Anyone else notice the new additions to the series?  This year seems to have lots of guys from the Band of Brothers cast!  I've noticed two so far: Guarnere and Compton! 

They need to bring in the guy that played Spiers to be another bad ass!

Great show.

And whoever cast the Band of Brothers series does not get enough credit for assembling one of the greatest casts ever!

It's because they finally ran out of Deadwood cast members to hire.

80sBoy wrote: It's because they finally ran out of Deadwood cast members to hire.

Should have got some of the women from that series! 

And Wu and Swearingen... now, that'd sure liven up that show!

Not that it needs it.

Crap, I'm such a dumbass.  I was thinking of Sons of Anarchy.

But Wu would fit right in in Harlan, I think.

See, this is what happens when I watch shows that  come on at 10pm.  I'm too buzzed to keep them straight.

But I just found this article:

'Sons of Anarchy' casts Ray McKinnon, continuing the 'Deadwood'/FX link

-snippest:

On "Justified":

• Jim Beaver, who played independent prospector Ellsworth, popped up on this season as the security guard at the mine where Boyd Crowder briefly worked.

• Brent Sexton, who was would-be Deadwood fireman Harry Manning, played the crooked sheriff of Harlan County.

• W. Earl Brown, aka Al Swearengen's right-hand man Dan Dority, played the hostage-taking convict whom Raylan talked down with a bucket of fried chicken.

• Sean Bridgers, aka Dan's own sidekick Johnny, had a vendetta against Stephen Root's flamboyant judge.

• Peter Jason (aka Con Stapleton, who briefly served as Deadwood's first sheriff) was a Madoff-esque money manager with a collection of Hitler paintings in an early season 1 episode.

On "Sons of Anarchy":

• Titus Welliver (bearded Swearengen associate Silas Adams) played the club's Irish arch-nemesis Jimmy O.

• Paula Malcomson (Al's favorite whore Trixie) was Gemma's counterpart with the club's Belfast charter, as well as the mother of Jax's half-sister.

• Robin Weigert (Calamity Jane) has popped up a few times as one of the club's defense attorneys.

• Cleo King (George Hearst's cook Aunt Lou) plays Abel's babysitter Neeta.

Again, there are others, often in smaller roles on one series or the other (Cameron Hayes on "Sons" was played by Jamie McShane, who was the man Wild Bill and Seth gunned down at the end of the "Deadwood" pilot), and it's clear that both Graham Yost on "Justified" and Kurt Sutter on "Sons" have an abiding affection for "Deadwood" and its actors.


Also, Ray McKinnon, who was the preacher on Deadwood and the prosecutor in last season's SOA, guest-starred in Season 1 of Justified as a hit man sent to kill Raylan Givens.

You didn't even mention the best one...









And I still say that if anybody offs Clay, it's gonna be Unser!

Unser, Utter... I see a pattern here!

Yeah, it was in the top part of the article and I didn't paste it in.

And I agree with you on that Unser will be the only one to kill Clay.  For a few episodes I thought it was up in the air, though.  Which is obviously what they wanted you to think.

I love Justified. Great show all around. I've enjoyed the few books about Raylan from the author who created the 

character.

Great series and very well cast. 

Timothy Olyphant is a guy with a limited range, but when he gets one in his wheelhouse....  There are a few movie roles where he just swung and missed.   But with DEADWOOD and JUSTIFIED, he parked it in the upper deck.

Didn't realize that the actor who plays Dicky (Jeremy Davies) was the meek translator in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN.

And the same guy who played Bubba in FORREST GUMP (Mykelti Williamson) plays Mr. Limehouse. 

And here's one entirely apart from JUSTIFIED.

My wife loves "Downton Abbey" on PBS.  So my brother sent me a page that shows the actors in and out of character.  Of course most are made to look prim and proper in the drama, then look scruffy in real life.

But check out these in and out of character photos of one of the maids:

The one movie I've seen Olyphant in other than the cable series is "Hitman".  Had something to do with a video game, so I don't know much about that... but he played an awesome assassin in it.  I'll admit his limited range, but he does play a really good badass!

I still think the opening scene of the Justified series is an instant all time classic!

Just watched the season finale last night.  Freaking awesome.

Great bad guys this year.  Again.  This might have been my favorite season so far.  Thought it was freaking hilarious that Wynn Duffy finally flipped his lid after an entire season of being amazingly calm in the face of adversity.