Justified: City Primeval ends by bringing things full circle, as Raylan Givens and Clement Mansell face off and Walton Goggins Boyd Crowder also returns.
Now that we know the fates of the characters, “Justified: City Primeval” co-showrunner Michael Dinner tells The Daily Beast’s Obsessed how the revival series stuck the landing.
Justified: City Primeval may not be the show some expected to find Aunjanue Ellis in this summer. But the draw in playing attorney Carolyn Wilder was not the Justified brand’s cult status. Instead, the original source material is what intrigued her most. “I’m always interested in stories in film and television that have been adapted from books. So …
Justified: City Primeval is a sequel to Justified, one of television’s most beloved crime sagas. The limited series centers on an older, but still spry, pistol-toting Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), the Kentucky Marshal created by crime writer Elmore Leonard. The eight-episode series combines plotlines from Leonard’s Givens novels with a separate book, City Primeval, which the Marshal did not appear in, but which showrunners Michael Dinner and Dave Andron draw upon to give their protagonist a fresh setting and foe.