Justified: City Primeval (2023)

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Raylan Givens is back, but cut off from Harlan in Justified: City Primeval, an 8-episode mini-series set in Detroit and based on an Elmore Leonard novel featuring Detective Raymond Cruz from Out of Sight (with Paul Calderón even reprising his role, even if the character's function is taken over by Raylan). Some fans of Justified will resent the fact that their favorite U.S. Marshall is out of his element and the lack of many of the elements and characters that made Justified such a good show. Me? I liked meeting up with an old friend. Raylan meets a new cast of characters and has to deal with 2023's idea of law enforcement. Just what is justifiable to catch the bad guys is still front and center, and our hero has done some thinking on the matter. The villain is a real psycho, kind of a mix of Justified's dumbass criminals and the frustratingly slick Boyd Crowder. He's fun and dangerous, and lucky too. Misunderstandings and people accidentally (or wilfully) acting against their best interests, is a staple. Happily, Raylan's mumbly teenage daughter isn't in every episode. A lot of these shows seem to end early so we can have long epilogues, for closure's sake. This one does that too - not a fan - though it's a trick to lull us into a false sense of an ending, when it's actually setting up another mini-series. A bit of fan service, this one, but bring it on. I'll watch it. 7 months ago