"Justified" was good. A bit deliberate in pacing, which is good. I liked it, but frankly, I liked "Karen Sisko" better when that show premiered. Not to say "Justified" isn't good. It still has that wryness to the leads that Leonard's famous for putting in: where people almost seem to be about to crack a smile, but instead they shoot someone dead. I like shows that go anywhere other than NYC or LA, so the setting in Kentucky was cool. Kind of a modern "In the Heat of the Night". A bit obvious that the first case he takes deals with militant white supremacists, though. Lots of potential, held my interest, I'll keep watching. Still, seeing "Justified" made me miss "Karen Sisko" and even "K*ville" all the more...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Martin Baxter" <martinbaxt...@gmail.com> To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 6:50:53 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Kurosawa and Elmore Leonard on TV Tonight D'oh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After all the previews I've been catching on "Justified", I missed it (chin deep in Kurosawa-san). Ditto for the repeat of that. Let me check the site, to see if it can be viewed there. On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@comcast.net > wrote: I mentioned "Samurai" on History Channel at 8 pm EST (Martin, it reruns at midnight). But there are a couple other things worth checking out tonight. First, Turner Classics is doing the second of its three Tuesday night Akira Kurosawa marathons. Movies run from 8 pm EST until around 7 or 8 tomorrow morning: http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=290045&mainArticleId=290029 Then on FX, at 10 pm EST there's the premiere of the new series "Justified". This has me intrigued because it's based on Elmore Leonard's work. I've liked just about everything I've ever seen done on his works, including the criminally underrated TV series "Karen Sisco". The series' producers range the gamut, and consists of people who worked on great shows like "Sisco", "Boomtown", and "Sons of Anarchy" ***************************************************** http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/justified/aboutTheShow.php JUSTIFIED is the story of Deputy U.S. Marshal RAYLAN GIVENS (Timothy Olyphant), a true-blue hero and something of a throwback, given to wearing a Stetson and cowboy boots, carrying his sidearm in a hip holster – a weapon he only draws when he has to, and when he does, he shoots to kill, because, as he sees it, that’s the purpose of a gun. Raylan was born and reared in the hill country of eastern Kentucky. It was in Harlan where he played ball, chased girls and dug coal. And it was from Harlan, at age 19, that he ran, determined to become a U.S. Marshal. Now, years later, after shooting a gun thug in a Miami hotel and thereby incurring the wrath of his Marshals Service superiors, Raylan has been sent in punishment (and by fate?) to the one place to which he vowed he would never return – Kentucky. The character of Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens was created by America’s pre-eminent crime novelist Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty, Out of Sight) and is played by Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood, Live Free or Die Hard). The Chief Deputy of the Lexington U.S.M.S. office is ART MULLEN, played by Nick Searcy (Cast Away, From the Earth to the Moon). Working alongside Raylan are fellow deputies TIM GUTTERSON – played by Jacob Pitts (The Pacific) – and RACHEL BROOKS – played by Erica Tazel (Life, The Office). Raylan, Art and the other deputies do what all U.S. Marshals do – chase down fugitives, protect witnesses, transport prisoners. But, being back in Kentucky, Raylan will also have to confront a past crowded with enough skeletons to choke a graveyard. There’s his old friend and fellow coal-miner, now fugitive bank-robber, BOYD CROWDER (Walton Goggins - The Shield). There’s AVA CROWDER (Joelle Carter - Monk, CSI: Miami), the cheerleader from his youth he always had a crush on. There’s ex-wife WINONA (Natalie Zea - Hung, Dirty Sexy Money). And, looming largest of all in Raylan’s past, there’s his career criminal father ARLO (Raymond Barry - Cold Case, Training Day). JUSTIFIED was developed for series television by Executive Producers Graham Yost (Boomtown, The Pacific), Michael Dinner (Karen Sisco, Sons of Anarchy), Sarah Timberman and Carl Beverly (Kidnapped) and Elmore Leonard. The series comes from FX Productions and Sony Pictures Television.
