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

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?"

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

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