Started watching this last week. I've nearly finished season 1, and so far it's... pretty OK.
The acting is definitely on the scenery-chewing side. But that doesn't bother me as much as the dreadful inconsistencies and other nonsense.
* hero gets the crap kicked out of him every second episode... but that's OK because he has the healing powers of Wolverine, and bounces back with a mild scratch or two just 24 hours later
* hero enters town with the primary goal of shagging everything with two legs and a couple of X chromosomes; every woman in town is delighted to oblige (even the wife of a guy he just killed) and if things continue like this he'll end up shagging all the men as well
* hero regularly swears his undying love to heroine, but gleefully bones any available woman within 500 metres
* heroine insists she's 'not the same person', and 'everything is different'; claims undying love to her husband, but sleeps with the hero at every opportunity, while swearing black and blue that she's no longer in love with him
* heroine has the muscle tone of a guinea pig and is built like a middle aged housewife on cocaine... but that's OK because she has the strength of Juggernaut, soaks up damage like the Hulk, and easily takes down men twice her size
* heroine receives wound that is clearly fatal; is found 30 minutes later by hero, who takes her to hospital, where a doctor proclaims that she's bleeding out(?!) which makes no sense at all, since (a) she wasn't bleeding out 30 minutes ago, and (b) if you're bleeding out you'll literally be dead in minutes, so she should be dead by now anyway
* naughty Amish girl has a endless supply of money from... somewhere(?!) that allows her to purchase lingerie, mainstream clothing & cosmetics (all of which she is perfectly familiar with, for no obvious reason); somehow gets away with wearing full makeup openly in her own father's house on the regular, while he pretends not to notice; is sleeping with half the men in town but nobody ever mentions it; gets kicked out of home after dad finds a couple of lipsticks in a handbag (LOL)
* the Amish in this series have no idea what they're doing; none of them are capable of anything that resembles real life agriculture; in one scene a guy is plowing a field of grass(?!); in another scene one guy is hacking vaguely at a field of weeds with a scythe, while another chops the ground with a mattock(?!); no crops are visible at any time, I don't even know what season they're supposed to be in; the whole thing is all over the shop
The antagonists are a bunch of thugs from the more repulsive elements of the primitive barbarians that inhabit Eastern Europe (they're supposed to be Ukrainian, apparently) but the accents in this show are all over the place, which is not surprising when you discover...
...the female Ukrainian is played by a Croatian, the Amish boss man is played by a Dane, the Ukrainian boss man is played by an English guy, his Ukrainian sidekick is played by a Greek, the Native American tribal chief is played by a Filipino/Chinese/Spanish guy from Hawaii, his son is played by an African-American from North Carolina, and the Native American boss woman is played by a Columbian/Cuban from California.
I could go on and on.
The idea is good, and the show has its merits, but I'll need to see a lot of improvement in season 2 to keep me interested.
The acting is definitely on the scenery-chewing side. But that doesn't bother me as much as the dreadful inconsistencies and other nonsense.
* hero gets the crap kicked out of him every second episode... but that's OK because he has the healing powers of Wolverine, and bounces back with a mild scratch or two just 24 hours later
* hero enters town with the primary goal of shagging everything with two legs and a couple of X chromosomes; every woman in town is delighted to oblige (even the wife of a guy he just killed) and if things continue like this he'll end up shagging all the men as well
* hero regularly swears his undying love to heroine, but gleefully bones any available woman within 500 metres
* heroine insists she's 'not the same person', and 'everything is different'; claims undying love to her husband, but sleeps with the hero at every opportunity, while swearing black and blue that she's no longer in love with him
* heroine has the muscle tone of a guinea pig and is built like a middle aged housewife on cocaine... but that's OK because she has the strength of Juggernaut, soaks up damage like the Hulk, and easily takes down men twice her size
* heroine receives wound that is clearly fatal; is found 30 minutes later by hero, who takes her to hospital, where a doctor proclaims that she's bleeding out(?!) which makes no sense at all, since (a) she wasn't bleeding out 30 minutes ago, and (b) if you're bleeding out you'll literally be dead in minutes, so she should be dead by now anyway
* naughty Amish girl has a endless supply of money from... somewhere(?!) that allows her to purchase lingerie, mainstream clothing & cosmetics (all of which she is perfectly familiar with, for no obvious reason); somehow gets away with wearing full makeup openly in her own father's house on the regular, while he pretends not to notice; is sleeping with half the men in town but nobody ever mentions it; gets kicked out of home after dad finds a couple of lipsticks in a handbag (LOL)
* the Amish in this series have no idea what they're doing; none of them are capable of anything that resembles real life agriculture; in one scene a guy is plowing a field of grass(?!); in another scene one guy is hacking vaguely at a field of weeds with a scythe, while another chops the ground with a mattock(?!); no crops are visible at any time, I don't even know what season they're supposed to be in; the whole thing is all over the shop
The antagonists are a bunch of thugs from the more repulsive elements of the primitive barbarians that inhabit Eastern Europe (they're supposed to be Ukrainian, apparently) but the accents in this show are all over the place, which is not surprising when you discover...
...the female Ukrainian is played by a Croatian, the Amish boss man is played by a Dane, the Ukrainian boss man is played by an English guy, his Ukrainian sidekick is played by a Greek, the Native American tribal chief is played by a Filipino/Chinese/Spanish guy from Hawaii, his son is played by an African-American from North Carolina, and the Native American boss woman is played by a Columbian/Cuban from California.
I could go on and on.
The idea is good, and the show has its merits, but I'll need to see a lot of improvement in season 2 to keep me interested.