rusoviet

Didn't know what to expect but it had the three legs of a dynamite film - 1. Director, 2. Script and 3. Actors - all there.

Harrelson is a very good actor - in Midway he played Adm. Nimitz and here a recovering alcoholic retired law man. The real surprise was Costner - he gave a stellar performance as a tired and angry lawman fed up with the, just emerging, 'poor misguided raised wrong felons' mindset esp the scene when he discusses Clyde's upbringing with Clyde's father.

Worth every minute - amazingly not a second of film wasted. Find the predator and take it down before it preys on another.

.....the girl Clenna's arrival. Now the plot went straight to 'soap opera' with all the trappings of the besotted young male and the crafty targeted female whose arrival brings so much more fodder to dig more post holes to waste 2 more seasons.

I found the acting decent but the plot is sparse and as noted injecting the sudden arrival of a long lost romantic partner in 1730's Hudson Bay fails to pass the credulity test.

It's a shame because this may have merit but I lost all interest - better to have detailed the history of the Hudson Bay Company - why this quasi-govt/pvt corporation was created and how it kept expanding..

Too many 'pretty boys' as leads in this Season 2. Save for Matteo Matari (Francesco de Pazzi) the rest have a direct impact on the 'connection' to the script which was not the issue with any of Season One's episodes - it was solidly cast and drew all viewers in. No explanation, save in the brief noting '...the late Cosimo', is given for 'Cosimo's' (Richard Madden) absence from the script This is a huge omission and it seems a whole new team of script writers have replaced the first. Lastly the initial episode is more 'formula' than engaging. The script one only hopes the rest is worth watching but it also seems to dragging a source for 'Romeo and Juliet' as a subplot.