Paramount Plus’s “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” renews and deepens a thrill for a boy who grew up obsessed with Hollywood’s all-White cowboys.
David Oyelowo as Bass Reeves in Paramount Plus's eight-episode series “Lawmen: Bass Reeves,” based on the real-life story of a 19th-century Black lawman. It premieres Nov. 5. That Christmas season I decided I wanted to become a cowboy. It was the dawn of the 1960s, and I was a scrawny kid in Columbus, Ohio.
It’s been thrilling, therefore, to watch the first three episodes of the series “Lawmen: Bass Reeves” . The eight-episode series stars David Oyelowo as Reeves and is executive-produced by, among others, Taylor Sheridan, Jessica Oyelowo, David Glasser and David Oyelowo himself. Fictions flew like wild geese from town to town. The number of victims in shootouts seemed to multiply on the back end of telegrams. Good Samaritan acts morphed into tales of unimaginable heroism. A genre was created that saw few boundaries when it came to telling the truth.In the 1962 John Ford western movie “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance,” there is an exchange between two characters, one asking a reporter about a possible story:“No, sir,” the reporter answers. “This is the West, sir.
The whitewashing of his legacy had actually begun before his death. S.W. Harman published a book, “Hell on the Border,” in 1898 about the various lawmen who operated throughout the federal district overseen by Judge Isaac Parker, the area where Reeves mostly worked. Since Reeves had apprehended a legion of dangerous criminals — sometimes donning disguises to do so — it was assumed he’d be a major figure in the Harman book.
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