Thankfully, ‘Justified: City Primeval’ Is Actually Good

Forbes, Paul Tassi - July 20, 2023

It was easy to be more than a touch concerned that the return of Justified, eight years after its season 6 finale in 2015, would be a bad idea.

We’ve seen reboots and revivals of old series not work plenty of times, but thankfully, Justified: City Primeval, is actually quite good so far.

There are few characters more universally beloved than Timothy Olyphant’s Raylan Givens, the smooth-talking US Marshall with an eternal rivalry with Walton Goggins’ Boyd Crowder.

Now, Crowder is gone (for now) and Olyphant finds himself in Detroit pursuing a new villain, Boyd Holbrook’s Clement Mansell, a psychopathic robber and killer who is murdering his way around the city, including his killing of a judge in a road rage/carjacking incident. You may remember Holbrook from his recent role as The Corinthian in Netflix’s The Sandman or the guy hunting down Wolverine in Logan. He’s not Boyd Crowder at this point, but he feels like a worthy foe to Raylan.

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