Has anybody else here been watching the fine show HATFIELDS AND MCCOYS which channel5 is showing on a Thursday night? Two great episodes so far in my opinion.
Yes, it's got me interested in the history of the feud!!!
Best thing I've seen on tv for ages.
Costner, to me, is a modern master of the Western - Dances With Wolves, Wyatt Earp, Open Range... al crackers!
Costner has been brilliant in this, and it's always a bonus to see Powers Boothe on the screen. The show was aired as 3 2hr episodes in the US, so I think we have 3 episodes remaining if it's still being cut the way it is over here. Three episodes and a whole lot of manhunters entering the mountains.
I looked up the feud online- it had family members competing on TV shows in the 1970s. Talk about new ways to settle differences.
With just one episode remaining, I'm guessing some good forum folk have missed out on a great TV series.
they sure as hell haven't! (imagine that as if bad frank was talking)
seriously though, hatfields and mcoys has been great and one of the only things the whole family can watch together.it's been really realistic to the point where my dad of after 50 years of watching westerns suggests that it needs subtitles...or he needs a hearing aid.
I downloaded it when it came out on the history channel but havent watched it yet. Shame on me. Are they running it split in the UK? I thought there were only about 3 episodes
i think the first was two hours and the rest one hour each so five weeks
Channel 5 on Demand have all eps in the barrel still.
Nice to see Costner finally take off the white man apologist and schmaltz cloak off fully and finally in this.Tom Berenger plays a cracking amoral in this too.
You can read what really, may have, happened over at wikipedia.
Quote from: James Stacey on 16 November, 2012, 09:19:31 AM
I downloaded it when it came out on the history channel but havent watched it yet. Shame on me. Are they running it split in the UK? I thought there were only about 3 episodes
It has been split into hour long episodes in the UK after a 'feature length' introduction. So much happens in each one hour episode though that I'm guessing it probably works better this way; a two hour episode could lead to literal overkill.