This is a summer miniseries on TNT. A Spielberg/Dreamworks production. Since this is one of my favorites times in history I was interested. I watched the first episode tonight and am not particularly impressed. The CGI of the buffalo jump and other scenes is very poorly done, so obviously cgi. The general scenery is unrealistic and bland. St Louis looked like a neat and tidy movie set and not a real bustling river front city. I believe Gary Busey was in the rendevous scene. If it was him, he wasn’t required to much acting to behave like a dirty loon. The story itself is weak so far and the dialogue uninteresting. It fails to draw you in and build emotion or feeling for the characters. For a Spielberg project its not the level of quality and realism I expected. It also seems to steal directly from Dances with Wolves which is my all time favorite movie. Although they give the pronunciation of Tatanka differently, which is annoying. Perhaps I’m spoiled by Deadwood on HBO and its perfect set, dialogue and acting. Maybe producing that level for tv is impossible. :headscratch: I’ll watch again next week to see if it gets any better.