Watched for Emily Blunt. Definitely worthed it in this way. She gave an dramatically layered performance. My expactation was Revenge Angel mode. But not badass and cool as in Edge of Tomorrow. The cinematography was a delight, every frame was literally a painting! The story decisions are too safe and classic and it gave me no connection to the characters and their backstories.

The revenge theme is so bizarre made. In the first four episodes, I didn't understand exactly why and whom Emily Blunt wanted to take revenge on. The story hides this from you so nothing until episode 4 made me feel anything. The revenge in the final and the whole journey were dramatic but unsatisfying. But it has…

I have always sung the praises of The Honourable Woman, a convulated, le Carré-esque political thriller which focused on ... optical fiber cables. In my opinion, better plot device than the 5000th doomsday software that can start a nuclear war ... remotely!

Anywho, when I found out that the maker of that show was tackling a revisionist revenge Western, with Emily Blunt, I was all on board. But whatever I expected, it was not this show. The show has a lot of typical Western tropes ("cowboys and Indians", the unruly Wild West, the new towns being created from new money like oil), but there is a certain quality, and it is hard to put it into words, that makes this…

"Home is here. With you."

I haven't cried this hard since I read TJ Klune's Under the Whispering Door back in summer 2021. I just --

I know there's no such thing as happy endings in this terrain, and I know it was never going to be possible after learning the extent of Cornelia's brutalization, but God, I wanted Cornelia and Eli to have a happy ending. I wanted them to find land and build a home together and have children. I wanted them to have a happy ending!

The last fifteen-twenty minutes just devastated me. Watching Eli and Cornelia being forced to separate, knowing Cornelia spent the rest of her life alone - I hate it! I wanted them…

First up, The English looks absolutely stunning. Hugo Blick's decision to shoot it in Spain gives it an unmistakable Spaghetti Western flavour which, when combined with the title sequence and the rogue's gallery of blackhearted villains and ruthless bushwhackers that Emily Blunt's driven aristo and Chaske Spencer's heroic scout face down, is an undeniable hit with me. But overall, this is a production too uneven to impress. When it's good it's very good, but when it's bad it's a sluggish chore. I also appreciated it more when it stuck to the Spaghetti model, rather than the romantic Dances with Wolves (complete with stirring Barryesque score) story between Blunt and Spencer, whose connection I wasn't quite buying.

Still, the overall approach…

The English traveled back in time to the wild west, unearthed and revealed the ugly origins and presented with still existing many contemporary issues while simultaneously looked ahead to the future. Hugo Blick's latest, Prime Video's six parter may stumble across mid-way point but found all of it's glory and horror again at the end. Chaske Spencer's Eli Whipp ex-cavalry scout and Pawnee Nation, and Emily Blunt's titular Lady Cornelia Locke rode through sumptuous looking strange wild west (probably the best performer of the series. Spain is rocking here as America west. You will see so many stunning wide shots of vast open great plain with setting sun in background) full of mythic characters and personalities all of who communicated…

I'm not a massive fan of Hugo Blick, The Shadow Line I remember leaving me cold. Pretentious guff that I gave up on.
I'd heard very good things about this though so thought I'd give it a go. On the basis of this I may have to give The Shadow Line another go because this is absolutely brilliant.
A love letter of sorts to westerns in general, be it those from the golden era or the Italian spaghetti's, this is a tall tale of revenge set amidst the American frontier as an English woman and a Pawnee Indian go on an odyssey of sorts through newly formed territory, trying to track the man who killed her child. The reasons of…