Justified
2010
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Watch Justified: City Primeval — Season 1 with a subscription on Hulu, or buy it on Fandango at Home, Prime Video. Timothy Olyphant's quickdraw charm shows no signs of dulling in City...
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Jul 18, 2023 · FX's limited series revival Justified: City Primeval offers the nostalgic return of a beloved character. But that alone isn't enough. We take a look back at reboots that worked, and those...
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Jul 17, 2023 · “Justified” was one of the most entertaining television shows of the last few decades largely because of Olyphant’s cagey, obliquely sexy portrayal of Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, a fantasy...
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By Erik Adams
Updated: Aug 30, 2023 6:38 pm
Posted: Jul 18, 2023 7:55 pm
There’s always been something old-fashioned about Justified’s Raylan Givens, be it the cowboy accouterments he comes by so naturally or the shit-kicking sincerity with which Timothy Olyphant plays the deputy U.S. Marshal. His methods and his code marked him as an anomaly throughout creator Graham Yost’s six-season FX series, which remixed two novels and a short story by Elmore Leonard into something a little bit retro, and a little bit contemporary: A noir-tinged Western for the age of the prestige drama. One of the charms of the new limited series Justified: City Primeval is how it connects Raylan to a primetime tradition shared by Columbo, Jessica Fletcher, and original-formula Perry Mason: Like the TV movies that extended those characters’ crime-solving exploits, City Primeval clips the badge back to Olyphant’s belt for a brand new case – despite his last having been as good an ending as any basic-cable character can hope for.
Lucky for Raylan and for us, the vintage appointment-viewing vibes don’t stop there. With eight episodes tracing the spine of the novel Leonard subtitled High Noon in Detroit, there’s no time for streaming-era shapelessness or table-setting – every installment of Raylan’s unexpected layover in the Motor City has multiple engines driving the plot down twisty roads, toward a destination of television pulp that’s immensely satisfying and occasionally shocking. (Skittish about dental trauma? Maybe make other plans for the week of episode 4.) Some of the turns are telegraphed from the outset, but what’s less foreseeable is the number of interested parties who converge on the scene: Cops, mobsters, lawyers, grifters, a judge, a Jack White wannabe, and a never-was bass player all trying to get one over on everybody else. And at the center of it all is a guy you can clock coming down the hallway from the silhouette of his hat.
From the jump, it’s a story of wrong place(s), wrong time(s): While Raylan is escorting his teenage daughter Willa (played with dispiriting flatness by real-life Olyphant offspring Vivian) across Florida to a camp for unruly youth – a scene that initially comes off like the Marshal bringing in a fugitive – they become the targets of an attempted carjacking by drug dealers from up north. One amusing courtroom grilling from defense attorney Carolyn Wilder (Aunjanue Ellis) and some famous last words (“you’ll be out of here in 24 hours”) later, the Givens family road trip is forced into an extended pit stop – right in time for the intriguing arrival of a successfully boosted vehicle blaring a “Seven Nation Army” cover from its tape deck. The coincidences pile up quickly – with a high-profile murder investigation, wild goose chases for multiple smoking guns, and the inevitable encroachment of organized crime still to come – but trouble and chaos have always had a way of finding Raylan, and City Primeval ties up its disparate threads with the flair of his literary creator.
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It’s a pleasure to see Timothy Olyphant back in the saddle for Justified: City Primeval. What the sequel series lacks in the original’s vast network of down-home criminal eccentrics, it makes up for in a tight neo-noir potboiler and electrifying performances from Aunjanue Ellis, Vondie Curtis-Hall, and Boyd Holbrook. City Primeval may fall short of...
Jul 14, 2023 · Justified: City Primeval review: Timothy Olyphant returns in a riveting sequel. Eight years after Justified ended, the underrated FX show finds its groove again with City Primeval. By....
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Jul 13, 2023 · The relief of FX’s eight-part Justified: City Primeval is that not only does it not besmirch the near-perfect conclusion of the original, but it carves out new and distinctive terrain for...
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Jul 17, 2023 · With Timothy Olyphant in his prime and a great new cast surrounding him, the revival of FX’s great crime drama pulls off a pitch-perfect balance of fresh and familiar. By David Canfield. July 17...
