Standouts include Vondie Curtis-Hall ( Marvel's Daredevil) as an aging bar owner and one-time criminal who used to roll with Mansell's previous crew and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor ( King Richard) as an ambitious Detroit attorney who gets involved with Raylan both professionally and personally. The rest of the new cast holds their own as well. He's riveting in every scene in which he appears, and City Primeval's biggest strength is the combustible dynamic between Mansell and Raylan. "Whatever I want.") Of course, no one is going to completely match up with Walton Goggins' Boyd Crowder, Raylan's regular arch-nemesis from the original series, but Holbrook, who coincidentally also faces off against Indiana Jones this summer, comes closer to matching Goggins' energy than you might expect. ("What am I doing?" he asks rhetorically at one point. He's a full-on maniac in this – singing his heart out to rock songs he blasts from the radios of cars he steals, prancing around his girlfriend's apartment in his tighty-whities, scratching his balls with a pistol, and enforcing his will on every mark or two-bit criminal that comes within his orbit. Holbrook has done a lot of good work lately (including playing a more fantastical villain in Netflix's The Sandman), but his turn as Mansell might be career-defining. Mansell is played by Boyd Holbrook and is the latest in a long line of Justified villains who have outsized personalities and enjoy running their mouths at least as much as they do causing mayhem. "The Oklahoma Wildman," a grifter and killer who treats Detroit as his personal playground to let his psychotic tendencies run amok. Here, the biggest complication comes in the form of Clement Mansell, a.k.a. Once he's staring down some criminals, with a glint in his eye and hands on his hips as if wryly amused by the whole ordeal, it can feel like no time has passed at all. Yet watching Raylan back on the job feels like reuniting with an old friend. Yellowstone, today's most popular TV neo-Western, gets name-dropped in the first episode, and there are a lot more F-bombs sprinkled into the dialogue than what FX would allow back in the day. It's clear some years have gone by since the original show ended, and not just thanks to Raylan's now graying hair and salt-and-pepper goatee.
And, of course, there's Olyphant at the center, not missing a beat as he slides back into the role as smoothly as Raylan draws his pistol from his holster.
And while you may occasionally find yourself wistful for Harlan during City Primeval, the new show offers up a batch of new cops and crooks that are compelling and colorful enough to carry on the Justified name. Well, I'm happy to report the answer to that question is an emphatic yes.
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