At the tip of the day, although, Andron notes that America’s issues with gun violence clearly aren’t linked on to our media consumption, as different international locations have all the identical exhibits, movies, and video video games with out the identical gun violence issues. “If we had made a show that’s didactic or preachy about gun violence, people would have turned it off,” he admits, noting that “Justified” is supposed as leisure and fantasy. Still, Andron was surprisingly frank concerning the ethical paradoxes of his job, saying, “It is an interesting contradiction … to have to go and make a living on shows that feature a lot of violence, and then go home and turn on the news — I have a young child at home — and look at these schools and look at law enforcement videos and feel sick.”
From the sound of issues, we should not count on Raylan Givens to all of the sudden holster his weapon for good, a transfer that would not make sense for his character anyway. Still, it is good to listen to that the workforce behind “Justified: City Primeval” is aware of the present’s rocky relationship with gun violence, and that they put an entire lot of thought into how that relationship ought to evolve in 2023.
“Justified: City Primeval” hits FX on July 18, 2023.