i just watched the first episode of justified last night right after i finished the shield. it was pretty good. i loved the kentucky criminals.

filthy, the first season of Justified is good - but it's episodic, without any season-long story arcs - just episode by episode, like CSI or something.

For season 2 on, they decided to go serial - season-long arcs. And holy ****, is it epic.

Justified is my favorite show on TV right now. You should binge watch it and be ready for the final season.

thanks dominic! i think i will. i like how when he was talking about shooting people he kept saying "it was justified". and i'm really shocked at how much more i like him in this role than in deadwood.

anyway, enough about justified in the the shield thread.

we should get back to how angelically pure all the shield cops are and what a horrible actor michael chiklis is oh, and how ugly tina is

Deadwood was such an overall force for damn near every aspect that Timothy's performance in that didn't really jump out like a lot of others. Justified is perfect for him.

Just reading the last few pages of this thread. Now I really want to rewatch, but it's just so long and there's other stuff I've not seen yet.

Here's a pretty cool tribute video I found while looking for the ending on youtube.

Complete series on sale for $24.99 on Amazon. I bought. Going to show it to my girlfriend, and get to watch again for first time since original run!

just got done watching this series

good show and all but i didn't think the last season was transcendent or anything. i preferred season 5 i think.

that's all i have to say about that


I thought the show did a good job of tying things together and there were very few unnecessary side plots (altho the dog lady was pointless as hell+vic's baby with danni seemed unnecessary). gonna sound like standard internet male here but i thought the family stuff was the worst mostly because of his wife's annoying voice and his little **** of a daughter. she was chris brody before he was. that being said it was important to the show obviously since ostensibly his family was the most important thing to him and whatnot. just wish they casted differently

i just watched the whole series really recently, and i haven't the foggiest about any dog lady lol

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Re: the Mackey family casting, Corrine was played by show creator Shawn Ryan's IRL wife, and Cassidy was played by Michael Chicklis's IRL daughter.

It's been years and years since I've watched, but I did think they were effective in the end of being characters I didn't like/evoked a negative emotion, so thought they played their roles as intended well enough. Jmo.

You're pretty unique in my experience of liking the show but not thinking the final season was GOATish. Season 5 was awesome too of course.

i had already been relatively spoiled on the ending due to some amateur phone browsing of the SETV thread unfortunately so that probably contributed quite a bit

oh right! her! yeah she was beautiful! and her story was ridiculous, but who cares? she def added to the show.

i liked the series and didn't think season 7 stood out. i liked the earlier seasons better

The dog handler was played by Natalie Zea (Winona in Justified), I wouldn't complain if she replaced every character in every show I watch

i thought it was terrible filler that literally contributed nothing to the show

but yeah she is hot i guess

Sepinwall and Fienberg with 30+ minutes talking about The Shield finale as the best series finale ever on this week's podcast. I showed the series to my girlfriend earlier this year and it was just as good as the first time around. When watching the series live, I was frustrated with S2 and S3 but I think they played better watching them in a more condensed time frame. There certainly were some big moments in S3 with Aceveda's slurp slurp, Dutch strangling the pussy, Tavon going through the windshield and Lem burning the money. I still think the money train robbery could have been carried out in a more interesting way with better planning shown, but I look back at it more fondly knowing the awesomeness it sets in motion.

The thing that most shocked me is that Antwon Mitchell appears much later in the series than I remembered, not until S4. I thought he was in S2 or at least S3. I also didn't remember that Whitaker was in S6. S6 as a whole played better than I remember. In my mind it was just the bridge season between the amazing S5 and S7. There wasn't much closure at the end which does give it that feeling that it's not an enclosed season, but there were some great moments with Billings setting up Dutch, Shane accidentally greenlighting Vic and Ronnie, then taking Vic's family hostage to ambush the assassin. Vic finding out Shane killed Lem, and Kavanaugh completely losing it.

Some guest stars through the series that I wouldn't have known when it originally aired: Kristen Bell in S2, Clark Gregg on The Shield before Agents of SHIELD playing the cuddler rapist in S3, and in S6 there was Ken Jeong and the Armenian mob boss daughter being the assassin woman from The Bridge.

sometimes just the actor playing the part will be a spoiler. like if it's a good actor in a seemingly tiny part, chances are that character is gonna be in the story a lot more.

Nice bump, gonna have to listen to that. Thanks

i was just posting with someone about this in the general tv thread. i totally forgot the specifics of the copaganda. but yeah the shield is copaganda

and lol people saying i will come back and read my posts and feel stupid. i watched the whole show, i went back and read my posts cuz we were talking about it, and i wanted to remember what was actually said.

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This guy makes a lot of great vids and this is one of his better ones.

his anti copandaga argument was lol

but i am glad he at least acknowledged that there are people who see the show as copaganda. and his pro copaganda argument was decent

but his anti copganda argument was "one time in season 4 they had a storyline about how drug forfeiture laws are bad" lol