Creator Mark L. Smith's six-episode examination of scruffy, vicious people traversing the Utah Territory in 1857 also stars Taylor Kitsch and Dane DeHaan.
, Thomas Hobbes famously described the life of man in an uncivilized state as “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”, a new six-episode miniseries about life on the Western edge of civilization circa 1857, an Army captain played by Lucas Neff simplifies matters. He writes, in a generally pompous missive that doubles as voiceover, “There is only brutality here.
Soon, Sara and Devin are witnesses to something that the Mormons — including Brigham Young — don’t want them to witness. Before long, the Mormons are pursuing the Rowells, who are also being pursued by several bounty hunters, including a party led by Jai Courtney’s Virgil. Sara and Devin might not be seeking a new life so much as fleeing the old one.), a grouchy mountain man, and Two Moons , a mute Shoshone girl fleeing her own violent past.
I will always be an appreciator, at least on a basic level, of the muscularity of Berg’s direction. His clear-eyed bluntness helped make Netflix’sfactory output. Berg’s depiction of the Mountain Meadows Massacre is disorienting, nightmarish and terrifyingly immersive, a bravura symphony of whizzing arrows and curdling screams.
The visual flair peaks in the first episode, along with the series’ shallow, if not necessarily inapt, insight into life in this particular time and place. I have no doubt that 1857 Utah was pervasively miserable, and Berg captures a miasma of gangrenous wounds, rarely rotated attire, lice-infested beards and freshly butchered meat. It’s easy to find things to be disgusted or unsettled by, but harder to find sources of empathy — which never used to be the case on earlier Berg projects like.
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