Justified thread

I literally don't think that finale could have been any better. Damn fantastic way to send off a superb series.

Gonna miss you Justified.

I was expecting something a bit more grim, but a happy ending is good too.

That said, a cynical person could look at the way things wrapped up and perhaps think it might be in service of "six seasons and a movie."

zeroKFE wrote:

I was expecting something a bit more grim, but a happy ending is good too.

That said, a cynical person could look at the way things wrapped up and perhaps think it might be in service of "six seasons and a movie."

LOL I was thinking the exact same thing!

I wanted him and Winona to make it work, although not doing so was certaintly believable. Apart from that, damn fine finale to a damn good season.

Good writeup on Grantland, btw.

Fedaykin98 wrote:

I wanted him and Winona to make it work

It was never going to and even the characters both knew it

It popped to that point and at first I thought that's what they were going to do and I was surprised to find that I was kind of eye rolling at it, but then... they didn't.

All in all a great finale. I am really happy to have a show I like get a genuinely satisfying ending.

Thin_J wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:

I wanted him and Winona to make it work

It was never going to and even the characters both knew it :P

Well, like I said, I found their ending totally believable, just disappointing personally. I seldom like any non-happy ending unless it's explicity tragedy, in which case I'm generally fine with it for some reason. It's just the way I am.

That said, I think they showed enough growth for both Raylan (not shooting Boyd, for example) and Winona (saying that she has accepted Raylan for who he is) that it would have been plausible for them to have worked it out. Plus the whole kid thing. Having a kid changes you a ton, or should, and they showed us how it had turned Raylan into a good, dependable father. It makes you take stock of just about everything.

Thin_J wrote:

All in all a great finale. I am really happy to have a show I like get a genuinely satisfying ending.

My desires for everyone to always achieve the happiest ending possible aside, I completely agree! I'll have to think about what finales I've liked better. This definitely beat the hell out of Battlestar Galactica and How I Met Your Mother, just to name two shows that I've seen in their entirety. Better than TNG, I'd say.

Only got to catch up on this series this week. Loved most of what they did.
The Billy the Kid character...I think the actor did a great job on it, but it was just all too hasty
of a set up and it felt forced. Like others mentioned before.
I somehow missed that Raylan decided not to join his wife and felt that the scene in the park was
a bit out of the blue?

All in all a great series I've enjoyed thoroughly!

Sparhawk wrote:

I somehow missed that Raylan decided not to join his wife and felt that the scene in the park was
a bit out of the blue?

We've had six seasons of reasons why Winona would decide not to settle for Raylan

MikeSands wrote:
Sparhawk wrote:

I somehow missed that Raylan decided not to join his wife and felt that the scene in the park was
a bit out of the blue?

We've had six seasons of reasons why Winona would decide not to settle for Raylan :)

I knooooow lol and I realise it should be so obvious. But what the hell was that scene about getting back together? Just a filler?
Actually do like that it didn't have a Disney ending that way.

I guess they tried to make it work for a bit, in between.

Raylan moved to Miami not to be with Winona, but to be regularly in his daughter's life.

I like that he is mildly annoyed by Wynona's new man (doesn't like that he calls his daughter "punk"), but accepts that he is a part of his new reality without getting to twisted about it.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:

Raylan moved to Miami not to be with Winona, but to be regularly in his daughter's life.

True, but they said they were going to give it a shot, and presumably they did - but sometime in the four year gap, they broke up again.

Fedaykin98 wrote:
SpacePPoliceman wrote:

Raylan moved to Miami not to be with Winona, but to be regularly in his daughter's life.

True, but they said they were going to give it a shot, and presumably they did - but sometime in the four year gap, they broke up again.

So there you have it. The new series called: 'The Lost Years'. Raylan heads back to Miami. Tries the re-newed realtionship and meanwhile cleans
up Miami. Some drama where his daughter is being targeted. Relationship problems and some more bad guys. Maybe I should write the whole
series for them

Sparhawk wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:
SpacePPoliceman wrote:

Raylan moved to Miami not to be with Winona, but to be regularly in his daughter's life.

True, but they said they were going to give it a shot, and presumably they did - but sometime in the four year gap, they broke up again.

So there you have it. The new series called: 'The Lost Years'. Raylan heads back to Miami. Tries the re-newed realtionship and meanwhile cleans
up Miami. Some drama where his daughter is being targeted. Relationship problems and some more bad guys. Maybe I should write the whole
series for them ;)

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Sparhawk wrote:
Fedaykin98 wrote:
SpacePPoliceman wrote:

Raylan moved to Miami not to be with Winona, but to be regularly in his daughter's life.

True, but they said they were going to give it a shot, and presumably they did - but sometime in the four year gap, they broke up again.

So there you have it. The new series called: 'The Lost Years'. Raylan heads back to Miami. Tries the re-newed realtionship and meanwhile cleans
up Miami. Some drama where his daughter is being targeted. Relationship problems and some more bad guys. Maybe I should write the whole
series for them ;)

I would watch that show, or any show where Raylan continues to collar bad guys, or a Tim Gutterson show, or an Art continues to run the Lexington office show. Hell, I'd even give a shot to a show that follows Rachel's career in Seattle, although the rest of the cast would need to be good.

"I still don't know what she sees in you."

"Yeah, it'd be weird if ya did."

Justified fans, I highly recommend Sneaky Pete on Amazon. It is a show by Graham Yost and Bryan Cranston. Yost also brought several other Justified writers with him and a number of actors who appeared on Justified have rolls in Sneaky Pete. While the show is completely different, the dialogue definitely reminds me in the best way of Justified.

Thanks for the tip! Loved Justified

I was already planning to check it out, but this definitely increases my anticipation!

Sold, thanks for the tip!

Arise thread!!

Hey, I hope y'all don't mind me resurrecting this thread, but I could use some advice. I finally was able to snag the complete series blu ray, and I wanna do a rewatch. I've tried to get the fiance into it by showing her the pilot, but she wasn't super keen on it. I was therefore thinking of starting her next with the season 1 episode, "Long in the Tooth", which is about chasing the fugitive dentist played by Alan Ruck. I was then gonna go back to episode 2 and move on from there.

However, if y'all know of a better way to try and get her into the show, I'm all ears. Thanks y'all!

Veloxi wrote:

Arise thread!!

Hey, I hope y'all don't mind me resurrecting this thread, but I could use some advice. I finally was able to snag the complete series blu ray, and I wanna do a rewatch. I've tried to get the fiance into it by showing her the pilot, but she wasn't super keen on it. I was therefore thinking of starting her next with the season 1 episode, "Long in the Tooth", which is about chasing the fugitive dentist played by Alan Ruck. I was then gonna go back to episode 2 and move on from there.

However, if y'all know of a better way to try and get her into the show, I'm all ears. Thanks y'all!

My memory sucks, but from what I recall, there aren't too many one-off episodes like that one. For example, I particularly like S04E03 and the line "put a limp in that Gary Cooper walk" - but the impact is lost without prior history of Raylan and Randall. My only advice would be to ask her to give it at least five episodes to decide. The longer storylines make it harder to judge from one episode - unlike most other procedural shows. Then again, it just might not be her type of show, and that's fine - my wife wouldn't watch it with me either.

It worked I think! She wants to watch more! Yay!

The selling point for my parents was that there wasn't all that much killing in the first season. So they watched an episode that happened to be the season finale which is actually very violent. Eventually, they started from the beginning and got hooked, but it took a while after that to sell them on it.

I started a rewatch a couple weeks ago. Up to season 5 already. Damn this show is good.

Also I thought this thread was resurrected last year with news about the follow up show? Did that get posted somewhere else?

It holds up so well too. Hard to go wrong with that writing

I watch clips on YouTube all the time. Haven't done a re-watch yet, but I will. Maybe before the sequel.

Oh right, the sequel is coming out soon! Maybe I too should also do a rewatch beforehand.

I rewatched all seasons a little while ago. I took against later seasons the first time through but on a second watch I was amazed by how good they were.