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Is there a show that has a better group of antagonist/villains than Justified?

Posted on 12/17/20 at 3:15 pm
Posted by BluegrassBelle
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 3:15 pm
Finally finished up Justified (yeah, I'm a touch late to the party) and am having a hard time trying to remember another show that had such a great gallery of antagonists from top to bottom.

We have:

Boyd Crowder
Mags Bennett
Arlo Givens
Wynn Duffy (may be my non-Boyd fav)
Dewey Crowe
Ellstin Limehouse
Dickie Bennett

And so on.

Maybe The Wire? The Sopranos?

Thoughts?
Posted by Jcorye1
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 3:20 pm to
Other than whiffing hard on Rapaport, agreed. At times, you root for Dewey Crowe and random members of the Crowders.
Posted by OMLandshark
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 3:23 pm to
Game of Thrones for all its faults I think is the clear winner:

Joffrey Baratheon
Cersei Lannister
Tywin Lannister
Roose Bolton
Ramsey Bolton
Littlefinger
Walder Frey
The Night King
Janos Slynt
The Mountain
Qyburn
Viserys Targaryen
Melisandre
The High Sparrow

Pretty solid lineup
This post was edited on 12/17/20 at 3:25 pm
Posted by wildtigercat93
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 3:25 pm to
How could you forget the biggest villain of them all?

Posted by RLDSC FAN
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 3:27 pm to
Who does this board hate more...those guys, or Rian Johnson?
Posted by OMLandshark
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 3:27 pm to
You’re right. I forgot about Fat Bastard.
Posted by 3nOut
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 3:37 pm to
i would agree that there were fantastic gallery of rogues.

i think comparing them to GoT or Sopranos is a little unfair because you can show the Mountain crushing a man's skull or Joffrey filling a naked Roz full of arrows. Justified being on network TV puts limits on that.


quote:

Ellstin Limehouse


Limehouse was no villain. An antagonist at times to Raylon, sometimes allies, but not a villain.

ETA: i guess you did include antagonist in the OP. My bad.
This post was edited on 12/17/20 at 3:39 pm
Posted by Cregg
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 3:45 pm to
quote:

Mags Bennett

tGOAT
Posted by Midget Death Squad
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 3:51 pm to
quote:

Dewey Crowe



Best use of comic relief in a series. I love every moment he is on screen



quote:

Mags Bennett


One of the greatest villains in television history. I'm not saying she is THE greatest, but she definitely deserves to be in that conversation.


Apple pie, bitches!
Posted by SundayFunday
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 3:58 pm to
Sorta related, I really want a show with the main character(s) being really just evil supervillain trying to take over the world in brutal fashion... and succeeding
Posted by EyeOfTheTiger311
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 3:58 pm to
I loved Neal McDonough as Robert Quarles too.
Posted by CunningLinguist
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 4:01 pm to
Quarles was the only big bad I felt was a miss. I agree with general premise.

Boyd Crowder and Mags Bennett being in the same show is insane. No show has had two compelling GOAT level villains like that in same show.
Posted by LittleJerrySeinfield
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 4:37 pm to
quote:

Boyd Crowder


Boyd's "preaching" was some of my favorite scenes from the show.
Posted by Xenophon
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 4:52 pm to
Boyd is one of the greatest characters ever put on screen.
Posted by GeauxTigerTM
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 4:55 pm to
quote:

Who does this board hate more...those guys, or Rian Johnson?


Johnson hands down for me. I had no attachment to GOT other than watching the show as an adult.

What Johnson did to Luke Skywalker was like raping my childhood...
Posted by MickeyLikesDags21
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 5:02 pm to
quote:

Dewey Crowe






I've watched Justified twice all the way through and damn I could go for another. Like someone else said, the only mess up the whole series was Michael Rapaport. He was trash. Everything else was done to perfection.
Posted by Athos
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 5:09 pm to
This post was edited on 12/17/20 at 5:10 pm
Posted by SLafourche07
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 5:15 pm to
quote:

Who does this board hate more...those guys, or Rian Johnson?




D&D for me.

I like Star Wars but I was big time into ASOIAF when it came out.
Posted by SSpaniel
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 5:24 pm to
quote:

Other than whiffing hard on Rapaport,

Didn't they, though? I don't understand how they could nail everyone else.. and then.... him?

Also...

Posted by Sus-Scrofa
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Posted on 12/17/20 at 6:03 pm to
Justified even made Mike O’Malley a workable bad guy. That’s all you need to know.
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