BBC and Amazon’s six-part series puts an English rose to the test in America’s Wild West
is about the English, but it’s also about the Russians. And Europeans. Anyone, in short, who has settled in America’s West, where BBC and Amazon’s sweeping six-part series is set. We learn all this in the opening voiceover from the first episode, and it’s a helpful signpost for how this show proceeds: one where you’re immersed in an unfamiliar habitat, and forced to pick up, and adjust to, local customs immediately.
Emily Blunt plays Locke, an aristocrat whose soldier father was gifted “half of Devon”, who’s hoping to track down the man she believes is responsible for the death of her son. How, why and even where her son died is unclear. A Pawnee scout named Eli Whipp, played by Chaske Spencer, best known for his role infranchise , crosses path with her and – inevitably, adorably, sometimes-bloodily – they become friends.
Dialogue, sometimes pleasingly, sometimes eyeroll-inducingly, evokes phrases you might find on a fridge magnet: “The difference between what you need and what you want is what you can put on a horse,” intones Whipp. Thank God for Blunt, who punctures the gnomic atmosphere with some much-needed scepticism and just-there sarcasm.
Hinds provides our first bitter taste of the West’s prejudices – a racist, misogynistic, dangerous man. Hinds makes for a convincing villain, even if his arc is a little underdeveloped. Tom Hughes brings a sinister volatility to proceedings. Blunt has, over the last couple of decades, emerged as one of our best all-rounders, cutting her teeth on rom-coms, period dramas and more recently, on action films (
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