasionally lax plotting.

Its a show where you never know when Dave foley or the guy who played Avon barks dale will just...be there, sitting and waiting to be told to do something

anybody got any serious suggestions as to why they've gone down this bizarre rabbit hole of introducing major character actors to do one-off episodes? Did olyphant get really drunk at a party and tell everyone there to be in the new season?

well, for what it's worth, it seemed like last year's season was a popular breakthrough. So maybe there are more actors clamoring to get caSt.

They're finishing it up next year, aren't they? Maybe this the way the producers audition every actor they like to see who they want to work with next.

This season feels like the point in a biopic where it either turns around for the main character, or it all finally slides into hell.

I just discovered this after watching some of the same cast in Deadwood which I'd had on my computer for years but not watched all the way through. Much easier now that i can stick things on a memory stick and then stick that into the USB slot on my tv. Would be even easier if I sorted out Wi Fi.

Anyway I think I'm about 3/4 of the way through the 2nd season after starting around beginning of the week. Got season 3 d/lded but can't find a reasonably small 4.

Enjoying it so far. But obvioulsy currently way behind.

Mainly discovered it cos I was looking for a Western detective serial I saw the trailer for. Now not sure if it was a tv series or a film. Released some time over the last year I think,possibly slightly longer ago. Seemed to be a somewhat offbeat Western set show & definitely not the Lone ranger. Couldn't find anything outside of thsi and Hell On Wheels as current ish Western tv shows. & this is obviously modern day even if a lot of the epistemology appears to be the same.

got as far as end of season 3 but then the only torrents of the show are 10GB larger than for the first 3, actually, seen one at 14GB and one at 42GB. l Wonder why there aren't smaller sets around. If the 1st 2 were around 4GB.

Do you mean for the whole season? Might just be bundled up 720p rips (or even DVD/BluRips).

stevolende maybe you were looking for longmire?

Is Longmire another contemporary western? As far as I am aware the thing I'm looking for is set in the 19th century

Do you mean for the whole season? Might just be bundled up 720p rips (or even DVD/BluRips).

― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Sunday, March 9, 2014 9:54 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Could be down to the source but don't know why the smaller form doesn't exist for the series & 42GB seems massive. Should be big enough for everything to date

yeah, longmire's contemporary. dunno anything 19th century?

Carnivale?

No, have that and watched at least the first season & it's set in the depression isn't it? so 20th century.

Copper is 19th c

Cool, will check that out. Thanks.

Looks like it might be the one, just watching the first episode now.

It isn't much cop :P

Pretty good ep last night. Really enjoyed Eric Roberts, and I hope he comes back for future episodes.

The final shot was, in and of itself, pretty awesome too.

I have not had high hopes for this season's prospects, but I am feeling better about it after last night. Four more to wrap up a pretty big mess of multiple plot lines, but I think the writers have shown they're up to it.

love they give the guy a whole shakespeare riff as though he's due to be another quirky character and then just knock him right out.

and then they nail the punchline to the 20 foot rule

so good

the two appearances by [spoiler] were perfect

Dialogue and plotting could be a lot sharper but those were both rewarding bits

I cracked up so hard at that knife conclusion

i dunno, I've decided this show is off the rails right now based on the last two episodes
too many guests, too many plotlines and too much rumbling in directions that don't support the show
the ava line is a mess and ridiculous

simultaneously feels like there is way too much and way too little going on

I was enjoying the Ava storyline but this last episode went too far with it for my liking. Conversely, they fixed most of the rest of the plotlines in that same episode. It's been a weird season.

Do you guys think the Crowe kid is going to end up killing his dipshit uncle?

Nah, Raylan'll do it for him so the kid doesn't go down the irredeemably dark path, etc etc.

Same as Loretta & Mags.

they seem to be sending the kid to kill raylan's ex and he ends up shooting art instead based on the direction of the plot at the end there and the "next week on" blurb

i lolled at the dickie bit

"I don't think he took my advice in the way that it was intended"

Apparently there is a six-minute take of the "map of Kentucky" spiel. DVD extra, please.

RAYLAN DON'T HANG UP IT'S DICKIE CROWE

I hope the last episode ends with everyone dead or getting some needed sleep becuz everyone's just so tired and confused and exasperated by fate except Raylan who's punchy and bored like capt Kirk when he's dealing with an isolated all powerful god who won't let the enterprise leave his planet for the 800th time

If Art dies, I wonder if it won't have been motivated by Nick Searcy's gross Twitter antics. (Probably he'll survive, though.)

"Jesus everybody sucks I should ask Mary steenburgen what to do in a manner that seems droll and menacing but really isn't" - a believable impulse this season