SummaryThis show is about U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, a modern day 19th century-style lawman, who enforces his brand of justice to put a target on his back with criminals and puts him at odds with his bosses in the Marshal service. As a result, he gets reassigned to the U.S. District covering the town where he grew up.
SummaryThis show is about U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, a modern day 19th century-style lawman, who enforces his brand of justice to put a target on his back with criminals and puts him at odds with his bosses in the Marshal service. As a result, he gets reassigned to the U.S. District covering the town where he grew up.
Still standing magnificently tall in its fifth season, Justified more than justifies its place as one of television's best dramas. That's a crowded field, of course, but, in this critic's opinion, it is not just one of the best. It is THE best.
Never fear. The Harlan County, KY of FX’s Justified remains mostly dirty to the touch, a breeding ground for knuckle-draggers and a few somewhat higher forms of low-life.
Remarkably literate Western that happens to take place in contemporary Kentucky. The best dialogue and characters in any current medium. Timothy Olyphant is a terrific, deeply troubled Gary Cooper for our times and Waylon Goggins has proven that he is the most watchable, unpredictable American actor alive.
I dread it's passing, as it is genuinely unique and therefore irreplaceable.
This series is about is extremely well written ,directed and acted its the BEST drama series, and this season is getting even better and I heard some of the best lines in the history of film-making specially by Walton Goggins.
The show's characters, whether major or minor, skirt familiar archetypes, but the writing and performances consistently subvert accepted lowlife caricatures, finding something less pointedly foreboding than odd and irrefutably human in Harlan County's heroes and villains.
The new season returns to the show's more familiar structure. But the character beats that played out last season--and in previous seasons, for that matter -- linger. The result is that the Harlan, Ky., and environs of Justified feels like a very familiar, lived-in place--in the best possible sense.
The show pretty much picks up where it left off. Gone are the seasons when Justified would slowly run up to a serialized storyline with a few stand-alone episodes--I kind of miss those because the bad guys were so fleshed out for a TV show--instead jumping back into established storylines and jump-starting new ones..... The season premiere [is] a strong set-up episode.
This is by far the best free cable series on TV. The story is good, the characters are great, and most importantly it doesn't fell like a crappy Network action show. It's the opposite of the Blacklist or the Marvel show. They are forced crap action, with no real fell to them.
Compared to the previous four seasons, the best way I can describe this season is with two words: TRAIN WRECK. Slow to build up and it's clear the writers are trying to juggle too many plot points at once. The story arcs are some of the weakest in the series and the writers keep getting sidetracked by minutia along the way.
The introduction of the Crowes, which had been built up in the pre-season leadup spots, has turned out to be a complete bust because they're simply not compelling characters, their story is flimsier than toilet paper, and they shift the focus away from the Boyd/Raylan storylines too much. Case-in-point: We wasted an ENTIRE episode dealing with Raylan and the runaway Kendal, which turned out to be all for naught a mere few episodes later. It's like the writers didn't even remember they had written that episode at all a few scripts later and then scrambled to throw in a line to connect the episodes later.
User "apaeth" hits the nail on the head regarding Timothy Olyphant's performance as Raylan. He doesn't even seem like he wants to be playing the part anymore. Maybe part of that is because he's been helping produce the show, or maybe he's just not into the writing anymore, who knows. Walton Goggins is still absolutely amazing as Boyd and he's one of the few characters this season who I still feel a connection with. Raylan feels like a caricature by comparison. The rest of the "Marshals" cast, when they're around, are just phoning it in this season. As previously mentioned, the Crowes are boring and evoke zero emotional response while many other compelling characters had brief early series cameos and then fell off the face of the earth.
This will be the first season where the end will leave me completely dissatisfied and I'm not even sure I care to wait a year to see how they tie up all the loose ends they can't seem to juggle this season.
Season Five has been rather disappointing. The Florida Crowes aren't menacing or interesting. Darryl was miscast, Kendal and Wendy are a drag; Danny was the only one who really fit in and conveyed real psychopathy on screen.
Ava's story-line is just brutal and boring. Boyd is all over the map and Raylan looks like he wants to be anywhere else rather than acting out the substandard scripts. The writers went overboard with Art's anger and you can tell the budget has become an issue with the limited and restricted appearances by both Tim and Rachel who are popular with the fans.
At least we saw a lot of the hilarious Dewey Crowe and his dim-witted antics - even **** Bennet got a few minutes on screen....
By far the poorest season since #1 and a major step back from season four.
As much as I would love to see Justified succeed, Season 5 feels like the show is heading towards a dead end... the plot has turned incredibly dull and drawn out compared to GOT or Sherlock Holmes... the main actors are looking wary on set, and it shows in their delivery... Ava Crowder women prison scenes had potential, but poorly developed and acted.... the introduction of Crowe family was a mistake, especially the casting of Darryl, whose already been typecast as a weak minded character (e.g. Higher Learning)... as is Mexican cartel boss Mr. Yoon (who previously played silly Japanese sidekick in Heros, another horrible casting decision... the scandal involving Deputy Chief Art was nothing short of confusing and redundant... unlike Breaking Bad, season 5 of Justified has been nothing but downhill.