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_Breaking Bad. Game of Thrones. Mad Men. The Sopranos. The Wire. _Like any self-respecting TV obsessive, you’ve watched them all. And with a dearth of long-running standbys still running, and a glut of new premieres to wait and see on, you need a mass-consumption candidate to fill in the weeks while [True Detective](file://composeviewinternalloadurl/blogs/the-feed/2014/01/the-gq-weekly-punch-list-01-06-2014.html#8) gets going. Luckily, _Justified _is one of the best shows on television that hardly enough people are watching, and with four seasons in the bag and a fifth premiering on Tuesday, it’s the perfect time to binge-watch the Kentucky crime drama and become a weekly acolyte faster than Raylan Givens can draw down on a man. So start now, and you’ll be hooked enough to catch up just in time for, oh, episode 2 or so.

1. Raylan Givens is the biggest, most certified badass on television.

Sure, Heisenberg had his dastardly moments, but we’re also fans of just straight-up shooting a guy. Timothy Olyphant’s Deputy U.S. Marshal (legally) kills way more dudes than a marshal ever should, [looks great walking away from stuff](file://composeviewinternalloadurl/blogs/the-feed/2014/01/the-gq-weekly-punch-list-01-06-2014.html#2), and generally possesses the kind of calm, collected, kill-you-with-his-stare demeanor every spaghetti western lawman should have—just with a necktie...and a BlackBerry. And while there’s plenty of subdermal emotionality going on here (an ex-wife, daddy issues), Raylan mostly serves as the show’s cooly unsympathetic center for its alternately brilliant, sadistic, and just plain stupid criminals to bang their heads on. And get shot by.