Although this is a hokey mini-series, there is no denying the enormous power of this television show. It's like what Gangs of New York would be like if Scorsese was still talented and it starred Tom (Happy Days) Bosley and William Shatner instead of Daniel Day-Lewis. Kim Cattral is amazing in this film, so incredible that it makes all her later work seem utterly redundant. It's a historical epic, which begins in France then moves to London and Bristol, before heading to America. It's the first in a trilogy of 4-hour TV films that use one man's life story to explain, as Raymond Burr suggests in his voice-over, the origin of all Americans.
Review of The Bastard
