‘Justified: City Primeval’ ends peacefully, but Timothy Olyphant can’t say if Raylan answers the phone
LA TimesThis story contains spoilers for the finale of “Justified: City Primeval.” Still looking slick and sly in his signature Stetson, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens found a little bit of romance and a whole lot of trouble in the big, bad city of Detroit during FX’s “Justified: City Primeval,” a reboot of the hit drama “Justified.” The finale of the eight-episode miniseries on Tuesday shows Givens at peace, blissfully retired and hanging out on a boat with his teenage daughter. Every scene was a joy — he’s one of those actors who just makes it easy.” “Justified” was based on an Elmore Leonard short story titled “Fire in the Hole.” “That series was the first act of Raylan’s life, and I think we stuck the landing,” Dinner said. “We knew that getting away from it for a while would give us the opportunity to come at it fresh without being shackled by the serial nature of ‘Justified,’” he said. That opportunity came by making Givens the main character in an adaptation of Leonard’s 1980 novel “City Primeval.” “We were looking for the right time and the right spark,” Olyphant said.