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Related: About this forumGreat final episode of "Justified." I'm sure going to miss that series.
hlthe2b
(102,267 posts)So many of my fav shows have ended/are ending. There are only a very small number I care enough about left to watch s I think it is time to cut the cable. I just can't get into so much of the ilck being produced lately (with a very few exceptions).
Justified was a great show.
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)One guy was always telling me that I reminded him of Ava when he heard me talk. Not sure if that's good or bad.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)PoiBoy
(1,542 posts)A great ending to a great series. Very well done in the spirit of Elmore Leonard.
trumad
(41,692 posts)Paladin
(28,257 posts)I need to drop back and watch some of the earlier stuff. I hear that Season 3 (where your photos come from) is especially good.
Auggie
(31,169 posts)One opinion: http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/the-10-all-time-best-episodes-of-justified-20150414
I enjoyed all of Season Two, but perhaps my favorite episode came the following year:
With the Bennetts gone (though Jeremy Davies Dickie continues to make winning occasional cameos, mostly from a prison cell), fans went into Season 3 expecting something of a step-down: could Raylan possibly find an adversary as memorable as Mags?
Cue a huge sigh of relief once Season 3 arrived. It wasnt as perfectly plotted as its predecessor, but it came damn close, and in Neal McDonoughs seemingly slick, secretly unstable carpetbagger Robert Quarles (along with the welcome, uneasy presence of Mykelti Williamsons Limehouse) found another terrific bad guy to anchor the show.
It was another great run of episodes, but the seasons highlight is probably its most atypical: Thick As Mud, which focused on one of the shows breakout comic characters Dewey Crowe (played by Australian actor Damon Herriman).
Initially one of Boyds neo-Nazi followers, Dewey was undoubtedly the dumbest criminal in a show that uses that archetype regularly, but proved strangely lovable for it, and received his greatest showcase here in an episode where hes busted out of jail by a sinister prison nurse who tells him that hes taken his kidneys and hes got to rustle up $20,000 to return them.
That his kidneys are still in place hasnt even occurred to our idiot anti-hero (you mean I had four kidneys!? he hilariously exclaims when he realizes that hes still able to pee), and he goes on a crime spree thats increasingly frustrated by an inability to find cash in a word where everyone pays on plastic.
A gloriously funny caper that still manages to move the overarching plot forward (Quarles and Boyd have their first chilly meeting), it might not be the shows most powerful hour, but was definitely one of the most entertaining.
I agree -- great finale. I will miss the show too.
Dewey was a treasure.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)So many great characters on that show.
A friend turned e on to it last year, and I have been advocating its excellence ever since.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)I'll have to catch them OnDemand. I will say that this season's episodes got unnecessarily complicated. I liked the first several seasons much better than the last season. (The story line with Sam Elliott and Mary Steenburgen was not my favorite part of the show.)
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)when you are consciously ending a long running series, it's stupid to introduce new characters..