2016.04.02
Watched first two episodes, will continue.
2016.04.13
An obvious character is killed. Seems like he wanted to go.
2016.05~
Started second season. Vibe is all different, but is it wrong? The wild west is getting civilized, as promised right from the beginning.
2016.06... or maybe 2016.07
I thought the series was going to end mid-sentence, cut down in its prime cruelly and unfairly like Firefly, but actually it wrapped up about when it should have. It was starting to run out of steam and I don't think there was a whole lot more left to say.
Now free of spoilers I read up to find out what happened, only to find things got a little confused and boring, and probably because of drugs. It looks like the creator of the show got lucky, and in the years that followed never really did anything good again. Only now, after 10 years of nothing really going on, is he contemplating returning to the universe he abandoned, or ruined, or who knows what, its hard to decipher through the long abandoned rumor mills.
Like a lot of art, it had its moment in its moment, and having once had that moment, the moment is then gone.
Adding a surreal layer that most media doesn't have is looking at the long list of real people versus people made up for the show, and realizing there were more real people than made up. Though many of their stories were altered to make a show out of it, some lives may have been more interesting if presented more real. I understand reality is harder to productize.
This show and the movie Unforgiven are now my top favorite versions of the Western.
