My
favorite TV show came back on the air this week. Yay! Okay, it’s one of my favorites. Justified. US
Marshal Raylon Givens, shoot first and ask questions later. Dewey
Crowe, idiot redneck. Boyd Crowder, a bank-robbing white supremacist. Ava,
widow, Boyd’s former fiance. This is grunge southern fiction at its best.
The
show is based on characters by writer Elmore Leonard. Some may remember his
other well-known books, made into movies: Get Shorty, Pulp Fiction, Three-ten to Yuma,
Kill Shot to
name a few. Leonard was brilliant. Gritty realism. Strong language. He
wrote ten
rules for writing good. He summed up the ten rules in one sentence.
If it sounds
like writing, I rewrite it.
The
TV show got its name from the opening scene. Raylon gives a gangster type an
ultimatum. Get out of town or be shot. Heck. Watch it for yourself.
Ron D. Voigts writes dark mysteries. His latest book Strigoi, The Blood Bond is available on Kindle.
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