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

I totally forgot about the preachers in S4, I liked ‘em

S5 also has the terrible Ava prison plotline, which, alas, was not Rappaport’s fault

Speaking of which more appreciation for Ava and Winona needed here

one of the reasons I prefer s3 to s2 is it makes much better use of Winona

the later seasons suffered from losing access to Natalie Zea thanks to that awful, forgotten sports agent comedy she starred in

It would be really hard to make the rest of the family even vaguely as interesting as Dewey, though

I also hit rewind to hear that line again

Damon Herriman is amazing

The line I had to play back was when this tech guy is asked if he can do something and says “what am I, an asshole?” and Raylan goes “...no?” in the funniest fucking way

The line "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole," was that written for the show?

More than once I have wondered that very thing.

I dropped the clip of that just the other day lol, so useful

btw anyone who wants more Carla Gugino kicking ass should check out both her Leonard series Karen Sisco (whose titular role she reprises unofficially on Justified) with Robert Forster and Bill Duke, as well as the newer, quite nasty crime series Jett

um what

you are just telling me this now

The line I had to play back was when this tech guy is asked if he can do something and says “what am I, an asshole?” and Raylan goes “...no?” in the funniest fucking way

They did versions of this bit a few times. My favorite was a scene where someone plants a gun in Wynona's car and she calls Raylan to tell him, and he asks her, "Did you touch the gun?" and she immediately responds, "What am I, an asshole?"

god I so badly need a new series where Olyphant verbally owns people, preferably as something other than law enforcement lol

instead, his next appearance is...s2 of The Mandalorian. sigh

He had that cannibal show with Drew Barrymore. I loved his cameo as a white sushi chef on The League.

I tried Santa Clarita Diet, but I don't think that super broad comic style really plays to his strengths

"If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole"

Damon Herriman, btw, is excellent on Mr. In Between which I think anyone who liked Justified would like.
It's on Hulu and is secretly one of the best things on there.
https://www.hulu.com/series/mr-inbetween-0c198187-f948-4ccd-b2b4-f5930ca4ac2f

You went to high school with Raylan Givens?!

been meaning to check that out, if only out of appreciation for 30-minute episodes

speaking of appreciation, it’s been too long since anyone’s mentioned wynn duffy and his majestic eyebrows

I'm a big fan of the line, "If you were in the first grade, bit a kid every week? They'd start to think of you as a biter."

this is a pretty good description of what makes Mr In-Between worth watching... that push off the stairs to start the series is one of the more fucked up things i've seen on television
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbbyKTZ5UU8

Wynn Duffy is a dark timeline Martin Mull.

omg

idk why this thread kicked off so hard again but it's making me fancy an s4 rewatch

the anus is on you

The line "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole," was that written for the show?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, June 12, 2020 12:13 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

More than once I have wondered that very thing.

― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Friday, June 12, 2020 12:14 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I dropped the clip of that just the other day lol, so useful

― What fash heil is this? (wins)

wins otm

we should do a justified ownage poll

hard to beat the "no you can't have your arm back" moment

a number of moments in the climax of the s1 finale would be high on my list, along with "next one's comin' faster"

Final scene of S2 is very powerful, too

margo martindale is a national treasure

s2 is overrated but she's amazing

"The next day, God sent me a sign: Now Hiring!"

I’d forgotten notable character Choo-Choo. Obviously written for some cheap laughs and as a Dewey replacement, but his monotone delivery is good

Anyone read Leonard's last novel, Raylan? I didn't realize there was any Raylan fiction beyond the first short story.

Apparently he went back to him because he was so inspired by and happy with how they treated the character in the show.

Getting Stockholm syndromed into enjoying Michael Rapaport's awful accent

nooooo

this faymilee needs tew stay tewgayther

Alicia Witt deserved better

He's like a Red Dead Redemption 2 comic relief character

his accent would be considered “too broad” on fkn HeeHaw

Season 6 is not that much better than Season 5 IMO, aside from the lack of Rappaport.

I have long said this!!

tbh I might give the edge to 5 even with Rap, the S6 plotlines are kind of who cares

i completed my ~rescreening~, s5 was where i bailed out the first time through, and in retrospect it was fine. s6 was a decent way to finish—would have been good to see a scene of interaction where raylan decided not to shoot boyd, though, instead of a cut showing it hadn't happened—but overall in the end it seemed like they happened onto something good with the raylan/boyd opposition at the beginning of the show that its format did not really let them treat properly. too much juggling going on in the interim seasons to defer the final showdown. the last season seemed notably better-paced, presumably because they had a goal in mind and raylan had nearly given up all pretense of doing any other work for the marshals but trying to get boyd.

not enough episodes had the kind of emotional impact the raylan/boyd pairing sorta set the show up to have. like over time it could never quite figure out if it was going to stay on the surface of a leonardesque world or treat the 'we dug coal together' bond as meaningful.

wynn duffy was a good criminal.

excellent commentary, j.