It is perhaps a little darker and more violent than its predecessor, and there is the unprecedented glimpse of a dude’s naked butt - not Olyphant’s, though the actor gets his shirt off at least once, as if to demonstrate that time has no more eroded his physique than it has Michelangelo’s David. The miniseries retains the series’ basic-cable lack of pretension, its humor, its promotion of conversation over action. ![]() One might easily call “City Primeval” the delayed seventh season of “Justified,” especially considering the number of old hands who are back to write and direct. Vivid supporting characters, well-written and well-cast, were one of the great pleasures of “Justified,” and so it is with “City Primeval.” What promises to be simple - or what Raylan was promised would be simple - spins off into complications that take eight episodes to resolve, involving Albanian mobsters better and worse police officers (Victor Williams, phlegmatic Norbert Leo Butz, choleric) a bar-owning former bassist who once jammed with Miles Davis (Vondie Curtis-Hall as Sweetie) the primary villain (see below) and his blinkered junkie girlfriend (Adelaide Clemens as Sandy) and Carolyn Wilder ( Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, bringing depth to what amounts to a co-starring role), a criminal defense lawyer whose relations with Raylan grow from antagonistic to something you’re just going to have to watch and see. ![]() (She’s stuck in a Detroit hotel with orders from her father to stay put, but as a willful, bored teenager with no radar for danger, that isn’t going to happen.) When that judge narrowly avoids assassination, Raylan is impressed into service by the Detroit PD, to his own and Willa’s now doubled displeasure. (We last saw father and daughter eating ice cream, and ice cream is in the picture as we meet them again.)īut an encounter on the road with a couple of hooligans leads instead to a courtroom in Detroit, where Raylan gives testimony and Willa is chastised by tetchy Judge Alvin Guy (Keith David, sonorous as always) for laughing at cat videos on her phone. As we begin, Raylan, who spent the original series in the Appalachian Mountains of east Kentucky and has been working in Miami and living the life of a divorced dad in the interim, is driving his 15-year-old daughter, Willa - played by Olyphant’s own talented daughter, Vivian Olyphant - to camp, much to her displeasure. marshal, has been inserted here into the 1980 Leonard novel “City Primeval,” whose main detective, Raymond Cruz (Paul Calderon), is compensated with a cameo. 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,” Tuesday 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. “They’re gonna love it,” he said.Welcome back to television, Raylan Givens. It felt as if we had never left, even though all this time has passed.” Raymond also said Breaking Bad fans will “get a huge laugh” out of the commercial, thanks to PopCorners’ “twist” on it. Raymond said that filming the commercial with Bryan and Aaron “felt as if we stepped back into the Breaking Bad universe. “To back in the same environment with the same RV that they used in the show, and to be wearing the same wardrobe, it all felt very surreal. “It was amazing to have PopCorners contact you that they want to recreate the whole Breaking Bad environment and bring these iconic characters together once again,” he told HL. Raymond told HL how thrilled he was to play Raymond again, and reunite with two of his former co-stars, for the PopCorners Super Bowl commercial. And to have this platform to do it was amazing.” Raymond Cruz in ‘Breaking Bad’ (Photo: Everett) How I built it, you know, mentally, physically, emotionally, where the character lives. So I had to go back and find exactly where I was at. So whenever I build a character I write everything down. ![]() Raymond also opened up about how he got back into the mindset of Tuco to film the commercial. Raymond Cruz in PopCorners’ 2023 Super Bowl commercial (Photo: Frito-Lay/Mega) The actor admitted that he doesn’t “miss anything” about playing Tuco, who met his demise in season 2 of Breaking Bad, but popped up again in the prequel series Better Call Saul starring Bob Odenkirk. “It’s so difficult to do,” Raymond also said about the role. Even when Tuco’s not saying anything, it’s bubbling underneath.” And it definitely was not easy to do in the PopCorners ad,” he added. “It wasn’t easy to reprise it on Better Call Saul. I say it with trepidation, because it wasn’t easy to do the first time,” Raymond explained.
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