Justified Hiatus
Good news and bad news this week for our continued Justified coverage. The good news is that we’re still covering Justified on our new show, The Bald Move TV Podcast. The bad news is that means we’re no longer going to be doing a “featured” show around Justified.
Thanks to all our fans, especially to our embedded Harlan reporter Ted C. and Ed K. who helped line up our first insider interviews. Hope to continue to hear from you guys and hope you continue to enjoy our Justified coverage.
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Primer for Justified
A lot of people have been writing us to know how they can catch up to FX’s Justified, which we covered in depth during it’s season 3 run. The thing about Justified is that it took them quite a while to find what it was about their show that was fantastic, so the first season is pretty hit and miss. It’s tempting to tell people to just skip season one and start out on the fantastic season 2, but you miss some really good backstory on Boyd Crowder and Raylan’s old man if you do. So, with that in mind, here is the official Bald Move recommended season one watch guide…
- 101: “Fire in the Hole” – Must see, obviously.
- 102: “Riverbrook” – most of this is skippable, but there are a few points addressing the overall story arc in the beginning that are pertinent.
- 104: “Long in the Tooth” – This does nothing to serve the main arc the show is establishing, but is my personal favorite of the “mobster of the week” story line.
- 105: “The Lord of War and Thunder” – Introduces Raylan’s old man, Arlo, and is a must see.
- 109: “Hatless” – Great episode, and introduces one of the best recurring characters, Wynn Duffy.
- 110: “The Hammer” – lots of good story arc in here, and it also establishes another memorable character, Judge Mike “The Hammer” Reardon.
- 111-113: “Veterns”, “Fathers and Sons”, “Bulletville” – Mandatory watching. The show really put the pedal to the metal with the season one story arc here.
If you want a bare bones experience, you can skip season one and jump right in to season 2. If you have five more hours to spend, take in 101, 105, and 110-113 and be very primed for the awesomeness that is season 2. Season 2, for it’s part, takes a bizarre detour in epsiodes 206 and 207, which I’d almost recommend you skipping except there is some vital plot points in 207. If you watch the three episode climax of season one and still don’t love Justified, I’d bail. While it gets even better in season two, I would still fear it just isn’t your cup of tea.
Season 3 is entertaining as hell from start to finish, and there is no small amount of debate to be had about whether season 3 is better than season 2 or vice versa. For my money, season 3 doesn’t have any missteps the way season 2 had in 206 and 207, but season 2 also had a singularly awesome villain with one of the all time great season finales.
So there you go! You have until about January 15th 2013 to catch up!
Taylor Elmore Interview – Season 3 Wrap Up – Justified
Hey Justified fans, we’re back for a season 3 wrap up! We’re happy to have Justified Writer / Producer Taylor Elmore on the show again to guide us through last season’s twists and turns and give us an idea of what we might be in store for in the coming season. I hope you enjoy listening to our conversation as much as we enjoyed recording it.
As always, if you like what we do, give us a shout out! You can email, Tweet, or Facebook us. We really need our fans help on iTunes with reviews and subscriptions to help us get the word out. You can help directly support the show by using our Amazon affiliate link for any and all of your Amazon shopping needs. Remember, it costs you nothing, and Amazon throws us a few pennies to help pay for our bandwidth and hosting. Win/win!
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313 – “Slaughterhouse” – Justified
The season three finale of Justified, “Slaughterhouse”! Some of you thought it was brilliant, some of you liked it, some of you were disappointed, but it happened, and now we need to talk about it, and where it leaves us for seasons to come. We talk about our reactions, the recap, what Yost says is coming down the pike, and lots of your feedback. Hopefully we’ll have one more retrospective with a special guest, but if not, see you next season!
As always, if you like what we do, give us a shout out! You can email, Tweet, or Facebook us. We really need our fans help on iTunes with reviews and subscriptions to help us get the word out. You can help directly support the show by using our Amazon affiliate link for any and all of your Amazon shopping needs. Remember, it costs you nothing, and Amazon throws us a few pennies to help pay for our bandwidth and hosting. Win/win!
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312 – “Coalition” – Justified
A pretty satisfying lead up to the finale that is marred only by a cleverly camouflaged but ultimately implausible escape attempt that involved opening up a kimono a little too much for everyone’s comfort. Quarles, Boyd, Limehouse, Dickie, and Raylan are all on a collision course. Who’s going to survive? We’ll find out next week, but until then, enjoy our recap, listener feedback, and a less useless than usual spoiler section, if you’re into that sort of thing.
As always, if you like what we do, give us a shout out! You can email, Tweet, or Facebook us. We really need our fans help on iTunes with reviews and subscriptions to help us get the word out. You can help directly support the show by using our Amazon affiliate link for any and all of your Amazon shopping needs. Remember, it costs you nothing, and Amazon throws us a few pennies to help pay for our bandwidth and hosting. Win/win!
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311 – Measures – Justified
As I sit watching A.Ron chug moonshine and polish his revolver I can’t help but recount our history, wondering if I’ve done anything that might justify retribution. I’m fairly certain that the worst I deserve is a dutch oven next week when we share a room at PAX but it makes a man nervous. Since he’s indisposed, there will be no witty remarks nor clever wordplay; unless you consider the revolver comment a euphemism.
As always, if you like what we do, give us a shout out! You can email, Tweet, or Facebook us. We really need our fans help on iTunes with reviews and subscriptions to help us get the word out. You can help directly support the show by using our Amazon affiliate link for any and all of your Amazon shopping needs. Remember, it costs you nothing, and Amazon throws us a few pennies to help pay for our bandwidth and hosting. Win/win!
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310 – “Guy Walks Into a Bar” – Justified
It’s super late, and I’m in the grip of the ‘shine, so let’s make this short and sweet like the last gulp of Magg’s apple pie. This episode was Neal McDonough’s Emmy submission, and just about ’nuff said. Raylan is bad ass, Art is funny, Quarles is scary, Wynn wonders what the fuck he’s gotten into, and hell, there’s even some Dicky action. What more do you want?
As always, if you like what we do, give us a shout out! You can email, Tweet, or Facebook us. We really need our fans help on iTunes with reviews and subscriptions to help us get the word out. You can help directly support the show by using our Amazon affiliate link for any and all of your Amazon shopping needs. Remember, it costs you nothing, and Amazon throws us a few pennies to help pay for our bandwidth and hosting. Win/win!
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309 – “Loose Ends” – Justified
With A.Ron on vacation, I’m joined by Mad Brew to discuss this week’s episode of Justified.
As always, if you like what we do, give us a shout out! You can email, Tweet, or Facebook us. We really need our fans help on iTunes with reviews and subscriptions to help us get the word out. You can help directly support the show by using our Amazon affiliate link for any and all of your Amazon shopping needs. Remember, it costs you nothing, and Amazon throws us a few pennies to help pay for our bandwidth and hosting.
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308 – “Watching the Detectives” – Justified
Who’s in more trouble? Raylan, Boyd, or Quarles? We break down this and more in this week’s episode covering another awesome hour of Justified. Join Jim and A.Ron as they discuss Limehouse making power plays, Raylan’s legal trouble, Quarles’ being tempted by the Beast within, Raylan putting on a clinic for how not to handle the police, and ask; does Wynn’s carpet match the drapes?!
Had some interesting articles submitted to us by our fantastic listeners. First, Cynthia from Ontario sends us a great article about how Morgan Freeman wants to make a film about the first African American US Marshal Bass Reeves, mentioned by Art in episode 2 of this season. Secondly, all-star listener and our very own embedded reporter out of Harlan County, Ted K. talks about the real life mobile pain clinics that plagued Harlan in the past 15 years.
As always, if you like what we do, give us a shout out! You can email, Tweet, or Facebook us. Starting up another show, we really need our fans help on iTunes with reviews and subscriptions to help us get the word out. You can help directly support the show by using our Amazon affiliate link for any and all of your Amazon shopping needs. Remember, it costs you nothing, and Amazon throws us a few pennies to help pay for our bandwidth and hosting.
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307 – “The Man Behind The Curtain” – Justified
Things on Justified are heating up faster than a hand soaked in lye and hit with a steam jet! Join Jim and A.Ron for a discussion of problems in the round barn, the importance of keeping drugs away from schools, the suddenly complicated political situation in Harlan’s Sheriff elections, Raylan’s new digs, Tim not being impressed with Raylan’s “mad ninja skills”, Quarles wheeling and dealing, and the dramatic return of Gary! We cap it off with a brief spoiler section in which we consider the preview for next week’s episode in order to glean any insights that may be had and some info about casting news.
As always, if you like what we do, give us a shout out! You can email, Tweet, or Facebook us. Starting up another show, we really need our fans help on iTunes with reviews and subscriptions to help us get the word out. You can help directly support the show by using our Amazon affiliate link for any and all of your Amazon shopping needs. Remember, it costs you nothing, and Amazon throws us a few pennies to help pay for our bandwidth and hosting.
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