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Justified, I Love You: 21 Reasons

Ok, so this is just gonna be a stupid fan girl gushing session directed mostly at my brother Stuprendan, and the three other readers, or so, of this blog with whom I regularly communicate about “Justified.” But the last two episodes have been so fantastic that I think they literally gave me a contact high. I just finished this past Tuesday’s, and I am beaming with joy.

It’s sort of like a great novel that’s taken the time to really develop the characters, so you know exactly how they’ll act in any given situation. They stay true to themselves — and loyal to the viewer. You truly love them.

Whoever is writing the shows these days has really picked up their game — I think Justified might be the best show currently on television. The past two episodes are certainly the best tv I’ve seen all year.

March 21, 2013 Justified Raylan Givens Television Reviews FX Decoy

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I was going to write some kind of recap of last night’s Justified episode, but Matt Zoller Seitz already wrote something so good on Vulture that it’s impossible to add anything interesting.

“For all its gore, gunfire, and criminal nastiness, it’s a joyous show; even when the characters are scowling, the show seems to be grinning at you. It’s that Elmore Leonard DNA that cinches it, I think. Although Olyphant, Yost, and their superb writing staff have little day-to-day involvement with the master, his spirit seems to guide their choices. It’s the spirit of an entertainer who wants to tell the truth about people without congratulating himself on his insight. It’s the voice of a wise man who’s been around and seen a lot and who knows that, sooner or later, all of these drama queens and kings will be fertilizing daffodils. Leonard has spent his life creating fiction that’s precise, relaxed, droll, and wise about human behavior, yet so much fun that even some fans are reluctant to call it what it is: art.”

In other words, if you’re not watching Justified yet, you’re a philistine and a fool.

I will say that after the first episode of Season 4, I already have much higher hopes than I did for Season 3. I like it when the drama stays in Harlan county. The rest of the riff raff deserves what the Jody got—he was the convict with the hamburgers in the premiere—which is to be stuffed in the back of Raylan Given’s car, and taken beyond state boundaries.

(And now, I’ll return to my fantasy of Caleb secretly turning out be Raylan Givens in disguise.)

January 9, 2013 Justified Matt Zoller Seitz Raylan givens Season 4 social commentary

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Justified Season 3: A Review

I was in the midst of watching Timothy Olyphant awkwardly interact with Rose Byrne in an episode of Damages last night, when I realized that I forgot to write about Justified in the review section of my post yesterday.

Now, I personally think that Justified is the most underrated show on television, but I’m warned you before, and I’ll warn you again, that judgement is definitely influenced by the stirrings I get in my lady parts whenever Raylan Givens—played by Olyphant—walks on the screen.

Because if a show like Damages is all about no one ever knowing what the hell is really going on, and hence, no one being able to fix it, then Justified is all about the ability of one man—Raylan—to walk into any dirty situation, and within one episode, be able to clean it all up, whether he knows what’s going on or not. Shit, all the man needs to be wearing is his cowboy hat, and every bad guy loses his gun, and every pussy within a 10 mile radius is sighing with relief.