Although Hulu’s Justified is one of the best Western TV shows of all time, many viewers might not even recognize the show’s true genre. Westerns were a staple of early network television schedules, with shows like Rawhide and Bonanza being some of the medium’s earliest major successes. However, the genre’s small-screen popularity declined in the ‘70s. Despite some exceptions in the ‘80s and ‘00s, like Dallas and Deadwood, few of TV’s biggest shows in the decades since 1970 have been Westerns. The genre’s cultural position was supplanted by cop shows, with police procedurals becoming the most consistently popular network TV...
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