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

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

man i wish you hadn't brought nick searcy's twitter to my attention

yeah, sorry. I just had to spread the misery.

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

At this point my expectation is that one adult Crowe will die in each of the three episodes left this season (my bet: Wendy, then Dewey, then Daryl Jr.) and Raylan will marry Kendal off to Loretta the teenage pot dealer, with Boyd officiating.

Dewey Crowe will never die.

Next season to feature David Schwimmer as Delroy Crowe, a long feared cousin from nawlins who heard everyone's been hanging around Bumfuck Kentucky looking to sell drugs or get a payoff or some shit and feels left out. His henchmen are Malcolm Jamal Warner and Freddie prinze jr (as "Polecat").

i'd be down for malcolm jamal warner and DJ Qualls

I've come back around to this season -- sure it's past it's prime now, but it's been pretty consistently great for the last 3-4 episodes, rather than all over the map like before. Not sure I really care about guest star of the week syndrome.

On the neg side, it does seem like a classic annoying Jutsified move to promote Jere Burns to regular then give him the least to do for all five seasons.

i misread that as "pretty consistently great for the last 3-4 seasons, rather than all over the map like before" and was stunned.

the evolution of his character from "omg what is that weirdo going to do" to "jesus, is this peeved middle manager going to do ANYTHING?" has been pretty sad.

wynn, i mean

I was hoping for a return of psycho wynn with the scene of him torturing a drug dealer with bb gun.

http://graphtv.kevinformatics.com/tt1489428

Just realised Picker was this guy. Crazy.

http://www.abload.de/img/thebreakfastclub7xh8i.jpg

Everything is pointing to Ava dying or at least getting severely incapacitated next week.

Anyway, good penultimate ep.

So, what, Ava dies and that sets up Raylan v Boyd for the final season I guess? That would kind of invalidate all time on the prison scenes but sounds plausible

The way this season has gone, I'd be less surprised to see Ava get out prison, become Lady Scarface and go after both of her two most recent boyfriends.

glad the plot's finally sorta going somewhere but jesus has the wit diminished drastically on this show. "Well I assumed you weren't talking your waiter at your favorite mexican restaurant" SAUCY, boyd! And making Dewey do not just the "anus" bit but the "third person" bit? Argh.

there was a long pause after dewey said "i don't get you" to raylan from the back of the cop car that probably could have used a sad trombone or a banjo

oh god, yes

I can't remember, did Raylan actually facepalm when Dewey started creeping up on the meeting, guns drawn?

"I don't understand you" was a neat callback to the pilot, I thought. Made me think that might be the last we see of Dewey.

Don't recall Raylan facepalming, he does put about half of his fist in his mouth, though.

Ah, yes, that was it. Dewey really hit the jackpot, claiming the drugs were his, confessing to murder with details, and referring to himself in the third person. What a guy.

finally doing my 'rescreen' of this

boyd's preaching is so great

We got burned by the variable episode lengths on the very last one. Set the DVR to record it and the episode cut off with about 3 minutes left.

For a moment in the last ep I thought they were relocating to Miami for the last season, that might have been a good idea tbh.

worked for archer

i mean, just for the shot of boyd putting on sunglasses in a convertible in a palm tree-heavy montage

should i watch this season? for some reason i never made it past ep1.

I can't recommend it. Read the final episode recap, hope for the best for s6, and save yourself 13-14 hours to watch good stuff.

Prob not a good sign when I don't realize my dvr didn't tape the finale until over a month later

damn that is too bad. hero to zero.

As with all tv shows that hit a bad patch or jump the shark, The True Never-Before-Told Gossipfest of Why That Season Sucked will show up in a year or two. I'm looking forward to that as much as I'm looking forward to the actual last season of the show.

I assume the death of Leonard had something to do with it. That they proactively made last season the last one is a good sign that something's a bit rotten at the core. Maybe some of the principals have other projects that they need to take on? In any case, yes: this was a particularly bad season but maybe still worth watching? Still better than 80% of tv drama, just not nearly as good as what I've grown accustomed to from justified.
also WilliamC otm

Part of why I forgot to watch the finale is this thread didn't receive a bump after it aired - also never a good sign

i thought the last ep was particularly bad quite frankly. Raylan's stinger line to rappaport's character felt spectacularly out of character and the whole "last-episode-time-for-this-season's-baddie-to-get-his-comeuppance" felt particularly formulaic and bored

i'd argue anything you need to know from last season they'll cover w/ a previously on justified before the first episode next season

i might not disagree there.

i couldn't distinguish any variation in quality or watchability between S5 and the 2 seasons before it. if anything it held my interest more than S4.

All I know is that as a huge fan of this show, I'm still only about 9 episodes into this fifth season and so little has happened that each episode might as well have been the first episode of the season. Doesn't make it bad, but the fact that it doesn't feel like it's building up to anything just three or so eps from the end is something of a letdown. Like, is Michael Rappaport and his bad accent really supposed to be the season's narrative linchpin?

it's about FAMILY see

The whole season was just wheel spinning. Actually so was the last season but S4's story was way more fun.

when i started this season i could barely remember any of the plot/character stuff they were talking about so i guess i havent been that invested for a while now