Justified: Ein Spin-Off muss her!

Auf der einen Seite freue ich mich schon, dass im Januar mein allerliebster Möchtegern-Cowboy Raylan Givens zurück sein wird. Auf der anderen Seite, beginnt damit dann aber leider die letzte Staffel von Justified. Meine Einschätzung, dass dies genau der richtige Zeitpunkt ist, der Serie ihren Abschluss zu geben, ist dabei der einzige Gedanke, der mich tröstet, denn Charakteren “goodbye” zu sagen, ist immer besonders schwer, wenn man ein bisschen mit diesen “in love” gefallen ist.

Auch Uproxx kennt dieses Gefühl und hat für das Problem eine gute Lösung gefunden: Ein Spin-Off muss her!! Die fünf Spin-Off Ideen, die sie sich da haben einfallen lassen, sind definitiv sehenswert, wobei mein persönlicher Favorit ja ein Spin-Off namens “Tim & Rachel’s Adventures in Babysitting Raylan Givens” wäre.

Die erste von Uproxxs Ideen für ein Justified Spin-Off nennt sich „Art’s Place“ und handelt von Arts Ruhestand. Der Chief Marshal kann dabei das Marshal-Dasein nicht so ganz hinter sich lassen, wenn er und seine Frau in Florida den Ruhestand genießen, und irgendwie vermisst er auch sein Sorgenkind Raylan.

After retiring from the Marshal service, Art and Mrs. Art jet off to a tiny Florida town near Ft. Lauderdale to follow their dream of opening a little breakfast spot near the beach. Art spends his mornings frying up some eggs and yapping with the locals, and his afternoons out on his boat Raylan doing some fishing. (“Why’d you name the boat Raylan, Art?” “Because it can be an unpredictable pain in my ass.”) Everything is going great.

But in the process of talking to his regular customers every morning, Art starts to realize that his idyllic little beach community has … problems. The police force is understaffed and underfunded, and the criminal element has started to creep in. Art promises himself and Mrs. Art that he’ll stay out of it, but then one day two young punks come in and try to stick up Art’s Place. That’s it. He’s had it. He has to do something. He takes the Chief of Police out fishing that afternoon and says “Do you want my help or not?”
Think Taken crossed with Murder, She Wrote.

Die zweite Spin-Off Idee “Til Death Do Us Part” dreht sich um Tim und Rachel, die geheiratet haben. Tim kündigt seinen Job, weil er ja nicht mit seiner Chefin Rachel eine Beziehung führen kann und wird ein Stay-At-Home Dad. Rachel als Boss, yes please. Aber Tim in der Rolle des Soccer Dads kann ich mir ehrlich gesagt mal so gar nicht vorstellen…

Years of sexual tension around the office finally explode and Tim and Rachel begin a torrid love affair that ends in marriage. Unfortunately, now that Rachel’s running the office in the wake of Art’s retirement, they’re left with a dilemma: she can’t be married to someone under her direct supervision. They talk around the problem a bit on their honeymoon before Tim announces “You know what? I’ll just quit. I can give shooting lessons or something. Besides, we’ll wanna start a family some day, and your job is too important.”

SMASH CUT TO: Eight years later
Rachel is still running the Marshal’s office, having just won a handful of prestigious national honors for her work breaking up the resurgent Dixie Mafia. Tim is now Mr. Mom, running 7-year-old Ashley and 4-year-old Tucker to and from school events and sports practices, and serving on the local PTA. Lots of awkward interactions with other moms. A scene or two where he explains the “apricot” to a horrified class on Bring A Parent To School Day. And so on and so forth.

Das Spin-Off „Harlan High“ über die Teenagerzeiten von Raylan, Boyd, Winona und Ava ist ein Muss. FX, get on that asap!!

The year is 1985. A young Raylan, Boyd, Winona, and Ava are students at Harlan High. Dickie Bennett’s there, too, hair still a mangled multidirectional boondoggle. So is Limehouse, probably, and Dewey Crowe. This is admittedly all I have so far. Would watch.

Der geilste Titel hat die vierte Spin-Off-Idee: „All I Do Is Wynn“. Diese Serie würde sich dann um Wynn Duffy drehen, der mit seinem Wohnmobil einen Roadtrip durch die USA macht und in verschiedenen Orten seiner kriminellen Seite freien Lauf lässt. Hauptsache raus aus Kentucky. In der finalen Saison müsste natürlich Raylan Givens Himself einen Gastauftritt machen.

The heat gets too hot in Harlan and Wynn Duffy decides to pack up his RV and hightail it out of Kentucky. Next stop: The open road. He travels from town to town — a different location each season — using his underworld connections to tap into the local criminal element, help them hit a big score like a lawbreaking mercenary, maybe check out the women’s tennis scene in the area, and then he runs off as soon as the money’s been counted and the shares have been distributed. Vegas, Albany, Austin, Seattle, he drops in wherever the road takes him and parks the ol’ Wynnebago just long enough to cash out.

Don’t ask him about Kentucky, though. He doesn’t like to talk about Kentucky. And he’s never going back. (Spoiler alert: He is definitely going back. In the final season. Special guest appearance by Timothy Olyphant.)

Die letzte Spin-Off-Serienidee “Blizzard of Bullets” dreht sich um unseren allerliebsten grauen Charakter, Boyd Crowder, der seine kriminellen Wege hinter sich gelassen hat und endlich eine Dairy Queen-Filiale eröffnet hat. Nachdem er innerhalb von fünf Jahren zum Ice Cream Tycoon geworden ist, deckt ein Magazin seine kriminelle Vergangenheit auf und Dairy Queen wendet ihm den Rücken zu. Das lässt Boyd aber nicht mit sich machen.

He did it. He finally did it. Boyd Crowder — former Nazi, former Man of God, former international drug smuggler — went clean(ish) and opened a Dairy Queen franchise. And then he opened another. And another. And another and another and another. Within five short years, using some … oh, let’s say “inventive” negotiating tactics, he ended up becoming the South’s preeminent ice cream tycoon. But then a lengthy exposé in a popular magazine reveals his colorful past to the public, and the Dairy Queen higher-ups decide to cut ties with their hotshot franchisee to save face.

Now Boyd’s pissed. At the world, sure, because he just had his dream life ripped away from him again. But mostly he’s pissed at Dairy Queen. How dare they? How dare they? After all the Blizzards he sold for them. There’s only way to right this wrong: sweet revenge. He takes the small fortune he accumulated building his DQ empire and invests it all in starting up his own line of ice cream restaurants. He’s taking you down, Dairy Queen. In the boardroom and in the streets. By any means necessary.

Welche Spin-Off Idee gefällt Euch am Besten? Oder habt ihr eine bessere Idee? Lasst es uns in den Kommentaren wissen!