So I've started watching Wyatt Earp and the Cowboy War on Netflix. What I find interesting about the show is how it puts the OK Corral in context and shows it as a first event and not a last event. It is consequently, a much more interesting story -- with both personal and national importance. The actors they've chosen to dramatize the story are quite good. Especially, Wyatt Earp, Ike Clanton and Sheriff Behan. But it is the dramatizations that I'd also be critical of, in that they impart motives and thoughts to the portrayed without necessarily any foundation to them. Having said that, the script for the series is also very good. Informative, conversational in tone and with a number of narrative surprises built into it. Grade: A-.
We're also finishing up the fourth season of Man in the High Castle. When I read this PKD novel, I remember being very impressed by it, though I'd subsequently forgotten the details and plot to it. (Something my wife would tell you is very unusual for me to do.) I feel that the show captures well the look and feel of the novel -- both in the visuals and the tone. The cinematography and mis-en-scène are stunning -- crisp and fully realized with remarkable detail and irony. Rufus Sewell as Obergruppenführer John Smith is simply, as always, great! There may be some pacing issues overall, though. Grade: A-.
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