Forget ‘Fallout,’ Walton Goggins’ Best TV Western Is Officially a Must-Watch on Hulu

The final few months of 2026 are shaping up to be huge for Timothy Olyphant, who is attached to star in a huge TV project as well as a new movie coming to the big screen. Olyphant will return to his role as James Stacy in Quentin Tarantino‘s first movie in seven years, The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, which is coming to IMAX in November before being released on Netflix in December. Olyphant will also return in a larger role in the second season of Stick on Apple TV, the golf comedy/drama led by Owen Wilson. Now that the fourth season of Ted Lasso has come to an end and Apple has not yet renewed it for Season 5, Stick is poised to take over as Apple’s new feel-good sports series.

Timothy Olyphant has starred in dozens of iconic TV shows over the years, but if fans were to list out his most famous projects, one that would undoubtedly land close to the top of the list is Justified. Olyphant stars alongside Walton Goggins in the critically acclaimed and audience-beloved show, which ran for six seasons between 2010 and 2015. That’s the ultimate indication that the show comes from a different era, is that FX had no trouble getting out a new season of the show every year that it was on the air. Now eleven years removed from Justified going off the air, though, the show continues to stream on the same platform as other FX shows, Hulu. It’s even surged into the top 10 on the platform a few times in recent years, and it’s become a hit on VOD in places where it’s not available on streaming.

Four icons and four completely different ways of walking into trouble.
This is the one you would have been out there, why it fits, and what it would have cost you.

You have never explained yourself and you have never needed to,
because people work out fairly quickly that you are the most capable person in the room
without you ever having to mention it.

• Eastwood built the character out of everything he refused to do, stripping away the
  backstory, the speeches and every bit of reassurance until only the competence was left.
• You keep your own counsel, and while other people occasionally find that unnerving, you
  have never felt any real need to fix it for them.
• The Dollars films work because he genuinely is in it for himself right up until the
  moment he is not, and he never explains that part either.
• You would be gone before anybody got a chance to thank you.

You are the funniest person in most rooms and the most loyal
person in all of them, and you would be genuinely insulted if somebody suggested those two
things were in any tension.

• Doc has no real reason to be in this fight beyond the fact that his friend is in it,
  which is the only reason he has ever needed for anything.
• You lead with wit, and it does a very effective job of hiding how seriously you take the
  handful of people you actually care about.
• Val Kilmer’s performance is the most quoted in the entire genre because the jokes keep
  getting sharper as the situation gets worse.
• You would spend everything you had on this and still describe it as a good week.

You never wanted this job, and you took it anyway because the
alternative was standing there watching somebody less careful do it badly, which is the most
Western reason there has ever been.

• Earp is the reluctant authority figure, a man who came to town specifically to be left
  alone and somehow ended up answerable for all of it.
• You are protective by instinct, so when something goes wrong your first thought is who
  is exposed rather than who is to blame.
• These films understand that keeping order costs far more than breaking it, and that the
  person holding the line almost never gets thanked.
• You would do the whole thing again, and you would complain about it the entire time.

Nobody has ever successfully talked you out of something you had
already decided was right, and a long line of grown adults has found that out the hard way.

• Mattie is the most relentless character in the Western canon and she manages it through
  argument, paperwork and flat refusal rather than a fast draw.
• You have no patience for being managed, so you negotiate, you check the details and you
  turn up exactly when you said you would.
• True Grit is the rare Western where the moral centre is the youngest person on screen
  and every adult around her has to catch up.
• You would get what you came for, and the film is honest about what that takes out of
  you.

What Is ‘Justified’ About?

Justified was written and created for TV by Graham Yost, and if Yost’s name sounds familiar, it’s because he’s the lead writer and creator of one of the most popular shows on Apple TV. We’re talking, of course, about Silo, the three-season sci-fi series starring Rebecca Ferguson set to return for Season 4 next year. The series is perfect for Bosch and Yellowstone fans who love a gritty crime thriller set against a dusty Western backdrop. The official synopsis for Justified, which holds nearly perfect scores of 97% from critics and 95% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows:

“Deputy Raylan Givens has his own, Wild West-style methods of upholding justice, putting him at odds with the criminals he hunts and with his bosses in the U.S. Marshals Service. And an incident prompts his reassignment to the Kentucky district where he grew up. The character is based on one created by author Elmore Leonard in several books and short stories.”

“Deputy Raylan Givens has his own, Wild West-style methods of upholding justice, putting him at odds with the criminals he hunts and with his bosses in the U.S. Marshals Service. And an incident prompts his reassignment to the Kentucky district where he grew up. The character is based on one created by author Elmore Leonard in several books and short stories.”

Check out all episodes of Justified on Hulu and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Timothy Olyphant’s future projects.

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