The real surprise might be the future showdown this sets up for Raylan Givens.
For almost its entire season, Justified: City Primeval delivered the stand-alone sequel series its creators promised. And while it's been great fun seeing Raylan Givens, Timothy Olyphant's fearless U.S. Marshal, tackle a new adventure in Detroit over the last two months, you could always feel the presence of an invisible asterisk attached to the show. After all, the original Justified didn't earn its reputation on Raylan alone.
A character who was originally supposed to die in the show's pilot, Boyd — played to snake-oily perfection by Walton Goggins, one of our finest and most dynamic actors — went on to serve as Raylan's primary antagonist over the course of the series' six-season run.
This is why the real surprise here might not be the cameo itself, but rather that it's nearly six minutes long and seemingly sets up a future Raylan-vs.-Boyd showdown. In it, we pick up with Boyd where we left him, still imprisoned at the state pen. We quickly learn that he's still preaching the good word to his flock behind bars, though he informs his followers that he's soon being transferred to a hospital to discover why his "health has been in decline.
Does Boyd's Appearance Promise a Future Showdown With Raylan? Now, there are two ways you can look at this. You could just say it's a smart and fitting ending to the eight-episode series we just watched, one that highlights the ongoing theme of Raylan's inability to stay on the sidelines.
But come on! We can't take it as just that, can we? After all, Olyphant, Dinner, and Andron all have been consistently telling the press that if the show does well and FX wants more seasons of Justified after this one, they will be happy to oblige. City Primeval's finale also seems to promise that if another continuation indeed comes to pass, Goggins would play a part in it.
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