Summary:
A dispute over some very special land in Wyoming between two ranching families, a lesbian Indian sheriff, a murder, and bizarre occurrences in a series that aptly blends neo-western, drama, thriller, and earth-bound fantasy.
Review:
The two families in conflict are made up on the one hand by Royal Abbott (Josh Brolin), his wife Cecilia (Lili Taylor), his two sons and the daughter of one of them; the wife of one of the children is missing. On the other, the flamboyant Wayne Tillerson (Will Patton) and his three sons, including Billy (Noah Reid). They are joined by the enigmatic backpacker Autumn (Imogen Poots) who camps on the Royal grounds and the indigenous and lesbian Sheriff Joy (Tamara Podemski), tasked with investigating a disappearance and eventual murder that adds to the territorial conflict between the families.
The series passes with a certain delay, although it exhibits interesting breaks, either due to the appearance of successful action sequences, scenes where estrangement prevails, or moments close to the video clip. The staging provides moments of strange beauty, some epiphanic and others (few) that suffer from a certain solemnity and also night scenes in quite dark shots. Special mention deserves the extraordinary soundtrack, which ranges from bluegrass by Alison Krauss to Berlioz.
The characters are quite well outlined; at times they have their stellar moments or surprise and at times they fade. Royal stands out, with Josh Brolin becoming more and more like Jeff Bridges, his religious wife (an armed Lili Taylor), the disturbing and changeable Autumn by Imogen Poots, the surprising Billy by Noah Reid and the best character of all, the Indian sheriff in charge of a Tamara Podemski, who steals the series every time she appears investigating that white and Christian community.
The story and some characters thus reveal their mysteries, in a plot where the fantastic appears linked to the land and with family pacts where the interesting thing is that the villains and the culprits do not necessarily correspond to the same group of people.
A dispute over some very special land in Wyoming between two ranching families, a lesbian Indian sheriff, a murder, and bizarre occurrences in a series that aptly blends neo-western, drama, thriller, and earth-bound fantasy.
Review:
The two families in conflict are made up on the one hand by Royal Abbott (Josh Brolin), his wife Cecilia (Lili Taylor), his two sons and the daughter of one of them; the wife of one of the children is missing. On the other, the flamboyant Wayne Tillerson (Will Patton) and his three sons, including Billy (Noah Reid). They are joined by the enigmatic backpacker Autumn (Imogen Poots) who camps on the Royal grounds and the indigenous and lesbian Sheriff Joy (Tamara Podemski), tasked with investigating a disappearance and eventual murder that adds to the territorial conflict between the families.
The series passes with a certain delay, although it exhibits interesting breaks, either due to the appearance of successful action sequences, scenes where estrangement prevails, or moments close to the video clip. The staging provides moments of strange beauty, some epiphanic and others (few) that suffer from a certain solemnity and also night scenes in quite dark shots. Special mention deserves the extraordinary soundtrack, which ranges from bluegrass by Alison Krauss to Berlioz.
The characters are quite well outlined; at times they have their stellar moments or surprise and at times they fade. Royal stands out, with Josh Brolin becoming more and more like Jeff Bridges, his religious wife (an armed Lili Taylor), the disturbing and changeable Autumn by Imogen Poots, the surprising Billy by Noah Reid and the best character of all, the Indian sheriff in charge of a Tamara Podemski, who steals the series every time she appears investigating that white and Christian community.
The story and some characters thus reveal their mysteries, in a plot where the fantastic appears linked to the land and with family pacts where the interesting thing is that the villains and the culprits do not necessarily correspond to the same group of people.