Episode #1.3

The best episode yet.

Director Peter Berg and writer Mark L. Smith are showing us the "wild" west like it's never been shown before. And I like it.

Things are starting to take shape. The French camp sequence was creepy and horrifying - a very unsettling watch, which says a lot about how good the cast - Taylor Kitsch (Tim Riggins, he most certainly is not in this one), Betty Gilpin and Preston Mara - are. Strong acting right across the board.

Glad I'm not the only person who thought that Betty Gilpin's Sara only seems capable of making bad decisions for the group. Probably time to let Isaac take command...of course, if that had happened, there goes 75% of the episode.

On episode 3 now. Interesting as the "noble savage" trope has been replaced in this series with a more realistic, humanizing depiction. The native Americans are portrayed like everyone else is: good, bad, depraved, heroic, vicious, and kind. The frontiersmen/women are exactly what you'd imagine: brave souls, societal misfits, criminals, and those who catch criminals.

Taylor Kitsch is brilliant as always. There's a lot of familiar faces here who all bring their A game to the series.

And when the hell is Sara going to stop making decisions for the group?? So far, every one of them has been an unmitigated disaster. Waiting for Issac to just bonk her on the head and drag her back home.