
Justified · Season 5 · FX
Justified Season 5
Justified Season 5 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 7.8/10. 13 episodes on FX from 7 January 2014.
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What BollyAI Thinks
Season 5 held a 96-percent Rotten Tomatoes score but is the season critics and audiences most consistently identify as the series' weakest stretch. The Crowe family from Florida - a dynasty of dim, volatile criminals - provided a different register of menace from the Harlan ecosystem, but critics found them less interesting than the Bennett or Quarles arcs. The show's strengths - dialogue precision, Olyphant and Goggins - remained intact. The season functions best as a transition: burning off storylines and positioning the pieces for a final year Weisberg and Fields knew they were building toward.
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Season Over Season
The acknowledged trough of the run - maintains quality of craft while the central villain arc fails to match prior seasons' dramatic weight.