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

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

Dickie is great! wtf

I guess I liked all the seasons. Justified is a great tv show imho.

yeah i like dickie. the only character (so far) that made me exasperated every time they showed up was fuckin' gary

of course, the show also seemed to hate gary so it was fine

brad you're gonna lose your shit at how good S4 is!!

i've been watching it for my roommate

wow i meant i've been watching it with my roommate, i give up on writing sentences

They don't get mentioned too much but I really like Joe "Jurassic Park" Mazzello and Lindsay Pulsipher in their s4 roles. The latter also stars in the totally unhinged avant horror movie The Oregonian, which is worth a watch if yer hankering for ersatz Lynchian terror.

also he's never been mentioned itt but Nicky Augustine is a great character and I love Mike O'Malley a lot

They really screwed up the Crowe family casting imo

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

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?"