I have to give a shout-out to FX's Justified. Wednesday nights at 9pm CST. This show is in its second season, and it gets better every week. The premise is this: good-old-boy Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) is a US Marshall who shoots first and asks questions later. This gets him into trouble and so he's removed from duty in Miami and sent back to his home state of Kentucky. You thought Miami had its drug and crime problems, but Kentucky's got 'em too, only with less chrome and neon. He maintains a relationship with Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins), a born-again, soft-spoken bad-boy-with-a-heart-of-gold who has a penchant for blowing things up. (The show gets its roots from short story "Fire in the Hole" by Elmore Leonard.) At least, I'm rooting for him to have a heart of gold. You're never sure from week to week which way he's going to go, and you like him enough to care.
The writing is quick and smart, like "West Wing" except that the suits are paired up with jeans, and Raylan wears a cowboy hat. (Believe me, it's HOT.)
Check out the first season on Netflix. Then get caught up on season two on http://vod.fxnetworks.com/watch/justified. And then tune in on Wednesdays at 9pm after watching American Idol. You won't regret it.
