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Justified’s Raylan Givens returned to FX with Justified: Primeval City this week, but the sequel series is missing a key character from the original series. Walton Goggins did not revive his character of Boyd Crowder – the childhood friend of Raylan, played by Timothy Olyphant.
Justified: Primeval City picks up 15 years after Justified, with Givens now living in Miami and raising his daughter. A chance encounter takes him to Detroit on the hunt for a killer. Aunjanue Ellis, Vondie Curtis Hall, Adelaide Clemens, Marin Ireland, Victor Williams, Norbert Leo Butz, and Boyd Holbrook also star in the series.
Goggins recently addressed his not returning for the FX sequel series, per The Wrap. He indicated his absence from the project wasn’t “one-sided.”
“There’s a season, kind of, for everything. … This isn’t the right place and time. … But I can’t wait to see it, and I can’t wait to see Raylan Givens again. Tim [Olyphant] is such a wonderful actor and Boyd Holbrook — I love him. I’ll be there. I’ll be watching it to the bitter end.”
Goggin’s Boyd Crowder character was a childhood friend of Raylan’s. While Raylan became a deputy US Marshall, Boyd became a career criminal with many ups and downs. By the end of the original Justified, he had ended up in jail and became a born-again Christian again and a pastor.
What do you think? Did you want to see Goggins back as Boyd in Justified: Primeval City? Do you want to see Raylan’s story continue beyond this new series?
Absolutely got to reunite Raylan and Boyd Crowder as well as his ex wife Natalie Zea.
Hoping for a continuing saga with these enigmatic character’s. Justified with these actors is one of the best series on any network in the past 20 years. A winning formula for FX for certain!
I have seen the first two episodes and I like it. The show has the familiar pace as the original series. As for having Boyd return, I don’t see a place for him at this point. Perhaps in a future Justified story we could see him make a return.
Boyd was a huge part of the original series, obviously. But it really wouldn’t make sense for him to be in this season, as it takes place in Detroit, and there would be no connection between him and the events taking place on screen. Hell, in the book the current series is based on, Raylan himself wasn’t even part of the story. But of course, it wouldn’t be “Justified” without him, so that wasn’t going to work. Walton Goggins is always entertaining of course… whether he’s Boyd, or Billy on the “Righteous Gemstones”, or Venus on “Sons of Anarchy”…. or… Read more »
Bring original Boyd back
I guess after 15 years Boyd could be out of jail. But usually when you kill a bunch of people they don’t let you out for the rest of your life. He could visit Boyd in jail for a scene if they wanted to include him.
Right, if they have a second season, there could be a problem for Raylan that requires him going to Boyd to talk. And if part of the problem is located in the prison, Boyd could even get involved in a more active way.