The section that starts with "Excellent writing" and ends in "MINIMAL SMIRKING" describes Justified perfectly. It's on FX, which means I'm always at least one season behind, because I can't pay for that cable package, but you can get it on Amazon Prime. I've got as far as the end of S3, and at that point? A thing that happened in the first scene of the pilot episode is still affecting the plot in major ways.
I can't answer the question, though, about what's a perfect show for me. I know I need there to be humor, but not sitcom!humor. I need it to come from the characters, to be the kind of thing that feels natural to them and is way funnier if you've been watching a while and you know them. Justified and Person of Interest are both good at that. I like the shadowy/violent/funny combo a lot. Your taste for SF and magical stuff is one I share, yet I find so few shows that do them very well for very long.
+1 for Timothy Olyphant. I've never watched an episode of Justified. Hm.
I need it to come from the characters, to be the kind of thing that feels natural to them and is way funnier if you've been watching a while and you know them.
Good one. I agree, although it's also nice to have some more general humor to help in the recruiting of people who aren't yet fans. I'm thinking of BtVS seasons three and four in particular, which I used to lure in some friends and my boyfriend because many of the jokes were accessible to them, and then later when they were familiar with the characters and got back to those episodes, the experience was all the richer for the jokes and insights they hadn't picked up on the first time.
It's been ages since I've watched any Buffy, but I used to love it. I ought to dive back in sometime.
I know just what you mean, and I'd say Justified is like Buffy was, in that respect. I originally came in at the end of S2 and was hooked instantly. I want to get my gushing-fangirl mode on, here, but I'll restrain myself and say yes, Timothy Olyphant, and also Walton Goggins, who plays his friend/enemy and they have a pretty intense, dangerous-feeling chemistry. If you like that sort of thing, well, that's the sort of thing it is.
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I can't answer the question, though, about what's a perfect show for me. I know I need there to be humor, but not sitcom!humor. I need it to come from the characters, to be the kind of thing that feels natural to them and is way funnier if you've been watching a while and you know them. Justified and Person of Interest are both good at that. I like the shadowy/violent/funny combo a lot. Your taste for SF and magical stuff is one I share, yet I find so few shows that do them very well for very long.
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I need it to come from the characters, to be the kind of thing that feels natural to them and is way funnier if you've been watching a while and you know them.
Good one. I agree, although it's also nice to have some more general humor to help in the recruiting of people who aren't yet fans. I'm thinking of BtVS seasons three and four in particular, which I used to lure in some friends and my boyfriend because many of the jokes were accessible to them, and then later when they were familiar with the characters and got back to those episodes, the experience was all the richer for the jokes and insights they hadn't picked up on the first time.
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I know just what you mean, and I'd say Justified is like Buffy was, in that respect. I originally came in at the end of S2 and was hooked instantly. I want to get my gushing-fangirl mode on, here, but I'll restrain myself and say yes, Timothy Olyphant, and also Walton Goggins, who plays his friend/enemy and they have a pretty intense, dangerous-feeling chemistry. If you like that sort of thing, well, that's the sort of thing it is.
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(I hope it has a speculative fiction bent. I love spec fic.)
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