TV GUIDE CANADA: Just cause
Timothy Olyphant reloads for Season 2 of ‘Justified’
By Greg David
2011-02-28
Timothy Olyphant, it seems, was made to wear a cowboy hat. He donned one as Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, in David Milch’s wonderful HBO western. The 42-year-old has one perched atop his head in the upcoming Johnny Depp flick Rango, though his character, Spirit of the West, is animated.
And Season 2 of Justified again finds the Honolulu-born actor firmly affixing a ten-gallon hat to his head as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, who dispenses bon-mots in a lazy Southern drawl as he rounds up baddies on the dusty back roads of Kentucky...
Based on the works of American crime novelist Elmore Leonard – in particular the short story “Fire in the Hole” – Justified is created and developed by Canadian Graham Yost (Band of Brothers), and finds Raylan (Olyphant) fully immersed in his home soil of Harlan County. Where Season 1 had Raylan rejecting his transfer from Miami (where he had shot a drug runner dead in broad daylight) to Harlan County and fighting rekindling relationships there, the sophomore 13 episodes have him embracing his roots … and his ex-wife, Winona (Natalie Zea).
As always, what drives Justified are the men and women Raylan and his fellow marshals chase down, which include Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins), the white supremacist with a penchant for blowing up African American churches, and who may or may not have become a good guy. No need to worry if Boyd has decided to walk the straight and narrow; a new villain has cropped up to wage war with Raylan in the form of Mags Bennett (Dexter’s Margo Martindale). Mags runs the local general store while her son is the sheriff. With dirty dealings in drugs and homemade hooch, Mags is Kentucky’s answer to Miami’s Tony Montana, putting her right in Raylan’s sights.
... “Elmore’s world is always less about good guys and bad guys as people who respect each other and who don’t,” Olyphant explains. “It comes down to who’s cool and who’s an asshole.”
... “It’s all cowboys and Indians when it comes down to it,” he says with a chuckle. “I get a great deal of fulfillment out of it. Every now and then you actually put on a cowboy hat and it kind of brings it all home. It’s always fun to (play) cops and robbers, and in this case it’s kind of more like cops and hillbillies.”
Justifed airs in the US on Wednesday at 10/9C on FX, and in Canada on Super Channel on Monday and 9pm ET.
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