If you're in it for the history aspect, it's somewhat enjoyable. They do get some things wrong (some it seems purposely/politically motivated), but most of it is true.
What isn't great is the writing. Half of what the characters say isn't something someone would say in the 1800s.
The show is also all surface level. You go from one event to another, to another period in time, and back enough to make your head spin. Nothing is deep here. A deep show would give us 1 or 2 entire episodes of Booth on the run, showing us how bad of shape he was actually in. A deep show would show us what it was like for Stanton to have to make the journey from DC to Canada. Instead, they give us a 10 second scene of him on the train, and then poof, he's there.
All of these things combined make you feel like this is truly just actors in 2024 acting like they are in the 1800s. A great show actually fools you into the fact they are there. This show fails miserably at that.
What isn't great is the writing. Half of what the characters say isn't something someone would say in the 1800s.
The show is also all surface level. You go from one event to another, to another period in time, and back enough to make your head spin. Nothing is deep here. A deep show would give us 1 or 2 entire episodes of Booth on the run, showing us how bad of shape he was actually in. A deep show would show us what it was like for Stanton to have to make the journey from DC to Canada. Instead, they give us a 10 second scene of him on the train, and then poof, he's there.
All of these things combined make you feel like this is truly just actors in 2024 acting like they are in the 1800s. A great show actually fools you into the fact they are there. This show fails miserably at that.
