Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Bonanza: The Jacknife (1962) (TV)

Adam, while looking for cattle rustlers, comes across a wounded man and helps him. He stays with his family for a few days and gets suspicious.

While some episodes have been undisputably brilliant, the bulk of this show must be taken with great reservations due to the disturbing ideology that pervades it. The episodes are structured in such a way as to make the Cartwrights a breed apart relatively to the rest of the world; everyone else is either made to look evil or made to look good only inasmuch as they conform to a standard which is set by the Cartwrights.

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