Boyd Crowder: Last News

Walton Goggins often portrays characters who transcend time and place, whether in modern day Kentucky, like in FX’s Justified, as career criminal Boyd Crowder, or in Civil War-era Wyoming in Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight, as plucky sheriff Billy Crash. In Fallout, though, he goes further: as The Ghoul, he is 200-year-old apocalypse survivor Cooper Howard, once a favored Western movie star, now a mutant bounty hunter. The two halves of this character combine in a captivating performance for which Goggins was happy to endure a torturous prosthetic.

SPOILER ALERTS ON JUSTIFIED: CITY PRIMEVAL FINALE: Timothy Olyphant’s return to the role of US Marshal Raylan Givens in Justified: City Primeval completed its seven-episode limited series run tonight on FX. Surviving the Oklahoma Wildman Clement Mansell (Boyd Holbrook), Givens seemed headed to a proper retirement, hanging up his badge and gun for a quiet life in Miami. Just when he was finally out — a pensioner content to refurbish a Florida shack and dote on the daughter he neglected for years — with the promise of a relationship with lawyer Carolyn (Aunjanue Ellis)…up pops Boyd Crowder, the charming silver-tongued psychopath played by Walton Goggins. Crowder, who vexed Raylan on and off throughout the original series creation from the Elmore Leonard novels, has escaped with the help of a girlfriend posing as a guard supposed to escort him to another prison that will help a physical malady. And just like that, Givens is faced with the prospect of returning once more before Crowder makes it across the border of Mexico with his accomplice. In the interview that follows this recap, Michael Dinner — who hatched the series revival with David Andron and directed three episodes including tonight’s finale — acknowledges there is every possibility that Givens could be back for one more showdown. The episode closes with Givens not answering the cell phone call to focus on his daughter. For the moment, anyway.

Warning: major spoilers ahead.“Justified: City Primeval” ended its eight-episode run with the shocking re-appearance of “Justified” antagonist Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) in the closing minutes of the Aug. 29 episode.Fans of the FX series relished the sight of the supposedly-born-again Crowder preaching the gospel to his fellow prison inmates in Kentucky — and then, shackled tightly, escaping from an armed escort with the help of his lover, a prison guard.They embarked on a joyride to Mexico while newly retired US Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) lolled on a boat in Miami with his daughter, Willa — ignoring an alert about an escaped inmate in Kentucky while his cellphone rings with a call from the US Marshal’s office in Lexington.

Stephen Rodrick U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant) had a time-honored tradition during the six seasons of the original  “Justified.” The rakish law man would chase a baddie across Kentucky back roads and trailer parks. Bullets flew, and moonshine was consumed. Still, Givens always made time for a philosophical and deep conversation with his prey before the final showdown. Raylan would learn something humanizing about his nemesis’ motivation and, inevitably, realize he himself could be a dick on occasion. These talks often featured Boyd Crowder, Givens’ frenemy played by Walton Goggins with a mouthful of Biden-white teeth, a shock of black hair and buckets of country wisdom. They were so humanizing that you often forgot Boyd was a white supremacist turned drug dealer.

If you've already binged all six seasons of Justified, FX's modern Western starring Timothy Olyphant as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens and Walton Goggins as his quick-witted foe Boyd Crowder, the sad news is, there is no more Justified coming. But the good news is, if you're not ready to return to Harlan for a complete series rewatch, there is a lot of great TV out there that might scratch the same itch.

If you miss Justified, FX's acclaimed neo-Western starring Timothy Olyphant as U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens and Walton Goggins as his quick-witted foe Boyd Crowder, you're definitely not alone. The FX series, which is one of the best dramas to come out of the last decade, ended years ago, and yet we can't stop talking about it. If you've already binged all six seasons, and you're not ready to return to Harlan for a complete series rewatch, there is a lot of great TV out there that might scratch the same itch.