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Machine Gunner
Wife and I started watching it last night. Go through the first two episodes.
I lived in Wyoming for 5 years when I was in school and I retired from the WY NG so I feel sort of like an "adopted" Wyomingite, and I'm always interested in how the Cowboy State is portrayed in pop culture.
I like it OK so far, except that my wife asked "So, does somebody get murdered in this town every week? That's a higher crime rate than Denver!"
I was kind of hoping for a long, serialized story line like Breaking Bad (I think BB has pretty much ruined me for almost any TV show, it was that good.)
A few observations:
1. Does anyone know where it's filmed? The scene in Episode 1 where they were at the rifle range looked EXACTLY like the rifle range in Laramie. And most of the other scenes look very authentically Wyoming, too. The "town" scenes could be in parts of Laramie but they could almost be anywhere in WY, maybe Riverton or Lander? Possibly DuBois?
2. Glad to see I'm not the only one who's annoyed as hell about the way Henry talks. What the hell, this isn't some 1950's Western! I'm surprised the AIM or some other activist group isn't lighting them up with hate mail for stereotyping.
3. Amish/Mennonites in WY? Someone's got their "Flyover states" mixed up, big time.
4. "I'll see if he has any guns registered to him." That kind of talk will get you shot in Wyoming.
Anyway, we'll probably keep watching. As the wife says, we pay for Netflix, might as well. Not like there's anything decent on regular TV. I'm hoping they'll pick up more multi-episode story lines instead of neatly resolving the conflict in each hour. That's going to get tiresome.
I love the scenery shots. That's another very "breaking bad" style of thing but with mountains and prairies substituted for New Mexico's deep blue sky and rocky desert.
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