Steaming pile of dog doo
Bad news for Kevin Costner it takes a lot more than briefly appearing in a Ken Burns documentary to know how to make an interesting doc. Movie. Aside from any possible financial investment Costner may have made he does not come across remotely interested in the topic. Instead of a craftily constructed script that breaths life into history Costner instead reads from one of those dusty history books with all the dread that most high schoolers feel about their history class. It does provide some mild humour listening to Costner struggle with pronunciations of first nation place names like the way he mispronounced Kekionga 3 different ways. I couldn't make it to the end of the first episode voluntarily. I can only imagine the only audience that watches this series in its entirety are Junior High Schoolers who have been forcibly locked in a classroom and made to watch it.
- gcstubbs
- 26 may 2025