Kevin Costner's the West

Was hoping this would truly be a historical look about the West but No we can't do that, we have to Hollywood it up with their nonsense. Shame as this could have been an awesome series.

Why not focus on the hardships (droughts, dust storms, famines, diseases) that people had to endure? Nope we've got to virtue signal about how The West was settled.

Kevin Costner unfortunately has been ate up with everything that is bad with pretty much everything coming out of Hollywood now. If you've ever heard him off camera, he's absolutely clueless and in the end doesn't at all care about this great country!

This is a great documentary about the American West, I especially enjoyed the cinematography scenes and the personalities of the people, whether friendly or clashing. Many reviews mention Kevin Costner's narration as boring and dull, but it's better than reading a big, dusty history book yourself. I like his voice.

Apparently my review is too short. Okay, here's more, imo Episode one, "Fallen Timbers" serves as an introduction that includes the natives of the "Indian Nations of the Northwest Confederacy" to a victory. I was glad to see the resistance to what many consider an invasion from another continent.

Costner is a horrendous narrator, literally no life in his voice. The historical stories are good and goes into more depth than how most people learned about how the west was founded. The biggest problem is that it's the progressive version on how the west was founded. Progressives have invaded essentially everything in American culture these days, unfortunately. The native Americans were kicked off the land and I wish it hadn't gone down the way it did. But it did. So what. The ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE WORLD can be summed up by saying all land was fought over by humans. ALL LAND. Progressives love to scream stolen land when talking about the US govt. But they can't name one place that is not stolen land. All humans have done for thousands of years is fight over land. Trying to point out that a govt has stolen land is the new virtue signing of the left. In reality, it just shows their ignorance.

I was looking forward to this series. Unfortunately, Kevin Costner's narration was boring, nasal, and sounded like he wasn't at all interested in the subject.

Despite that, I've watched about half of the first episode and learned a few bits of historical information I hadn't heard before.

It's a real disappointment that this wasn't more well done. There are so many things in this period of American history that are not very well-known by most people - this is a missed opportunity to present a more complete picture of the times and the impact of actions taken on all who were involved, as well as all their descendants.

If I really want to watch something I may finish it just for the informative parts. Otherwise, I know how to solve the problem of not being able to sleep.

I had been expecting the premiere of this series, mainly because of Kevin Costner's role in producing it. Sadly to say, I couldn't keep watching the first episode because I caught myself wishing that the narration shifted to the experts' comments or some action. I'm sorry to say it, but Costner's narration was lifeless, boring, no passion or anything. That made the whole thing dull, monotonous. Another thing was that it lacked acting. Too many pictures, too much narration and too little acting. I may give it another chance because the story was interesting and perhaps the whole thing improved after the 20 minutes I saw. Otherwise, I wouldn't stand it.