GODLESS the miniseries

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.

Chap otm

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.