Watching Justified….

“How do you know he can be trusted?” “We dug coal together”

Think of it as an Appalachian

It's a weastern

he died by shooting himself in the armpit

The bullets do move fast. Except once.

He is an angry man. But JUSTIFIED Lol

there’s one season where he basically goes out of his way to not just shoot people and it’s a pretty funny bit ngl

It's essentially like a western, but in a modern setting. It takes a bit to get going, but the writing is so good.

Loved that. "Ohhhh this is the hard part" Ice. Cold.

Genuinely one of the hardest lines of all time

Deputy, that just might be the coolest thing I ever laid ears on.

What makes Justified so good is that this is both extremely cool in the moment and super embarrassing when he has to explain it to some lawyers later.

Also, IIRC Boyd was originally supposed to die in the dinner table shootout in Ep.1, but once they started cutting together the episode they realized they had lightning in a bottle in the chemistry between Olyphant and Goggins, so they tacked on the ambulance scene to show he survived and started writing the parallel Boyd plot lines, starting a couple episodes in. Unfortunately, that did cut into the screen time of some of the other Marshalls, who I believe were supposed to be more prominent characters in the original show concept.

This is such a weird phenomenon on listnook and especially this show. This is completely not true. Justified was given a full 13-episode order by FX on July 28, 2009 — months before it even premiered on March 16, 2010. What did happen mid-season was the renewal for a second season. FX ordered a second season on May 3, 2010, at which point six episodes of season one still remained. The confusion gets a little more murky or understandable when you factor in the actual real life change that happened after the pilot episode with the Boyd character. After surviving the gunshot in the pilot, Boyd is sent to prison and he's largely absent from the show for the first chunk of the season. He doesn't get released until around episode six or seven, at which point Goggins' presence becomes dramatically more prominent in the back half. That's how someone could reasonably scramble all of that into what you heard: they correctly remember that Boyd is sidelined early on, and that the show genuinely does feel different once he's back and active. They also vaguely recall the real story that keeping Boyd alive at all was an unplanned, reactive decision made after the pilot. Combine those two true things and it's easy to misremember it as "they didn't really commit to Goggins until midway through the season." From there it's a short, sloppy leap to "they didn't get their full season order until episode six, that's why it picks up in episode seven." The full 13-episode order was actually in place before the show ever aired, so the network pickup story is just wrong. But Boyd being in prison for the first portion of the season does create a real, noticeable before-and-after quality to season one that makes the false version feel intuitive when someone is half-remembering it.

On the Justified sublistnook there is a large and vocal contingent that believe season 4 is actually the superior season of the series (nobody thinks 2 is bad though). Season 4 truthers unite!

Episode 4 does stand out to me for being pretty great for a standalone case-of-the-week. Alan Ruck’s role is one of the more memorable despite >!only being in one episode!<

At least season 3 has Quarles.

There is no seventh. Unless you're talking about primeval.

What else can one expect from the man with four kidneys?

had no idea that dude was australian until i saw mr inbetween lol

Ohhhhhhhh these is end times for Dewey Crowe

My brother and I sometimes will randomly say Dewey Crowe

Moving from villain of the week to a more arc focused narrative with side quests was the best thing they ever did.

It's more like dad tv can also be good tv. Dad has a point now and again.

is it allowed to be momTV? cos damn that man is handsome and a sharp shooter too

Next one's coming faster

It's specifically a Neo-Western if that helps.

He was supposed to die in the pilot, iirc. But Walton Goggins did such a great job they rewrote it to keep him in.

I was the reverse, watched justified then found out about deadwood the show. When I watched deadwood I was like wait so many ppl in justified are in deadwood but ofc it’s the opposite. Justified is truly one of those shows with no filler so you should be able to enjoy it begin to end. Have fun

When you get to the bullet scene feel free to reply to this comment with your unfiltered reaction. It’ll be funny

The one that just tries to run up on him? I had to rewind that a few times

With the table?

Danny Crowe and the “21 foot rule”.

I haven't put it down. I never had a chance to watch it before, but I recently subscribed to Disney+ and that's just as far as I've gotten.