Reviews

Slow and extremely down-beat but an accurate depiction of what we Aussies call a 'feral' family. Poor. Nihilistic. Lacking any sense of community, ambition or optimism. Living day to day grunge. Unemployed, unemployable, bored and idle. A family of half brothers with a single mother.

Into this enters psychopath John Bunting, the mother's latest boyfriend. A scenario of gay hating, 'vigilantism' and banal murder. Bunting's urge to kill is masked by his excuses but is also driven by money, as the killings of his victims, mainly other 'ferals' on social security benefits, are hidden and their welfare payments stolen.

At their murder trial, the jury had to be given breaks as the horrific nature of the crimes were described and photos of corpses, removed from barrels of acid were displayed. Through it all Bunting, a perfect psychopath, smiled and made lewd gestures.

The worst of many serial killers who operated .... and may still be operating .... in this otherwise proud state of South Australia - a place Stephen King described as the perfect prim, 'picket fences' setting for a novel about perverted serial killers.

Yes. Another reviewer described it as 'overcooked'. Yes. But episode 8 takes the cake. First: the female police officer desperately rescues some children, then walks away and lets them loose. The central character revives someone with mouth to mouth, a technique not used until the 1960s. Then, after using a Colt .45 standard issue automatic pistol, he suddenly draws a revolver (continuity!). After shooting someone point blank with same revolver, he assumes the person is dead (it didn't look like a killshot to me), he wanders off and lets the fellow kidnap the femme fatale. What a clutz. The show is full of this sort of sloppiness. Ho hum.

Hsving now watched all episodes on Amazon Prime, both relatively recent movies, 'Tombstone' and 'Wyatt Earp', as well as 'My Darling Clementine', and 'The Gunfight at OK Corral'; and read a biography of Earp's life, I think Hugh O'Brian's depiction of Earp well captured his character and policing method. The TV series did however, write out his love life, which the movies did not.

The depiction of the OK Corral gunfight is accurate. Of course the series as a whole is entertainment snd not history, despite dome episodes covering real events.

None of the movies mention brothers Newton, James and Warren Earp. In reality, James Earp was a bartender in the west, and Warren accompanied Wyatt on his vendetta to avenge Morgan's murder (below).

The series was a chronological depiction of Earp's police career. But a great deal happened after the OK Corral. The murder of Morgan Earp and the crippling of Virgil for a start, Doc Holliday's gunning down of Ringo and Wyatt Earp's shooting after a chase, of Curly Bill. I feel that a seventh series might have covered the aftermath. The way the last episode of series six concluded certainly suggested that more was to come.

All in all an excellent series.

Forget the critics. They hate movies' pick, pick, pick. The story is the thing. The corruption of big pharma. The sophistry of universities, which have sold their souls for cash. In this case ignoring data on a dangerous drug, to keep the rivers of gold flowing. We have seen Universities in the real world, selling themselves to China, ignoring the flow of critical defence relsted technology to the evil empire of the CCP. Once shining lights of truth. Now temples of darkness.

I loath movies like this .... Rosamund Pike is a good actor but she has taken on too many really DARK roles playing despicable people to become a popular box office attraction. I 'foamed at the mouth' with anger when her character gets away with murder by playing the system in 'Gone Girl'. This movie is similar in depicting a psychopath play the system with success. At least in this one her character gets her 'deserts' at the end.

A story of loss and hope found. Hanks is at his best in this slowly paced heartfelt story of 1870 Texas. A defeated people striving to survive in poverty in the Civil War aftermath, in a Texas still occupied by Union troops. A young girl taken by Kiowa warriors and raised as one, now reclaimed - but lost in a strange and dangerous world. An ex-Confederate soldier, an educated man who has lost everything, travelling the roads reading newspapers to the locals. Two strangers, who together face privations and danger, and eventually create a new life as father and daughter.

Top secret! Ultra clearance required. I might have given this series a higher rating. BUT ..... in the episode on the cog railway to the summit of Mount Snowdonia in Wales, the host stood OUTSIDE the café, wrapped in mist, jawing ad-nauseum with the architect, but not do much as a glimpse of the interior. WHAT were they hiding!?? A secret rocket launch pad for Mars? An intercontinental ballistic missile base!? If they showed us, would they have to kill us!? Mystery upon mystery. They show us the interior of other buildings, grand railway stations, so WHAT were they hiding at Snowdonia!? Adolph Hitler's hideaway!? Strewth!! 😅