GODLESS the miniseries

Oh hi Godless thread.

I spent several seconds longer than I should have after reading the preceding post thinking who is Bill McNue? That character wound up seeming a bit more tacked-on than at first I thought he would.

so i watched this and enjoyed it from episode to episode. didnt care for the finale tho. in the end it felt like we barely got to know these characters, hard to tell who and what it was actually about. thought the acting was good overall, worth a watch for j Daniels alone.

Yeah, it can't be easy to seem menacing in that particular claustrophobic way when you're out in great open spaces, but JD pulls it off! I kept losing myself in the character and having to pull myself out by mentally superimposing Dumb and Dumber To for a second.

There's something deeply unsatisfying about this - like it can't decide whether to be a trad Western or a revisionist one, and wants the best of both worlds. For all the 'town full of women' window dressing it's still very much a tale of violent men. The story's compelling enough, and the performances and direction are mostly pretty good, writing and editing not so much (so many scenes draaag). Haven't watched the finale yet.

I didn’t mind the scenes that dragged, at least not most of them. I hated the mining company guy coming into town and ripping off the women. Didn’t care for his bully enforcer either but that guy’s comeuppance was so obvious

anyone who wears a non cowboy fancy bowler type hat in a western is always a bad person

I do kind of agree with Sepinwall's take that the Roy Goode / Bill McNue / Frank Griffin story is more of a 90 or 100 minute movie plotline, while the exploration of La Belle's society and its environs is much more fodder for 8+ hours of teevee time.

Absolutely this. But even with the gratuitous fleshing out of Roy and Frank's relationship neither of them really got a proper arc, let alone poor Bill (I thought the blindness would be going somewhere but nada...), let alone any of women of La Belle. Overall, I liked the build-up eps and it had some interesting ideas, but really an exercise in wasted potential.

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It was extremely important to me how when the pastor finally shows up he just mumbles a bunch of pablum and acts like he knows things about people he never met. I felt like the finale really did the title justice. And it was extremely tense for most of its (extensive) running time.

Be nice to your horses and don’t mess with Paiute grandmas.

"he did speak at some length for the beauty of a place called Bald Knob .. one had the feeling he was anxious to get back there"

going to clean up at the Emmys tonight imo - already won two

I really liked it, but it really did feel like it wasn't planned to be a miniseries, like at one point they found themselves looking at the final line of the budget sheet and decided to pull some production/scenes/episodes off. It would also explain some weird cheap post-production effects in the flashbacks scenes.