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    TV reboots have to answer one question: Why now? Just look at 'Justified'

    FX's limited series revival Justified: City Primeval offers the nostalgic return of a beloved character. But that alone isn't enough. We take a look back at reboots that worked, and those that didn't.
    by Eric Deggans Jul 18, 2023 5 minutes
    FX's limited series revival <em>Justified: City Primeval </em>offers the return of a beloved character — Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant). But that alone isn't enough. We take a look back at reboots that worked ... and those that didn't.

    As a stone Justified fan, I'm just not sure what to make of FX's new limited series revival, Justified: City Primeval.

    On the surface, it offers what any good revival does: The bracing, nostalgia-laced return of a beloved character — Timothy Olyphant's modern-day, Stetson-wearing lawman Raylan Givens — in a new adventure. This time, it's based on a novel by the legendary author who created Givens, Elmore Leonard, set in Detroit, instead of the Kentucky hollers and small towns where the original "Justified" series took place.

    But Leonard's 1980 book features a different protagonist, not Givens. So it's not surprising that FX's version feels like they lifted poor Raylan out of an environment where he makes sense and plopped him into a place where his charm, street

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