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Spoilers follow for the entirety ofJustified: City Primeval, including the August 29finale episode, The Question.
FXs Elmore Leonard adaptation,Justified, was a nearly perfect six-season show about U.S. Roxana Hadadi:Kathryn, let me take you back in time to when I learned thatJustifiedwas coming back.
I was so happy!
Have I been happier?
Has he maintained his moral center in a time when the actions of law-enforcement officers are more vocally criticized?
Describing them in those terms is a little silly forgive me.
Without that element, is this reallyJustified?
Im still wavering on that.
Kathryn VanArendonk:I went through stages withCity Primeval.
It was more like a series of momentum missteps.
Nothing clicked quite right, especially early on.
The mood would occasionally feel good.
The baddies and the skeptical colleagues were fine.
Im absolutely with you, though: I never, ever got over the absence of Walton Goggins.
He has such a distinctive energy, and without him the show just felt flat.
R.H.:There is no replacing our man, even with another man named Boyd.
Even so, the character arc mostly worked.
Raylans always been about soft spots for the women in his life.
The idea of him quitting so he can hang out with his daughter feels right.
Exceptthen, the second part of the finale happened.
And then my feelings went … left.
hey help me process this!
R.H.:Kathryn, Im not sure we can process it!
It might be too much!
It blew up what might be my favorite TV ending of all time!
Marshaling, but theres a repetitive quality here that I just did not care for.
And thats my rant on that!
Kathryn, I cheered.
Hes still out here leading congregations and half-believing his sermons and planning and scheming and wheeling and dealing!
(Do they have Dairy Queens there?)
Olyphant and Goggins, together again?
The love story we deserve?
I would have watched every episode two, three, ten times to pad those Nielsen numbers!
Kathryn, why were we denied this?
K.V.A.:Roxana.
That ending gave me so, so many feelings, and Im still so mad about it.
Im not mad at the ending itself.
Why wasnt this the show?!
Cameos should not be so immediately charismatic that youre just screaming for more of that character, though!
It unbalances the whole thing!
This is really my chief complaint.
Is it better to have loved and lost one tiny scene with Boyd and Raylan back together?
Or would it have been less painful to have never had that scene at all?
I dont know the answer.
Am I too attached?
R.H.:Of course not!
We spent nearly eight hours watchingCity Primeval, and, sure, there was good stuff in there.
Raylan ate an ice-cream cone.
Ellis gave a few wonderful speeches.
Judge Guys little black book made me think about taking up journaling again.
thats the good shit, and thats what were going to remember.
