"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.