Justified (TV Series) Riverbrook (2010) User Reviews

For this show, not bad is pretty damn good

[Mr-Fusion · 7/10 · 22 November 2016]

'Riverbrook' is symptomatic of the awkward nascent stages of "Justified"; it feels a lot more like your average procedural than what eventually really makes this show tick. Here, we get Raylan settling into the new environment, and his unconventional style of police work. He doesn't go by the book, but has got to be the smoothest gunfighter on TV. Mostly, this means barbed repartee with the people around him.

The crime itself is pretty typical (an inmate escapes to retrieve the money he'd stashed in a new housing development), complete with wannabe criminals and the inevitable double-cross. It's very much in the spirit of Elmore Leonard's brand of bad guys. Well-written, too. As much as I look forward to the forthcoming serialization , I did greet the end credits wishing for more.

That alone says plenty.

7/10

Back when it wasn't that good

[gplusr · 8/10 · 25 January 2015]

Season 1 focused a lot on introducing the main characters and keep the important storyline of the season for its final 4 episodes, this was an example of an episode that would be very good for a show like Hawaii Five-O or Common Law and actually quite funny.

The convicts making officers for fools, the dumb wife, dumb criminal and lazy cousin characters completely forgettable (but not worse than episode 3's characters)

But, for a show that got as good as Justified got, it was far from what it could've been.

Like I said, it was good to set the pace for some characters, specially to build Raylan Givens, but besides that, they still weren't at their best.

7/10, and only because this is one of my favorite shows.

MVP: Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant)

Third time's the charm

[brooksrob1 · 10/10 · 11 August 2021]

The words shared between old friends, friends that "dug coal together" are very poignant..This is my third binge and you remember what happened but; watching Olyphant's and Grogan's faces when they speak to each other is very profound; almost moving...Boyd, lying in the prison hospital ward, and forgiving Raylen for shooting him was beautiful, without being sappy...When you've seen the series three times; you smile thinking of what's to come, knowing that in the end; Boyd and Raylan remain the same as they were from day one...~sigh~ Such a great series#