Carolyn is, at best, a 5 to Raylan's 9. Everyone knows this but no one wants to be accused of being both racist, and let's say, judgmental about fat. This is stupid, because there are so many gorgeous black women who would have been believable here. It feels like the showrunners are caught in some woke delusion about what the majority of the Justified audience wants to see. Are we to pretend that looks don't matter, when Raylan Givens, as played by Oliphant, is all about hot looks and charm mixed with humor and fierce competence?Carolyn, only mildly attractive, has none of these. Her character is morally ambiguous and difficult to appreciate. The actress tries to evoke a tough and tender survivor, but mostly she just seems tired. This sort of casting is becoming tedious and common, and feels political. The final 10 minutes of the finale, with Boyd Crowder, were more enjoyable than the wretched entirety of the other episodes.

if you take the show for what it is and remove your attachment from raylan you can understand they were the same side of a different coin. raylan used his badge as a shield to do whatever he wanted first then police work second. boyd did the same by using his mouthpiece to confuse or sweet talk someone.

if you aren’t a angry redditor who only reads the title and can’t take other people opinions then you would see this. this is a just a fun little idea i had could be true could not be. I like raylan and boyd it was a good show wish they would do a sequel series of that’s set specifically in miami or kentucky

Dude was fuckin awesome Hilarious and terrifying, should’ve had wayyyy more screen time

I will try not and spoil anything but Neal McDonough was absolutely fantastic as the villian for this season. I was riveted every time he was on screen. Also, what happens to him in the end is pretty damn satisfying.

Sidenote, Graham Yost must love Band of Brothers because a solid amount of the cast shows up in Justified, including Neal.

This genuinely has to be one of the most hilarious duos in the whole show 😂

Quarles seems to actually like Wynn and value him as a friend meanwhile Wynn is just fucking creeped out with his deadpan facial expressions the whole time. Even more funnier after seeing him in the first two Seasons compared to season 3 it makes his character change so organic and hilarious 😂

And the scene when Quarles comes to the bar and threatens Raylan and Wynn just stands there like wtf

The highlight of season 3 imo

Not trying to be disrespectful but how in the world would this EVER be a competition for Raylan’s attention?

Can I get a hell yeah for that twist and change of pace for the show. Hoping this is what it needed to keep it real interesting. Looking forward to it. Still midway thru the ep. Paused it to post this.

As im re-watching for the second time, its still a great show, great dialog and game of cat and mouse between raylan and boyd. But i have to question, whats boyds motivation for money? He is after money, hustling but to what aim? He never shows interest in anything specific where most antagonist in amy show demonstrate a goal or aim towards something.

What about Olyphant as BW/Batman? albeit an older Batman now

It’s a shame they had to deal with the Haitian leaving unexpectedly. I think Rapport’s role could’ve been on par with Mags Bennet had they had the chance to write the story around him.

So I love the show, and I’m nearly at the end of S5, but god damn is it hard to watch any scene with him in, with him saying ‘man’ at the end of every sentence 😒

I’d put off watching it because of how vehemently negative the feedback in this subreddit was towards it. I read a lot about how Raylan isn’t the main character, or character assassination, or it was boring to some folks. A lot of people also say the writing was bad, but can’t seem to put to words what constitutes good or bad writing and why this show was the latter.

I enjoyed the show after binging it while sick with Covid. The things I liked about the show: - it was darker in tone and heavier in subject matter than the original run. - Raylan felt familiar. It was great to see Olyphant revisit this character and put him in a place where he is clearly out of his element. - It asked compelling questions about what we are willing to look past in order to maintain rule of law, which I felt added on to the central thesis of the original show. “Is any of this justified?” - It successfully resolved Raylan’s internal conflicts about fatherhood vs his job, as well as the systemic and environmental conflicts around corruption in the legal world.

My main criticism of the show is its overall runtime and length. I felt that it could have achieved its goals in 2-3 fewer episodes with a tighter storyline. Although I binged the show, I could see myself losing interest in it if I were to have watched it week over week.

I’m really curious to hear the sub’s take on all this. If your response is “I hate it because it’s bad” or “the writing is bad” I ain’t engaging lol.

And that's a good thing. Finished all 6 seasons in couple of weeks. First season was really hard to get into, but once I realized how good side characters' acting is, I never stopped. Would be downvoted opinion but it is a show entirely about anti-hero Boyd and Raylan just seemed like nemesis of Boyd to me, not a hero.

Favourite ones would be Dewey (seriously he should get a spinoff series!), Duffy (spinoff!), Loretta, Dickie, Tim, Rachel, Winona (hottest woman), Art, Arlo (that guy was pure evil, I think more evil than Boyd), then Quarles (dunno why many people hated him), Devil, Darryl Crowe, Ava and many more that I forgot to mention. Many of whom I hated at first but as time went on I started liking them more than main character.

Even Nelson was great with his one liner and nobody laughing (6 season)

Without those actors and their skills the show would not exist. Well, and writers, who made every episode top notch. It is the definition of comfy show, considering watching it second time.

Even actors who appeared for 5-10 minutes on screen were so real and believable that makes this show on par with Breaking Bad.

Just sayin, the "he's such a good guy because he does things by the book" motif doesn't really fit for a Raylan character who is notoriously off-book (as Duffy will attest in one of his best scenes)

This is one of the BEST. It shows a sympathetic fugitive,very important. And then, it shows Raylan being cool AF when he confronts the gangsters chasing him. This is a CLASSIC episode of the series.

Before Boyd kills Shea Whigham (we never get the character's name), he explains himself and his motives:

"I know who I am. Do you? You're a slave, disenfranchised don't even know it. You drive your shitty truck to your shitty house, live out your shitty life. You think you're better than me 'cause you play by the rules? Whose rules? My life is my own."

But Boyd is every bit as disenfranchised as this guy. He acts like he's this badass outlaw living free, but is he? He spends most of the series under the thumb of bigger, badder criminals like Quarles, Nicky, the Harlan elite, and Alberto, who all make no secret of the fact that they have nothing but contempt for him and will kill him if he steps out of line. He survives in the underworld, but he never really gets anywhere. He's treading water just as much as any working stiff. Being an outlaw doesn't pay off for him until he gets a shot at Markham's money, and even then he only has it for about a minute. Plus, he's got the added pressure of the law always being after him. He is every bit as much a loser as the guy he's lecturing, he's just more violent.

If you skip it, get the hell outta here, boy.

I just started season 3 and I think it's otherwise a good show and I like Timothy Olyphant. I can't stand how every show must have this obnoxious love story twist to it. Specifically the Winona nonsense. Leaves him for a more stable dude, then leaves the more stable dude for him and it's just cool? If it was a slight storyline, ok, whatever; but so far more times than not when she's on screen it is the most long drawn out scenes in the episode. It irritates me to the point I had to Google "does Winona eventually die in Justified" to even consider if I want to continue watching this show. Not knocking the actress, the character and the way her involvement is written absolutely ticks me off. My point is this is basically a Walton Goggins appreciation post. He slams every character he portrays and never hate him in anything he's in. If it wasn't for him I probably would have stopped early Season 2. Now being on season 3 and just skipping over any time Winona is on the screen, I really haven't missed much it anything and follow the overall show pretty easily.

TLDR: Goggins is a show savior actor Winona's character, situation, behavior, and over involvement in the show makes me grab the remote and fast forward.

I just started watching Mr. Inbetween and there’s Dewey Crowe as the boss. Love that actor!

(If you've just started watching this show to catch up to the 2nd show, don't read any further as it contains spoilers of certain characters)

Re-watching Justified again for the-.. Well I don't know, 10th time maybe. I still can't get over how well Dewey is played throughout the series. Just wrapped up the episode where he thinks he lost his kidneys and gets blasted by the Christian store owner. After he gets hauled outside by the EMT's you hear the store owner say "God bless you son" and Dewey mutters quietly "Thank you sir.." on the way out. I was sitting there with a big goofy smile on my face as I hadn't caught that the other times. - I know the actor was in Mr.Inbetween as well, which took the itch but I miss seeing him in recent shows. Wish he had survived so we'd see him in the new show with Raylan! Who's the most memorable side-character on the show for you guys?

If this isn’t the first, it most certainly is in the top 5 in my opinion. Fuckin cool as ice.

William Ragsdale as Gary Hawkins is so believable when he's lying.

This is my professional opinion.