Justified Season 5 Thread

Luv this show....but its gotta end

[h=1]FX confirms ‘Justified’ will end after season 6[/h]



By Josh Hill - <time datetime="2014-01-14">Jan 14th, 2014 at 12:43 pm</time>
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After five seasons on FX, including the fifth season that just kicked off this month, FX has announced that it’s hit series Justified will be ending after the sixth season of the show next year. The Hollywood Reporter initially indicated that the fifth season of the show would be the end, but later corrected it’s report to state the sixth season would be the final season of the show.
Justified was rumored to be teetering on the brink of continuing or ending following the 2014 season, but all doubts have been put to rest and and end date has been submitted.
FX CEO John Ladgraf signed off on the decision to end the show, but stated on Tuesday that it was not his decision to end the show.
Per The Hollywood Reporter:
Justified joins a handful of popular shows to be calling it quits in the near future. HBO has announced that three of their shows, Boardwalk Empire, True Blood and Newsroom will all be airing their final seasons this year and FX will be going through a similar situation soon.
With Justified coming off the air next year, the network is also saying goodbye to Sons of Anarchy, which is set to air its seventh and final season in the fall.
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BTW great episode

Haha figures two of the four shows that I actually follow will be going away soon. I have to admit that the Sons of Anarchy has gotten a bit too unbelieveable to watch with a straight face at times while I find that the crazy hicks in Justified are much more entertaining and make me laugh sometimes. I guess the fact that the hicks remind me of most of the criminals I have known in my life are truer to life. They can be extremely cunning and ingenius but in the end their brazeness and lack of self control will due them in. I am waiting patiently for The Vikings and The Americans to come back in February.

[h=1]A brilliant Justified strings together seemingly infinite conflicts in a pressure cook[/h]




There are few shows that know how to tell an audience right off the bat they will not be messing around on a given night better than Justified. In the first four episodes of this season, Lee Paxton would have wondered about Boyd’s death, stewed about it for 10 minutes of screen time while other schemes commenced, leading up to a final turn that reveals Boyd is still alive—before kicking the narrative can down the road to another episode for the fireworks. But not this week; Boyd has decided to embrace the ego that says he’s still Boyd Crowder, the rightful criminal ruler of Harlan County, hangers-on and high-class pushers be damned. He’s ready for action, so when Lee Paxton pulls that lamp chain, there’s Boyd, sitting in a bedroom chair, a deadly snake with a venomous snake ready to deliver unto Paxton an impassioned final monologue:
"A small town never forgets. Now, word's gon’ burn through these hills and hollers like a wildfire. People of Harlan County, rich and poor, will marvel at your debasement and venality. They will spit venom when they speak your name. And they will take your suicide as the last act of a coward. Now your reputation is ruined, your good word worthless, but death will not be the end of your suffering. For generations your children, and your children's children will have a mark against their name, and that will be your legacy."
That right there is some Pulp Fiction-level murder preamble that the spirit of Elmore Leonard can be proud of. All it needs is something about the “inequities of selfishness and the tyranny of evil men.” And, truth be told, Tarantino and Avery definitely ripped a page from Leonard’s book with all of that style—which is evident in Tarantino adapting Rum Punch into Jackie Brown. The cold open is a benediction. “Shot All To Hell” is the first episode of this season to achieve Justified’s greatest potential.
Many masterful episodes in the series have focused on Raylan Givens as the center of a wheel while other plots orbit around him. But “Shot All To Hell” is different, since Raylan gets pushed to the fringe fairly quickly, just another ensemble member in a freewheeling episode that moves from showdown to showdown in each scene. The risk in putting a classical western gunslinger confrontation—with or without guns, as Justified is often about sparring with words before resorting to guns—in almost every scene, is that the effect could wear off. When everyone pulls a gun at some point, the tension dips and it becomes a matter of waiting for the moment a gun appears instead of wondering whether that moment will come.
But the corrective move to defend against that malaise is to move quickly and efficiently through different sets of characters, bringing all the major conflicts of the season so far to a head, and even adding in new ones. The first scene after the credits features Will Sasso’s Canadian stoolpigeon stopped by none other than Alan Tudyk, playing Elias Marcos, Theo Tonin’s consigliore and deadliest hitman. He’s the new darkness, dressed in all black and on a deadly mission to settle all vengeance for his boss. That brings the tally to two deadly showdowns in the first two scenes.
Then there’s a pause for Amy Smart’s weekly appearance, as Raylan and Wendy Crowe argue over the marshal removing young Kendall Crowe from Darryl’s charge. The tactic won’t stick—and Allison doesn’t approve of using the child to stir up trouble—but this is just the palate cleanser between violent showdowns, and it still features a confrontation.
Art, fresh off his trip to Detroit, knows to look out for Wynn Duffy and Picker, and sports Marcos staking out the same diner, intercepting him for a verbal sparring as they feel each other out. Art seemingly comes out on top, earning a chance to snag Picker and talk to him before the elder Tonin can exact justice by proxy for his son’s murder. But again, Justified pushes the gas instead of the brake, as Marcos comes back to the diner and raises the stakes. This is a prime example of the show relentlessly tightening screws. That’s how this episode gets away with practically every scene building this way. It has a cumulative pressure-cooker effect. This hour is yet another episode that honors Elmore Leonard’s pulp heritage, crafting a rollercoaster of pure adrenaline that allows no full reprieve. Just when a moment of calm arrives, another face-off or emotional gut-punch strikes to drive the momentum back up again.
Sadly, for Marcos’ entire spooky bully act, he turns out to be just another thug believing the biggest gun will always win the fight. The bigger threat, at least to Raylan, is having Picker in the marshal’s office, sitting on the information that Raylan was present during the hit on Nicky Augustine—and in a way orchestrated the whole thing. That threat looms over Raylan’s part of the episode, as he barrels into the interrogation and tags along with Art to a location where Marcos could be hiding, which instigates a shootout against a massive automatic rifle. Plus, the surprise discovery of Theo Tonin, dying from a heart condition, comprises the biggest coup of Art’s entire career.
Back in Boyd’s series of power moves, he settles his debt to the sheriff, gets a face-to-face with Darryl Crowe in his own bar, and sits down with Hot Rod Dunham to settle the dispute with his cousin Johnny. And each time, Boyd makes the big move: he hires a coal miner with black lung to shoot the sheriff in the middle of a diner, and flatly refused to pay Mara; he pulls a gun and shouts at Darryl to make a show of dominance; and he offers Dunham a share of heroin profits in exchange for Johnny. The first two parts seem to work out fine for the time being, but Johnny is still a Crowder. When Dunham attempts to turn his men on Johnny, he finds that the other Crowder has already thought one move ahead, and hired the hitmen to turn on Dunham. It’s a deft reversal—and one that underlines just how miraculous it is that Wynn Duffy of all people has always survived by flying high enough to get connected to deals, but low enough to stay under the execution radar.
The only thing that sticks out as an afterthought is Ava Crowder. The scenes of her in prison have been brief, but after a series like Orange Is The New Black has unearthed a nuanced drama within prison walls, it all seems a bit tossed-off. Justified has never had the firmest grip on how to approach female characters in the same insightful way it draws conclusions about men. Jonathan from Buffy takes his revenge on Ava by conspiring with her cellmate to make it appear as though Ava stabbed him several times, and just like that, her hopes of an easy release disappear. Boyd crumbles in response, the one final element of his plan taken from his control, just like his dreams of living with Ava in that nice new house at the end of last season.
And I guess the Crowe subplot has mostly disappointed so far, in the sense that they haven’t been differentiated from the progression of the Bennetts back in season two. Darryl already dispatched Coover stand-in Dilly back in Florida, and now Danny pulls a very Dickie Bennett move by rashly shooting the Haitian with a shotgun after an argument. Danny’s way of doing business is liable to get the entire family killed, and him flying off the handle and out of control only makes the Crowes just like other potentially villainous families. They’re from Florida, but the odd man out is Dewey, who’s so introspective about what happened to Messer. Unlike the more prominent conflicts elsewhere in the episode, Dewey is at war with himself, and comes to an epiphany moment where he sheds all of his Floridian possessions.
But the climactic celebration is a bookend to Boyd’s surprise visit to Paxton’s bedroom, proving once again that Raylan and Boyd share Harlan roots. Right after toasting Art’s finest haul as Louisville Chief Deputy, close to an impending but unofficial retirement date, the issue of Nicky Augustine’s death finally re-emerges. Picker had information, but pinned the federal agent rumor on missing FBI agent Jeremy Barkley (Stephen Tobolowsky), a man Augustine killed far before the tarmac incident.
Raylan could let it go, and have the tension continue to tease out over more time, a stall tactic that keeps the story from taking big turns and coming up with more. But as this is still bold pulp crime, Raylan turns and walks back into Art’s office and says he knows for a fact Barkley wasn’t on the tarmac. So what comes next? Does Raylan come clean about everything, or just create a more elaborate lie? Whatever it is, the drama between the chief and his deputy is the most compelling thread here, certainly over the messy rise of the Crowe family or Ava being transferred to the state penitentiary, where Boyd can’t protect her. In a way this episode flips the usual tactics for Boyd and Raylan, with the former adopting the straightforward and blunt offensive moves favored by Raylan, and the marshal attempting to be covert like his hometown buddy, the lifetime criminal. Ultimately, just like always, they reflect each other’s actions, and come to the same conclusion: act now, and watch the sparks fly until the next move presents itself. For Boyd, his master plan ends in tragic disappointment just as reunion at long-last seemed guaranteed. For Raylan, it could end up costing him everything he has left.
Extra Bullets
• Dr. Aaron Shutt himself, Adam Arkin, directed this episode, which explains his return for a brief cameo as Theo Tonin. A deft way to end that bit of the plot, which had been trudging on for a while—though Dave Foley’s Canadian criminal is still out there somewhere.
• “I’ve been accused of being a lot of things. Inarticulate ain’t one of them.”
• “I’m a dick, but you’re a kiss ass.”

Best Episode of the season

Absolutely fantastic episode this week.

Another kick ass episode this week!!!

<figure id="attachment_171449" class="aligncenter"> <figcaption style="width:630px;">FX</figcaption></figure> ‘Justified’ season 5 takes aim with its seventh installment of the year in “Raw Deal,” as Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) finds himself relegated to pursuing a mischievous hacker, while Boyd negotiates against his cousin in Mexico, and Ava finds a new role for herself in prison.
Last week’s ‘Justified’ episode “Kill the Messenger” saw Raylan bristling against the Crowe family once more, while Boyd considered an unexpected alliance to protect Ava in federal penitentiary, so what will the seventh episode of ‘Justified’ season 5 bring? Will Raylan finally atone for his brief dalliance with criminality?
Read on for your in-depth recap of everything you need to know about ‘Justified’ season 5, episode 7, “Raw Deal!”
The Crowes load up their weapons, leaving Kendall to run Audrey’s by himself, while over in prison Ava sees her visitation time running out, no Boyd in sight. Fellow inmate Penny encourages Ava to rely on the heavenly Mother instead, cryptically suggesting it might save her life. Meanwhile, the Crowes enter Johnny Crowder’s warehouse to find it entirely empty, as Boyd steps out of the shadows with a similar conclusion. Realizing that Johnny has gone to Mexico to intercept his heroin deal, Boyd plots a new purpose for the Crowes.
Raylan arrives to the station early, having been humiliatingly tasked with walk-ins by Art, as a man named Larry shows up first thing, demanding his online backgammon winnings from a site that the Marshals seized. Raylan finds that the website was run by Charles Munroe, but the notice of seizure misspells “Marshall,” and was likely the work of a hacker. The man angrily leaves, as the department’s tech guy Chris points to the website’s creator TC Fleming as the most likely culprit.
Meanwhile, TC plays video games with his girlfriend Candace, before the two are interrupted by Larry and his large enforcer Mr. Kemp, who demand the money returned, despite TC’s insistence he doesn’t have a physical copy of it. Kemp threatens Candace to force TC’s cooperation, but when Larry reveals the sum of $250,000, Kemp shoots his employer and demands the money for himself. Elsewhere, Ava meets with Christian inmate leader Judith (‘True Blood’ star Dale Dickey), who explains that their group is protected for smuggling in drugs, not their faith, something Ava would have to help them continue.
Down in Mexico, Johnny Crowder meets with Boyd’s intended cartel contact, explaining his intent to outbid his cousin for the heroin contract, and accepting a bag over his head to be taken to their Chinese supplier Mr. Yuen. Meanwhile, Allison arrives to work at child protective services to find Wendy Crowe leaving, having revealed Allison’s relationship with Raylan to damage her career. Back at TC’s apartment, Kemp is forced to leave with Candace when Raylan arrives, tensely greeting the lawman on the way out. Raylan scarcely even has to ask TC any questions before finding Larry’s blood, for which TC manages to slip out a window and slide down a flagpole, revealing a fake leg, and flipping a bemused Raylan off in the process.
Back down south, Boyd arrives at Mr. Yuen’s mansion under a similar black hood, but finds Johnny already waiting in the man’s meeting room. Johnny insists that he can easily outbid Boyd for the contract, which Yuen reveals to include Boyd’s life as well. Keeping cautious however, Yuen reveals his intent to go with Johnny once his own money arrives, reverting back to Boyd if it doesn’t. Meanwhile back at the police station, Raylan finds himself relegated to tracking down Mr. Kemp, despite his enthusiasm for getting back at TC for his humiliating escape.
Boyd and Johnny remain captive outside the mansion, as Boyd attempts to remind his cousin of better times between them, shortly before Johnny’s contact arrives to make good on the money. Meanwhile, Rayland and Allison share drinks over her job suspension, before Raylan finds his credit card declined. TC swiftly calls, claiming responsibility for Raylan’s declined card, even as Raylan insists their own tech guys will help track TC before long. Elsewhere, Kendall Crowe finds himself brushed off by Wendy, for which he calls his “Uncle J” to inquire of his whereabouts.
Ava follows Penny into the prison showers for introductions to the guard and custodian who smuggle in the drugs, in exchange for sexual favors. Ava isn’t put to work just yet, instead collecting the drugs, though she covertly places them back in the custodian’s belt when his head is turned. Meanwhile, Raylan leads the Marshals into a hotel room TC had been traced to, but is disappointed to only find Kemp and Candace. However, Candace freely gives up TC’s true location, given that he’d earlier insulted her coding abilities. Awhile later, Raylan arrests TC for real in his grandmother’s basement, the felon admitting in the car ride after that he’d lost his leg to cancer growing up.
Raylan returns to the station to find that Art denies his request to have Darryl Crowe’s parole revoked, for which Raylan finally decides to confront his boss personally. Tired of the passive aggression, Raylan insists Art either treat him like a deputy or transfer him, anywhere besides Florida. Art agrees to consider it, while Raylan insists he’ll take some vacation time in Florida in the meantime. Meanwhile, Judith and Penny inform Ava that their custodian connection got busted with the drugs, for which Ava suggests she can provide a replacement that won’t involve trading sex.
Wendy sits down for drinks with Raylan, even as Raylan continually rejects her advances and points out that she should help him put away Darryl, even revealing how Darryl killed her brother Dilly. Meanwhile, out in the desert, Johnny puts Boyd on his knees and goes to open their stolen heroin truck, when out from the back pour the Crowes, turning the tables. Boyd admits Yuen was in on their ruse, and offers Johnny’s men the chance to return to their original positions as Hot Rod Dunham’s men, though Danny Crowe opens fire, claiming someone pulled on him. Johnny laughs that Boyd has no means to smuggle the heroin, for which Boyd finally shoots his cousin, and calls Mr. Yuen to relay their new problem.
OUR REVIEW:
The prior two installments of ‘Justified’ really turned up the intensity of the 5th season, thanks in no small part to the bowties wrapped around most of the straggling threads, and the smart decision to put Team Crowder and Team Crowe together, though it still hasn’t shaken a sense of the wonky ups and downs the season has wrought. Just when we thought Raylan’s betrayal would represent a game-changing shift between he and Art, so far we’ve mostly only seen the passive aggression and empty threats, without any real discussion as to what either knows.
It’s a minor nitpick, perhaps, and one that gets a bit of facetime in Raylan’s direct confrontation with Art tonight, though it’s still a curiously underdeveloped conflict, for all the rich dramatic potential it has. And while ‘Justified’s more dour turn in the early episodes of the season felt a bit out of character, tonight’s more levity-filled plot against the hacker TC once again feels somewhat ill-timed an inconsequential, however much fun it provides. The FX gunslinger drama isn’t known for its one-off episodes, that’s for sure, though we’d be hard-pressed to deny the crackling dialogue and humor that results.
So while Raylan mostly keeps his anger in check thorughout the episode (“Come on, I love this guy!”) Boyd’s side of the story (and by association Ava’s) seems increasingly dour. It wasn’t entirely hard to predict that Boyd would have found way to get over on cousin Johnny in the end (the final shooting of which was too quick for a conclusive kill), though we’re certainly starting to see the downside of Boyd’s surprise alliance with the Crowes, even if it remains somewhat unclear if Darryl was in on it. Once again, all of Boyd’s best-laid plans go to ruin, stranding poor Ava even further up sh-t creek, in a story that seems increasingly tangential to any relevant plot.
Don’t get us wrong, “Raw Deal” is as fun and wittily watchable as ever ‘Justified’ can be, the narrative just feels a bit fragmented, with the season’s overall tone wildly vacillating, to the point even Raylan’s more enjoyable collars feel a bit hollow in the end. Hopefully, next week will give us a stronger sense of what the Crowes actually intend to accomplish with their Harlan presence, while Raylan and Art find a more plausible method to work through their strife.
Well, what say you? Did you feel that ‘Justified’ hit the mark with its fifth season’s seventh installment? Will Raylan make good on his threat to transfer out of Kentucky, or will the Crowe problem draw him back in?


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[h=1]‘Justified’ Penultimate Season Finale Posts 2.37 Million Viewers For FX[/h] By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday April 9, 2014 @ 2:16pm PDT

The fifth, and penultimate, season finale of FX‘s drama Justified copped a crowd 2.37 million strong, according to Nielsen. That’s a 5% uptick compared with the show’s Season 4 finale, back when viewers did not know it was coming to an end at Season 6. Ditto the demo numbers — a 0.8 rating compared vs 0.7 a year ago. But the season wrapper was no match for the season starter in January; that clocked 2.84 million viewers and a 1.1 demo rating.

Justified, like other FX original drama series, jumps noticeably when delayed viewing is added to the mix. Last April, when the dust settled, more than 3.82 million viewers had watched that Season 4 finale, according to Nielsen’s Live+7 numbers ( a 70% jump over the 2.25 million initially reported). That Season 4 finale nonetheless wound up short of the 3.95 million who watched the Season 3 ender.
In January FX CEO John Landgraf confirmed that Justified will end its run with a sixth season. Making the sixth season the final installment of the series, executive produced by Graham Yost and starring Timothy Olyphant, “was really Graham and Tim Olyphant’s decision,” Landgraf said at a Q&A with TV critics. “We talked about it a year ago, and they felt that the arc of the show and what they had to say [fit better with six seasons than seven]. Regretfully, that’s their decision.”
Season 5 of Justified saw U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens heading to Florida then back to Kentucky for a case and the debut of Michael Rapaport as the latest bad guy.

Love this show! Have the first 4 seasons, not gonna read this thread because I wait for the DVDs, but this is a great show!

damn good show!!!

Well, it looks as if it will by Raylan or Boyd, or perhaps both going down in the final season.

Did anyone else notice the production error when Crowe's sister shot him in the neck? He grabbed his neck and there was no visible wound or blood then he fell to the ground and he looked injured. It looked as if they cut the scene in the wrong sequence or something.

Anyway, great show, will miss it when it is over.