AggieLumberjack said:
I enjoyed it but one thing that I got tired of was the jumping around. I know this is nitpicky but one day they are in WY and the next they are in Southern Utah and vice versa. This supposedly takes place in a matter of weeks and I doubt you could travel that fast back then.
I was curious about the geography as well. Salt Lake to Bridger isn't actually that far, so not as big of a deal when it came to Young and the Mormons going to Bridger. But the Meadows massacre was way at the SW side of the state so lots of stretching credulity when it came to anything involving that.
The bigger nitpick I had was the lack of solitude. They're in a very sparsely populated area in difficult terrain and everyone was always running into other people and groups. I felt like they could have captured the solitude and difficulty of the terrain better instead of just relying on the humans to impart the danger and harshness.
They also leaned into the noble savage stereotype a little too much. Not quite as much as you might expect from Hollywood standards, but still a borderline eye rolling amount.
All that said, it was still pretty good, and very good by NetFlix standards.
I'm curious how based in reality the Bridger stuff is. I thought he was the best character in the show, along with the cavalry captain.
