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This is one of the best finales I can remember from a TV series. It had just the right amount of humor and drama and feelings to it. It was very heartfelt without getting sappy and you could tell that everyone involved was engaged and determined to end things the right way.

Most of the main characters story arcs were wrapped up well, some funny (the sheriff and deputy) and some heartfelt (most of the rest).

To be honest I thought the season prior to this one was a bit weak and that they were running out of ideas but they came back strong in the final season and finished even stronger in the final episode. The perfect goodbye to a quirky, funny and very heartfelt series. I'm really going to miss Patience, Colorado and its inhabitants, both human and alien.

I saw this movie on HBO back when it was first aired and always kind of remembered it. Not because it's a classic, it's not. But it is a fairly well done western that entertains and holds your interest over it's fairly short run time. I hadn't seen it since that original airing when I came across it on Tubi last night and watched it again, curious as to how it would stand up after so long. It stood up very well. I remembered it as a light weight but entertaining western with the chemistry between Elliot and Capshaw being the biggest draw and that's still there. Long and the short of it as that, unlike a lot of other old movies I've watched after decades, this one was still entertaining and held my interest from beginning to end.

The story is formulaic but then most of Louis L'amour's stories were. But they, and this movie, still entertain. Sometimes the old formulas are the best; certainly better than a lot of the drek being put out today.

This movie is like that.

Sam Eliot was made to make westerns and delivers in this movie as he always does. Tom Conti is just right as the husband/Civil War veteran trying for a new life with his family but still having some fight in him. Kate Capshaw's beauty is here as it always is and while she's never been a really strong actress she does some of her best work here, building a character that could have ended up being formulaic window dressing into an interesting and complicated woman. The rest of the cast is pretty good as well. For a made-for-tv movie from HBO that was filmed in just a few weeks this is a solid western. If you're a fan of the genre or of any of lead actors you'll probably enjoy it.

The Earp's never worked for Johnny Behan. Behan was the county sheriff, the Earp's were first city marshals then federal marshals.

Behan never arrested Wyatt Earp for anything. He did have warrants for his arrest twice but wasn't able to serve them, once because Wyatt refused to be arrested and the second because he'd left the county. And regarding that same scene; Behan never caught Earp and Josephine in a compromising situation. Marcus had dumped Behan and neither she nor Earp made any secret of their relationship. Nor were either afraid of Behan so they'd have no reason to sneak around behind his back. One of Earp's famous quotes was in response to Behan saying he was going to have to see him again, meaning about the shootings and Wyatt replied: "you're going to see me one time too often Behan".

The Cowboys were run by Curly Bill, not Ike Clanton. Ike was just another Cowboy member and not a terribly bright one at that.

Ike Clanton was very far from the Machiavellian mastermind portrayed here. In fact history seems to show that he was just the opposite; not very bright and a coward. And he was not the main antagonist in the Earp's war with the Cowboys. His portrayal in this series is almost total fiction.

The residents of Tombstone did not turn against the Earp's and all testify against them at the trial. In fact it was the testimony of many eyewitnesses to the gunfight that contradicted and debunked Behan's claims that the Cowboys were unarmed and had their hands up. The trial transcript is still in existence and bears this out. It also shows that the verdict did not dramatically go in the Earp's favor because of the testimony of a member of the prosecution as depicted in this series. The case was pretty much their word against Behan's and the Cowboys and there wasn't enough evidence to convict them.

There are so many more inaccuracies here but I've made my point. This series, like most if not all Netflix documentaries, plays fast and loose with the actual events they claim to portray for dramatic purposes. This series is mildly entertaining f you can overlook the fact that it's inaccurate across the board. If you want to know what actually happened try reading one of the many book written on the subject. Some good ones are; "Inventing Wyatt Earp" by Allen Barra, or "The Last Gunfight" by Jeff Guinn, or "Tombstone" by Tom Clavin.

That's were you'll find accurate historical information, certainly not in a Netflix "documentary" like this one.