It is a great farking show. Keeps getting better. I wondered how they could top the Mags Bennett line last year, but it looks like they are on their way.

I am loving the show so far. Last year it took 6 episodes to get hot, this year things are clicking on all cylinders from the get go. Limehouse looks like a villian worthy of picking up Mags Bennett solid steel balls.

bhcompy: Olyphant is great as a cowboy/lawman. I don't necessarily like him that much in much else, but he's in his element in Justified.


Have you seen "The Girl Next Door" or "A Perfect Getaway"? He stole the show in both movies.

/Hey! Peterson!
//Get your black ass over here!

I am just a couple episodes into season 2 and I am loving it so far.

Really, Mr. Leonard? Everyone ALWAYS gets your characters better than you put them on paper. See:

3:10 to Yuma
Jackie Brown
Get Shorty

/ah hell, throw Be Cool in there too. I'd rather watch the movie again before I'd read the book again.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: violentsalvation: I am just a couple episodes into season 2 and I am loving it so far.

I say nothing else about Season 2, other than to say that it gets much, much better from there.


I'll be honest, I hadn't heard of the show until I saw you mentioning how good it is. So I gave it a shot, and you were right. Cheers to you good sir.

Team Justified Forever. Show is awesomesauce. And knowing how Elmore Leonard feels about showbiz in general, that's mighty high praise.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: That's the hell of it, isn't it? I haven't really liked him elsewhere (mind you, I haven't dug into Deadwood yet), but he's the shiz in Justified.

I believe he's even better in Deadwood, but I'm only 6 episodes into that one.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: coco ebert: Team Justified Forever.

Damn right, mammajamma. :)

:D I'm scared to read this thread as I haven't watched this week's episode yet. It's just waiting on my DVR, sitting there lonely and unwatched.

coco ebert: Team Justified Forever. Show is awesomesauce. And knowing how Elmore Leonard feels about showbiz in general, that's mighty high praise.

how bad ass was the showdown last week with ice pick dude? oh, i justified, how i heart you!

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: aiiee: I believe he's even better in Deadwood, but I'm only 6 episodes into that one.

Duly noted.

It's not that I've been avoiding that show (I dig Westerns), it's just that... well... it's one of those shows I just haven't gotten around to just yet, but probably will at some point.

I know! It took 7 years and many many many rave comments before I finally bought season one from Amazon. It really is an amazing show. You are *there* with the thieves and the hoors and the murderers and Mr. Hu and his pigs, all slogging around in the mud and trying to make their fortunes. A+ will watch again :)

"Justified" = awesome sauce. IIRC, the only problem Leonard has with "Justified" is the kind of hat Raylan wears.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: coco ebert: :D I'm scared to read this thread as I haven't watched this week's episode yet. It's just waiting on my DVR, sitting there lonely and unwatched.

:D

I won't ruin a thing for you, then.

All I'll say is... I like where this is going.

The last scene combined with the preview of next week's episode all adds up to something very promising.

Exciting!

f00f: coco ebert: Team Justified Forever. Show is awesomesauce. And knowing how Elmore Leonard feels about showbiz in general, that's mighty high praise.

how bad ass was the showdown last week with ice pick dude? oh, i justified, how i heart you!

That... was great. Too bad that character is gone. He made an excellent bad guy.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: f00f: how bad ass was the showdown last week with ice pick dude? oh, i justified, how i heart you!

VERY.

And with that being the FIRST EPISODE of this season, you know that it has to get amazingly better from here!

yeah, i was on the edge of my seat with that confrontation, even though, i mean, what could happen? raylan's the franchise.

coco ebert: f00f: coco ebert: Team Justified Forever. Show is awesomesauce. And knowing how Elmore Leonard feels about showbiz in general, that's mighty high praise.

how bad ass was the showdown last week with ice pick dude? oh, i justified, how i heart you!

That... was great. Too bad that character is gone. He made an excellent bad guy.

yeah, did he get shot in the shoulder? in the first episode, raylan shoots boyd and doesn't kill him, and they make a point of saying he did on purpose, that any other man he would've killed. do we chalk up him missing to his wounds, or is he just not the killing type anymore?

you know who the killing type is? motherfarking art.

safari joe does it again: Will it be hard to follow along if I haven't watched the first two seasons yet?


Not to keep up, no. But you should go back and watch Season 2, as it's one of the greatest seasons of television I've ever seen.

f00f: yeah, did he get shot in the shoulder? in the first episode, raylan shoots boyd and doesn't kill him, and they make a point of saying he did on purpose, that any other man he would've killed. do we chalk up him missing to his wounds, or is he just not the killing type anymore?

you know who the killing type is? motherfarking art.

Well, I think the first episode showed us that Raylan is off his game with the shooting. A guy threatening his pregnant girlfriend? He would definitely shoot to kill if he could.

And yes, Art is the man.

safari joe does it again: I saw the first one or two episodes of the series and wrote it off. Can't remember what I disliked about it. But based on everyone here raving about this show, I think I'll have to give it another shot.

Will it be hard to follow along if I haven't watched the first two seasons yet?

It's definitely worth starting at the beginning if you have NetFlix.

Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: robsul82: IIRC, the only problem Leonard has with "Justified" is the kind of hat Raylan wears.

?!

Can't imagine why.

It's not a big dramatic thing, he just thinks the big hat is too stock. He imagined the hat as "the businessman's Stetson," which is why that exact phrase was used in a conversation during the third season premiere. Just a little in-joke. (new window)

Excellent show. One of the best written story arc shows I've seen. And Olyphant is great in it.

My other favorite show is Supernatural. That show had two rough seasons and somehow it got great and then even better. Suspend the disbelief that these guys somehow don't have paying jobs and that the supernatural is real. The titles to the shows are the best I've seen (Are you there God, it's me Dean). The smarmy jokes are awesome. The x-files monster storylines are great. The good v. evil (Angels/Demons, now Titans, and ancient Gods, and everything in between) is awesome. One of my favorite episodes was an alternate universe where they played the heroes playing themselves as actors on a show called Supernatural...and got into a pissing match with one of the producers for naming a character after himself...just like in the actual show. Anyway...I like it.

So, in summary, other than a comedy here and there, my favorite shows are TV are Supernatural, Justified, and sometimes The Walking Dead. Justified and Supernatural for the great writing.

Heron: Having said that, Deadwood does a great job of making 60 minutes of dense dialogue engaging.

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