New western mini series on Netflix. Definitely worth watching. A brief non spoiler summary would be a town full of widows intersecting with a feud between 2 outlaws.
- Lead actors are superb. Merritt Wever steals the show but I don't there is one weak performance in there.
- The series is beautifully shot. Top marks to director of photography.
- I would not expect too much of a modern take on westerns, it definitely follows a lot of tropes to the tee.
- Only negative for me is that the mini series really crawls to a halt in middle and is possibly 2 episodes too long given some of the ill-advised storylines.
- Lead actors are superb. Merritt Wever steals the show but I don't there is one weak performance in there.
- The series is beautifully shot. Top marks to director of photography.
- I would not expect too much of a modern take on westerns, it definitely follows a lot of tropes to the tee.
- Only negative for me is that the mini series really crawls to a halt in middle and is possibly 2 episodes too long given some of the ill-advised storylines.
- The creator had originally written it as a feature film and then turned it into a 7 episode series. You can see he had to stretch a lot of storylines for the same.
- The sheriff's storyline of trailing Frank for example is of no consequence in the end
- Frank's parlays with Norwegians and then the sick lot also add a very little to the whole plot.
- Alice (Michele Dockery's character) gets short changed in the latter half for me. Her storyline solely becomes a reaction to Goode's. A bit of a shame, since she was the strongest character straight off the bat.
- The only I think I can not make up my mind about is the necessity of blackdome stroyline. I would have been fine with it but the eventual shoot out they have with Frank's gang was a bit feeble.
- The sheriff's storyline of trailing Frank for example is of no consequence in the end
- Frank's parlays with Norwegians and then the sick lot also add a very little to the whole plot.
- Alice (Michele Dockery's character) gets short changed in the latter half for me. Her storyline solely becomes a reaction to Goode's. A bit of a shame, since she was the strongest character straight off the bat.
- The only I think I can not make up my mind about is the necessity of blackdome stroyline. I would have been fine with it but the eventual shoot out they have with Frank's gang was a bit feeble.