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GUNSLINGERS
July 20, 2014  | By David Bianculli  | 1 comment

American Heroes, 10:00 p.m. ET

 

SERIES PREMIERE: This six-part series premieres tonight as a new nonfiction presentation – nonfiction that is, with lots of recreations – from what used to be called the Military Channel. This limited series about Old West Gunslingers – with a half-dozen episodes, it’s a proverbial six-shooter – isn’t very compelling as it builds to its recreated action scenes. They’re a mix between Wild West frontier tourist shows and Matrix-like slo-mo gunplay. But the people interviewed here (a motley crew including historians, enthusiasts and Tombstone actor Kurt Russell) are over-the-top entertaining, like a dose of Drunk History without the alcohol. And yes, you’re likely to learn something along the way, and not just that recreations are hard to pull off effectively.

 

 
 
 
 
 
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Really liked authenticity of "Wild West" in this one, constume and prop designers did a great job!
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