4 episodes in and I'm still unsure if I like it or not. It moves along at snail's pace. Bass Reeves doesn't believe in wasting time talking, so he doesn't say a whole lot. Update: Watched episode 5 and that's me done... can't take it anymore 3/10 MODERATION EDIT: Be respectful.

I really wanted to like this show since it is about a fascinating person. The production value and acting are top notch. However the story line is not related to the real history whatsoever. [spoiler] Officer Reeves had nothing to do with tracking down racists that were killing ex slaves. He never transferred any black suspect over to the Texas Rangers that got murdered. [/spoiler] He was not stone killer as portrayed, and only killed 14 outlaws over his entire 32 year career. In reality almost all the people he worked with including the man who recommended him for the badge were ex-confederate soldiers. This show seems to follow the fashionable trend of revising history to one where the past was over the top exaggeratedly racist than historically recorded.

[SkyShowtime] David Oyelowo delivers a complex portrayal of the character's rage and frustration throughout the story. During the season we witness the moral cost of carrying out his work, often faced with the persistence of racist attitudes. The first episodes tell the chronicle of a man who frees himself from slavery to try to lead a life in freedom, while the second half, once Bass Reeves adopts his position as a man of law, delves into a personal contradiction about the way in which he has become a representative of the very laws created and imposed by the white man, the same ones that justified slavery. But this introspective character that the story adopts slows down the pace and makes it somewhat more boring in the last episodes.

3 episodes in and I'm loving this. High quality western, nothing else to be said really.

Eine nette Western Serie über den ersten farbigen Deputy Marshal der USA. Story und Atmospähre sind in Ordnung aber insgesamt konnte mich diese Serie nicht so sehr abholen wie andere von Taylor Sheridan.