After a little over 6 months, I have finished watching (the original six seasons of) Justified. I was way into it at first, binging maybe a little too hard through the first seasons, but I started losing steam around season 4. By the time I hit season 5, I really had to force myself to get through the episodes, although thankfully season 6 was propulsive enough to keep me glued to the screen. I still can't quite decide where the show falls for me, though. The writing and acting (not to mention the incredible slate of guest actors) are generally top tier, but there didn't seem to be a huge amount of character development over the series and the characters' motivations didn't always seem totally tied to what was happening in the episodes. The biggest victim of this is Raylan himself, whose character really winds up treading water in seasons 4 and 5 before kind of resolving all at once at the tail-end of season 6. There were some stretches where I honestly found myself wondering why they kept him at the center of the show, since nothing in his life was changing, and almost all the actual devlopment was happening on Boyd's side. As for Crowder himself, Goggins is a delight in pretty much every scene, although I think I liked the character best in the first season, where it's hard to tell if he legitimately believes his own preaching or if he's just wants a congregation of morons around to facilitate his mayhem. He transitions from "intense weirdo" to "charming ganster looking for a big score" fairly early in the show, but I always missed the days when his motivations were a bit murkier.
Anyway, I had a good time with it overall, barring season 5 - that one flopped really hard for me. But the show brought enough fun dialogue and incredible villains (Margot Martindale! Neal McDonough! Sam Elliot! And Jere Burns as Wynn freaking Duffy!) to make it worth a watch. If I was a little more ruthless in my viewing habits, I would have skipped season 5 and just read a two-line summary of where it leaves everyone for the start of 6. But I watched it, and I'm a little saturated now, so I'm going to hang up the cowboy hat for a bit before I consider watching City Primeval.