User Reviews

I loved the series and I saw it as a collection of stories not about exactly the realities from old West but about contemporary realities. A sort of parables. And this episode gives a nice job in this sense, exploring doubts, fears, intolerance forms , acceptance and inter-cultural connections. Sure, the unrealism of situations is real high. But it works in decent manner, first for the message, second for soft exploration of Hanuka and Christmas. Short, beautiful parable about religious differences and about antisemitism roots and forms.

First, Trisha Yearwood was completely misutilized. Another social ill, that being discrimination against Judaism. I don't know if this presents reality from the old west, but I have no reason to believe it doesn't. I think one thing that rubbed me the wrong way is that they state they're the only ones without a country when the comment is about religious freedom in the US. So first the US welcomes and has welcomed all religions so the comment is without sense. I guess I have to suspect that the comment had to do with issues at the time regarding Israel. Religion has caused more deaths over time than anything else and it's caused people to migrate to try and find freedom. I guess I feel like the country comment is completely misplaced because if all they wanted was a country, saying it in a negative way towards the US which has dozens of religions, simply is misguided and misplaced. I did like how everyone finally came together.

...if the people behind this production were tagged as "antisemites" or something. But now it's not a trope, because, well, even propaganda for Israel's exclusivity is thrown in to what is supposed to have taken place 140 years ago in the Wild West.

I totally understand why the people of Jewish origin who run the entertainment industry feel the need to overplay that hand and overrepresent or too positively misrepresent their ancestors on such shows. Indeed, at times we can see this propaganda made gracefully. However, in this episode, the dialogues are really dumb and cheesy. Christian kid asks Jewish kid about his unusually small hat, so we are fed with trivia on what a kippa is supposed to represent. Okay... But then, the Jewish kid asks "Who is Jesus?"... Now, come on... They didn't land in LAX yesterday, these people have been on the continent for long enough to have met Christians. It's normal for the Christian kid to not know about Jewish traditions and lore, but not the other way round!

By the way: In hindsight, I guess it'd be okay to call the show "bigoted" or something because they never hosted a muslim character?