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A mediocre drama in the genre of Virgin River.

Supposedly set in Yosemite National park it revolves around a death of a young girl. The story meanders, involving drug dealers, squatters and various shady characters. First of all it is not filmed in Yosemite and old abandoned mines would not contain drug labs. Squatters could not possibly live in the park and drunk park employees would not be tolerated. Again a story of inept police and ranger investigators stumbling around the park finding errant bullets in tree trunks in thousands of acres of trees. Just take this for what it is, a lifetime like series.

This entire story could be one episode. The constant repeating is typical of these kind of documentaries. When I see these stories it's so hard to believe that people are so easily fooled. No one who is being treated for cancer looks happy and healthy the entire time. Who in the hospital and chemo settings puts on total makeup and hair? She never looks sick or gaunt, never ill from chemo, yet gullible people around her never seem to notice. And no one seemed too awfully confused by the absence of her parents. The gullibility of church goers is also typical. It's always easy to attribute all this to God. It make people feel good about themselves to contribute and cite miracles as proof of gods intervention.

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.