Posted on 04/06/2014 9:42:14 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
The new AMC series Turn, which premieres April 6, is bewildering at first.
We’re dropped smack in the middle of British-occupied New York. The year is 1776, and Abraham Woodhull (Jamie Bell) is scraping by as a cabbage farmer and sometime innkeeper in Setauket, Long Island. He’s husband to Mary (Meegan Warner), and father to a young child. His father, Richard (Kevin McNally), is a local magistrate loyal to George III.
Then the scene shifts. We’re now in New Jersey. A stunning overhead shot reveals a sprawling field of bluecoat rebel bodies lying next to a pool dyed red with blood. It looks like a John Trumbull painting. A man, dressed in rags, stalks across the field, impaling the bodies with a bayonet. He approaches a corpse and raises his bayonet when—suddenly—the bluecoat flips over and shoves a dagger deep into the executioner’s throat, emitting a geyser of blood. Before you can chant “U-S-A!”, a pro-British militia is chasing the man through the woods, showering him with musket balls.
These men are the Queen’s Rangers, a ragtag Loyalist military unit led by Robert Rogers (Angus Macfayden, best known for backstabbing Mel Gibson’s character in Braveheart). The man returns to his battalion and addresses his superiors:
“These were not Tory militia or regulars… these were Queen’s Rangers.”
“Are you saying there’s a breach within our ranks?”
“I’m saying they have spies… everywhere, Sir.”
So, the rebels seek to give the Brits a taste of their own medicine and, on orders from General George Washington, establish a covert courier system from New Jersey to occupied New York.
~snip~
The cast...is aces all around and Turn, with its occupied territory setting, ex-lovers reuniting for a common cause, awe-inspiring staging and cinematography, and rah-rah patriotism, is ...well worth your time and/or DVR space.
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Well as there was no ruling Queen at the time, calling the backstabbing Quisling’s the “Queen’s Rangers” is rather suggestive... Hmm, can anyone think of some current political leader of backstabbing traitors who might be the person referenced as their “Queen”?
Andrew Breitbart had a small cameo role in CNH. He played a colonial sheriff.
The show is primarily about the years leading up to the revolution with the increasing pressures placed on a small NH frontier town called Courage. It references little known historical events like the Pine Tree riot.
another review:
Do you think that this show might put the enemy on to the fact that we ARE watching?
A different review:
And cripplecreek, from a reasonably good source, I understand that this has conservative Hollywood people behind it. And as far as the accuracy goes, they claim to have been very careful about everything: accents, clothes, language used, etc.
Have a look at these articles from the NY Post and the NY Times from this weekend.
Washington knew. He wrote to them...he burned the letters he received.
Didn’t Brian Kilmeade write a book on this?
I guess I haven’t gotten far enough along in the book. Did he know their actual identities or just their code names?
I can’t WAIT to watch TURN tonight. I only wish they’d start it at 8 instead of 9...my bedtime is 9:30 as I am a morning gym person.
Ugh, between this and Outlander, I’m afraid I may be forced to finally buy a TV set. Does anyone know what is the cheapest sort of TV that will work well?
Thanks. DVR set for ‘Turn’.
You can get a 32” flatscreen HD 1080 TV for about $200 these days.
Agreed. Loved Courage, NH. They never came out with another season. I wonder if they ran out of funds. The writing, cinematography and music was excellent for an independent production with lots of good actors. I’m sure the 4 episodes were not cheap to produce. Too bad they couldn’t partner up with the History channel or AE or one of the many cable channels for mass mainstream distribution etc.
Pinging Pharmboy
They’re still working on funding more Courage episodes. Nick Searcy had a golf tournament for funding about a month back.
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