PrimeWire

This plays against every expectation and every classic element of the western genre. Westerns are safe, formulaic, sentimental accounts of heroism. This central character is a woman and not a man, her narrative is lyrical, not sentimental, and the story is about naive and unprepared immigrants going west where nothing they have learned in life is useful or applicable and the things that keep going horribly wrong are brutal and oppressive and cannot be fixed by testosterone. Deadwood and Hell on Wheels are excellent series I love and have watched many times. You leave the old order for a chance to shake the snow globe and land in a better place in the new order. This show is about the chaos of the unknown. There is no order. It’s dark and brilliant.