9/21/2023 0 Comments Atomic heart tv tropesLeonard died, at 87, in 2013, midway through Justified’s glorious run this new eight-episode series (co-run by Justified vets Michael Dinner and Dave Andron) is based on Leonard’s notably Raylan-free 1980 book City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit, now reworked to add Raylan and update all the erudite-tough-guy dialogue to our dystopian present. Marshal Raylan Givens, as you are likely aware, is the creation of god-tier crime novelist Elmore Leonard, who wrote approximately 50,000 of the best crime and/or Western novels ever written, crackling with erudite-tough-guy dialogue and increasingly exasperated by the dystopian indignities of the modern world. The only real vexing question is how badly you’ll miss all the former buddies and adversaries he used to say words to.ĭeputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens say words again while wearing the hat. (Ignore that ranking: “We dug coal together” is undefeated.) We can agree that the current, dismaying Streaming Era practice of rebooting / resurrecting / reanimating / regurgitating every last bit of available IP is dystopian and profoundly uninspiring, except in this case, because the new limited series Justified: City Primeval premieres with two episodes on FX Tuesday night and it whips ass, or at the very least it whips ass to hear Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens-is the greatest TV show of the 21st century thus far, with the best series finale of the 21st century also. We can agree, certainly, that Justified-the sleek and witty and delightfully shooty Kentucky crime drama that ran on FX from 2010 to 2015 and starred Timothy Olyphant as, you guessed it, Deputy U.S. Sorry, but I just like typing/reading the words Deputy U.S. A handsome and valiant and intriguingly flawed Old West cowboy set loose in modern-day Detroit. Marshal Raylan Givens says, necessarily, but how he says them in his soothing, sultry, steely, quietly seething Kentucky drawl, amused by almost everything and (quietly) enraged by absolutely everything. And it’s not any of the words Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, less calmly, while he beats the crap out of a guy. “I see you near my daughter again and I’ll fuckin’ kill you,” says Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, exasperatedly parenting his teenage daughter. “You know the problem with a nose ring? Leaves a hole in your nose for the rest of your life,” says Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, calmly negotiating his 50,000th hostage situation. “Don’t need to talk tough, I’m just tryin’ to help,” says Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, shrewdly discovering the secret tunnel in the knucklehead militia compound. “Things that occur to you when you grew up in a mining town,” says Deputy U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, testifying in court, poorly. “It’s my recollection your client was behaving in a threatening manner,” says Deputy U.S.
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