There are some truly awful TV series that are getting great critic reviews, and then there is this GEM. That is being deconstructed for all it's historical inaccuracies and such.
In reality it's an amazingly well presented series about the beauty of the time when there was nothing but true freedom across the west. The good, bad and ugly are all portrayed in the story line of a free spirit that falls in love with the wilderness and the adventure. The point is that this isn't intended to be historically accurate but rather to make the viewer fall in love with nature and freedom and adventure, all through the hardships that this journey entangles, and the more dangerous and harder the path becomes the greater the desire to push on. It's not the destination but it's about the journey as the narrator points outs throughout. The journey that sets your spirit free and questions society and it's rigid structures.
This is as good as Band of Brothers. I dread the day the last episode airs. Truly captivating drama.