The English

[Omegstrat6]

Anyone else been watching this on bbc? Came to it a bit late but really enjoying it. I liked Hugo Blick's "Black Earth Rising" when it was on a year or so ago, but this is better. Emily Blunt and Chaske Spencer are great as the lead characters and cinematography and dialogue good. The plot lines are a bit convoluted maybe but it's a good watch and a new take on the western. Reminds me a bit of Steven Knight/Taboo at times and even Rafe Spell as the bad guy seems to play him in a kind of Tom Hardy-ish way. It's main back theme seems to be about the displacement of native American tribes but also the complexities of this and it isn't shy about showing the brutality of frontier life. Lots of good actors in it and characters (even if some are a bit gothic comic book like). IMHO worth a look if you haven't already caught it.

[kettering_baggie]

After seeing the first episode, I was hooked and watched the rest on the iPlayer so that I didn’t have to wait weeks to see them. Very good series.

[DaveP67 is back!]

Same here binged watched it over a couple of days, brilliant!

[TipperaryBaggie]

Only watched first two on IPlayer at moment but it looks like a series that you have to keep watching. Hopefully catch up now on the non World Cup days.

[WBA1955]

I've started watching this after Carol has gone to bed as she doesn't like westerns.
It's quite good set in 1890 at the time of the Ghost Dance and the range wars.
1890 was the year of the Wounded Knee Massacre and the year Sitting Bull was killed, it was also the year my great grandmother was born, she died in 1978.
The past is closer than we think.

[Leicesterbaggie]

I've started watching this after Carol has gone to bed as she doesn't like westerns.
It's quite good set in 1890 at the time of the Ghost Dance and the range wars.
1890 was the year of the Wounded Knee Massacre and the year Sitting Bull was killed, it was also the year my great grandmother was born, she died in 1978.
The past is closer than we think.

Very true '55. My grandfather saw Buffalo Bill when his show toured his country and he died in the the sixties.