12 June 2005, by Webmaster
Mild, Mild West
If size and sprawl were all, Into the West (premiering Friday, June 10, at 8 pm/ET on TNT) might qualify as one of the best TV Westerns ever made. Instead, it feels like every TV Western ever made. (And Lonesome Dove remains the best.)
There’s a "been there, rode that" quality to this handsome miniseries, which packages a 12-hour story into six weekly chapters. The narrative alternates between the wheel-making Wheelers, who hail from Virginia - wheels are a mighty metaphor - (...)