Reading reviews and seeing the ratings score, I thought that there was at least a small chance of this being a worthwhile series, so I stayed with it until about halfway through the 4th episode. At this point, I have to conclude that this is a rather worthless series.
The production values are reasonably good, and the cast is kind of allright, but the storyline, if indeed there is one, is on the level of a CBS sitcom. Likewise, the dialog could be lifted from any of the mainstream TV companies' modern police procedurals.
It has all the preachiness about race and the ridiculous claims of modern court historians that the causes of the war consisted merely of a crusade by the union side to free slaves. Irish immigrants are blamed for everything that befalls the freed slaves, when those immigrants had no input at all into the laws that oppressed freed slaves and Irish immigrants alike.
There have been several good series by the BBC (Taboo is one), but it's obvious to me that Copper isn't one of them.
The production values are reasonably good, and the cast is kind of allright, but the storyline, if indeed there is one, is on the level of a CBS sitcom. Likewise, the dialog could be lifted from any of the mainstream TV companies' modern police procedurals.
It has all the preachiness about race and the ridiculous claims of modern court historians that the causes of the war consisted merely of a crusade by the union side to free slaves. Irish immigrants are blamed for everything that befalls the freed slaves, when those immigrants had no input at all into the laws that oppressed freed slaves and Irish immigrants alike.
There have been several good series by the BBC (Taboo is one), but it's obvious to me that Copper isn't one of them.
