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11-01-2020, 02:18 AM
https://www.pajiba.com/tv_reviews/justified-10th-anniversary-of-a-harlan-county-war-between-two-men-who-dug-coal-together.php
Justified, which premiered on March 16, 2010 and which would’ve been called Lawman if Steven Seagal hadn’t already claimed the name for his own reality series, tells the story of Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), who is working in Miami and confronts a gangster named Tommy Bucks (Peter Greene), who had previously been warned by Raylan to get out of town in twenty-four hours or he would be shot dead on sight. Due to Tommy’s refusal to take Raylan’s warning seriously and not leave town as ordered, words are exchanged and the conversation ends with Tommy attempting to shoot Raylan, only for Raylan to be faster on the draw and shoot him first. (FYI: Tommy Bucks had kidnapped Raylan not too long ago to threaten and interrogate him so that he’d give up some valuable information, and when he felt that Raylan wasn’t cooperating, he placed a stick of dynamite into the mouth of another person who was kidnapped along with Raylan and set it off to explode, killing that person instantly.)
Despite the shooting being a justified one, Raylan is transferred by his boss to the U.S. Marshals office in Lexington, Kentucky in order to keep a low profile, which doesn’t make Raylan happy in the slightest due to the fact that he was born and raised in the Harlan County section of Kentucky, and his childhood years there were far from pleasant. Once he arrives and connects with his fellow Marshals, Rachel Brooks (Erica Tazel), Tim Gutterson (Jacob Pitts), and former colleague Art Mullen, who is the Deputy Chief in charge of the office (Nick Searcy), Raylan soon finds himself reunited with three other people from his past: Winona Hawkins (Natalie Zea), Raylan’s ex-wife who works as a court reporter and is married to a shady real-estate agent (William Ragsdale) who is in debt to the Dixie Mafia, Ava Crowder (Joelle Carter), a hairstylist who has just shot and killed her abusive husband and makes no secret of how attracted she is to Raylan, and Ava’s brother-in-law, Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins), a bank robber/explosives expert now living the life of a White supremacist who, despite his joy at seeing his old friend once again, really doesn’t appreciate having Raylan interfere with his business. Thanks to Boyd giving Raylan a familiar ultimatum to get out of town in twenty-four hours or he will be shot dead on sight, it doesn’t take long for the two of them to face off against each other (with Ava caught in the middle and not standing idly by while doing so) and their confrontation leads to Raylan dealing with a wide and deadly assortment of criminals during his time in Harlan County, as well as Boyd doing his part to rise to the top of the criminal food chain while dealing with both Raylan and other outlaws who would much rather see him sink than swim.
Justified, which premiered on March 16, 2010 and which would’ve been called Lawman if Steven Seagal hadn’t already claimed the name for his own reality series, tells the story of Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), who is working in Miami and confronts a gangster named Tommy Bucks (Peter Greene), who had previously been warned by Raylan to get out of town in twenty-four hours or he would be shot dead on sight. Due to Tommy’s refusal to take Raylan’s warning seriously and not leave town as ordered, words are exchanged and the conversation ends with Tommy attempting to shoot Raylan, only for Raylan to be faster on the draw and shoot him first. (FYI: Tommy Bucks had kidnapped Raylan not too long ago to threaten and interrogate him so that he’d give up some valuable information, and when he felt that Raylan wasn’t cooperating, he placed a stick of dynamite into the mouth of another person who was kidnapped along with Raylan and set it off to explode, killing that person instantly.)
Despite the shooting being a justified one, Raylan is transferred by his boss to the U.S. Marshals office in Lexington, Kentucky in order to keep a low profile, which doesn’t make Raylan happy in the slightest due to the fact that he was born and raised in the Harlan County section of Kentucky, and his childhood years there were far from pleasant. Once he arrives and connects with his fellow Marshals, Rachel Brooks (Erica Tazel), Tim Gutterson (Jacob Pitts), and former colleague Art Mullen, who is the Deputy Chief in charge of the office (Nick Searcy), Raylan soon finds himself reunited with three other people from his past: Winona Hawkins (Natalie Zea), Raylan’s ex-wife who works as a court reporter and is married to a shady real-estate agent (William Ragsdale) who is in debt to the Dixie Mafia, Ava Crowder (Joelle Carter), a hairstylist who has just shot and killed her abusive husband and makes no secret of how attracted she is to Raylan, and Ava’s brother-in-law, Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins), a bank robber/explosives expert now living the life of a White supremacist who, despite his joy at seeing his old friend once again, really doesn’t appreciate having Raylan interfere with his business. Thanks to Boyd giving Raylan a familiar ultimatum to get out of town in twenty-four hours or he will be shot dead on sight, it doesn’t take long for the two of them to face off against each other (with Ava caught in the middle and not standing idly by while doing so) and their confrontation leads to Raylan dealing with a wide and deadly assortment of criminals during his time in Harlan County, as well as Boyd doing his part to rise to the top of the criminal food chain while dealing with both Raylan and other outlaws who would much rather see him sink than swim.