made-for-tv

This is one costume drama that franker and darker than you might expect.

If you can stand a devastating indictment of how the Native Americans were thoroughly fucked over by the European settlers on their land, and you can’t bother yourself with Dee Brown’s book of the same name, then this is an excellent, searingly unsentimental second best.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it’s the same old imperialist “Westerners go to exotic places where poor brown people live and die all the time in awful ways, but now It’s Important and It Matters cuz it’s happening to Westerners,” but give ‘Tsunami: The Aftermath’ a chance, will ya?

I’m reminded how darn cute Noah Wyle is by his totally charming Dr. Flynn Carson … not a medical doctor but a professional geek and know-it-all in the made-for-TV ‘Librarian’ movies…

I look at the first two episodes, debuting tonight on TNT…

I’m terribly afraid this will go the way of ‘Monk,’ which started out great and started sucking almost instantly…

AMC’s new made-for-cable Western is an unexpected delight.