If you're not watching this this show, get out there and start watching. This is one of the most underrated shows on TV and it doesn't get the same amount love that other high profile shows do. And I don't know why that is?
Season Two picks up right where Season One left off and the writers of this show continue to prove just how they’re masters at understanding characters and developing them. Marshal Givens continues to be a well thought out character, where his motivations are explored with a depth I can only say is matched by Game of Thrones. This is the only show out there I've seen where all the characters actions or decisions have consequences, so when someone does something you know something is going to happen based on that choice or decision. Whereas most shows it always seems forgotten when people do things and it's back to normal mode next episode, never talked about or ever brought up (Star Trek, X-files, and Lost were terrible at this) not so with Justified people talk about what happened in the episode(s) before. You know just how people do in real life they talk about things from the day/weeks/months before. The continuity runs thick here. This kind of continuity really adds an intimacy to the show that a lot of other shows lack and makes me wonder why other shows writers don't think this far in advance when they're writing a season. It really lets me see how much these writers care about a show.
Mythology-wise Justified isn’t as complicated as Game of Thrones but it does have its own history and mythology that it keeps building on with each episode. While each piece and new character add to the richness of the world building it’s doing. Hopefully I’ll start watching Season Three here in a bit until then get out there and start watching one of the best shows on TV.
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