Justified pilot streaming for free!
Just heard this from cereta: the pilot of Justified is free right now on Amazon Instant Video. It's for a limited time only, though I don't know when the deadline is. (I also don't know the region issues for Amazon's streaming, so my apologies if you try it but are regioned-out. Bleh, regions.).
Cereta's post gives some reasons why you might want to try Justified. I give a hearty thumbs up to all of them, and more. It's well-written, well-plotted, atmospheric, complex, sexy, funny, dramatic, as well as being violent in a way I don't often get to see on TV.
By which I don't mean it's, like, uber violent all the time. I was talking to some friends of mine about the use of guns on Justified, and how they so often serve a startlingly different purpose to guns in a lot of other TV (and movies). On other shows, guns are often used as a rhetorical prop, something to wave and make threats with, and they come out of holsters/pockets a lot without necessarily meaning anything specific. They can be an accoutrement, a piece of wardrobe, a penis extension, part of an argument, a warning to hold somebody still or make them do something, etc. But in Justified, much more often, when a gun comes out, someone is going to get shot. Period.
...I know, it might sound obvious or silly. But it's kind of amazing how different that can make things, and I noticed the difference. When I was originally watching the first season, I noticed after a while that when a gun came out, I got a lot more tense than I did watching other shows. Because now the guns meant something, or at least, something very unrelenting and specific.
Justified also ends up having some really nice slash possibilities (subtype: intense-frenemies, and/or subtype: frictiony-colleagues), great female characters of various ages and races and classes, great male characters ditto, sky-high levels of competence (as well as believable incompetence), interesting relationships, plots that go someplace. And I find it damn entertaining.
The show eventually ends up being very arcy. But season 1 I think has a nice learning curve--it starts out planting some important seeds for arcs, but then also has some standalone episodes early on to give you time to settle in.
Anyway, if you're curious, give it a look!
Cereta's post gives some reasons why you might want to try Justified. I give a hearty thumbs up to all of them, and more. It's well-written, well-plotted, atmospheric, complex, sexy, funny, dramatic, as well as being violent in a way I don't often get to see on TV.
By which I don't mean it's, like, uber violent all the time. I was talking to some friends of mine about the use of guns on Justified, and how they so often serve a startlingly different purpose to guns in a lot of other TV (and movies). On other shows, guns are often used as a rhetorical prop, something to wave and make threats with, and they come out of holsters/pockets a lot without necessarily meaning anything specific. They can be an accoutrement, a piece of wardrobe, a penis extension, part of an argument, a warning to hold somebody still or make them do something, etc. But in Justified, much more often, when a gun comes out, someone is going to get shot. Period.
...I know, it might sound obvious or silly. But it's kind of amazing how different that can make things, and I noticed the difference. When I was originally watching the first season, I noticed after a while that when a gun came out, I got a lot more tense than I did watching other shows. Because now the guns meant something, or at least, something very unrelenting and specific.
Justified also ends up having some really nice slash possibilities (subtype: intense-frenemies, and/or subtype: frictiony-colleagues), great female characters of various ages and races and classes, great male characters ditto, sky-high levels of competence (as well as believable incompetence), interesting relationships, plots that go someplace. And I find it damn entertaining.
The show eventually ends up being very arcy. But season 1 I think has a nice learning curve--it starts out planting some important seeds for arcs, but then also has some standalone episodes early on to give you time to settle in.
Anyway, if you're curious, give it a look!