Posted on 05/29/2012 2:27:36 PM PDT by Bratch
The most spectacular success of the summer season on television may have come before summer has even started: the miniseries “Hatfields & McCoys” on the History Channel attracted a monster audience Monday night, 13.9 million viewers, the second largest for a cable program that did not involve sports.
By comparison, the finale this month of NBC’s singing competition hit, “The Voice,” attracted 10.5 million viewers. Most hit shows on cable are in the range of two million to four million viewers, though “The Walking Dead” on AMC reached what seemed then to be an impressive nine million for its finale in March.
But that did not come close to the total Monday night for the History Channel’s depiction of the legendary American family feud, which stars Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton. The viewership even dwarfed the biggest competition on the broadcast networks on Monday, NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” which brought in just over 10 million viewers.
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During the time portrayed in the Hatfield and McCoy era, a lot of “loser” suffering simply as further punishment by installing hoards of Holders people to leadership positions and being overrun with Carpetbagger crooks from such as fine a honorable place as the north.
Regarding the depiction as War of Northern Aggression, there was damn few invasions of or bloody battles north of the Mason Dixon. Invasion by overwhelming (at least in numbers and technology)superior force is usually considered aggression.
Am an AMERICAN loving patriot and one who may not have liked the long-term outcome had the South prevailed, but only a fool does not recognize a great amount of undue suffering was put upon a significant portion of the Southern Americans, 99% of whom never owned a slave.
The sound is fine on my set.
I do like Costner. He has done a bunch of movies of different types. Seen a bunch of them. I missed this movie last night myself. If they run it later I may watch. Tonight I am following Tornados/ Hail in Oklahoma. Then basketball...Spurs vs. OKC Thunder, and dumb Romney clinched the nomination so now worried about that.
My wife is related to one of those families (I forget which). She's from the hollers of far west Virginia, though. Grew up in Palm Beach County, FL, but still just as country as grits and Jack Daniel's.
Your grammar is worse than most Southerners', ya stupid yankee. It's you're, dumbass.
You ain’t from around here are ya boy? Howdy now git!!
Well said.
“Bill Paxton probably has been in a ton of high grossing movies: True Lies, Aliens, Twister, Weird Science, on and on.”
It’s not many acting careers that could survive a role where you’re a talking pile of crap.
Hopfully less use of the C word than Deadwood
That scene where Wild Bill tells McCall he sees c**t lips moving every time he speaks his nonsense was priceless
Keith Carradine....another actor made for period pieces..like Duellist
Hugs!!!!
Kick yankee butt
Damn...im liking this thread afterall
Some with a false sense of “northern” superiority are only fooling themselves, as history has proven out.
I noticed a dramatic improvement on the audio for Part II. I’m thinking they got some complaints and tweaked their feed.
The script is intelligent, complex and driving. This story has been oversimplified many times and reality just doesn't work that way.
I like that the role of "outside agitators" -- the McCoy family lawyer and Uncle Vance Hatfield -- is not ignored. I got a sense that Devil Anse and Ole Ran'l, with everything they had been through in their lives, were a hair's breadth from being life-long friends, but they could never rest.
The script is intelligent, complex and driving. This story has been oversimplified many times and reality just doesn't work that way.
I like that the role of "outside agitators" -- the McCoy family lawyer and Uncle Vance Hatfield -- is not ignored. I got a sense that Devil Anse and Ole Ran'l, with everything they had been through in their lives, were a hair's breadth from being life-long friends, but they could never rest.
No offense to you personally, but to my great grandfather, who was gone from ‘61 to 65 and to his brother, who fell at Cold Harbor, undue hardship was felt all around.
The south statreted a fight they could not win. Superior numbers, industry, and technology usually win all wars. And, if the south had given up when it was clear they were not going to win, hundreds of thousands would have lived.
That is true in all wars. Then and now.
“South started it”. Referring to Fort Sumter? The War of Northern Aggression was started prior to Charleston, by the subversive actions of the northern politicians.
No personal offense taken. Soldiers on both sides suffered because of the northern politician’s aggression. Just understand that it had damn little to do with the any altruism toward slaves and more to do with money and power(as usual).
Now we both have a common enemy, the liberals, who plan on much worse than the Civil War for us.
The south has better food.
Yes, we now share a common enemy. I will come down there to fight them, if you promise to feed me.
The south has better food.
Yes, we now share a common enemy. I will come down there to fight them, if you promise to feed me.
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