All the narrative hopscotching is little more than a superficial ploy to gussy up a clichéd redemption tale.
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.
The series loses some of its drive by its dreary fourth episode, when a labored love triangle mars the overall flow of the central arc
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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.
The theme of bloodlines newly woven and long-kindred continues to run through Justified like an un-damable river.
Sony handles the second season of FX’s exemplary neo-western series beautifully in terms of technical transfer.
Tom Kapinos’s resolve to find a fresh approach for Californication wherever it may be sacrifices some of the show’s consistent strengths.
The show’s rich vein of gallows humor and convincing sense of place aren’t the only selling points here.
Justified’s first season is further proof that FX is now a major contender for provider of quality dramas and is not to be missed.
The three audio commentaries by Colette Burson, Dmitry Lipkin, and staff writer Brett C. Leonard are intelligent and funny.
Finishing each episode is like closing up a really great, gritty little crime novel.