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This entire story could be one episode. The constant repeating is typical of these kind of documentaries. When I see these stories it's so hard to believe that people are so easily fooled. No one who is being treated for cancer looks happy and healthy the entire time. Who in the hospital and chemo settings puts on total makeup and hair? She never looks sick or gaunt, never ill from chemo, yet gullible people around her never seem to notice. And no one seemed too awfully confused by the absence of her parents. The gullibility of church goers is also typical. It's always easy to attribute all this to God. It make people feel good about themselves to contribute and cite miracles as proof of gods intervention.

I thought I would love this as a good historical series with beautiful scenery. It starts out well with good character development led by the old man retelling his life stories. I had to stop at episode three, realizing that this series has every trope and stereotype you can think of. There's the drunk father, abusive husband, rampant misogyny, mean abusive school teacher and corrupt business owners, in this case boot makers. Really, there isn't a scene in it so far that makes you want to keep watching. Awful men in every category including the soldiers. Surely there had to be SOME good people you could have included.

I kept waiting for Mel Brooks to make a cameo. Episode 1 starts off with 5-6 guys on horseback all dressed in 50's Hollywood ideas of how people dressed in 1880's, chasing a guy in a wagon pulled by 4 horses and shooting bullets and never hitting a thing. Then the wagon driver, while still driving the wagon, miraculously shoots and kills all 6 guys. Then we are in Austin Texas and for some reason there are 100's of men milling all over the street. Why? The supposed cost of everything in that town was laughable as no one had money like that certainly not immigrants looking to travel north. I looked so forward to this series as I'm a big Yellowstone fan, but this is too awful to watch.