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I adore Justified, I adore Dewey Crowe and I adore Raylan Givens!

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I still have reservations about Quarles aka Carpetbagger, but I really really enjoyed "The Devil you Know". It was pure Justified :

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Tonight he is back!!! Tomorrow afternoon, after teaching in the morning and gym at 12:30, I will be hunting the episode online!

Here's an article on Olyphant filling the hat so well,  on the new villain showing up in Harlan and another one on how Justified is a model of how books should be turned into tv shows.


I can't wait!

Now I must get ready for the parents/teachers meeting (it starts at 4.30 pm and is supposed to end at 7.45 pm...) or as we call it, the "confessional".

But FRINGE is coming back on Friday and next week, HE will be back (he being Olyphantastic aka Raylan Givens of the Justified fame of course!!!!), in the deep dark hills of eastern Kentucky...

I forgot to mention that I watched the last episode of The Good Wife and it was the best episode of this season. Episodes like this are the reason I like that show! Loved it. And Diane rocks.

Also, concerning my BSG re-watchage, I watched "33" and "Water" last week but didn't find the time to post about it, and I'm afraid that now my poor head is too empty to make a proper review.

Here are some thoughts though...

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I've been reading reactions to the last episode of Breaking Bad, and it's obvious that the audience is pretty much divided in two teams: the viewers who root for the good guy aka Hank, and those who love cool villains and root for the bad guys.

I have never been that intrigued by "cool villains" because I see them as tv tropes most of the time (my favourite villain this year was a mature woman in Justified! She was not "cool" but she was one of the greatest villains ever), and as much as I adore Hank, I find myself rooting for Walt these days.( cut for length not for spoilers )

Now I'm back to reading stuff on inquisition...

Hawaii Five-0 is boring !!!!!!!!!!

Sure Daniel Dae Kim is still pretty but I keep yawning. Also I never realised that Grace Park was that tall, probably because most of her scenes on BSG were with Tahmoh Penikett ! Anyway it's a shame that such a good actress is on a show that hardly requires good acting...

That silly show makes me I miss Magnum  P.I. I need my Tom Selleck fix ! Two weeks before the next Jesse Stone movie!!!

As for my Internet shows, I enjoyed The Good Wife (could Eli be more adorable?!!!) and I loved the finale of Justified. A good ending for a fantastic second season.
Lots of things that happened weren't very surprising, but the series is that good that it doesn't matter, or rather it doesn't let you linger on second thought about it,  it makes you want to be fooled nonetheless, to believe in every scene's tension and thrill along, to embrace the adrenaline-pumping moments even though you should know that some things just can't happen and won't.

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I truly adore that show for its characters and its great dialogues. It's going to be a long wait until season 3. These days nobody wears jeans and tee-shirts and denim jacket like Timothy Olyphant! It's like he's invented a new sort of machismo. And Boyd is a new Spike, sort of, the big romantic figure of the show.

Fortunately I have mind-blowing Deadwood to watch (in which Olyphant was quite skinny), and I'll have Breaking Bad during the Summer.

As for the FRINGE finale, it was enjoyable but uneven and I'm worried about season 4. The show surely can provide more brilliant stand-alone episodes but it doesn't always master the twists it comes up with and here it created many problems to itself, so I'm afraid it's going to screw up its own mythology the same way it happened with LOST.

LJ isn't down but I'm crossposting from dreamwidth for I want to use my new Justified icon!

I love it for several reasons:

1. It shows very well that Justified is not another procedural show but a revival of the western genre.

2. It emphasizes the three things I like most about Timothy Olyphant: his long legs; the way he carries himself either when walking (has anyone else noticed that he always seems to be slightly lopsided, almost about to stumble?) or standing; his shoulders. Okay to be honest, I also like his throat, especially when in profile, the line of his jaw and throat is pretty irresistible and looks tasty...but I digress.

3. The hat of course!

As for the series, I'm still catching up, now watching the second season.

( Cut for Justified talk you might want to skip because you haven't seen the beginning of the season and aren't interested (which is very wrong!) or don't want to be spoiled. )
Few people from my flist seem to watch Justified, and even fewer posted about it last season or even now, but I realise that this little corner of the web has never been crowded with talks about OZ, The Shield, The Wire or Breaking Bad either. All those tv shows have few female characters, lots of graphic violence and are definitely focused on male stuff in a men's world. Although I know other women who love(ed) those shows, I bet that the targetted audience is rather men too while most of tv series (including Mad Men) are obviously aimed at a female audience first and foremost.

This reminds me what S. * told me once, as we were discussing movies and tv "You, you like guys' stuff". Do I, really?

Not necessarily, but it's sure that I am not into the so-called chick stuff ("chick literature" or "chick movies" like those unbearable romantic comedies!).
When it comes to genre, I don't like what is supposed to be gals candy, that is romance, either books or movies, and I am not a big fan of musicals, but yes I love hard-boiled crime novels or roman noir and science fiction which are categories that people usually associate with men. And I like westerns, buddy stories, boxing movies and Clint Eastwood's films (well until he started being so conformist and sentimental...), and I loved testosteronally-charged scenes like the arena scenes in Gladiator or that one at the end of Rome's season 1 !

On the other hand, I am not a big fan of horror or zombie movies, or thrillers or video game-like films or superheroes (Spiderman, Superman, etc), which young males are supposed to favour...However, I enjoyed Pretty Woman when it was released, and before it I loved An Officier and a Gentleman; I 'shipped Spuffy, I adored the uber-romanticism of Ladyhawke, and the touching love-story of Desmond and Penny on Lost.

What's my taste then? I like when it's dark, deep and demanding; original and creative yet mastered; serious but with moments of lightness and humour; filled with emotion but not sappy, tragic but not melodramatic; elegant instead of posh and trendy, ambiguous instead of obvious, surprising instead of predictable; epic but not cheap, subversive but not trashy, daring but not grotesque.

Is it more a male thing than a female thing? I don't think so, but it might be a male thing to assume that women would naturally rather enjoy shallow, silly, slushy, giggly and easy stuff !

My taste isn't a guy's taste, it's just mine**.

Also, I seem to like shows and genres wherein there are a lot of men and few women and where a male is the lead. I guess it's because I actually like men, I am interested in them, intrigued by them, by their otherness, so the more the better ! And if they are attractive it's just the cherry on the top. Methinks this could be actually a very female thing...

 
* the irony being that S. is a male and his favourite film is Gone With The Wind !
** of course deep inside, I believe that it is just that I have good taste! ;- )