On the 2015 Tv Critics Affiliation winter press tour (as lined by Leisure Weekly), Graham Yost mentioned, “We simply felt like if this chapter in Raylan’s life was about Raylan and Boyd … that we may solely take it up to now, that was principally it. We did not need to outstay our welcome.”
Timothy Olyphant, who’d beforehand skilled a irritating lack of closure as Sheriff Seth Bullock on David Milch’s HBO Western “Deadwood” (which finally acquired a movie sendoff in 2019), was happy with the wrap-up to “Justified.” “Normally when issues finish, I am not the primary individual to search out out,” he mentioned. “It has been great to simply have the ability to see the end line and luxuriate in it.”
Yost added {that a} main a part of his choice hinged on not eager to burden “Justified” with retread episodes. As he advised the TCA viewers:
“[Executive Producer] Fred Golan and I’ve been speaking about tips on how to finish the factor in all probability since season 3 and it modifications yearly. We did not need this to be the best hits, however that mentioned, there are characters who are available as a result of they’re a part of that world. It would not really feel to us like we’re simply checking that field.”