Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall are always fun to watch, but I was sorely disappointed by the series as a whole, coming to it immediately after reading the novel. Several of the minor characters (Clara, Blue Duck, Roscoe, Peach) seemed poorly cast, and were portrayed in a TV-stereotype Western manner. Several scenes are lifted right out of the novel, but the dialogue often doesn't make much sense, since the background story given in the novel is missing on screen. It would have made more sense--for an adaptation of an epic novel of this scope--to reduce the number of story lines and then develop them more fully, allowing for deeper character and story development all around.
Review of Lonesome Dove
