Skip to content
Entertainment
Link copied to clipboard

Final season of 'Justified' hits DVD

Elmore Leonard, best known for his crime novels, turned to the infamous location of Harlan County, Ky., for inspiration to create a new character, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. He appears in the novels Pronto and Riding the Rap and the short story "Fire in the Hole." The latter inspired Canadian writer-producer Graham Yost (Boomtown) to create Justified for FX.

Elmore Leonard, best known for his crime novels, turned to the infamous location of Harlan County, Ky., for inspiration to create a new character, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens. He appears in the novels

Pronto

and

Riding the Rap

and the short story "Fire in the Hole." The latter inspired Canadian writer-producer Graham Yost (

Boomtown

) to create

Justified

for FX.

Over the course of six seasons, Timothy Olyphant (A Perfect Getaway, The Crazies) made the character his own, imbuing the lawman with a sharp, dry wit, an ironic self-consciousness and a low-burning but ever-present anger hidden just beneath a polite veneer. The series, which featured an amazing menagerie of oddball characters played by Walton Goggins, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter and Natalie Zea, ended this spring.

It will no doubt go down in TV history as one of the best-loved dramas of the new millennium. Sony released Justified: The Final Season in a three-disc set which contains all 13 final episodes.

(www.sonypictures.com; $55.99 DVD; $65.99 Blu-ray; not rated)

Other titles of note

Masterpiece: Poldark. Aidan Turner (Being Human) delivers a thrilling performance in this new, eight-part adaptation of the series of novels by Winston Graham about an English soldier who returns home from the American Revolution to find his father dead, his estate in ruins, and his fiancée (Heida Reed) about to marry another man. Catch it on PBS beginning Sunday - or wait for the disc on July 7. (www.shoppbs.org; $44.99 DVD; $49.99 Blu-ray; not rated)

Kingsman: The Secret Service. Colin Firth and Jack Davenport star as Savile Row-outfitted spies in this fast-paced action comedy about their efforst to stop a dastardly genius (Samuel L. Johnson) who has a dastardly plan to rid the earth of 99 percent of its population. (www.foxconnect.com; $29.98 DVD; $39.99 Blu-ray; rated R)

Spirited Away. Catch this restored and remastered edition of director Hayao Miyazaki's 2001 animated family classic about a 10-year-old girl and her family who take a wrong turn and end up in a magical kingdom. (waltdisneystudios.com; $29.99 DVD; $36.99 Blu-ray/DVD Combo; rated PG)

The Bridge: Season 2. Featuring the Swedish Sofia Helin and Danish Kim Bodnia as the oddest pairing in Scandinavian crime TV, The Bridge sparked a global trend - and inspired different remakes by British and American TV. In the second season, the duo has to solve another complex crime when a crewless ship containing the bodies five youngsters crashes into the Øresund Bridge at the border between Sweden and Denmark. (www.mhznetworks.org/; $49.95; not rated)

Odd Couple: The Complete Series. Adapted from the Neil Simon play by Garry Marshall and Jerry Belson, and starring Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, this terrific sitcom aired for five seasons from 1970 to 1975. This 20-disc megaset includes all 114 episodes. (www.paramount.com; $59.98; not rated)

The Newsroom: Season 3. It's all over: Don't miss the last season of Aaron Sorkin's HBO series about a group of TV news producers and reporters played by Jeff Daniels, Emily Mortimer, and Alison Pill who tried to do the impossible: broadcast meaningful, in-depth news. (www.store.hbo.com; $39.98 DVD; $49.99 Blu-ray; not rated)

Two and a Half Men: Season 12. Even works of genius have to end. Ashton Kutcher and Jon Cryer hang up their hats in the final season of CBS' sitcom. (www.wbshop.com; $29.98; no rated)

Ripper Street: Season Three. Matthew Macfadyen, Adam Rothenberg, and MyAnna Buring are never less than sensational in his dark, thrilling and beautifully written Victorian crime drama set in London's infamous Whitechapel district. The eight-episode third season follows a complex case that grows out of a deadly train crash. It's due Tuesday from BBC Video. (www.bbcshop.com/; 29.98 DVD; $34.98 Blu-ray; not rated)