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

Loved this show so much!

Advance warning that S5 is ropey and really goes through the motions, but the last season after that is great.

They really underused jere burns though huh

Lol @ Raylan's "I disarmed him" comment.

smokin' oxycotin and watchin' ladies tennis in my motorcoach

They really underused jere burns though huh

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whaaat no way. wynn duffy was an excellent character

yeah he gets good stuff to do in every season (ok maybe not s5)

S4 E1 is wild. What is up with Arlo's sudden shift from dopey small time hood/thug to prison assassin?

And if the thing in the wall is so valuable/dangerous, why wasn't he spending all his time searching for the presumed money/destroying the evidence instead of leaving it in the wall for 30 years.

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lololol Forgot Quarles reaching for his forearm and Raylan just slowly pulling it away from him.

We just finished S4 after a bit of a delay. Great season, though I felt like it lost a bit of steam after the Drew Thompson reveal and Detroit just sort of gives up.

S5 is almost $30 on Amazon so don't think I'll be watching it any time soon.

iirc season 5 is not good. season 6 on the other hand...
I might be ready to rewatch this myself sometime.

they should pay US $30 to watch s5
i hate that season so much
tbh i dont think i finished it?

PBKR i dunno if you're in the US but Justified is on Hulu which would make it notably cheaper.

Is Season 5 Michael Rappaport?

yep

diiiiiiire is the only word

only the Alan Tudyk appearance episode and the "21-foot rule" scene are worth revisiting

wood harris was fun!

Leonard died before S5 iirc

it's been a while since i've watched, but i remember s5 being a step down, but not bad by any means. in general, even seasons > odd seasons in justified, but it's all good.

i wouldn't spend 30 bucks on it, but if you're already buying seasons of tv, you might as well get a hulu sub for a couple months to watch justified and many other shows (like, say, what we do in the shadows).

Ya I always assumed Leonard dying took the wind out of their sails xp

Ppl overstate the extent to which s6 is better. It was majorly assisted by all those guest stars.

Unpopular opinion: the first season was the best season, back when the show was more episodic and more driven by Raylan rather than Boyd. (I love Boyd, I just don't like whole seasons of Raylan hanging around waiting for Boyd to do something.)

s1 rules but I doubt the "lawman shoots someone dead in every episode" format had legs

There's a point in S5 where Boyd becomes a full-on unsympathetic murderer and it becomes less enjoyable rooting for him - IIRC even Walton Goggins had a problem with that.

yeah, that made a lot of the Boyd/Ava stuff in s6 a drag for me

and also made the ending, poignant as it was, a little jarring

Yeah. That's not a knock on Goggins though - he improvised that last line, even!

I like S2 (peak serious Justified) and S4 (peak larky Justified) best, although the first and last seasons are excellent and fun

I still blanch when I think about how Picker went out, though

S1 felt like they planned to make Tim and Rachel more prominent characters than they wound up.

yeah, Rachel never got anything interesting to do and the ep with her brother is the nadir of possibly the whole show outside of s5. at least Tim got the great stuff w Ron Eldard in s4

i loved tim, he was one of the wise-crackiest in a show full of wise-crackers

yeah he perfected that hyper-dry delivery

in S5 where Boyd becomes a full-on unsympathetic murderer

which makes the pilot what exactly???

lololol Forgot Quarles reaching for his forearm and Raylan just slowly pulling it away from him.

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I've been rewatching the whole series and when I got to this scene I had to hit rewind and watch it a second time

i'm resisting adding the gif

I've said this before I'm sure but McDonough/Quarles was an underrated season baddie

S1 I want to say stays pretty true to the course of the novella. I don't remember the Michael Rappaport season being that bad, mostly just him.

Pretty true but much less funny

Rappaport’s accent is so distracting, it kinda ruins a lot of that season. It’s like trying to watch an okay movie in a sealed room where someone farted and you cant leave

but also in s5 i just found that i did not care ~at all~ about any of the plots
like, telling me there are stakes is not the same as HAVING stakes

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say it’s really just rapaport that sinks that season & people go way ott about its overall badness, but that he is enough to sink it. It’s not just the horrible accent, he’s just totally miscast and always looks like he’s struggling

also he looks like a corpse that's been soaking in water for a couple of days

I've said this before I'm sure but McDonough/Quarles was an underrated season baddie

The costume designer should have gotten an Emmy for Dickie Bennett alone.

I've said this before I'm sure but McDonough/Quarles was an underrated season baddie

What I thought was so funny about Quarles was how he starts off as this uber boss baddie, but as he gets more manic and aggro by the end all the other characters (Duffy, Detroit, Raylan, etc.) not to mention the viewers end up hating him and wanting him dead. When it's over, everyone's just relieved that the asshole is gone like some dick you went to college with.

the viewers end up hating him and wanting him dead

Funny how they were able to accomplish this arc with Quarles in just one season, yet they never seemed to understand that one episode was enough for Dickie Bennett.

Dickie Bennett was great. Like a redneck poor-man's Smerdyakov.

otm dickie is a wonderful creation

I thought it would be kinda funny if a one-armed Quarles turned out to be alive and in prison, but I'm sure it's for the best they didn't do that

i've only seen the first three season but i loved quarles

i've been watching it for my roommate so keeping up with it means both of our moods have to be justified-aligned, hopefully we'll be starting s4 soon