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Justified – Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n

Camera Girl and I have polished off the first four seasons of Justified and only have seasons 5 and 6 left.\u00a0 Although a sort of pattern has emerged vis-\u00e0-vis the season finale we remain extremely satisfied with the quality of the show and the progression of the story line.\u00a0 Over the course of the first four seasons we\u2019ve really gotten to know Raylin Givens and his friends and family and enemies and their families.\u00a0 We\u2019ve seen some major characters come and go (mostly to the great beyond courtesy of Raylin\u2019s pistol) and we\u2019ve seen Raylin\u2019s personal life undergo several painful dislocations.<\/p>\n

And we\u2019ve watched Boyd and Ava Crowder move steadily to the dark side.\u00a0 When I say this, I don\u2019t mean that the shows have gotten a lot more more violent.\u00a0 It\u2019s already at intermittent gang war levels.\u00a0 But what the show is doing is chronicling Boyd\u2019s ascent from small-time gangster to Appalachian mob-boss.\u00a0 Along the way his scruples and humanity are peeled away crime by crime.\u00a0 At each step he\u2019s only doing what he has to to avoid the law or his rivals but eventually you see that nothing good remains.\u00a0 Now I think this is similar to what was done in the series \u201cBreaking Bad.\u201d \u00a0There a man was driven by circumstance to adopt crime to help his family and finds himself and those around him consumed. \u00a0The difference being Boyd’s family already was criminal and his only attempt at honest life is pretty much extinguished in season two. \u00a0The Good\/Evil dynamic is more represented by Boyd’s earlier friendship with Raylin. \u00a0As I mentioned in an earlier post, Raylin and Boyd are two sides of a coin flip. \u00a0Either might have ended as the other. \u00a0Probably the show itself is a meditation on why they’ve so far ended up on opposite sides of that very narrow line.<\/p>\n

And I don\u2019t want to claim any dramatic depth to the show.\u00a0 It\u2019s entertainment pure and simple.\u00a0 But the characters are engaging and the mixture of action, drama, comedy and suspense is very nicely prepared.\u00a0 What I\u2019m not sure about is whether Raylin Givens will end the show better, worse or the same as he started.\u00a0 He straddles a lot of lines and he seems to be willing to cross those lines when he thinks he has to.\u00a0 I can see that may bring him to a bad end.\u00a0 It\u2019ll be interesting to see where the arc of this story lands him.<\/p>\n

For my part I\u2019m interested to see where the relationship between Art and Raylin heads.\u00a0 Art is sort of a surrogate father figure for Raylin.\u00a0 But whether he\u2019ll end up a stern old testament type father who has to sacrifice his son on the altar of the law or the father of the prodigal who is able to welcome him back into the fold, I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 But either way I do hope he gets more time in front of the camera.\u00a0 He\u2019s been limited lately and I want to see him assert some order over the wild west atmosphere of the Harlan County Marshall\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

Oh, and for the record, although Raylin has an assortment of fine looking women jumping into bed with him, he certainly has no instinct for avoiding criminals.\u00a0 Then again maybe he isn\u2019t trying.\u00a0 Maybe he thinks they\u2019re more fun and he can always arrest or shoot them if he has to.<\/p>\n

Currently we\u2019ve received the first two DVDs for season five.\u00a0 We usually restrict ourselves to two episodes at a sitting.\u00a0 But we\u2019ve been waiting for these disks for several days now and I suspect we\u2019ll binge through both disks by Saturday.\u00a0 Patience is definitely not a virtue when Justified is in your DVD player.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Justified – Part 3 Camera Girl and I have polished off the first four seasons of Justified and only have seasons 5 and 6 left.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,240],"tags":[234,235,38,236,154],"class_list":["post-1284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-tv-reviews","tag-crime","tag-justified","tag-review","tag-timothy-olyphant","tag-tv-review"],"yoast_head":"\nJustified \u2013 A TV Series Review \u2013 Part 4 \u2013 Season 3 & 4 - Orion's Cold Fire<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/13\/justified-a-tv-series-review-part-4-season-3-4\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Justified \u2013 A TV Series Review \u2013 Part 4 \u2013 Season 3 & 4 - 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