Westerns are celebrated as a timeless genre, but they’re too often rooted in nostalgia. When looking at the most popular contemporary Western shows of the 21st century, many are built on a yearning for a more old-fashioned tradition of stark moral boundaries, and they don’t acknowledge how much more complicated the world has become. Justifiedwas a truly modern Western that doubled as one of the most engaging, exciting thrillers of its era. Although the short story “Fire in the Hole” provided the basic inspiration for the story of the no-nonsense U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), Justified went far beyond its source material to become a sprawling epic filled with memorable characters.
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