MacMurrah

Unbelievably every single actor / actress in this movie are British! What an insult, a movie shot in deep Texas, about a quintessentially American story line but acted entirely by British. Not acceptable.

Ray Stevenson as a Texas cop is unbelievable as are the others with the exception of Guy Pierce who is the best part of this movie.

Its a decent caper but the all British cast just ticked me off.

There isnt a single British movie where all the cast are American.

Its a one time watch , the story has been told gazillian times before nothing new there.

Somehow i get the feeling its a trial run or testing the waters for a bunch of these British actors before they audition for more mainstream American movie roles.

Some Americans are complaining about the use of English to describe discussions in Portuguese. This is the norm for many period shows. English in an English accent is typically used.

The show obviously needs to skip parts, but the tension is really described in both books much better, , Clavels Shogun and the original Pilot's Samurai William (a must read). Almost 500,000 Japanese had converted to Christianity and the Portuguese had been wrecking homogeneity of Japanese culture. Almost 30% of the Daimiyos had converted and had dual loyalties. They were causing havoc in Japan.

In Samurai William the politics were even better described even between Spanish and Portuguese. The pope had given Japan to Portugal but the Spanish using the earlier Tordesilas treaty onsidered Japan theirs too.

Lastly the show does miss the mastery of languages William/ John is described as knowing in the book. Fluent in English, Dutch, Portuguese and later mastery of Japanese.

The acting of the Japanese characters is top notch , the European characters well seems to be a bit over the top.

When the group is asked if anyone spoke English one guy raised his hand. However midway through the series all the immigrants speak English, the gypsy speaks with an American accent to boot!

As much as we hate certain words, you can't tell me what NOONE called Tom the 'n' word.

This is an unrealistic feel good show. At the end of the season they havent even left Texas. Great at this rate they'll reach Montana in 10 yrs. BTW during the era when the show is set there was a train service to Oregon, so it begs the question why would anyone use wagons.

I researched the actors playing the lead characters and everything I assumed about them was true.(politically)

I'm sticking with the show only because of Sam Elliott.