The Big Picture While Westerns have been an integral part of the cinematic ecosystem since the earliest days of the medium, the genre has seen just as much success on television. Classic Western shows like Rawhide and Gunsmoke brought the exciting, action-packed adventures often seen in Western films to the small screen and fleshed out their narratives in far more depth than what the parameters of a two-hour film allow.
Release Date November 22, 2017 Cast Jeff Daniels , Michelle Dockery , Jack O'Connell , Scoot McNairy , Thomas Brodie-Sangster , Tantoo Cardinal , Sam Waterston , Kim Coates Main Genre Western Seasons 1 What Is Netflix's 'Godless' About? Set two decades after the ending of the American Civil War, Godless explores the remote colony of La Belle, New Mexico, a peaceful community largely disenfranchised from the larger conflicts within the frontier.
Related This Western Anthology Series Was One of the First on Network Television The Western was revolutionary in more ways than one. While Frank was interested in incorporating recurring elements common within the Westerns of John Ford and Preston Sturges, Godless was based on extensive research conducted on the development of small mining towns. Inspired by Robert Altman’s 1971 Western classic McCabe & Mrs.
Although Frank’s experiences researching in New Mexico were highly informative within the creative inception of Godless, La Belle was also inspired by the town of Jackson, Wyoming. After the town was damaged by an influx of public waste, Jackson elected an all-female governing board to deal with its infrastructural issues.