mike-72444

Look, I understand that there was certainly abuse associated with the schools set up to teach native American children English and try to get them to acculturate. And that we figured out a while ago that was not appropriate. But... the utter, 100% EVIL of every single nun and priest depicted is troubling. Really - not a single one had the tiniest inclination towards kindness? I mean, you can identify far better with the other villains of the story: at least they are somewhat understandable. The nuns and priests are straight out demons, and that plot line is really hard to watch.

The sound and video are simply brilliant. Beautiful job. I have been a Beatles fan since I was around 10 years old (in 1970), so really enjoyed a lot of this. That being said, it seems like about 75% of the running time of this series is John and Paul just messing around, with accents, inside jokes, and playing bits of old tunes. A little of that goes a long way, and (at least to me) it gets pretty tedious fairly quickly. It leaves me thinking, frankly, that the Beatles were rather overrated. I know real music experts like Rick Beato, for example, think it's all brilliant, so I'm probably just wrong. But that's my personal impression.

I first read Dune (and the sequels) back in college, over 40 years ago. The 1984 version was a huge disappointment. The 2000 mini series was not bad. Just saw this one, and I simply cannot come up with *anything* I found disappointing: for a long time fan of Frank Herbert's brilliant works, I think he would be *thrilled*. Ten stars, easy.