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I’m short on time again today, but I wanted to put down a few short thoughts on last night’s Justified. If you were to say that Justified had one weakness in its first two seasons (primarily in its first, though), it would be how the series handled the supporting characters who work with Raylan in […]
I’m a bit short on time today, but I wanted to jot down a few thoughts on the very-good season premiere of Justified. When series take the kind of leap in quality that Justified did in its second season (although I maintain that somehow, we’ve retroactively decided the first season isn’t that great and that’s […]
“It’s not your problem. Not today.” I don’t usually preface my reviews with quotes from the episode. It’s something like a lot of good reviewers do (some regularly, some occasionally) and I guess it’s a way for me to separate myself. The format of these kind of post-air reviews is mostly standardized now, that’s my […]
Note: I don’t have a lot of time, but I wanted to get some ramblings down about last night’s episode. After last week’s epic episode of Justified “Debts and Accounts” is one of those episodes where the dust is settling and characters are trying to position themselves perfectly for when it’s actually all cleared. In […]
There was A LOT of hype for this episode of Justified. People were calling this best episode of the series yet, the best episode of 2011 and so on and so forth. For the most part, that hype is, well, justified. “Brother’s Keeper” is a fantastic episode of television and most certainly one of the […]
In my review of last week’s Justified, I talked about how that episode served as a nice pivot point for the rest of the season. While I still stand by that observation, this week’s episode more overtly points out those sorts of things. So many of the characters and smaller problems introduced in the first […]
I haven’t been writing about Justified on a weekly basis because of various scheduling issues but in short, I’ve really enjoyed this season. And I’m still short on time today but I wanted to get a few thoughts down on “Save My Love” because it was just that good. Anyway, the world of Justified is […]
It seems like Graham Yost and his team listened to the criticisms of the fans who hated the middle three or four episodes of season one. Although “The Life Inside” is most certainly a standalone episode, it does a lot of other things that address larger threads in the narrative. There is a normal Justified […]
There was a lot to love about Justified‘s first season, but one of the things I found most impressive about those 13 episodes is how easily and quickly the series created the world of Harlan, Kentucky. Harlan is certainly a unique place and from very early on in the pilot episode, the series presented those […]