American Primeval series
- Thread starter wildcatdon
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It was Meh' Not even good enough to remember any details from 3 days ago .
Are we talking about a remake of the British dinosaur show? Haven't seen it but I enjoyed the British one.
(if it's not this post will look silly)
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I’ve watched 3 episodes, I think it’s pretty good. The topic of how the Mormons came to settle there is not one I’ve seen in a film so it’s interesting. I don’t know how accurate.
Being honest about the sheer brutality of the frontier is what makes it strong IMO.
Being honest about the sheer brutality of the frontier is what makes it strong IMO.
Pretty good I thought.
Makes the Mormons look terrible
Makes the Mormons look terrible
Good, not great. Worth the time, like 4.5 hours for six episodes. Nice 4-sided fight between Mormons, regular settlers/miners, Injuns, and Army.
I dont know much about Mormon history other than their absurd founding. I mostly just know present day Mormons and well, they're overly nice ppl.
The show is based around the Mountain Meadows massacre and is said to be a historically accurate portrayal.
Any fans of 1883 should like this show.
It's okay. I think someone must have paid for all the gushing reviews. Takes some liberties with history. Makes the Mormons look pretty bad. Makes the natives look not so great. Lots of blood, bit of rape, predictable plotline. Having a female Shoshoni chief was fairly ridiculous as well.
On the plus side Betty Gilpin is a great actress.
On the plus side Betty Gilpin is a great actress.
I think the massacre was pretty spot on historically.
Of course BY denied any involvement and was never implicated.
At least two Mormons were executed for their role in the attack.
The fort was real and was burned.
Jim Hickman was real so was Bridger.
Have no idea if a Shoshoni female chief is plausible
No woman was officially ever chief of a major native tribe until recently when Wilma Mankiller was elected chief of the Cherokees.
Pine Leaf (Woman Chief) is a debatable figure in history. Some say she was Crow, some say Shoshoni, but most of the known story came from a mountain man. Did she exist. Idk. It fits for TV I suppose.
Everything else was close enough. I don't think BY ever left his throne but it makes for good TV.
The Mormons weren't any angels back in the day. They wanted their own nation and weren't afraid to use violence and fraud to get it. They were kicked out of Illinois, Ohio, NY, and Missouri. The latter going so far as to use the penalty of death for any that remained. That execution order wasn't lifted until 1976.
How it presents the brutality of life then and there is fascinating. The historical accuracy is a bit wanting.
I believe Bridger was also allegedly in the group when Hugh Glass was attacked by a bear (The Revenant)
The best of the Yellowstone saga's in my opinion
I thought it was great but the last episode felt manipulated to achieve a certain result.
Otherwise it was great.
Somehow in the random attack on the cabin the lady gets snatched and the incredible survivalist cant track her in the snow so he beats info out of a man.
Then he finds the bounty hunters and kills them all, inexplicably leaving the brother alive, which of course led to his demise. At no point in that entire series would that character have ever left that guy alive other than to manufacture that ending.
Then he finds the bounty hunters and kills them all, inexplicably leaving the brother alive, which of course led to his demise. At no point in that entire series would that character have ever left that guy alive other than to manufacture that ending.
Otherwise it was great.
agree on the ending. I told my wife. Lucas is still in the woods. And sure enough there he was.
It was like they ran out of money and just wanted to kill everyone