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Justified - anybody on here from Kentucky?
Posted on 9/2/20 at 9:02 pm
Posted on 9/2/20 at 9:02 pm
It cannot really be like this over there with so much white trash and hillbillies can it? It’s an awesome show...now in season 4 on Hulu
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Posted on 9/2/20 at 9:07 pm to Ricky1962
You realize this is like me asking if everybody from Louisiana is like the characters in Waterboy right? 
Posted on 9/2/20 at 9:29 pm to BluegrassBelle
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You realize this is like me asking if everybody from Louisiana is like the characters in Waterboy right?
But it is like this in Kentucky, isn’t it?
Posted on 9/2/20 at 9:40 pm to LoveThatMoney
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But it is like this in Kentucky, isn’t it?
I mean you have plenty of hillbillies in Eastern Kentucky. But not quite.
It bothers me more than the scenery is clearly dry arse California and not Eastern Kentucky.
Posted on 9/2/20 at 9:54 pm to BluegrassBelle
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You realize this is like me asking if everybody from Louisiana is like the characters in Waterboy right?
That's just south of Alexandria. North LA is more True Blood.
Posted on 9/2/20 at 10:16 pm to BluegrassBelle
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mean you have plenty of hillbillies in Eastern Kentucky. But not quite.
It bothers me more than the scenery is clearly dry arse California and not Eastern Kentucky.
Posted on 9/2/20 at 11:06 pm to Ricky1962
I’m from Lexington. Other than Harlan, its a big setting for the show. Lexington is nothing like the show. I do love all the random product placements throughout the episodes though. Kinda lame they didnt try to actually film the show in Kentucky.
Posted on 9/2/20 at 11:14 pm to GumpInLex
the fake snow they had on the mountain in the last season had me laughing
Posted on 9/2/20 at 11:24 pm to Ricky1962
Go to a lot of places in Appalachia (not just the East KY part) and you will find areas that make Justified look like the U Club, seriously. There are probably several hundred thousand people in Appalachia without running water.
Being in counties in Kentucky like Clay, Owsley, and Wolfe and if it weren't for the fact they speak (a form of) English it is hard to believe you are in the US.
Mostly good people just unbelievable poor.
Being in counties in Kentucky like Clay, Owsley, and Wolfe and if it weren't for the fact they speak (a form of) English it is hard to believe you are in the US.
Mostly good people just unbelievable poor.
Posted on 9/3/20 at 12:01 am to Obtuse1
Never watched the show, but I had an employee who used to live in the hills of Kentucky. He was what I'll call an independent preacher. He had his own church that he was trying to lead on the side. He was a salt of the earth guy, and he told me that all the preachers he knew had a cash crop in their backyard.
Just a way of life up there.
Just a way of life up there.
Posted on 9/3/20 at 12:31 am to BluegrassBelle
kentucky has hot blonde women
my coworker was from lindsey college
my coworker was from lindsey college
Posted on 9/3/20 at 6:29 am to BluegrassBelle
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It bothers me more than the scenery is clearly dry arse California and not Eastern Kentucky.
This is what bothered me most about the series. For a show that places so much emphasis on a specific region of the country, and then to clearly film it in California just never felt right.
Posted on 9/3/20 at 7:30 am to Ricky1962
Is everyone in Louisiana like Glenn Mitchell? It seems so.
And I like Glenn Mitchell.
And I like Glenn Mitchell.
Posted on 9/3/20 at 7:37 am to GumpInLex
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I’m from Lexington. Other than Harlan, its a big setting for the show. Lexington is nothing like the show. I do love all the random product placements throughout the episodes though. Kinda lame they didnt try to actually film the show in Kentucky.
The Tates Creek Road stuff makes my eye twitch a tad. Or the fact Raylan can just take a short drive from Lexington to Harlan when its about a 2 1/2-3 hour drive. And way back in the hills with a damn towncar.
I mean, I get its a tax credits thing for shows. But at least use North Carolina or somewhere similar in topography. Those dusty arse mountains in the background when it should look like this makes me laugh:
This post was edited on 9/3/20 at 7:39 am
Posted on 9/3/20 at 8:08 am to BluegrassBelle
Regardless. I am currently on season 4 and the show is great!
Posted on 9/3/20 at 8:18 am to bengalman
Was stationed in Southern Indiana (Crane) for 3 years. Its all rather remote country, very beautiful. Rednecks are called hilljacks. If you can watch Porter's Ridge, reality show.
Posted on 9/3/20 at 8:50 am to BluegrassBelle
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It bothers me more than the scenery is clearly dry arse California and not Eastern Kentucky.
You should visit the mountains of Louisiana. From what I've seen on TV, they're beautiful.
Posted on 9/3/20 at 11:01 am to gameovergt
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Rednecks are called hilljacks.
in one of the later seasons, when raylan called someone a hilljack arse-waffle, i had to turn on subtitles
Posted on 9/3/20 at 11:27 am to gameovergt
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Was stationed in Southern Indiana (Crane) for 3 years. Its all rather remote country, very beautiful. Rednecks are called hilljacks. If you can watch Porter's Ridge, reality show.
Crane is pretty redneck. I haven't been up that way in awhile, but Southern Indiana in general is mostly just Amish and Meth heads. But it doesn't really touch upon what Appalachia's like IMO.
But to further talk about the OP, things I thought Justified got right and wrong about Harlan (and Kentucky in general):
Right:
- The Cornbread Mafia (referenced as the Dixie Mafia in the show) was very much a thing. I highly recommend reading the book about them by James Higdon. Particularly about Johnny Boone.
- Eastern Kentuckians have a very mixed relationship with Coal Companies. In many areas, because of the lack of infrastructure, its the only industry and as it dwindles whole towns and hollers suffer. And they do deal with the land being stripped and everything that comes with that.
- Tent revivals. And Pentecostals with their snakes. Without the Boyd Crowder dramatics.
Wrong:
- Parts of Eastern Kentucky are much, much poorer than they portray.
- The topography (which we've discussed at length).
- The general notion that they're all dumb hillbillies. I've met some fantastic people from out that way that would survive much longer than I could with their knowledge of the land and other things. There's beautiful culture from that area from crafts to music. Especially Bluegrass music.
- Nobody's driving a towncar outside of Harlan and getting where they go on the show.
Posted on 9/3/20 at 1:20 pm to BluegrassBelle
My grandmother's family is from Harlan and have been in that area for over 200 years now, mostly around Cawood. If you know them they are nice, but they do not trust outsiders at all.
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