I finally gave up on this series by the third episode. I like well-done thoughtful westerns and have a particular fondness for the sub-genre, spaghetti westerns. Plus I'm crazy about Dominic Cooper after his work on "Preacher." I fully expected to fall in love. You may be able to figure it out from my 3-star rating that I an not a fan.
The producers didn't seem to have an idea of how to construct the series. What they did was weave as many tropes together as possible, put them in a blender and hoped they worked. They did not.
Let's see, there's the crooked sheriff, the bounty hunter (this one likes to make his quarry a head shorter), the all-powerful town madam, gold fever. The list goes ever on. Why give your series a narrative flow when you can slow the pacing down to have a dozen, or so, storylines writhing and wiggling like a nest of snakes?
For me this promising series is a swing and a miss on the part of the producers.
The producers didn't seem to have an idea of how to construct the series. What they did was weave as many tropes together as possible, put them in a blender and hoped they worked. They did not.
Let's see, there's the crooked sheriff, the bounty hunter (this one likes to make his quarry a head shorter), the all-powerful town madam, gold fever. The list goes ever on. Why give your series a narrative flow when you can slow the pacing down to have a dozen, or so, storylines writhing and wiggling like a nest of snakes?
For me this promising series is a swing and a miss on the part of the producers.