The Paramont Network semi mini-series has reached its Final Episode
LAUDEM DEI
It emerged as a Paradigm Shift in the morabunding world of Cow movies. A caravan of Texas Civil War Vets set out to "push" a herd of Cowz to Montana- presumable to the future home of the Dutton Family at Yellowstone. On the way, they pick up a bunch of apparent Roma immigrants who want to go to Oregon and found a Liberal Utopia. The high point of the series is when the bonnet-wearing girl hiked up her dress squatted and attempted to take a Dump-i-nator on top of a rattlesnake. (Lots and Lot of Whistleworms in this series- lots of whistle worm bites) The snake then bit her on the @$$ sending her screaming back to the laager where she fell dead. This is a hollywood first- a snake and an @$$ in plain open sight with the magic of cinematograpy providing the juxaposition.
Fine relations (except when occasional mahem accidentally broke out )with The Noble Red Man in the Territory. The N R M, for the most part, spoke perfect english and welcomed the pioneers (that's what they called themselves.) The Bad Guys were mainly anglo thieves and cattle association "deputies." out to russle cattle, kill the noble red man and blame it on the gunless gypsie rovers headed for oregon.
The primary character was a blond girl who really took to the cowboy life, "made love to" a c/boy who got killed. The family wanted to make really sure she was prepared to raise any resulting woodscolt and act sexually responsible- whatever that means when you got no ru* bers and ain't married.- ( the series is completely bereft of any mention of Church, The Bible, Jesus or GOD! -just the faint spectre of a Shinto-like mysticism floating in the air.) The Father of the blond girl and her brother even did a ritual 0000NNNIEEE- EEEEENNNIEEEE WAH-NAH - over a deer they killed. -He let the kid kill it stressing that killing stuff is a terrible thing.
Fortunatey, Blond Cowgirl never did get kn*cked up even when she married the MAGICAL (Native American) they met on the trail. He was very well groomed and spoke English like an Ivy League Don-even better than the authentic Native A, Graham Green who showed up toward the end making sage and mystical predictions.
The Gypsie Rovers mostly got killed though one survied legless due to a Gangrene- infested guess what- Rattlesnake bite. There was a near-magical african american former union sergent who " married" a gypisie migrant with fine, full-bodied "rear end" which we all got to see. -They lived- quite an accomplishment since a lot of others didn't
Crusty old Expedition Leader Sam Elliot carrying, as he said the doppleganger of his deceased wife enfolded somwhere in his Ka ,reached the Pacific ocean, "showed" her the ocean -which was his reason for the trip. and then blew his head off with his Colt.
Oh, and The Blond Girll who narrated the entire series continue to do so even after she died long and hard from an arrow that transected her abdomen at approximate kidney level. She lived a long time -riding her horse (and falling off) or riding in the wagon or just walking around providing much opportunity for flights of thanatopsical, phylosophical hollywood gibble-gabble that would have made Swami Prabhat Ranjan Sarar wet himself with rapture. She ended up riding away across the prairie with the Magical Native American. still yacking away in narrative form.
The Paramont Network-at least on my system is shorn of closed captioning. I could hear most of the dialog but almost nothing that Blondie Cowgirl said but didn't seem to be missing anything.