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I thought I would love this as a good historical series with beautiful scenery. It starts out well with good character development led by the old man retelling his life stories. I had to stop at episode three, realizing that this series has every trope and stereotype you can think of. There's the drunk father, abusive husband, rampant misogyny, mean abusive school teacher and corrupt business owners, in this case boot makers. Really, there isn't a scene in it so far that makes you want to keep watching. Awful men in every category including the soldiers. Surely there had to be SOME good people you could have included.

I kept waiting for Mel Brooks to make a cameo. Episode 1 starts off with 5-6 guys on horseback all dressed in 50's Hollywood ideas of how people dressed in 1880's, chasing a guy in a wagon pulled by 4 horses and shooting bullets and never hitting a thing. Then the wagon driver, while still driving the wagon, miraculously shoots and kills all 6 guys. Then we are in Austin Texas and for some reason there are 100's of men milling all over the street. Why? The supposed cost of everything in that town was laughable as no one had money like that certainly not immigrants looking to travel north. I looked so forward to this series as I'm a big Yellowstone fan, but this is too awful to watch.

This started out well but as it progressed too many characters and subplots were added. Watching one episode a week tends to cause one to spend a third of it reconnecting the characters and why and where they belong in the story. Edward himself is annoying to me and and I find no empathy for him. Why has he not received therapy. All the others who lost people were in a support group paid for by the airline. This unfortunately has trailed off into a dull soap opera and I actually forget to watch it. Don't bother if you're not a fan of TV like This is Us. This just isn't interesting enough to bother with.