'Justified: City Primeval' review: Timothy Olyphant makes a satisfying return as Raylan Givens
Welcome back to television, Raylan Givens. Given that it is in a hero's nature to return, and the medium's to encourage that when it seems profitable, the appearance of "Justified: City Primeval," this week on FX — eight years after Timothy Olyphant hung up his Stetson as the star of the original series, developed by Graham Yost from an Elmore Leonard short story — feels, if not inevitable … well, I'm going to say it: justified.
Raylan, a U.S. marshal, has been inserted here into the 1980 Leonard novel "City Primeval," whose main detective, Raymond Cruz (Paul Calderon), is compensated with a cameo. As we begin, Raylan, who spent the original series in the Appalachian Mountains of east Kentucky
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