Posted on 06/02/2012 5:25:21 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
In the feud between the Hatfields and McCoys, the History channel proved the winner.
A miniseries about the warring families set basic cable viewing records, according to Nielsen Co. figures the channel released Thursday.
The three nights of “Hatfields & McCoys” were the top-rated entertainment telecasts ever for ad-supported basic cable, History said. Wednesday’s finale of “Hatfields & McCoys” was the most-watched of the three nights, with 14.3 million viewers. According to the History channel, that makes it the No. 1 non-sports and non-news program ever on ad-supported cable.
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It was a good show and actually appears to have held fairly firm to real history. History channel could learn something from that.
As I understand it, Devil Anse Hatfield was really an ancient alien.
It was an excellent production
It was very good. In fact I plan on watching the whole thing again when I get home tonight.
I knowed Devil Anse had no soul!
I thought it might have a semi happy ending, but then I asked myself "how did you expect something like that to end?"
It was hard watching that cycle of violence.
There is a lack of evidence that he was not an alien. :)
One of the things the History channel did very well was thread the promo of the series into other shows like Pawn stars and American pickers.
The Program itself was very good, but the promotion was excellent IMHO
“It was hard watching that cycle of violence”
I agree and I personally think that was the point. On night 2, I said aloud, “When will enough BE ENOUGH?” Then I thought that this is what extreme hate can do. When “to get even” takes over every bit of soul and cell in oneself.. it becomes a cancer of sorts. Well, that is what I got out of it. Maybe I read too deeply into things....
I dvr’d the three episodes figuring after watching the first few battle scenes thinking that my wife would not have an interest. I watched the first episode and she watched the last two with me. We both enjoyed.
How did Devil Anse survive all that shooting?
Evidence seems to suggest that he was in possession of some sort of ancient shielding technology unknown to modern man.
Devil Anse and Randall McCoy outlived it by 30+ years, but they had to watch their Sons and Daughters get killed because of their hate.
It was very well done. All involved deserve kudos.
I did not watch this, because it seems trivial. It’s not a major turning point in behavior or law or control.
However, it’s good to see HC achieve this level of success. It goes to show how much we are interested in the truth. I don’t detect bias on the HC, perhaps I’m naive, but I just don’t see it.
Devil Anse took to religion just before he died.
Time Traveling Aliens gave them the technology, so Kevin Costner would make a 3 part TV series about it in 2012 and they would profit!
Sort of a man made hell on earth. What could be worse than to watch child after child killed? The bible verse, “Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord” kept popping in my head. I got to thinking that vengeance is the Lord’s work since He can handle it and knows what is fair and just. At the end, I saw two broken, miserable, demented old men with nothing left... like the hate had consumed all of their humanity.
It did shape law.
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