It was a good show and actually appears to have held fairly firm to real history. History channel could learn something from that.
As I understand it, Devil Anse Hatfield was really an ancient alien.
It was an excellent production
It was very good. In fact I plan on watching the whole thing again when I get home tonight.
I thought it might have a semi happy ending, but then I asked myself "how did you expect something like that to end?"
It was hard watching that cycle of violence.
One of the things the History channel did very well was thread the promo of the series into other shows like Pawn stars and American pickers.
The Program itself was very good, but the promotion was excellent IMHO
It was very well done. All involved deserve kudos.
I did not watch this, because it seems trivial. It’s not a major turning point in behavior or law or control.
However, it’s good to see HC achieve this level of success. It goes to show how much we are interested in the truth. I don’t detect bias on the HC, perhaps I’m naive, but I just don’t see it.
The replay is on tonight it started at 6 central. Part two on now. Part three next. William Anderson “Devil Anse” Hatfield lived to 81 and was well off.
It was all crap
I agree. It was a good show. I’ll probably buy the DVD.
So, I guess people can expect the other networks to create feuding hillbilly shows in attempt to copy the success of this series? Maybe even a "Beverly Hillbillies in the 21st Century" sitcom?
Powers Booth was excellent as Judge Hatfield
Ronan Vibert was excellent as Perry Cline
There were many feuds during that time that were more violent and with higher body counts. The thing that made this feud famous was that it involved two states and therefore the federal govt which attracted the attention of the press. History Channel did a very good job. I enjoyed it.
It was great,
So unlike Hollywood today
1) The men actually acted like men acted back then. In too many historical movies today, the characters act like today’s 21st century metrosexuals set back in whatever time period the movie is set.
2) No token ultra moral black guy to consistently point out how evil and stupid the white male characters are behaving.
3) The women acted like women of the time. There was no modern empowered super women that seemingly infect every historical movie. I was just waiting for 79lb Rebecca or Nancy McCoy to take on multiple 250+lb Hatfields and easily beat them up, but thankfully it never happened.
I thought it was very entertaining. I’ve saved it and will eventually watch it again. A tremendous tragedy.
That show had me at
“I’m prepared to do my duty as your wife, but I ask that you spill your seed outside of me.”
I hearing the WW2 channel going have next summer mini series about Vikings that story coming from same dude brough you the Showtime series the TUDORS that be awsome
The election day fight didn't happen quite like that...which is why killing the 3 McCoy boys was so murderous. One of the boys wasn't even there...and didn't show up until the time the other two were rounded up. AND...deacon started it. Everyone was actually getting along but he owed on of them money and wouldn't pay up...and he drew the knife.
The cabin fire: Ellison mounts shot Alifair inside the cabin at Jim Vance's prompting (well...he was actually prompting Cap). And in that fight, Rose Ann was actually in teh cabin with Johnse's and her's son...who was 7 at the time...and Johnse almost shot him. He hit the blanket he was hiding under and it became a Hatfield joke.
And by all accounts...the pig actually did belong to Floyd Hatfield. Randall Stole it and marked it. Floyd stole it back. Said pig was actually in the courtroom during the trial. Randall produced no witnessed and Floyd had numerous witnesses about the pig.
There are other problems...such that Jeff McCoy was shot in the back...but other than that...it was a good show. Good entertainment...but don't take a history test from it.
That was one of the most depressing series I have ever seen.
High production values, but the fact that I knew it had been shot in Romania rather than Appalachia gave it a surreal feeling to me.
There was just something wrong with the landscape. Always got the same feeling with Lord of the Rings. The New Zealand landscape looks alien to a midwestern eye.