Justified: Season One

[Mr Wallstreet]

It's Deadwood-lite

[wolf_2099]

I love it. Season 1 started off slow, but season 2 kicks major, major ass.

[Mr Wallstreet]

Every episode is very formulaic: The Marshall is called into investigate a crime; he solves, makes a reference to either his past or the overarching story, learns a little something new about himself and then the episode is more or less wrapped up with a nice bow on top.

The show deals with mature themes such as racism, sexism, verbal/spousal abuse, plenty of swear words thrown around but nothing hardcore. If there were a little less swearing, this would be one of those "quirky" shows on the USA network like Covert Ops or White Collar or In Plain Sight.

Justified doesn't have nearly as many layers and plots as Deadwood or Rome; both those shows kept you guessing how they'd start off, where they'd go and how they'd end. It just seems like Justified is a moderately more violent version of CSI dresseed up as a Western.

[wolf_2099]

Every episode is very formulaic: The Marshall is called into investigate a crime; he solves, makes a reference to either his past or the overarching story, learns a little something new about himself and then the episode is more or less wrapped up with a nice bow on top.


This is my biggest problem with season 1.
It goes out the window for season 2.

Season 2 becomes an awesome over-reaching, solidly written season.

The formulaic crap goes out the window, and they really come into their own.