Reviews

It was great

Only one false note and that was muted. Missy's role has been expanded and I look forward to seeing more of her. Dale was dour, decent and a bit gormless as usual, Meemaw and Mary and George put in their usual solid performances. Pastor Jeff and Robin put in some neat subtext.

The show is getting to the stage where Sheldon can only be the Linch pin, but he does a fine job of that.

There is only one small quibble. I thought there might be two because I find it hard to imagine German beer causing anyone to throw up, but this is Hollywood and I suppose anything is possible. But the running joke about George hogging the bathroom. This is Texas. Everything is big in Texas, so why haven't the Coopers got at least two loos ?

Pretty much as a lot of posters have said. Great action scenes and performances by Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby and just about everybody else.

The only problem is that the when the various armies aren't knocking seven bells out of each other, there is not that much going on.

Plus, Scott has been dealt a dirty blow by Sergey Bondarchuk. Compared to his version, Scott's battle looks like Sharpe's Waterloo with added CGI, although to be fair, nothing can hope to match Sergey Bondarchuk's film where most of the Russian army moonlighted as extras with most of the Russian army as extras and which had Christopher Plummer's redcoats arising like magic from the cornfields

But that is ok. The real problem is that Ridley Scott just does not seem to find Napoleon interesting , which makes it hard for the audience to do so.

It was a good episode, but some of the reviews have gone over the top. It is great to see Axe back but the show was still padded out with obscure cultural references and the reviews seem to be written by the PR department on speed. And I am still not sure what Prince has done wrong, other than there has to be something odd about about anyone who has pots of money and the chance to enjoy an agreeable life, but still wants to go into politics.

But a lot of it comes back to the endless references to obscure TV shows, which makes it seem as though the script writers are preparing for some sort pub quiz marathon.

As said, a good episode, but some of the ratings suggest that the PR department are on overtime.

I have counted 22 cultural references in this show, which means that I am spending more time checking on Google to find out what is the characters are talking about than what they are actually doing.

Plus, I am warming to Prince and still don't know what he is doing that is so wicked. On the other hand, I thought that Chuck was now one of the good guys, but he has turned into a spiteful little whinger. No wonder that Wendy has dumped him for Bradford But I suppose the real question is, what has happened to Axe, who was the real reason for watching this show.

All sympathy to Damian Lewis who has suffered a grievous lose.

It is being carried by the actors. The scriptwriters seem too busy coming up with obscure quips and references to maintain the interest. In fact, the don't seem to have that much interest in the audiences. Plus, it does not work too well because most of comments refer to TV programs, which gives the impression that neither the show runner or writers have ever read a book. Which, to be fair, is a pretty good comment on most of the folk I have met in the money markets but then again, unlike Sorkin and Co, they don't pretend that they doing something clever.

But of course, most of all, the show lacks Axe. All sympathy to Damian Lewis for his lose.

We have had two seasons of Shelia being belittled and despising herself. I can't see that as any reason to watch season 3.

I can't say much more than that but apparently these reviews have to be 600 characters long (which is probably why so few people actually review anything). So I will just repeat myself

We have had two seasons of Shelia being belittled and despising herself. I can't see that as any reason to watch season 3.

I can't say much more than that but apparently these reviews have to be 600 characters long (which is probably why so few people actually review anything). So I will just repeat myself.

The acting is great, particularly Rose Byrne, but otherwise it is just a lot of unsympathetic characters lead by the excellent Rose Byrne, who spends most of her time hating herself.

A few laughs would not go amiss. Were have had 12 episodes of folk lining up to kick Shelia. How about her fighting back, having a few laughs and winning once in a while. And the Rubins live on a house on a hilltop, but once you get inside it looks like a cave and gloomy with it.

I hope this show picks up and that we get a bit of comedy in the next episode. And if Danny Rubin leans over to Jerry Goldman and punches him in the mouth for insulting his wife, then I will hang around for episode 4. But I can't see it happening.

Well acted and photographed, but everybody was so bloody glum. If there was a smile at anytime in the entire episode I must have missed it.

And what is with the Latin? These guys were tribesmen of the 8th century BC. They would have spoken a mixture of Etruscan, Greek and a mixture of various local dialects.

Or not Classic Latin anyway.

Languages are in a continual state of evolution. The show is using the language of the first Century AD. By the fourth century the Romans were.speaking early Italian. In the 8th century BC Romulus would have spoken a mixture of Greek, Etruscan and the local dialect. And since he was a warlord leading a bunch of hardcases, the language would not been that of Virgil and Co.

Good show though.

I am not sure if Elsa is dead or not. She was certainly bunnying away to the last, although that might be because teenage airheads don't really notice a lot of what is going on around them.

Anyway, at least Thomas and Noemi ended up happy.

Great show, well photographed and acted. I would give this episode more stars but there is no need because if it had been 60 minutes of Sheridan Taylor farting, the trolls from the PR department would still have given the show 11 out of 10.

She should be the back story.

It is a great idea. The settlers are crossing over 2000 miles of wilderness and fighting rustlers and Indians and hunger and the weather and the show has some great actors (including Isabel May) and photographers and as a bit of light relief they have a pretty, self obsessed teenage airhead working her way through the available talent.

But everything is back to front. What I am hoping is that by episode 9 Elsa will have rogered every male between Independence and Oregon and aged between puberty and death. Then, having finally shagged herself into silence, she will ride off into the sunset with a young medical student, much, I am sure, to the relief of Margaret and Tom Dutton.

I like the show, I am a sucker for westerns but this show is like Just Seventeen with added banalities.

Having Shea, Thomas and James having gunfights with well, almost everybody and Elsa mooning over everything in trousers would make for a great show, particularly in view of the quality of the acting and photography. Escapist rubbish but great fun, although if Elsa has another love affair she will be in danger of loosing her amateur status.

Then they could make another show where the settlers have to get across a river (build a raft?), put a tire on a wagon wheel (they would need a hell of a big fire), blaze away at a buffalo and discover that they have wasted all their ammo and that the buffalo wasn't even hurt (ok, by 1883 there weren't that many buffalo and the fire arms were better, but it still happened). And a few parties. One thing the settlers were was upbeat, otherwise they would not have decided to travel over 2,000 miles to someplace they had only heard of in their dreams. So after crossing deserts and climbing mountains they didn't sit around being glum. They got out their fiddles, brewed up some coffee, baked some biscuits (they did not need a lot to cheer themselves up) and had a bit of a do.

So, leave Sam Elliott and co to handle the gunfights and we have a lady in the UK called Ruth Goodman who would probably be delighted to deal with (and make really interesting) the crossing the plans bit and we should have a couple of really good shows.