The miniseries 'The Offer' chronicles the Utah War of 1857 through a lens of relentless violence and lacks depth in character development despite impressive visuals and a powerful score.
’ Peter Berg. Indeed, just about all of them, save the few who will propel this story for another five episodes, are rubbed out in the ambush—it left “over 70 dead,” we’re told later on—as arrows impale foreheads, screaming men are scalped, innocents get butchered by hatchets, fleers are shot up, and one particularly angry bull plows through and demolishes a wagon for some reason.
It’s a frustrating watch, especially when the show feels the need to vocalize its point as if the tragedy on-screen wasn’t enough. About halfway through the miniseries, Dellinger starts journaling, with his narration set against more scenes of bloodshed. “So very few in these lands possess compassion,” he writes. “Basic tenderness has hardened and is now, I fear forever, greatly diminished. I am overcome at this time by deep pain from a tremendous and always-present lack of love.
There’s mostly only brutality on this show, too, for as much as it throws in a last-minute romance and final-act glimpse of humanity. And when that brutality is this heavyhanded , you can’t help but wish as much thought and energy was put into fleshing out these people as the pain they endured.
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