I was in NYC yesterday and when I was leaving there was a huge sign for Justifed.
Nice! I would love to see this show with atleast 4.5 million right out of the gate, cause for FX that's a really solid number, and not to mention since Nip/Tuck is done, Rescue Me ends either this year or early next, Damages could possibly be canceled, and only Sons of Anarchy is really left for serious drama if those other are gone, they are really going to need something to help the network out. And I would absolutely love to have Sons and Justified throughout my year.
With the anemic ratings for Damages I'll be shocked if it lasts past this season. I love that show and it's one of my favorites, but it's doing horribly in the ratings.
I've never watched Damages before and I didn't know it was still on until it started up again. They don't do much advertising/promoting for it anymore, which ultimately means it's going to be cancelled sooner or later. The only drama show I ever watched on FX was Nip/Tuck but I missed so many seasons it wasn't a huge deal for me to watch. Nor was I sad it ended. Sons of Anarchy I bought on BD but haven't watched yet because I wanna wait until the second season comes out, or at least close to that time. But I think I might start it soon.
My only concern with Justified is that it could be a slow paced show.
I've never watched Damages before and I didn't know it was still on until it started up again. They don't do much advertising/promoting for it anymore, which ultimately means it's going to be cancelled sooner or later. The only drama show I ever watched on FX was Nip/Tuck but I missed so many seasons it wasn't a huge deal for me to watch. Nor was I sad it ended. Sons of Anarchy I bought on BD but haven't watched yet because I wanna wait until the second season comes out, or at least close to that time. But I think I might start it soon.
My only concern with Justified is that it could be a slow paced show.
You should watch Damages from the beginning. It's fantastic. Can be a bit slow paced though, so if that's not your thing, you may not like it.
One of the best dramas on TV right now, if not THE best.
I've never watched Damages before and I didn't know it was still on until it started up again. They don't do much advertising/promoting for it anymore, which ultimately means it's going to be cancelled sooner or later. The only drama show I ever watched on FX was Nip/Tuck but I missed so many seasons it wasn't a huge deal for me to watch. Nor was I sad it ended. Sons of Anarchy I bought on BD but haven't watched yet because I wanna wait until the second season comes out, or at least close to that time. But I think I might start it soon.
My only concern with Justified is that it could be a slow paced show.
Yeah I've tried to get into damages time and time again, but it just doesn't happen for me, I find myself very bored a lot. Sons of Anarchy season 2 won't be out until August, legally anyways. Once you watch season 1 you will immediately have to see season two, however for me as a fan from day 1, I had a 10 month wait, if you're Groo, you watch both seasons back to back lol, BASTARD! haha. Season 3 will start in September. Justified should have plenty of action to keep the show pacing after all the clips and scenes I've seen not to mention since I've read most of the books they based this one from Elmore Leonard. I have faith in Olyphant playing another bad ass sheriff, so this will keep my attention. Not to mention you obviously see a lot of explosions from Rocket fire throughout the previews too, and robberies, so I wouldn't worry too much.
I hate having to wait for the next season to come out so I usually take it pretty slow. That's what I'm doing with Weeds Season 4 and 5 right now. Dexter S4 is also coming out in August which I'll probably end up watching twice. So if I like SOA, then I can be caught up and watch once a week. UGH
Thank god for DVR though, but I guess I should probably start watching the shows I recorded. From weeks/months ago.
The only thing though with previews, at least for movies they do it. They show the best/better parts and make it look like it's going to be that way a lot of the time and it's not. But I'd say for the most part any show that looked interesting to me the first time around I did like.
yes i know im lucky i already missed SOA season 2 cause i didnt have fx, now hopefully this will hold over till it come out on blu ray.
and towards your spoiler, i just got done watching it again. gets better each time i see it.
Well I would only say you're lucky that you don't have the wait, but you are completely unlucky to have not witnessed the genius that is Kurt Sutter, and IMO the greatest show on television.
Yeah, for RocknRolla, I actually felt the same, I didn't really enjoy it much first time, but I really did the second time around, so maybe it'll be even better a third?
It seems like TV networks have been talking about remaking the western for longer than they actually made them. Maybe the genre, which dominated TV drama in the '50s and '60s, is just too much of its time to thrive in a more gray-hatted era. HBO aired three seasons of Deadwood, a dark and poetic look at the Darwinian life of a mining camp, but that was less a remake than a rebuttal.
TV has taken stabs at making westernish series, however. The excellent but short-lived Firefly, for instance, was essentially a western set in space. And now, with the terrific new drama Justified (which debuts March 16), FX and author Elmore Leonard have taken a crucial figure from westerns — the haunted lone gunslinger — and plopped him in 21st century Kentucky. (See the best TV shows of the decade.)
The series follows Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), a U.S. Marshal who has been booted from a plum post in Miami after a high-profile shooting garnered unwanted publicity: he beat a mobster to the draw western-style, though at a table at a fancy restaurant. The bureau moves him to Harlan County, Kentucky, where Givens grew up and which he then escaped — running from, among other things, a criminal father who's now in jail.
Givens' bags are barely unpacked when he has a run-in with Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins), an old coal-mining buddy who has become a white supremacist and bank robber. (The pilot is based on a Leonard story, "Fire in the Hole," and Givens' old entanglements at home are a continuing story in later episodes.) As he chases Boyd and his crew, the ghosts of the life he left — his ex-wife Winona (Natalie Zea), his old flame and Boyd's sister-in-law Ava (Joelle Carter), his as-yet-unseen jailed daddy — begin to attach to him.
Givens is a 19th century type — the series was titled Lawman until, of all indignities, a Steven Seagal reality show got to the name first — with a steely bearing, courtly mannerisms and a direct way of talking. Sitting through an inquiry panel investigating his use of deadly force, he interrupts his supervisor's bureaucratese answer and says cowboy-like, "Let's just keep it simple, huh? He pulled first. I shot him." (See the 100 best TV shows of all time.)
And he wears a hat, which, as it happens, is beige. That's appropriate, because we begin to see that Givens' life and character could easily have gone either way. Olyphant was also in Deadwood, as sheriff Seth Bullock, who shares more than just a badge with Givens. Bullock's devotion to the law was fierce and brutal, driven by a seething anger over injustices in his childhood.
Olyphant's Givens is less rigid and more likable, but his sense of duty also comes from a very personal and dark place. There's a remarkable scene in the pilot in which he uses the threat of his quick draw to talk down a thug with a shotgun pointed at Givens' head — "Can you rack in a load before I put a hole through you?" — which left me with a thorough man crush on him. But then he bashes the goon's face against a steering wheel for a bit of back talk, and for a fleeting second, a flash of pure fury glints in his eyes.
You begin to see here why his bosses wonder how quick-draw, hair-trigger Givens manages to have so many "Justified" shootings and whether he isn't acting out some sort of vendetta psychodrama — or a death wish. Nor are they the first to wonder about him. As his ex-wife says after he politely pops by for what's meant to be a friendly chat (by way of breaking into her house in the middle of the night), "You're the angriest man I have ever known." His sartorial quirks mark him not just as a throwback but as a young man who's prematurely old: like many a western hero, there's something strong and tired about him at the same time.
Dark streaks aside, Justified is also, as you'd expect from Leonard (and writer Graham Yost, formerly of Boomtown), a funny show, with taut dialogue and a distinct sense of place. Its supporting characters are a riot of wiseass agents, sardonic thieves and big- and small-time hustlers. Its Harlan County is both timeless and of the moment, plagued with meth heads and skinheads and littered with overbuilt developments left over from the housing boom. (The fourth episode moves the action to Los Angeles as Givens chases a fugitive from his past. It's excellent as well, but the sunny setting changes the tone so much, to the lighter hard-boiledness of Leonard adaptations like Get Shorty, that it almost seems a different series.)
The result is a new-style western that's both entertaining and as mesmerizing as Givens' cold-blooded speech to the crook with the scattergun: "I want you to understand. I don't pull my sidearm unless I'm going to shoot to kill. That's its purpose, huh? To kill. So that's how I use it." Givens is still figuring out his own purpose, and in the compelling character study of Justified, Leonard, Yost and Olyphant have fashioned quite a weapon. I can't wait to see how they use it.
Cause "Dale Crowe" is a main bad guy (of sorts) in the Leonard books.
In fact, when he takes down that dude with the shotgun in the initial promo, I think he said his cousin was Dale Crowe, and to let him know that Raylan Givens was back in town.
Cause "Dale Crowe" is a main bad guy (of sorts) in the Leonard books.
In fact, when he takes down that dude with the shotgun in the initial promo, I think he said his cousin was Dale Crowe, and to let him know that Raylan Givens was back in town.
The name is indeed Boyd Crowder, or Bo as he seems to be referred to the most but anyways Walton Goggins is Boyd Crowder HOWEVER there is a Dewey Crowe and that was the fella with the shotgun in the promo. I'll have to check out the promo later on today, but it's time to logoff for the night and drink some more Maker's Mark, cause if there's one thing Grandpa taught me, the bourbon ain't gonna drink itself.
The name is indeed Boyd Crowder, or Bo as he seems to be referred to the most but anyways Walton Goggins is Boyd Crowder HOWEVER there is a Dewey Crowe and that was the fella with the shotgun in the promo. I'll have to check out the promo later on today,
Just watched it, and the guy's indeed "Dewey Crowe" and his cousin is "Dale Crowe Jr."
Huh wow haven't seen that clip before thank you very much. So they apparently changed the characters name over production, but Boyd Crowder is still Walton Goggins, so Dale Crowe Jr. is probably the son of the fella from the books and someone we will see down the line.
Huh wow haven't seen that clip before thank you very much. So they apparently changed the characters name over production, but Boyd Crowder is still Walton Goggins, so Dale Crowe Jr. is probably the son of the fella from the books and someone we will see down the line.
Oh wow, you know honestly I was excited since first hearing about this show last summer, but I didn't see any actual footage until last month when they started showing up on FX and it was just the promos. Either way I am still very much looking forward to this, March is going to be a good month for my TV.
March 14th - The Pacific begins
March 16th - Justified
March 17th - South Park season 14 premiere
March 21st - Breaking Bad season 3 premiere
March 25th - Supernatural and Vampire Diaries returns
March 30 - The Return of 'V'
March 14th - The Pacific begins
March 16th - Justified
March 17th - South Park season 14 premiere
March 21st - Breaking Bad season 3 premiere
March 25th - Supernatural and Vampire Diaries returns
March 30 - The Return of 'V'
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March 14: The Pacific
March 16: Justified
March 18: Flashforward
March 22: Nurse Jackie
March 31: In Plain Sight
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