One of the great things about this noir-western hybrid is its interest in updating more than just the superficial tropes of those genres.
Justified’s characters skirt familiar archetypes, but the writing and performances consistently subvert accepted lowlife caricatures.
I always like a movie that starts out quick, and Trance certainly does that.
This season may reveal the show’s grand design to be rooted in a son coming to terms with his father’s unchecked avarice.
Ahh, it came back and nearly all was right with the world.
The major criticism of Justified’s third season is that it’s included a few too many plot elements.
If Justified feels plot heavy of late, it’s out of necessity given the premise of the third season.
An episode like “Measures” seemed inevitable at this point in Justified’s third season.
It’s fitting that the title of this week’s installment of Justified is the classic joke lead-in “Guy Walks Into a Bar.”
When the show titles an episode “Loose Ends,” you can bet it will be all about tying up, well, loose ends.
For two episodes with very little action, they wind up revealing quite a bit about Justified’s representation of violence.
As season three of Justified reaches the halfway point, things are starting to escalate in a hurry.
There’s something incredibly strange, frantic, and amazing about Dewey stumbling his way through Lexington trying to raise the money to buy back his own kidneys.
A lot of talk regarding season three of Justified has centered around whether the show could successfully replace Mags Bennett.
With “Harlan Roulette,” the full potential of season three is starting to show itself.
The case-of-the-week A-plot of “Cut Ties,” the second episode of Justified’s third season, doesn’t have much meat on it.
In many respects, the third-season premiere of Justified, “The Gunfighter,” is a difficult episode to love.
The theme of bloodlines newly woven and long-kindred continues to run through Justified like an un-damable river.
On September 18, Bryan Cranston will not win his fourth trophy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.
Religion is a very difficult subject to make a film about.