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The series, which will have its premiere on FX on Tuesday, grew out of an Elmore Leonard short story, “Fire in the Hole” and situates Givens in Kentucky, where he grew up and vowed never to return.
“Justified” is hardly the first attempt to render the dialogue of Mr. Leonard, the author of dozens of novels over the last half-century, suitable for the small screen. But while some of the films made from his novels “Out of Sight,” “Get Shorty” and “Jackie Brown” have found critical and commercial success, the medium of television has not always been so kind to the Leonard oeuvre. Network efforts like “Karen Cisco’ and “Maximum Bob” tanked, in part because Mr. Leonard’s characters tend to do and say things that don’t fly with network standards. On FX, thanks to basic cable’s less restrictive policies, the people in “Justified” cuss and sleep around, the former stripper really does have a heart of gold, and the neo-Nazi is charming and loquacious.