In the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky
That’s the place where I trace my bloodline
And it’s there I read on a hillside gravestone
You will never leave Harlan alive

And with that, Justified delivered another perfect season. The show gets to the Super Bowl every year, and every year leaves with the rings.

Here’s Dave Alvin’s cover of “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive”, from “Ghosts”, the fourth season finale of Justified.

But the times got hard and tobacco wasn’t selling
And ole granddad knew what he’d do to survive
He went and dug for Harlan coal
And sent the money back to granny
But he never left Harlan alive

Where the sun comes up about ten in the morning
And the sun goes down about three in the day
And you fill your cup with whatever bitter brew you’re drinking
And you spend your life just thinkin’ of how to get away

"Bad things happen, not only in literature."

— Margo Martindale on The Americans for all the wins.

Why are you lyin’ to me, Colt?

Perfect scene.

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I rewound and watched this scene over and over and over and over. Great fucking television.

Boyd’s reaction? Boyd and Ava with the gunfight between them? Raylan and Ava discussing the engagement right before? None of them knowing what was happening? Justified is the best.

"The pilot begins with what might be among the 10 best minutes of TV viewers will see all year. A woman—instantly recognizable as Keri Russell, even with a bad blonde wig—seduces a man who’s very close to the newly installed Ronald Reagan administration. To the strains of Fleetwood Mac’s “Tusk” (a song this teaser deconstructs and rebuilds seemingly dozens of times), the audience is propelled three days later…"

From the AV Club’s review of the pilot of FX’s The Americans, which I just watched (four weeks late), and I agree, it was a brilliant opening, and it’s use of “Tusk” was fantastic. With a matched ending, the pilot did it’s job: I now want to watch the rest of this new series.

And hey, guess what, with The Americans picked up for a second season, now is the perfect time to marathon it’s first four episodes!

Marry me?

“He’s armed, and dangerous, and an asshole.”

Boyd Crowder for president.

Jere Burns’s Wynn Duffy is one of the most fantastic characters in the world of Justified, a world that also contains Walton Goggins’ Boyd Crowder, arguably one of the greatest characters currently on television, and when the two of them share a scene, hoo boy.

Art + Raylan = Great Television.

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"Justified is coming off of a very good third season that suffered mainly in comparison to the show’s even better second season, and it’s continuing what I found to be one of the strongest elements of last season: the willingness to show Raylan as an entitled, exploitative son of a bitch. There are no shortage of anti-heroes on television these days: crooks with a conscience, mostly, joined by the occasional broody cop who doesn’t play by the rules. Raylan Givens is different than both of these types. He’s pleased with himself—and troublesome to his colleagues—in ways that should make him unappealing, but he’s just so much fun to watch as a laid back man of action, with failings that are mainly petty and personal. Ultimately, Raylan’s one of the good guys. He doesn’t appear to be playing out an arc of redemption, nor is he “breaking bad.” He’s doing a job he believes in, just in a way that makes the life of everyone around him more difficult (and not always for good reasons, either)."

From Noel Murray’s excellent AV Club review of last nights excellent Justified season four opener.

The next 13 weeks will see a lot of Justified gifs, quotes, and tumblr love here, and I’m sorry (not sorry). It’s a fucking fantastic show with a fucking fantastic lead, set in a world that is so great to be back in, to explore, to visit every week.

There are a lot of really, truly great shows on television (The Good Wife, Homeland, Game of Thrones, The Vampire Diaries, Key & Peele, Parks and Rec, Cougar Town, Southland, Mad Men, Breaking Bad) and Justified is one of them, if not, at times, the best. (Every show listed, at some point, is “the best show on tv” depending on the episode.)

There’s no better time to visit Harlan, Kentucky than right now, folks.

The cold open of “Hole in the Wall”, the fourth series premiere of Justified, was one of the funniest things I’ve watched in ages.

SOOOOO GLAD JUSTIFIED IS BACK IN MY LIFE YOU GUYS.

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ivyarchive:

“Patience is a virtue.”

SOOOOOO glad Justified is back in my life.

While looking through my drafts, I realized I have like 30 unpublished posts for Justified.
Seeing as how it’s off the air for another year, I’ll go ahead and post this one.
Sigh.
I miss Justified, you guys.

While looking through my drafts, I realized I have like 30 unpublished posts for Justified.

Seeing as how it’s off the air for another year, I’ll go ahead and post this one.

Sigh.

I miss Justified, you guys.

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