U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens is back, with his knack of inviting trouble intact. The Kentucky-born lawman embodied for six seasons on FX’s Justified returns in an eight-episode limited series on the network (next day on Hulu), starting with a pair of episodes on Tuesday, July 18.
Smartly adapting Elmore Leonard’s novel, City Primeval starts in Florida, where Givens is helping to raise his 15-year-old daughter, Willa (played by Olyphant’s daughter, Vivian). The action soon shifts to Detroit and pits Stetson- and Glock-toting Givens against murder suspect “Oklahoma Wildman” Clement Mansell (Boyd Holbrook). Mansell is a fairly typical Justified star villain, charming in his way and clever but a total brute, acting on impulse against his own interest at times. Women in need of Givens’s protection (a standard feature) include, of course, Willa but also, intriguingly, Mansell’s super-smart lawyer, played by Carolyn Wilder as an evolving character who starts out by roasting Givens in court then later finds herself on his side in many ways.
