Beard, or No Beard? A Suitably Serious Study

Last week’s Justified kinda blew my mind. It wasn’t just the happenings — can we take a minute to acknowledge the glory that was Ava and Boyd getting drunk together — it was the shots of Holy-That-Beard Garret Dillahunt, and a clean shaven Sam Elliott. I don’t know about you, but my brain was having trouble with their facial role reversal. Thus, I was compelled to run and look at pictures of both of them with their regular faces to see which I preferred. You know how these things go; one thing leads to another, and next thing you know we have a whole page of our favorites, bearded (traditional meaning) and non. Now we just need to very seriously study these photos together, and come to a consensus. We’re not regular ol’ internetters around here; we’re professionals, so we got this, right? Go!

Dillahunt:

Elliott:

Olyphant:

Elba:

Hardy:

Ejiofor:

Fassbender:

Craig:

McGregor:

Mikkelsen:

Fishburne:

Mortensen:

Pascal: (I think that’s as beardy as he gets)

Pratt:

Evans:

Obligatory:

Cindy Davis, (Twitter) believes she’s overwhelmingly pro-beard, except when it comes to Viggo.