Photograph: Diego López Calvín/Drama Republic/BBC/Amazon StudiosPhotograph: Diego López Calvín/Drama Republic/BBC/Amazon StudiosOh, what, that? It’s nothing. It’s – it’s a perfect bullet shot from a rifle 700 yards away. Straight into my — yep, it’s torn straight through my torso. Little bloom of blood on the front of my shirt, look. Going dark quickly, isn’t it? Actually I think it might be monologuing time for Ol’ JG.
We’re in the Old West, then, which was hell. There is no account of the Old West that does not touch upon this. It was just constant wooden-toothed men drinking liquor and dying over a card game, or families who travelled across the world for the promise of fortune and succumbed to wagon accidents along the way. Or it’s thousands of animals slain in a concerted effort to starve out the indigenous Americans, or it’s viciousness and inexplicable wasting illnesses and everyone is always spitting.
Are the rivers of the western not thoroughly sifted, though? The English – the new Emily Blunt-led six-episode miniseries , a collaboration between the BBC and Prime Video – proves that, in fact, we may have barely scratched the surface.
First: it looks absolutely gorgeous – rich skies, lingering wide shots, ominous shadows on distant hills, brand new towns being built in the middle of nowhere. One of the many things The English does particularly well is capture all the eccentric offshoots of the western genre that makes it such a rich vista to spend an hour or two in: weird little guys playing accordions, well-I-say gentlemen with strange motivations, eerie widows with no eyelids, verbal standoffs and physical ones, too.
Would love to see Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian up on big screen
I read the name 'Emily Blunt' and I'm already hooked. I'm still blown away by Sicario. I figure this will be even better. On 11/11/22 Unleash the Emily and I will be watching. 💕
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