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James Patrick Riley of Colony Bay productions wrote a great "review: of Turn.

Our Take on Turn

I also enjoy a story of the American Revolution that is unashamed to recognize the British as the bad guys. They were, after all, morally compromised, fighting for a cause you can tell they had trouble believing. Now, I have not watched the series to the end, and no villain can be so uniformly villainous you have no sense of their humanity, but there’s enough here, certainly, to hate — and drama thrives on hate. A dramatic, fictional television series can’t be as neutral as the bloodless academy observer, clucking on about a war that can’t possibly touch him. Men voluntarily enlist in armies and go to war for a reason. I’m glad the series producers appear to realize that.

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We live in a great, though fading republic, and the truth is: we need a lot more of these stories. We shouldn’t be counting them on one hand.

I was pleasantly surprised by the portrayal of the Dunnmore Proclamation. They didn't portray it as the kindly Brits freeing the oppressed slaves. They portrayed it honestly as slaves being seized from patriot families and given to British officers, loyalist families, giving them the choice of fighting for the British or being resold.

Its exactly the sort of television conservatives should support in any way possible. We won't win the culture war by retreating from it.