Summary: Due to his old-school style, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is reassigned from Miami to his childhood home in the poor, rural coal-mining towns in Eastern Kentucky. Lawman Givens is a tough, soft-spoken gentleman who never gives an inch.
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Originally adapted from an Elmore Leonard short story, this FX-aired series stars Timothy Olyphant as Kentucky-born U.S. Marshall Raylan Givens, who is transferred (demoted actually) from Miami back to his home county. Justified has turned into one of the channel's notable critical and popular successes thanks to a superb cast, smart writing, and the decision to script each season around a self-contained story—in this case, one that will be familiar to readers of Leonard's entertaining latest novel, Raylan. Here, Raylan is dropped into the middle of a complicated standoff involving a family syndicate running marijuana, meth, moonshine, and other vital interests in coal country. Margo Martindale won a well-deserved Emmy Award as Mags Bennett, the wily matriarch of the backwoods mafia, busy taking on a corporate mining concern while her less disciplined sons (notably Jeremy Davies as Dickie, a schemer with a grudge against Raylan) stir up trouble in their dope trade. Walton Goggins is Boyd Crowder, a former criminal (and one-time buddy to Raylan) who tries to go straight but finds himself drawn back to his strengths as the balance of power in the rural crime world shifts. Compiling all 13 episodes from the 2011 second season on DVD and Blu-ray, extras include two behind-the-scenes featurettes, deleted scenes and outtakes, and—exclusive to the Blu-ray release—a roundtable discussion with Leonard and the show's writers and producers. Recommended. (S. Axmaker)Copyright Video Librarian Reviews 2011.
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