Lots of good reviews, but turns out to be more PC 21st century revisionism of the Old West.
Really weird decisions in the finale as well: Whitey being killed that way after building up his shooting skills and relationship, the Sheriff ending up Alice's consolation prize after building up her relationship with Goode the entire series.
I think you're seeing something that isn't there so far as the pc stuff goes. Perhaps you can give an example instead of just some vague reference.
Even though Whitey had all those fancy shooting skills, he'd never been in a real gun battle, and it was that inexperience and his arrogance that got him killed. He just didn't take it seriously enough. I have to say it was a surprising and anticlimactic death though.
Examples:
- The whole premise of the these women all staying in the town after the accident and not returning to their families. The town remaining this war for two years without a bunch of men showing up. All of them suddenly becoming steady gunfighters at the end.
- The "heroine" is a white woman who married an Indian and had a half-breed kid. And this woman is the object of affection of both the main white characters. Such a woman would be a total outcast in society, no decent white man would make her a marriage offer in the Old West.
- The lesbian relationship, even it becoming public. Of course one of the lesbians being these incredible butch bad ass who can outdraw and out shoot men.
- Blackdom and Whitey and Louisa seemed shoehorned into the story to make the cast more diverse as was Alice's past.
Just a few.
They all didn't become steady gun fighters. Most of them were quite obviously very bad, but they could at least pull the trigger.
Both of the main male characters were pretty flawed themselves, and they were not men that would be considered typical. She was obviously an outcast to the rest of the town, and her husband was shot in the back and killed.
The lesbian relationship was not known. They kept it secret until towards the end. They did this b/c they knew there would be repercussions and judgement.
They were in a very remote place and the old west was a place the many outsiders escaped to b/c they could be more free.
Don't try so hard to be offended. It's not healthy.
It could have been a good show. The political correctness and revisionist history was a complete turnoff.
shareHitchens's razor: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence".
you are being silly. maybe the guy is being heavy-handed about it, but he has a point.
the music was sappy as hell, too.
the whole presentation had a gauzy hallmark feel to it.
but i watched it all anyway :)
I used logic and evidence to show that he didn't have a point. It wasn't a perfect show. There are valid criticisms of it, but being too politically correct is not one of them.
As to a hallmark feel ... LOL
OTOH, opinions are like a-holes and bellybuttons: everybody has 'em, and no one is better than the other.
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