phillip colquitt

Feeling the need to be disappointed, I watched the four episodes of The Jetty on Prime. I did this to save humanity from making the same mistake. Jenna Coleman plays the strangest manifestation of a working detective - could be playing an undercover detective and it would work just the same. Is she the girl Serpico? There simply isn't any resemblance to the daily life of a working detective. Spiralling downward, as did I, into an implausible "me too" story about date rape in an English rural community with not one cheerful person in it, the sad tale needed no assistance from the mouldy toned visuals.

If you have nothing to do, and want to feel like you might if you were in "big brother", this is for you. No plot, and what few words there are are spoken with a disembodied gravity. The scenery is the best part. The acting is great, but there is little point to it. Wyoming people really do wear those cowboy hats to bed?

An example from this movie .. A group of American Indians approach the desk at a ski resort asking for rooms. They are told "you need a reservation". 🙂. Good bent gangster fun.

Engaging? Yes. Accurate? Well its not a documentary so don't expect too much - eg. apparently the aborigines all left Sydney in January 1788, as they were not seen in this series. And Governor Philip had a house with a fireplace and fine furniture and a housekeeper, while convicts were in tents. But starvation was the big focus threatening law and order which led to flogging and hanging.

If you object to bloody violence being portrayed in films, this is not for you. If you like the genre of the returned serviceman who got no rehab, and then became dangerous seeking revenge in peacetime, with provocation, then there's something here.

If you liked Assassination of Jessie James with Brad Pitt, you will probably like this one too. Long(2 hrs) and unhurried, with stunning landscapes to temper the hard lives of its characters in the American West.