Weird. My comment from yesterday never posted.
Anyways, I liked but not loved the show. The former friends now rivals thing is
a little played out but they did a pretty good job with it. I'll keep watching.
One thing I did like was how competent the FBI team was during that firefight.
They were ambushed but kicked ass. I love the female agent's attitude. I hope
we see more of her.
--- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Keith Johnson wrote:
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> "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...
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> - Original Message -
> From: "Martin Baxter"
> 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
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> 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.
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> On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Keith Johnson < keithbjohn...@... > wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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"
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> http://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/originals/justified/aboutTheShow.php
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> 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 â" a weapon
> he only draws when he has to, and when he does, he shoots to kill, because,
> as he sees it, thatâs the purpose of a gun.
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> 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 â" Kentucky.
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> The character of Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens was created by Americaâs
> 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 â" played by Jacob Pitts (The Pacific) â" and RACHEL
> BROOKS â" played by Erica Tazel (Life, The Office). Raylan, Art and the
> other deputies do what all U.S. Marshals do â" chase down fugitives, protect
> witnesses, transport prisoners.
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> But, being back in Kentucky, Raylan will also have to confront a past crowded
> with enough skeletons to choke a graveyard. Thereâs his old friend and
> fellow coal-miner, now fugitive bank-robber, BOYD CROWDER (Walton Goggins -
> The Shield). Thereâs AVA CROWDER (Joelle Carter - Monk, CSI: Miami), the
> cheerleader from his youth he always had a crush on. Thereâs ex-wife WINONA
> (Natalie Zea - Hung, Dirty Sexy Money). And, looming largest of all in
> Raylanâs past, thereâs his career criminal father ARLO (Raymond Barry -
> Cold Case, Training Day).
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> JUSTIFIED was developed for series television by Executive Producers Graham
> Yost (Boomtown, The Pacific), Michael Dinner (Kar