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About the Show
Developed by Graham Yost (Boomtown, Speed) and starring Timothy Olyphant (Damages, Deadwood), Justified is based on the works of crime novelist Elmore Leonard, including Leonard's short story Fire in the Hole. The series is set in the city of Lexington, Kentucky and the hill country of Eastern Kentucky, specifically in and around Harlan County. Timothy Olyphant stars as the tough, sexy, southern-bred but soft-spoken federal lawman, enforcing his own brand of at-times extralegal justice.
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Background
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Yost wrote the pilot and serves as Executive Producer/Writer on the series. Leonard (Cuba Libre, Rum Punch, Get Shorty) is also an Executive Producer on the series along with Fred Golan (Boomtown, Raines), Sarah Timberman (Kidnapped), Carl Beverly (Kidnapped) and Michael Dinner (Karen Sisco), who directed the pilot episode. Justified is produced by Sony Pictures Television and FX Productions.
CastEdit
- Timothy Olyphant as Raylan Givens
- Nick Searcy as Art Mullen
- Erica Tazel as Rachel Brooks
- Jacob Pitts as Tim Gutterson
- Joelle Carter as Ava Crowder
- Natalie Zea as Winona Hawkins
- Walton Goggins as Boyd Crowder
ProductionEdit
Justified premiered on March 16, 2010, on the FX network.
The working title for the series was Lawman. The first episode was referred to as the "Fire in the Hole pilot" during shooting and retains this as the name of the episode itself.
The pilot was shot in Pittsburgh and suburban Kittanning, Pennsylvania and Washington, Pennsylvania. The subsequent 12 episodes were shot in California. Pittsburgh's David L. Lawrence Convention Center appears on film as the small town "airport" and the construction of the new Consol Energy Center serves as the "new courthouse".
Theme SongEdit
The theme song to the show is "Long Hard Times to Come" performed by the New York City based Gangstagrass, produced by Rench and featuring rapper T.O.N.E-z, Matt Check on banjo, Gerald Menke on resonator guitar, and Jason Cade on fiddle.
The song was nominated for an Emmy for best theme song.
Season One OverviewEdit
Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is a 19th century-style but modern-day officer, who enforces his brand of justice which puts a target on his back with criminals and puts him at odds with his bosses in the U.S. Marshals Service. As a result of his having eagerly shot a Miami fugitive in a "justified" shooting in his South Florida assignment, he gets reassigned to the district covering his rural Eastern Kentucky mining hometown of Harlan County.
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Season Two OverviewEdit
Season two of Justified finds Bo Crowder dead, and the Crowder criminal grip on Harlan County broken. Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens must now face off against the criminal organizations that are moving to fill the void, and finds himself entangled once again with the mercurial Boyd Crowder.
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