3.18.2010

Justified, If Only By Its Leading Actor's Coolness

I have recorded, but not yet watched, FX's pilot for Justified. The hero is a federal marshal who returns to his home town after a questionable kill in a fight, and the hero takes up defending the town from the lawlessness that has consumed it. The hero is played by Deadwood and The Crazies veteran Timothy Olyphant.

I have the premier saved, but I must urge all reading to give the show a try for the following reason:

Timothy Olyphant is one of the coolest, shot-out-of-a-cannon weirdo actors ever. He agreed to be a guest on Sirius XM OutQ's Frank DeCarro show, and he was--hands down--one of the sweetest, weirdest, obscene heterosexuals ever to be on the show and get it. Near the end of his stint, Frank asked if he would stay on until the end of the hour:

"I've got nothing else better to do, let's go!"

Olyphant is as cool as Bullock, but in contrast he is crazed and educated and honest, like Tarantino...

And us, so we aspire...

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