History Trivia / Justified

* ProductionPosse: As a Graham Yost, there are multiple actors from his previous work. Creator/MekhiPhifer (Limehouse) was in ''Series/{{Boomtown}}'', while Creator/NealMcDonough and Creator/ScottGrimes were both in that and ''Series/BandOfBrothers''.

* ProductionPosse: As a Graham Yost, there are multiple actors from his previous work. Creator/MekhiPfeiffer (Limehouse) was in ''Series/{{Boomtown}}'', while Creator/NealMcDonough and Creator/ScottGrimes were both in that and ''Series/BandOfBrothers''.

* CaliforniaDoubling: The show is set in Kentucky, but was mostly filmed in California.

* {{Dedication}}: The series finale ends with a dedication to the people of Harlan, Kentucky, The men and women of the United Marshals Service and to Elmore Leonard who died 2 years before the show's final season.

* StarMakingRole: Creator/MargoMartindale and Creator/KaitlinDever's appearances in Season 2 raised their profiles and put them in constant demand in both TV and film productions afterwards.

* {{Dedication}}: The series finale ends with a dedication to the people of Harlan, Kentucky, The men and women of the united marshals service and to Elmore Leonard who died 2 years before the show's final season.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: According to the DVD for the season one finale, the original plan for the finale would have been for Boyd to visit the family of the white supremacist recruit that he murdered in the pilot in order to try and offer some form of restitution for the man's death. Raylan would trail him to Oklahoma in hopes of getting the family to help him trick Boyd into confessing to murder. Unfortunately for both, the family turns on both of them and tries (unsuccessfully) to kill them... with chainsaws.

** Adam Arkin, who plays Theo Tonin, is only 12 years older than Max Perlich, who plays his son Sammy and only 10 years older than Neal McDonough, who plays his adopted son.

* {{Dedication}}: The series finale ends with a dedication to the people of Harlan, Kentucky, The men and women of the united marshals service and to Elmore Leonard who died 2 years before the shows final season.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Walt Goggins was only supposed to be in the pilot and was killed off in the original script for the episode. Thankfully, once the series was picked up by FX, Goggins was signed up for the second half of the season and a new ending made showing that he survived, due to Raylan purposely missing Boyd's heart when he shot him in the chest. Consider how Boyd became the EnsembleDarkhorse insanely quick, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools this is a good case of the trope]].

* ApprovalOfGod: Creator/ElmoreLeonard liked Creator/TimothyOlyphant's portrayal of Raylan givens and reworked the literary version of the character to be closer to the TV version when he wrote ''Raylan''. His family also appreciated the show and it was his estate's idea to adapt ''City Primeval'' -- considered one of Leonard's greatest works -- into an installment of ''Justified''.

* NoisyNature: A lot of the outdoor scenes in Harlan County have a [[https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Hermit_Thrush hermit thrush]] singing in the background (or at night, occasionally a [[https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Eastern_Screech-Owl screech owl]]). Both species are common in the Appalachians, although the thrush more often comes down to Kentucky in the winter.

* WagTheDirector: Creator/WaltonGoggins was able to score considerable creative control over his character Boyd, when the show's producers asked him if he would sign on for season one after filming the pilot. In particular, the character's transformation into a repentant Born-Again Christian was Walt's idea (along with the notion that Raylan would not believe that Boyd had reformed).
** Some of the wagging may have been on Creator/TimothyOlyphant's part, considering that according to Goggins, he himself initially turned-down the role. He only agreed to take it after Olyphant sweet-talked him into it and came up with some major revisions to the character.