Miniseries offers a scathing judgment on ways in which three decades of American history have been used to sustain a 130-year-old myth
Do not be fooled by M-Net’s description of the new western miniseries The English as an action revenge miniseries. Creator Hugo Blick’s period piece while certainly driven by revenge and including some nail-biting memorably tense action is much more than a nostalgic old-school genre crowd pleaser.
Rather it is perhaps the most quietly but emphatically radical re-evaluation of the myths on which the western has sustained itself since it first emerged as one of the first recognisable and American-created genres in the earliest days of the motion picture...
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