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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?
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