'Justified' City Primeval' on FX brings U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, played by Timothy Olyphant, back to the screen after eight years.
Raylan, a U.S. marshal, has been inserted here into the 1980 Leonard novel “City Primeval,” whose main detective, Raymond Cruz , is compensated with a cameo. As we begin, Raylan, who spentin the Appalachian Mountains of east Kentucky and has been working in Miami and living the life of a divorced dad in the interim, is driving his 15-year-old daughter, Willa — played by Olyphant’s own talented daughter, Vivian Olyphant — to camp, much to her displeasure.
What promises to be simple — or what Raylan was promised would be simple — spins off into complications that take eight episodes to resolve, involving Albanian mobsters; better and worse police officers ; a bar-owning former bassist who once jammed with Miles Davis ; the primary villain and his blinkered junkie girlfriend ; and Carolyn Wilder , a criminal defense lawyer whose relations with Raylan grow from antagonistic to something you’re just going to have to watch and see.
The setting may be new, but the ingredients are familiar, not merely from the series itself, but the genres it incorporates. It is diner food, perfectly executed, seasoned with flair, a dish steeped in memory you are happy to eat again. Not exactly comfort food, given how much of what happens is discomfiting, but deeply satisfying. Whatever mayhem goes on around him — and there is plenty of that — Raylan makes a viewer feel safe. He’s a rock in a roiling sea.
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